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by busyant 4mo ago
Explanation 1: You're lying / delusional about your success rate. Explanation 2: Your trading "theory" is sound, but your theory requires specific and rare conditions to be met before you trade, so your 95-99% success ra
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by busyant 4mo ago
Very cool. I'd like to explore it, but I'm getting a lot of "page unresponsive" and I can't tell if it's a back-end server being swamped, or if it's something else. My son just graduated with a double majo
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by busyant 4mo ago
So ... how many people have you murdered in the name of advancing your goals?
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by busyant 4mo ago
I think plenty of people "listened." But what was his plan and how would you have proposed implementing it?
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by busyant 5mo ago
This is beautiful. Not a modern Ferrari, but still beautiful. La Luce, however, is best viewed *al buio."
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by busyant 5mo ago
I'm sure everyone at Ferrari HQ dutifully applauded when this was revealed. You buy a Ferrari for the sex appeal. But you nailed it. It's the Ferrari Priuso.
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by busyant 5mo ago
Interesting! Handedness is probably not (often) captured in healthcare records, but I'm wondering if epidemiologists could mine insurance claims (or some other data rich resource) to see if there's a correlation with serious outco
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by busyant 5mo ago
> Let Mississippi be Mississippi with Texas and Florida, let California find its own way with New York and Washington. These places aren't homogeneous in their political tastes. I live in a northeast blue state, but there are rural
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by busyant 5mo ago
> Because they are still trying to pull one over, to be cleverer, to be the 'good' one at whatever life is in their mind: A long fucking ladder covered in degrees and accolades and tears and jackasses. They live in the derivati
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by busyant 5mo ago
I have no recollection of the student's name. ~150 students in the class, so they were all a blur. This was also a few years before the web took hold, so I could not have "Google-stalked" her even if I had been so inclined. I
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by busyant 5mo ago
Unfortunately, I don't remember except that it seemed unjust to all the students who didn't cheat. She certainly wasn't penalized, but I don't remember if she was given credit for her answer to Q2. iirc, the student st
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by busyant 5mo ago
I was a grad student @ Princeton a handful of decades ago. I was a TA for a few classes and, given the honor code, we did not proctor the exams for undergrads. We just handed them out (left the room) and returned to collect them at the end.
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by busyant 6mo ago
it's my son. he's young, bright, but puts up defenses to protect his perceived vulnerabilities. I try to explain to him that exposing your vulnerabilities humanizes you... at least it does to the type of people I admire. but somet
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by busyant 6mo ago
The points in # 2 are profound. I plan on sending this to someone who is dear to me. Maybe he will "listen" to it, too. Thank you.
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by busyant 6mo ago
> You'll need to look for your own individual scheme, ethics be damned.... That's not healthy on an individual level or cumulatively at a societal level. I was thinking about what you said w/r/t the proximal issue (ga
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by busyant 6mo ago
you could have stopped at "Persian people shouldn't have to die for this." The rest is irrelevant to what has been threatened. edit. to be clear, the rest of your post is offensive in that it implies that under a different ge
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by busyant 7mo ago
This is poetry.
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by busyant 7mo ago
This quote is partially apt to your idea: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -GB Shaw
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by busyant 7mo ago
Thanks for the reply. The only thing I can add (regarding the motivations of people willing to invest with a fraudster) is that many people invest with the belief that they'll make money because they are just part of the scam and the
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by busyant 7mo ago
I suspect the person you replied to was being subtly sarcastic. edit: but honestly, I'm not sure.
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by busyant 7mo ago
Great. Looking forward to your participation in the ground invasion. Let us know how it goes after you're greeted as a liberator.
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by busyant 7mo ago
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur and a dash of other elements. $99.85 at Sigma-Aldrich
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by busyant 7mo ago
I've had 2 macs over the past ~10 years. * My MacMini was constantly beachballing and, unfortunately, it took me a long time to realize that there was a problem with the device. * I now have a 2023 MBP that screams like a "Formula
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by busyant 8mo ago
this reads like someone who hasn't seen dementia up close. I don't see his behavior as much different than term 1. simply more malevolent. there's no obvious word searching. he's always been simplistic and unencumbered b
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by busyant 8mo ago
my youngest son visited a handful of "fancy" schools near the end of highschool and he thought the whole process was nuts. he said something like "seems like we're all expected to make a decision based on how nice the we
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by busyant 8mo ago
I'm not sure if this is a humble-brag and/or if it's a subtle dig at the out-of-touch lives of NYT crossword players. Don't forget sailing and equestrian.
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by busyant 8mo ago
> I am willing to wager the overwhelming majority of extant flagrant errors are due to humans making shit up In general, I agree, but I wouldn't want to ascribe malfeasance ("making shit up") as the dominant problem. I&#x2
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by busyant 8mo ago
> EPEE They love that one.
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by busyant 9mo ago
> Why is the focus on Minneapolis? Is it really the training ground for ICE? Somalis and Ilhan Omar. Was talking to a Unitarian Universalist minister recently. He says his life is pretty much dealing with immigration issues for the past
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by busyant 9mo ago
> Were these people trustworthy? It was a long time ago (obviously). In general, yes, they were trustworthy, but they themselves could have been victims of misinformation--I don't really know is the short answer. But this is true fo

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