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This doc is insane.

Moh repeatedly:

calls Zhang’s words “fake” and his claim “a lie”;

speculates, without demonstrating it, that Zhang “fooled” professors to get admitted;

says Zhang “failed miserably” and “wasted seven years of his own life and my time”;

alleges that Zhang “wanted to be famous all the time”;

publishes an irrelevant and humiliating story about Zhang not attending his father’s funeral;

says he would not touch Zhang “with a five feet pole”;

repeatedly emphasizes his own generosity, influence, mathematical work and supposed sacrifices.

Normally you can overproduce clothing and make three of every size or something, knowing that it only costs a couple bucks to make another shirt, for instance. And you can throw out if you make too many. If it's illegal to throw it out, maybe that raises the price from $2 to $4 because now you have to pay for storage for a long time. So you'll buy less inventory at the start, which usually means cutting less common sizes first

This is much more likely due to competition from food delivery services. Spend on which has shot up dramatically because at least in the United States average incomes have actually risen substantially since 2015.

If you think parents drive less safe on average than young men, you are very incorrect.

My guess is retarded

It's more that Claude focuses on what's accurate. Humans overly romanticize small businesses, probably to a factor of five X the relative value versus big corporations.

New York Times is one of the worst and most famous offenders of making it hard to cancel your subscription. There are companies that make it as hard or spammy but few with the reach of the NYT

This is why Ukraine is making equivalent tech now for 1/10th the price. It's great to see.

For most people, college is a box to check off. And individual classes are even more so.

At-home testing is dead.

All data centers that are in controversial areas should offer free heated swimming pools for the neighborhood. You could add a giant pool complex as a percentage or two of the cost of a big data center.

We are losing a lot more manufacturing due to the new tariffs on industrial parts than we are gaining from tariffs on finished products

For the average person an Amazon package has amazingly lower emissions than driving to the store.

Can't be done. You have to spend a minimum of seven years building a valuable skill set first.

Apple is the most spendthrift of the rich tech companies.

No, its almost negligible

Nope, I meant what I said.

A very good metastudy is "The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology" (by Frank L. Schmidt and John E. Hunter). It summarizes 100 years of research on predicting job and training performance. It makes a very strong case that General Mental Ability (GMA, their word for IQ) is the single most valid predictor of employee success on the job, not just income.

Flock doesnt scan faces, only cars.

I would never ask for them since its so cringe. But SAT scores correlate to IQ at .81, and IQ is one of the few things that strongly correlates to knowledge work performance positively. There is probably a lot of alpha from knowing candidates SAT scores. Its more useful than knowing the college they went to.

Yep 90% of companies don't matter and don't affect things. Only 10% of people do. That's just the way the world works. There's no way to know before you start so just live while you can enjoy.

High school GPA correlates much worse (.41). SATs correlates with IQ better - .82 or so.

.71 explains about 50% of the difference, its bigger than the effect size of Advil or Tylenol

Fun fact: there's a test you can do called wordsum which correlates extremely highly, like .71, to IQ. It's just asking you 10 vocabulary questions. It turns out knowing advanced vocabulary correlates really well to IQ.

He was an Elkjøp/Elgiganten customer club member. He wanted to keep the club membership and discounts/offers, but stop the marketing emails. Elkjøp’s setup told him the only way to stop the marketing was to cancel the club membership altogether.

To me, Elkjop seems perfectly reasonable here. But EU policy disagrees.

Wages in america are extremely high, its just property prices are even higher.

Try to affect human behavior at scale in any way and you pray for an effect size like that

A certain portion of people just prefer learning from video instead of text.

Even if we had billions dead from starvation worldwide (huge if), life in a western country in 2060 will be better than life for almost anyone born in 1800 anywhere on earth.

If you think that you're simply incorrect. For the average person in a Western country, life is dramatically better anytime in the next hundred years, including the worst possible outcomes of climate change. Not to mention that the exponential growth of solar panels is basically stabilized in climate right now.

But a lower probability than ever before in human history of those things