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by jmeister 4y ago
I agree. But his analysis of CRA abuse is spot on. Check out interview with Gail Heriot, an experienced civil rights lawyer. “The worst person you know just made a good point” etc.
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> An article on the decline of state capacity. Not a mention of affirmative action, disparate impact, or the ability to fire people. Liberals are committed to egalitarianism, simply unable to recognize massive differences in competence b
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Yes this works for me. Even dumping my thoughts into a note-taking app(I use Roam) helps me a lot.
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Sorry I don’t really know any very well. I used “Bloom” as a metonym for elite culture critics. HB was also an institution in himself. I do like the reviews and recommendations I’ve read from Michael Dirda and Christian Lorentzen.
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Yes, because that's what one looks for when reading Sivers. And Sivers knows his audience. If I want culture I'll consult Harold Bloom, thank you very much.
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by jmeister 4y ago
HN threads on remote work and no-code reveal the change from its “founder” focus ~10 years ago to “worker” today. Nobody I know with a “founder” mindset even remotely entertains the possibility that remote-work can be as efficient as in-per
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by jmeister 4y ago
Haven’t read this one, but has been recommended highly to those trying to pick up rigorous math starting from non-quant training: https://longformmath.com/analysis-home >This book is the first of a series of textbooks wh
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by jmeister 4y ago
Are we still doing this? Antisemitism was the norm among intellectuals before WW2. Check out what Marx had to say.
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I recently bought a cheap, delightfully printed, otherwise hard-to-find Kaufmann translation of Goethe’s Faust. Probably my best value-for-money purchase ever. https://www.amazon.com/Goethes-Faust-Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe&#x2F
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And Twitter is helping get around elite failures that are causing those problems to persist: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/actually-twitter-is-re...
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Didn’t Steve Jobs make that usage of ‘insane’ popular in SV?
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Unless there is some severe political rivalry. IIRC this guy was in contention for the CEO position before Agrawal was appointed.
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The Scandinavia-fetishizing American progressives tend to ignore this.
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Wow. This comment sent me down a rabbit hole. Thank you.
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But to be young was very heaven!—Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a world in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on m
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Bliss was it on that night to be alive(poetryfoundation.org)
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Man, another million comment thread with the same arguments. Of course it can turn into a cesspool. Of course there are ways around that problem. Like allowing more customizability for users. For example: an ‘old Twitter’ filter that would
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by jmeister 4y ago
Man, another million comment thread wit the same arguments. Of course it can turn into a cesspool. Of course there are ways around that problem. Like allowing more customizability for users. Like a ‘old Twitter’ filter that would allow only
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by jmeister 5y ago
This is a great find. Thanks.
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by jmeister 5y ago
The third author Robins along with Miguel Hernan have a great, free book on causal inference: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-...
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People tend to have instinctive respect for earned authority. This same reverence is also given to sportstars and artists. American billionaires, for all their faults, have the most “legitimate” authority in modern(post-enlightenment, post-
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by jmeister 5y ago
Putin’s desire, whatever you may think of it, is glory and a place in the history books, a hallowed, “thick” desire covered in the greatest oldest epics. Just read his recent, infamous essay on “unity”.
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by jmeister 5y ago
1. Twitter is the de facto “public square”. 2. Musk being on the board or not, and his actions re. Twitter in general, will have consequences, especially given that he has unlimited money. 3. Up until recently, the liberal-left was cheering
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by jmeister 5y ago
There is nothing Twitter’s background check will turn up that’s not already known. Musk is the richest man in the world FFS.
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He also tweeted that “no one shows up” to the Twitter HQ in SF. I think the contempt is mutual.
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Newly attributed Michelangelo expected to make €30m at Christie’s next month(theartnewspaper.com)
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Interesting critical review. This book is hard to criticize because it was JR’s labor of love, and he passed away recently, before it came out. I liked the pointed examples of JR’s uncritical praise, and this broad corrective: “Long though
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FedEx Says Fred Smith to Step Aside as CEO, Remain Executive Chairman(wsj.com)
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FedEx Corp. founder Fred Smith is stepping down as chief executive of the company he started more than 50 years ago with a few planes and built into a global delivery network that moves millions of packages a day. Mr. Smith, 77 years old, i
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You’re free to look away.

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