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by jmeister 5y ago
Thank you for this informative reply. I used to program in CL ~15 years ago, switched to Java/scala, now looking to go back.
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Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and UNC(nytimes.com)
40 points by jmeister 5y ago|2 comments
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by jmeister 5y ago
This is interesting. Why is “Volcano Studies” full of charlatans? Is it politicized from implications for climate change?
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by jmeister 5y ago
It links to this course syllabus from the top algorithmic game theorist in the world: https://timroughgarden.github.io/fob21/l/l1.pdf I doubt roughgarden is excited about blockchains just because he has some token
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by jmeister 5y ago
This is silly. There are many, many true believers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29140393
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by jmeister 5y ago
Andrew Gelman has a great essay reviewing a paper that discusses this in the context of Covid: >Greenhalgh’s message is not that we need theory without evidence, or evidence without theory. Her message, informed by what seems to me is a
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by jmeister 5y ago
“Judges are not stupid and are fully aware of what a Friday, 5:55pm, exercise of a Minister's power means ... The Government's delay - given everything about Djokovic's case was known or knowable this time last week - will hu
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The Gender Gap Is Taking Us to Unexpected Places(nytimes.com)
2 points by jmeister 5y ago|3 comments
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by jmeister 5y ago
>Male students preferred protecting free speech over an inclusive and diverse society by a decisive 61 to 39. Female students took the opposite position, favoring an inclusive, diverse society over free speech by 64 to 35. > Boys and
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Novak Djokovic visa appeal to be live streamed(tennis365.com)
1 points by jmeister 5y ago|2 comments
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>The 20-time Grand Slam winner’s case against the Australia Minister For Home Affairs will be heard by Judge A Kelly at 10:00 local time on Monday (23:00 GMT Sunday). >Proceedings will be streamed live on Microsoft Teams, but those wh
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by jmeister 5y ago
Yeah, from a historical perspective, it’s a miracle that the modern west is not more racist. “We have primitive instincts, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.” — EO Wilson
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by jmeister 5y ago
That’s one implication he drew out of this thinking. But his broader project, along with his close friend Popper’s, was grappling with the questions —- What is science? what is “social science”? What are the limits of rationality? —- partly
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by jmeister 5y ago
1. The article quotes a famous essay by an Ivy League humanities prof lamenting that students aren’t taught to think any more. 2. STEM thinking doesn’t carry over well to social systems. Hayek devoted his career to this problem. I recommend
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by jmeister 5y ago
This stuff should be history 101. It’s depressing to see someone here having to state the biggest lessons of the 20th century, learnt by the spilling of the blood of millions.
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by jmeister 5y ago
Yeah, I’m an immigrant like the other replier too, you kids need to dump your books and travel the world, outside Americanized liberal cities.
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Atlas Shrugged was the #2 favorite of entrepreneurs and business leaders, after the Bible, according to surveys by Fortune up until the ‘00s. She’s had a profound positive impact on America, sent countless young men and women into entrepren
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by jmeister 5y ago
To play the devil’s advocate: there is no competitive market pressure to keep such public entities efficient. What if these libraries really are run horribly, by unaccountable, unfireable people? From the article: >Yeah, so the company g
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by jmeister 5y ago
If you follow VB on Twitter or read his stuff, you will know he is pretty humble intellectually. He also collaborates with versatile social scientists like Weyl and Cowen. Klein, being a prominent young pundit in DC, probably knows >100
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by jmeister 5y ago
Indians have poor metabolic health otherwise though: extremely carb-heavy diets, widespread diabetes etc.
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To be fair to them, their targets make their job so easy that they’ve stopped trying.
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by jmeister 5y ago
I bet the parent doesn’t even realize they’re being racist.
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by jmeister 5y ago
You could apply to FastGrants, they seem to fund all kinds of people, from highschool hackers to tenured professors.
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by jmeister 5y ago
This is an interesting thread. The meta-issue here is that communities differ in their risk tolerance too. You just discovered that you are an outlier in your community. People can agree 100% on the “science” and still disagree on the risk-
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by jmeister 5y ago
NYT exec editor Dean Bacquet famously said(ruefully) “we don’t understand the role of religion in people’s lives”, after the ‘16 election. There is not a single soul in Omaha who would make that statement.
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America’s Lost Boys and Me(bariweiss.substack.com)
17 points by jmeister 5y ago|2 comments
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“I suspect I’m the only student at Cambridge University who lived out of garbage bags as a child. Here’s why I didn’t live the life I was meant to.”
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The last part is priceless. From a great article I read recently: “A solid, two-parent home is critical for a child’s future. There is simply no shortcut." “ Poverty, even extreme poverty, is surmountable. What is nearly impossible to
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Biden admin asks U.S. Supreme Court to reject Harvard affirmative action case(reuters.com)
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I meant it earnestly too. In the west, the right is grappling with decline of religion and community(Putnam), while the left is obsessed with increasingly minor debates and injustices, with nostalgia for the Big Questions were settled in th

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