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schemester··on James Watson has died
Nonsense. By 2007 it was already a settled matter. There had been decades of attempts to tease out environmental influences. We’d seen that no amount of education funding, government employment, government schools, adoption by white parents, or any other way of approaching the matter would boost black test scores close to whites’ in America. Nor could blacks find a way themselves to do it, not in any locality. It was also clear by that time that serious environmental influences on individuals were small relative to the observed performance differences between blacks and whites, which meant the theory that its environment would imply insane levels of deprivation that weren’t happening. Social scientists had already given up.
schemester··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
th asserts “If 500 people submit talks and 394 are men, then ~79% will likely be by men.”

I didn’t misunderstand. That is simply nonsense.

schemester··on Google does little to reduce advertisers' costs
The FTC doesn’t have that power.
schemester··on The Pentagon’s $52k trash can
No, of course not, if your military doesn’t develop tech faster than the competition then you lose.
schemester··on Elon Musk Silences Tesla Critics by Deactivating Twitter Accts,Calling Employers
Why don’t you complain about Facebook and YouTube doing this?
schemester··on Vasectomies rose after the end of Roe
No, political ideology is genetic.
schemester··on US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’
He and Buffett (among many others) have often talked about these misaligned incentives in the past. He is not sharing any novel insight here.
schemester··on US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’
How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?
schemester··on US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’
Banks are a specific situation where employees can get one-sided rewards for increasing exposure to tail risks with other people’s money. It’s to avoid misaligned incentives with delayed (by years) feedback.
schemester··on SSD as Long Term Storage Testing
Those are powered on when the laptop is on.
schemester··on Japan births fall to record low as population crisis deepens
East Asia is also depopulating.
schemester··on Tesla announces unlimited overnight charging for $30 per month
You don’t. It’s one choice in the electricity market.
schemester··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
Being homeless is better when there’s less crime.
schemester··on Man charged in killing at Arizona Intel facility
Derrick Lemond Simmons had a prior conviction for aggregated assault with a deadly weapon in 2001, according to another article (not just an arrest: https://www.azfamily.com/2023/02/18/man-accused-killing-cowo...

This is not about “mental health” and employers just need to pay employees money. Employees can take up the burden of not being a murderous psycho on their own time.

schemester··on An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice
The sets {x+n : n in Z} where x in R are almost entirely sets comprised of only noncomputable elements. We don’t even need AoC to choose an element from each: pick the smallest positive element (the element in (0,1]).

There is nothing special about noncomputable set elements.

schemester··on Casio-F-91W die-shot
If the layout had copyright protection, this would still be fair use.
schemester··on A Sign That Tuition Is Too High: Some Colleges Are Slashing It in Half
The school is not remotely elite, that is a fact, and the list of majors it offers is a tell. You think I’m saying the majors list _causes_ it to be elite or not. Or you don’t really think that.
schemester··on A Sign That Tuition Is Too High: Some Colleges Are Slashing It in Half
Explain how this isn’t non-elite.

https://colby-sawyer.edu/academics/majors

schemester··on Billionaire Winklevoss Twins’ $900M Disaster Is No Shock
I don’t know who regulates what, but short-term loans are not securities.
schemester··on Mutual funds that consistently beat the market. Not one of 2,132
Of course a mutual fund isn’t going to beat the market in each year. It would have to time the market perfectly through what we’ve gone through. That involves placing bets on other people’s opinions of companies instead the company itself.
schemester··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
What shaming? A candidate likely to job-hop is just less valuable.
schemester··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
You are describing a static, failing company’s CEO. If you never overextend, you were too conservative and weren’t making the best decisions.
schemester··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
Both are instances of trying to get the best deal, just as employees do when negotiating salary, so there isn’t anything hypocritical there.
schemester··on Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’
That blind audition claim is actually pretty weak: https://www.wsj.com/articles/blind-spots-in-the-blind-auditi...
schemester··on Germany′s energy saving rules come into force
Coal and wood are possible. Maybe off-the-grid solar is still allowed.
schemester··on The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
The optimal amount of headline fraud is also non-zero.
schemester··on California passes law requiring companies to post salary ranges on job listings
Hours worked, career selection. In short there is no arbitrage to be found and employers aren’t leaving money on the table.
schemester··on Visual Sum of Cubes
With tetrahedra, at first I was expecting the n dimensional analog of taking a triangle, area n^2/2, plus the half-squares, area n (1/2), for the sum 1+…+n to equal n^2/2+n/2. This would require 4 dimensions for sum of cubes, though.
schemester··on A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team
The Harvard/MIT or “HMMT” contest has teams and team rankings, much like the ARML.
schemester··on A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team
And Gainesville is the location of University of Florida, not some random 133000 person city.
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