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1711.
by Bostonian 4y ago
The top 15 schools according to the report are UVa, Yale, CMU, MIT, UCLA, UPenn, Rice, Caltech, UCSD, Swarthmore, UC Boulder, Columbia, Stanford, USC, and UIUC.
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by Bostonian 4y ago
Usenet still exists, but some groups are mostly (but not entirely) spam, at least when you view them through Google Groups, for example comp.lang.python at https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.python . It would be gre
1713.
by Bostonian 4y ago
Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Resolution: "An excellent interview with Ayn Rand on the Tonight show. Newly discovered. Good questions from Johnny and Ed. Even aside from the content, much to learn, a quiet audience, respectful 26 minute di
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Ayn Rand on the Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson (1967)(youtube.com)
3 points by Bostonian 4y ago|1 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
"The current population of students we identify as academically gifted and talented is unacceptably whiter and wealthier than the actual student population of academically gifted and talented students should be." A typical IQ thre
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by Bostonian 4y ago
You can add a line of code to print a few variables, but it may be easier to add a breakpoint at the same place and use the "info locals" and "info args" commands of gdb to display local variables and arguments. When do
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YouTube is now censoring journalism for the Biden administration(nypost.com)
11 points by Bostonian 4y ago|0 comments
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Can a web designer be compelled to create a site for a gay wedding?(reason.com)
3 points by Bostonian 4y ago|6 comments
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Solution to gun crime is improving gun-related convictions(nypost.com)
1 points by Bostonian 4y ago|5 comments
1720.
by Bostonian 4y ago
The SAT has been shown, in conjunction with high school grades, to predict college grades, as the article mentions. That's the connection with academics.
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College admissions should depend on academics alone(city-journal.org)
7 points by Bostonian 4y ago|15 comments
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Moving from Opportunity: The High Cost of Restrictions on Land Use(marginalrevolution.com)
15 points by Bostonian 4y ago|0 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
Historically, U.S. stock market returns have exceeded inflation substantially -- there is data at https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile... . Inflation can increase corporate profits in nomin
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by Bostonian 4y ago
https://archive.ph/6SQWJ Full title: "The Flaw in the Progressive Stance on Guns: Reducing gun violence will require more policing and incarceration, not less.", by Matthew Yglesias
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Reducing gun violence will require more policing and incarceration, not less(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Bostonian 4y ago|1 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
Even without unions the pay in MLB and NBA would be high because owners compete to get the players that can win games. The ability to sell one's labor to the highest bidder is what a worker needs to be compensated fairly. Unionized or
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by Bostonian 4y ago
https://archive.ph/8Y1qV#selection-3879.0-3879.88 Another WSJ op-ed piece on the same day: Why Electricity Blackouts Are Coming to Michigan: The shutdown of a nuclear power plant makes the state vulnerable to cloudy, windle
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Green energy policies are making the nation’s power grid increasingly unstable(wsj.com)
3 points by Bostonian 4y ago|1 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
I don't support the law, but when was the law passed? How many people have been prosecuted under it in recent years?
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Seattle man, fed up with rampant crime, uses drone to recover stolen property(theblaze.com)
4 points by Bostonian 4y ago|0 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
Yes. The full title and subtitle, which I needed to shorten to post, are Red Flag Laws Are As Good as the Data: School shooters only hide their intentions from those who aren’t looking. The author says this: "A disciplined, hardened te
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by Bostonian 4y ago
https://archive.ph/1MK8K#selection-4085.5-4089.73
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Red Flag Laws Are As Good as the Data. Mass shooters don't hide their intentions(wsj.com)
6 points by Bostonian 4y ago|10 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
It's unconstitutional. Congress is supposed to appropriate money. Can a Republican president "forgive" up to $10K in capital gains taxes?
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by Bostonian 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Have you run walk-forward tests to see if your models have predictive ability out of sample?
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by Bostonian 4y ago
Banning natural gas hookups in new homes and future bans of gasoline-powered cars come to mind. I think governments that do such things lose legitimacy.
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Are You More Likely to Be Killed Riding a Bike Than Driving a Car?(unz.com)
2 points by Bostonian 4y ago|2 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
When I look at what is supposed to predict 10-year Treasury bond interest rates at https://tsterm.com/DGS10 , I see a collection of random ETFs and stocks that I very much doubt will predict interest rates going forward, ev
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A brief overview of options for addressing mass shootings and gun violence(city-journal.org)
5 points by Bostonian 4y ago|0 comments
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by Bostonian 4y ago
The 2nd Amendment protects gun ownership, and amending the Constitution to change it does not have enough support to happen. The Texas gunman was only stopped when shot dead by police. If some school principals and teachers were armed, scho

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