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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.

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.

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).

Stockfish 14 5 years ago

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.

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.

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.

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.