zeke5123a
7mo ago
Non-political topic—dog culture. For the holidays, I was in physical stores shopping. It amazed how many people brought their dogs. One had brought a big dog that when it went by someone the dog owner struggled to keep the dog from jumping on the other customer. Dogs were in the freaking grocery store.
To me, this is entirely unacceptable. Some people (yours truly) don’t much care for dogs as the barking can be disquieting. More to the point I was raised believing there was a time and place for everything. Stores were not dog places. Yet that has seemed to break down. My question is why.
Are dog people convinced that all humans love dogs (except for evil humans) and therefore there ought not be a problem? Do they simply not care about old norms?
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Does he really think sports culture doesn’t celebrate achievement? It might not celebrate a particular kind of achievement but competitive sports are in fact meritocracy.
I do think Vivek has a point that Americans have gotten soft (eg participation trophies) but the point is that softness influences everything; not just math.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Largely true but on the other hand Greenwich is still Greenwich. Old money still has some pull.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Yes. The largest best companies are in the US. But a decent chunk of the second best are in Europe.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
I don’t find this persuasive. This argument is that there was in fact a different unknowable Jesus. Perhaps. But Lewis is talking about the Jesus of the Bible. He is right with respect to that person (regardless of whether that person was real).
zeke5123a
7mo ago
This reminds me of Lewis: either Christ was a liar, a madman, or the Son of God.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
This should also cause those who still think the Republicans were lucky in 2020 to call out Biden’s mental issues to rethink their priors.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Tax—in the international space there are some rules (and occasional modeling) where we do really basic algebraic thinking.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Homeschooled and can attest to the math part. I did read a ton so I have a deeper understanding especially of history compared to most. Went on to become a relatively successful lawyer who only has to do basic algebra so I guess the math didn’t set me back.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
If Biden tried to do that, then it reminds me of the meme “Jokes on you I was just pretending to be retarded.”
zeke5123a
7mo ago
That sounds like 3D chess except it’s losing the entire way.
Step 1: Biden allows child killers to get out of death penalty but not others. Reaction: Biden doesn’t think child killers deserve death but if crimes have a political dimension then death penalty is fine. Not a good look.
Step 2: Biden folds to pressure leading to commuting the 3 not commuted today. Reaction: Biden would rather let guys off who deserve death because Biden decided a child killer should not be killed and when he couldn’t stand the fallout somehow decided to let other people off who deserve death.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Exactly. Either you are opposed to the death penalty OR you are saying only certain crimes are worthy of the death penalty and most but not all of these crimes were not worthy.
The question then is explain why
zeke5123a
7mo ago
I think people are mistaking “a little odd” with autism. Autistic kids frequently are non verbal etc.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
My impression is that people have kids at older ages. Teasing out the differences between that and all other changes seems difficult.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Says who? What’s the evidence? I see these claims but they don’t seem backed up by reality. If they are so great, why haven’t we practically fired all coders?
zeke5123a
7mo ago
It really is funny. As a lawyer, I laugh when people try to write something formal and start throwing around “big words.”
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Who cares? New CEO. You start saying “the estimates are too rich we are going to lower.” Rio the band aide off at the start. As a result you start off with only upside.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
But reading law isn’t the same as reading say a book. You need to stare at the language. Look to see “is there surplusage.” “Is there an inference due to language somewhere else.”
zeke5123a
7mo ago
Most SPAs are long because you want to force the other side to disclose so you make them rep to certain things.
There is also some legalese.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
I agree you need human capital. But compare say Hong Kong with Beijing over the last hundred years.
zeke5123a
7mo ago
I crept the whole enterprise is dubious. Who gets to decide what is true or not (god knows a lot of info turned out to be misinformation and a lot of misinformation turned out to be information)?
But even if we get that point, who gets to decide what is helpful info and what is hurtful true info? And what if the very process of deciding what is helpful info and hurtful info is hurtful? Also is disinformation against malinformation good?
The whole concept is designed simply for one side to censor the other side. It isn’t an honest inquiry but rotten from top to bottom.
Yeah — it seems that some believe the only sin is saying “no.” The question is why.
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