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It cuts the other way as well. It's incredibly easy to file suit against larger corporations (e.g. your landlord in small claims) and just represent yourself and be confident all you're potentially out is the court filing fee. I've personally done it twice and settled before it went to trial; without the American rule there would be no way I could risk having them take it to trial and pay their fees.

I believe there actually often is a calendar association but only because the US fiscal year starts October 1st, and funding legislation needs to be enacted before then.

This was controlled for as stated in the article:

> The researchers compared outcomes for patients within the same hospitals who were cared for by doctors with different exam scores. This allowed the researchers to eliminate, or at least minimize, the effect of differences in patient populations, hospital resources, and other variations that might influence the odds of patient death or readmission, independent of a doctor’s performance.

If you are running less than 30 miles per week or so and don't have multiple injury risk factors (e.g. prior history of injury, being older, female) you can fairly safely run at whatever pace you'd like and know that running more and running faster will help you become faster.

The idea of "zone 2 training" that is peddled sometimes on social media makes no sense if you're not running consistent mileage and actively looking to run faster. At that point, the idea is that you're minimizing injury risk in between 2+ hard efforts per week, while still getting in the miles.

I think you deserve your 50 cents for this post.

I'm guessing this definition of a safe space (e.g. able to say what you want, with possible racism included) isn't what nonconservatives would label a safe space.

No one at this level is playing tournaments without massive preparation. This is especially true at the WCC where both sides have not just one but teams of seconds to help with prep.

Ding has been a shadow of himself ever since he won the world championship and if anything has been seen as the weakest world champion since 2006.

"Zone" training is primarily a way for high mileage runners to get the physical adaptation of running with lower risk of injury on easy days. If you're running < 20 mpw there should be minimal risk of injury and you should focus on increasing mileage and not on heart rate (which is highly variable depending on the person anyway, and should be properly determined with a LT test).

Notation has changed over the years. Even twenty years ago you could pick up (admittedly dated) books using descriptive notation (e.g. P-K4). It's pretty clear what is the accepted standard for notation today though.

The article's headline is a little misleading. It is only referring to college graduates that are "underemployed," i.e. have a job not requiring college-level skills in general, as opposed to a job that is unrelated to their major.

Your case would not count as underemployment (of which examples are office support, retail sales, food service).

Simon is Sacha's cousin (according to Wikipedia).

Separately, retail investors also outperform the S&P on average: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/who-you-calling-dumb-mone...

> The average individual-investor stock portfolio has risen about 150% since the beginning of 2014, according to investment research firm Vanda Research, which began tracking the data nine years ago. That beats the S&P 500’s roughly 140% during the same period.

How are search trends the same as ownership of the currency?

Also in Argentina it's "dólar," not "dollar": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AR&q=g...

I'm guessing it's more about the faculty being hard and/or expensive to retain for those majors.

That and the ultra-stagnant economy which in turn leads to mortgage rates of around 1%.

A quick search shows Garg's net worth is ~4B. Despite previous actions he deserves some amount of respect IMO for putting his own money on the line here.

If you just count Manhattan at ~70,000 / sq mi it's certainly up there in terms of population density. The outer boroughs (and Staten Island specifically) pull down the average quite a bit.

I'm not sure that calculation makes sense. If someone has already lived to 77 he probably has a much higher chance of living to 78 than the average person. And if someone has lived past 78 does that mean he's lost negative years of life?

Here comes the 50 cent army

Right, it seems London at 101 and Toronto at 92 USD pull down the averages of both those groups significantly.

One company has also lied about "nearly all aspects of the business," so maybe its 5B valuation is based on not quite legitimate things.

An arbiter 100% cannot stop a game because of that. Time management is part of the game in speed chess anyway, and for longer time controls there is usually a delay/increment so running out the clock in a clearly lost position isn't viable.

Short selling provides a way and incentive for regular people to keep companies accountable. A recent example is Luckin Coffee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luckin_Coffee) which fabricated 90% (!) of sales in 2019 and was only spotted by a due diligence firm that actually sent in people to measure foot traffic in stores.

Matt Levine had a great writeup about this:

> If the price of IRON goes down from $1 (good) to $0.95 (bad), you just issue some TITAN (worth $65) to buy some IRON until it’s worth $1 again. And if IRON keeps going down, you just issue some more TITAN (worth $60) and buy more. And if IRON keeps going down … [you can fill in some more iterations here] … you just keep issuing TITAN (worth $0.000000035) and at that point you’re not accomplishing much. If you could sell 286 trillion TITAN at $0.000000035 each you’d raise $10 million. That’s probably hard. There are 285 million IRON (formerly worth $1) outstanding.

So probably not a Ponzi scheme but also not a scheme that was created by someone who can think two steps ahead.

These rental figures don't seem to hold up to scrutiny. The median rent in NYC is $1,400? How did the source (Lendingtree) come up with these?

What's the alternative, to keep providing them with the knowledge and material?

In a previous life I performed research on the neurological basis of birdsong, which is fairly well understood for passerines.

Sounds produced by birds can be divided into two types: songs and calls. Songs are primarily by males to attract mates, and are sung the same song over and over with minimal variation. Females, in turn, are attracted to the males with highest song stereotypy that sound closest to the "ideal" for the species. Calls are used to communicate to other birds of a certain idea, e.g. a predator nearby, and are also consequently standardized.

So while this is indeed very cool, it's my suspicion it won't be recognized as "authentic" by the birds themselves. You can't just "make up" new syllables or sounds and have it be understood.

The commenter may have been referring to Rendell's Death of Marco Pantani which IIRC had a line that went something like "during the day he lived to ride, at night he rode to live."

You may be thinking of Marco Pantani, who cycled in an era of widespread EPO use which dramatically thickens their blood. That coupled with a low resting heart rate can indeed lead to death. I'm not aware of low heart rate by itself being a killer.

Who's going to buy an apartment with a squatter in it? There's no easy way out for these individual landlords.