Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
5hr ago
Does SCOTUS normally "save the best till last"?
Yes. They have done this for at least my entire adult life. Charitably, it is because controversial opinions are longer, have more dissents, and require more careful reasoning that takes time to write. Uncharitably, it is so that the justices can skip town after the judgement drops.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
It’s pretty annoying that every gun case now is constitutionally required to be an 18th-century literature review, especially if we have to do the extra work of figuring out which laws were and weren’t racist.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
There is no more wretched hive of scum and villainy masquerading as a pillar of respectable society than college football. The players are at best academic frauds -- enrolled in fake classes and pretending to earn a fake degree -- and at worst are public nuisances empowered by administrators and politicians. The coaches are all snakes, recruiting young men with promises of loyalty, comradery, and respect, then skipping town on a private jet the moment a bigger school calls. Not even manslaughter will prevent an overperforming coach from falling up.
And then there are the conferences. Not content with sharing the financial benefits of America's culture of amateur college sports, the big schools collude amongst themselves to hoard all of the viewership and revenue. The resulting turf squabbles are more dramatic than the on-field product, reminding one of European diplomacy during the Long 19th Century.
I still watch it of course.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Before I waste any more of my time thinking about this, is there any evidence that the degradation of the new reflecting pool coating was caused by vandalism as opposed to run-of-the-mill incompetence?
I don’t really care about the algae. That seems like a fixable problem.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
There is almost no demand for small, cheap, low-performance cars in the United States. People have tried. They don’t sell.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
No. The Milky Way is 13 billion years old, but only 100,000 light years across. A sufficiently advanced civilization would be able to colonize the galaxy using only sublight tech.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
There are loads of exoplanets, dust clouds with organic chemicals, and strange radio sources discovered every week. The reason you never hear about them is that you need an advanced background in spectroscopy to make sense out of the data.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
With modern technology, one would think that it would be possible to put women in frontline combat roles. Yet empirically, this doesn’t happen. Watching videos of the shooting, it hit me that there must be some psychological “it” factor for tactical situations that women don’t reliably have.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
A far wiser man than either of us once noted that the principled application of left-wing equality and classism rhetoric results in sexual justice for incels.
A not insubstantial reason for the rightward shift of young men is that they notice that the left applies Marxist logic to every problem except the one problem that they are bothered by most of all.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
There is a gigantic difference between the male-line/female-line extinction rate ratio and the number of women who reproduce per every male.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
The abstract talks about X2 statistics. Now I am not a statistics nerd, but I have encountered the letter χ (chi) in passing and happen to know that it does not identify as X or x.
One time in physics class I said “doubleyou” instead of “omega” and everyone laughed at me.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
Everyone's a libertarian until they get the slightest whiff of power huh?
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
He gets points right off the bat for not titleing every video "IMPOSSIBLE FLAVOR!!!!!!" or "THIS FOOD IS INSANE???!!!???" like every other YouTube channel.
Does anyone know of a way to get Civ II on Windows 11?
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