kaitai

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by kaitai 8y ago
Dude, no one talks about degree 2 vs degree 3 peritoneal tears or peeing when you jumprope. That is not talked about. I don't think you have any idea of the actual trauma involved in birth: the membrane sweeps, the cervix check, the co
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by kaitai 8y ago
And it often costs money, and it's often a lot of hassle, and sometimes the employees charged with making it available give false information on what's required to get it. Some stats on Wisconsin, which is supposed to provide a fr
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by kaitai 8y ago
I think that's really unkind. It's not dumb. It is an economic decision in an economic system that does not reward caretakers.
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by kaitai 8y ago
One secret to getting lower prices is occasionally fibbing about the purpose or just not mentioning it. Tell the baker you need a beautiful... anniversary cake, or retirement cake, and stick the plastic people on top yourself. Immediately c
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by kaitai 8y ago
Child support payments are not the cause of women's financial woes after divorce, but you can absolutely look at the same general sentence: "Women that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s don't like the idea of
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Mathematics Matters: evolutionary biology and math(liorpachter.wordpress.com)
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by kaitai 8y ago
This is not just speculation. I live in a US state that recently allowed liquor stores to be open on Sundays. Biggest opponent of the law change? Liquor store owners. No increase in revenue, increase in employee and operating costs -- no wi
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by kaitai 8y ago
Overall silly, but that history and location are important to understanding the ground in which a person grew, so to speak. There are some quips about "the God an atheist doesn't believe in" that have a point -- a person&#x27
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by kaitai 8y ago
Agree, simply in that by changing my driving style I could get 30+ miles per gallon of gas using a manual but not an automatic of the same type of car. It's interesting that people don't even know that anymore. Additionally, manua
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by kaitai 8y ago
This just can't work on a logistical level. Let's look at diapers. There are lots of reports of counterfeit Huggies and Pampers. In some cases, it's true -- they're counterfeit. Recently, though, Huggies changed the &#x2
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by kaitai 8y ago
Small but significant: I don't buy diapers from Amazon anymore, after so many reports of counterfeits. Target has my dollars. (Certainly a different kind of safety-critical!) The supply chain problems are very worrisome for Amazon.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Right. Over a chat before a professional event, a friend here said these days he'd want $200mm and compliance people and in 'the good old days' 100mm was plenty. I don't know that there is any one regulation that makes t
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by kaitai 8y ago
But schooling in the US is biased in all sorts of ways, and trying to draw conclusions from that is being encouraged in this discussion.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Your comment points out something important. In finance, there are situations in which you can implement any investment strategy you can reasonably argue will make more money. Great returns are rewarded. Actuarial science has a much more de
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by kaitai 8y ago
While it's a stereotype, there's a bit of truth to the idea that actuarial jobs appeal to people who want a steady, non-adventurous 9-5. At most places, innovation is not prized in an actuarial position. A certain conservativism i
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by kaitai 8y ago
There is indeed so much misinformation! People should read the standards themselves, and also differentiate between the Common Core standards and the curricula being sold to districts.
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by kaitai 8y ago
I think part of the problem is that mathematicians are just surprised something like this was published in the NYJM in the first place. It's like publishing a sci-fi short story in a literary poetry journal -- a genre mismatch to begin
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by kaitai 8y ago
The news is that it's not the paper per se that's scandalous. It's the bypassing of the editorial board -- someone trying to get his buddy's stuff published without going through the usual channels.
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by kaitai 8y ago
What's so unusual about Muslim countries? or countries with high inequity? They seem to collectively have a pretty big share of human population. Don't fall into the WEIRD trap (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democra
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by kaitai 8y ago
Dude. I'm a mathematician. I write papers with reasonable mathematics. Sometimes I write snarky comments here or in blog posts. Neither just gets to be published in the Intelligencer because I want. The Intelligencer is not a public sq
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by kaitai 8y ago
They also could/should have adjusted for paternal age, which may be a significant factor (see [1] for lots of links). (There is some interesting statistical stuff going on with paternal age -- some researchers claim if you bin by birth
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by kaitai 8y ago
I usually find a lot to agree with in your posts, but this time I want to push back on arranged marriage = forced marriage. That's just false. Also want to push back a bit on having kids and then "just hiring other people to do ev
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by kaitai 8y ago
It is interesting to talk with a family member who is a physician mainly for male veterans of the armed forces. He's got roughly the same training as someone who would treat families, but because he's worked with this older/s
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by kaitai 8y ago
Being a mother in Japan can be miserable. You must give up everything you ever loved and confine yourself to a small apartment and a local park. You're no longer allowed to be an intellectual being or a participant in public life. Wome
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by kaitai 8y ago
Day care in the US is a huge problem. It's hard work to find it, and then it's quite strict/constrained on hours.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Japan would not have the low reproduction rate it has if it made it easier for women to have kids and also stay in the workforce. Amazingly, women don't like giving up their entire societal and intellectual life to have a baby and live
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by kaitai 8y ago
Um... That's not true. My spouse and I could spend whatever we wanted (your 20k or whatever) on flights to Europe from the US in business class; we could pay in cash tomorrow and not really have to worry. But we don't, because tha
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by kaitai 8y ago
Reading "The Millionaire Next Door," as much a of a cliche or a classic as it is right now, really opened my eyes to some of this nuance for me. The book points out that many high earners are still living paycheck to paycheck, and
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by kaitai 8y ago
You're downvoted because so many people say it's "unfair" except for the 911 services they value, the fire department, roads, water, plowing in places with snow... It seems it's fair if it's services you use or
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by kaitai 8y ago
We see these as positives in the US (yay! more specialists! more MRI machines!) but they don't improve outcomes on a population basis and they drive up the cost of care. An MRI machine at every hospital in a metro just means that every

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