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At least one F500 company had iteratively reweighted least squares implemented in MS SQL as of ~20y ago. When all you have is a hammer...

The US likes to have cute "official positions" that are completely orthogonal to their actual behavior. Cf its positions that there must be a "two state solution" in Palestine, or its position on Northern Cyprus, etc.

That's obviously not the case when poverty levels are decreasing over time along with social trust.

The difference is that you only have one life, which you are risking in the examples, whereas VCs have many dollars, of which they only risk a part on each trade.

The former affects blacks, which are a recognized political constituency. The latter allows you to debank your political opponents (cf Operation Chokehold), which is useful.

"VP" title is a regulatory requirement because only "bank officers" have legal authority to do certain actions.

It's called the "progressive stack", and it's corporate and government policy across much of the US.

Doesn't do you much good when everyone is entering hiring freeze and layoffs for the rest of the cycle.