diognesofsinope

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by diognesofsinope 11mo ago
> you quickly run out of blood to write in and start writing in "well that could've been worse if the starts had aligned, let's write a rule about it". I'm also convinced this is a primary driver of "emergen
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by diognesofsinope 1y ago
There was an article on Bloomberg or WSJ that said the Director in the acquisition had a Teams chat where she said "sometimes you don't need to do due diligence at all" lol
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by diognesofsinope 1y ago
> "we've implemented all best practices, contracted out the hard parts to world-renowned experts, and had third party audits to verify that - there was nothing more we could do, therefore it's not our fault" The amoun
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by diognesofsinope 2y ago
Vegas and prediction markets consistently had Trump as the favorites. Polling companies are in the business of media deals and government contracts. They will develop methodology and reporting to that end and the money is in "a close a
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by diognesofsinope 3y ago
This is what it feels like -- board is filled with academics concerned about AI security.
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by diognesofsinope 3y ago
Almost more of a "takeover" by the board after it's successful lol
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by diognesofsinope 3y ago
If any level of government funds your institution you should have to releases the data. The code I write is not my code, it's the banks.
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
The article is leaving out the fact that the $10k threshold is not at the discretion of the bank. It comes directly from the Bank Secrecy Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act ). The magic number is not th
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
It's much more of a financial intelligence collection operation. The intelligence community has access to information about every transaction with greater than $10k (lower thresholds for monetary instruments) with at least one party of
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
I think the answer is simpler: people care about their careers and their family first. Think, "If the data says something that gets in the way of my career well I don't care about the data." Had the same problem when I was an
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
I mean, the failure of a lot of experiments to replicate is extraordinarily well documented... Not to mention the corollaries from the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi... )
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
The primary problems arise from (1) mass education and (2) cheating. Project-based learning can't be managed with 40:1 student teacher ratios. The best learning has always come from projects and apprenticeship/mentorship style sys
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
The field of study of occupation licensing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_licensing It's absurd to think someone needs to take a $1k 'Philosophy of Mathematics' class to teach 10th grade geo
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
> In South Dakota and a number of states in the south and rural districts, yes it is another story, and it is bad. I suspect this is because teaching is arguably the most stable job in rural areas.
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
Half the reason to be a teacher is because half the job is having fun. Most curricula is set in stone and requirements are nationally standardized (US and Asia). You more or less get summers off (there are conferences and summer school) and
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
I don't have a BS in Education (BA in Philosophy), which means you have to go through their M. Ed. program with licensure. You must take Educational Theory/Pedagogy core courses along with required courses in your field -- I had s
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
> 1. For as much as we spend on education, teachers seem to be grossly underpaid - to be getting robbed of their share of the budget. Where does that money go? Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pensi
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
Federal government literally spends over $1T on healthcare for the elderly. The healthcare issues in the country have never been about the old.
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by diognesofsinope 4y ago
> The other irony is that likely she does it for exactly the same reasons as why science media is often bad: economics. Can we all stop blaming 'economics'. Economics says people are largely self-interested, selfish and maximiz
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
For the record, the evidence of 'widespread' fraud is extremely weak: See Antoinette Schoar's (MIT) work: https://www.nber.org/papers/w20848 It makes for a good news story that regular Americans understa
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
> we printed money and it helped. I mean, did it? What evidence do you have for this claim? Vaccines absolutely helped. But now everyone's wages are going down -- it was basically ~$3k stimulus checks that were actually loans with a
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
They are signaling. Push came to shove and the unfortunate reality is that Ukraine isn't that important to most countries and the risk of a greater war is worse. The lesson here is that every country should learn to defend itself.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
American Medical Association (and other medical/pharma/health workers associations) > IBM
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
> Researchers are incentivized to write papers that seem impressive (and intimidating) rather than clear and intuitive. Ah, a fellow economist lol. Lack of clarity is a strategic advantage because (1) (as you said) it looks impressive an
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Bingo -- they struggle through their 20s until they realize they need to pick a practical career in their early 30s.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
I come from the econometrics end of things and Paul Romer (Nobel Prize winner) put it well: 'A fact beats theory every time...And I think economists have focused on theory because it's easier than collecting data.' When I rea
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
> strong temporal emotions Well said. As Jim Jefferies said in his gun control bit referencing suicide -- 'We all have bad days.'
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
I get why it's used, but I strongly believe people are better off seeing the raw data. Exactly as you said, we can probably infer if there is variation in testing (weekends). Or at the very least show the 7-period SD so we can see if t
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
If your point is that looking at counties and assigning mask_mandate = 1 vs mask_mandate = 0 isn't rigorous, agreed. If you look at the series the different in case rates started before the mandate, making me think it's more about
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Same thought -- makes you think it has less do you with masks/mandates and more with city-folk being cautious as delta surges. Maybe the mandates encourage this behavior shift? Top points if politicians noticed this difference off the

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