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Ok, let me translate it into non-math for you - there can be a goal that is a "highest priority" for the organisation in the sense that no other goal is a higher priority, and yet there are other goals for the organization that are equal to it in priority.

Isn't "a Maximal Element need not be Unique" a more elegant and much more succinct way of saying the same thing?

if it's true that he was discharged and didn't leave against medical advice, that sounds like a fairly straightforward and expensive lawsuit against the hospital. And some hospitals only change their behavior when beaten by large expensive lawsuits...

I have no experience in ship-handling, but my naive question for this who do is: What is the rationale for being able to independently transfer control of different aspects of ‘steering’ (prop1, prop2, rudder) to different stations? . The coordination required between two or more stations inherently makes the task (control of heading and thrust) more difficult than if a single station was coordinating the process inside one brain. Is there some benefit I am not seeing that justifies the increased complexity?

but people have more income now - surely working for uber or lyft today is the equivalent of driving a cab then?

Were any of the “retail investors” who lost money investing in a product approved by the SEC? If not, how is it any different from investing with a random person who approaches you on the street with “a great opportunity to make money”? Why would your expectation of being cheated be any different?

Do you have any data to support that claim? What proportion of a VC firm’s returns come from a later round’s investors if a firm never has a liquidity event? (IPO or acquisition) And if the firm fails before then, how does the vc firm get paid?

A ponzi scheme is a way of stealing from investors, but it only works if the perpetrator can actually take cash out - in vc, I’ve never heard of a vc firm being able to take cash “off the table” in a later financing round, other than what is meant to be the terminal event for a vc investment, IPO / acquisition.

I often use them interchangeably, but “crashing” implies it’s a bit faster (and therefore more obvious), whereas “crump” implies it can be a bit slower. So a “crashing” patient implies you have to run in the room and do something immediately, but a patient who “crumps” might gradually get worse over several hours, have to be put on a ventilator, require pressors, but with much less drama maybe?

I think “crash” gets used more in the past tense, whereas “crump” gets used maybe equally in both future and past tense? e.g “that patient you signed out to me crumped a couple of hours later” , but also, say when leaving a shift, in the future tense, “the guy in bed 6 is admitted to medicine, but let me tell about him in case he crumps”.

thanks for the link, i think this is the best possible answer to the question “does yc accept $people_like_me?”. I love how open yc is about stuff like this - I just learned that 3 people from one of my UK universities were yc founders at some point! (southampton university)

Because that would give you exactly one data point, and for your decision-making, you instead want to understand the distribution

how about actually quoting the email instead of summarizing? if the advice was unhelpful, or rude (as you seem to be implying), why not let the rest of judge for ourselves? And maintaining a “day job” is not a mark of shame or an insult, it’s a way of maintaining low burn rate at the expense of less time to work on the startup. Whether thats the optimal scenario depends on where you are in terms of solving the problem that you’re working on, but adding yc/vc money does not magically help you find product-market fit, it just gives your more time each week to work on it. But unless what you’re doing seems to be getting you closer to that point, why not work on it and hone your process while keeping the day job?

shouldn’t the relevant metric be whether they increase your chance of success more than the cost (equity) you sell them in return?

yes, its the weight loss that can reverse the diabetes, not the specific diet

strongly agree. One of the foundational claims, “No inference is theory neutral” is taken as fact based on a single citation from a paper by a philosophy grad student - that doesn’t make it wrong necessarily, but its interesting that none of that author’s many cmu computer science colleagues would co-author the paper.

Why would their safety be affected by future-looking statements? Has Elon Musk ever said that Tesla has now perfected self-driving and that driver attention is not required?

If I make a factual statement, such as "among high school students who graduated in 2020, Asian students scored an average of 632 on the SAT math section, compared with 547 for white students" [1], is that a "positive stereotype" or a "statistical difference"? And would that labeling hold for the factual statement "Whites (184 per 100,000 white U.S. residents) and Hispanics (176 per 100,000 Hispanic U.S. residents) were jailed at similar rates. Asians were incarcerated in jails at a rate of 25 inmates per 100,000 Asian U.S. residents." [2]

Or would that become a "negative stereotype" about white and hispanics?

[1] https://nepc.colorado.edu/blog/standardized-tests-hurt#:~:te....

[2] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ji19.pdf

you have to click on the citations if you want to read information based on such contact with "actual indigenous people"

what you call an ‘appeal to authority’ is what some of would call a “citation” - feel free to post citations to the evidence you feel supports your argument.

you’re assuming that the tax bills had no effect on the economy…instead, the 80’s saw a massive reduction in inflation and tremendous economic growth that helped all parts of society. Is it possible that the tax cuts and the economic growth were related?

And before them, Cisco

so they were more picky? I dont think that’s intrinsically good or bad, but it seems concordant with the finding in unemployment studies that a large proportion of unemployed workers who get a fixed period of unemployment payments end up finding a job in the last month when the payment is about to end. Which raises the question, should you make the period shorter to reduce financial burden of unemployment insurance on workers, or longer to allow workers to be even more “deliberate” about their employment choices?

As a society, do we need to worry about where this money will come from? Or will there always be an inexhaustible supply that also scales up? Or could taking that money away from other parts of the economy possibly cause harm, to the point where the ubi would become unsustainable?

indeed, would love your thoughts on the essay itself - iirc the title refers to a situation where a Nazi camp guard writes in their diary of a “special action” (which refers to the burning alive of prisoners) followed by a description of the soup that was served that day - the title seems appropriate to that situation at least. tbh its been a long time since I read it, so I may have got some minor details wrong. and I agree with your point about defining the victims as “guilty” might be part of the process. But the point of the essay seemed to be that almost no-one was making a considered moral judgement that what they were doing was correct, they were doing what they were told and had essentially “outsourced” their moral responsibility to the regime.

the parent implies: difference in status of jews -> repression of jews My point is that the status difference is not required for a regime to repress some group. It might make it easier, but not required.

I agree, and including delta-epsilon proofs in calculus 1 seemed like a way for the curriculum authors to feel good that they were “teaching proof techniques” to these students, when in reality they are doing no such thing. I later did an MS in math, and loved the proofs, including delta-epsilon proofs…after taking a one semester intro to proofs class that focused just on practicing logic and basic proof techniques

the people who “handed over so many to the nazis” - what makes you think they wouldn’t or didn’t gladly hand over non-jews if the regime demanded it? your point about judaism being forbidden in spain until 1978 is shocking, thank you for that.

I would strongly recommend the following essay, which I read in an ethics class and found extremely powerful. The essay argues that humans can relatively easily be persuaded or intimidated into helping murder other humans, as long as they are introduced to it in the “correct” way. So we should understand what that way is and be vigilant against it.

Destroying the innocent with a clear conscience: A sociopsychology of the Holocaust

John P Sabini, Maury Silver Survivors, victims, and perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust, 329-358, 1980

yeah, “chevron deference” was only really an issue with ambiguously written laws IMO, or agencies taking an overly expansive view of their authority. And they still can, but now those decisions can be challenged in court.

good summary here: https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/chevron-is-out-of-gas-wil...

I know almost nothing about prolog, but I enjoyed this tutorial using Datalog, a subset of prolog as an alternative data query language to SQL: https://www.learndatalogtoday.org/

Could you use https://github.com/clojure/core.typed ? Or https://clojure.org/guides/spec ?

In fact, the technology has never got to the point where it works reliably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstamping

didn‘t the “tens of millions” of humans who died have any agency? And by definition, aren’t “energy companies” helping fix the problem of “energy poverty” which increases human welfare?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_poverty