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Simple conclusions

a) the people who have the stock now want to keep it and be more wealthy

b) they don’t have much regard for your physical or mental health

They might. I don’t rule it out. I have a more cynical view of the capabilities of the electorate.

Another possible interpretation is Trump brought in a lot of uniformed voters. That group brings people who don’t care about policy or fall for his repeated lies or like his rhetorical style. It’s not about achieving good policy, but about feeling like you are winning a realty TV style game.

Bringing in more uninformed voters through mandatory voting, will exacerbate the treatment of policies and politics as entertainment. That evolution will attract worse candidates and generate worse policy outcomes.

This opinion [1] from the judge in his case indicates that the murder-for-hire evidence was admitted during his trial. The document outlines the evidence for all 6 murder for hire allegations and explains why, although not charged, the evidence is relevant to his case.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391...

Fair point. You could also imagine it's an easier management task to have fungible employees. Sam quits. No risk to the company. Our employees are fungible. Sarah can step right in.

Strongly agree. Peopleware 1987 [1]

The first chapter of the book claims, "The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature". The book approaches sociological or 'political' problems such as group chemistry and team jelling, "flow time" and quiet in the work environment, and the high cost of turnover

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...

Here's a delightful and illuminating 6 minute video which explains some of the purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6UhGbyXfE

Punchline at the end: "We don't say negative things about the art or the artist. Our stated goal is to collect, exhibit, and celebrate this art that would be appreciated nowhere else."

Getting a little beyond the headline, we find they had people wear blood pressure monitors and accelerometers and concluded:

More time spent exercising or sleeping, relative to other behaviors, was associated with lower BP. An additional 5 minutes of exercise-like activity was associated with estimated reductions of –0.68 mm Hg (95% CI, –0.15, –1.21) SBP and –0.54 mm Hg (95% CI, –0.19, 0.89) DBP. Clinically meaningful improvements in SBP and DBP were estimated after 20 to 27 minutes and 10 to 15 minutes of reallocation of time in other behaviors into additional exercise. [1]

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.0...

If you can get your hands on informs publications.

https://www.informs.org/Publications

What was the substance of the criticism?

There is a meeting or mismeeting between book and reader in math. Sometimes you are on the wrong footing to absorb a book. You bounce. Maybe you come back later and absorb the book.

As far as the title, just catching marketing I think. Might not appeal to all for sure.

In an overall excellent article with lots of tangible advice, I found the learning style bit weak.

Wikipedia: "Although there is ample evidence that individuals express personal preferences on how they prefer to receive information,few studies have found validity in using learning styles in education." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles

I didn't imply anything should be read into it

FYI, this sentence -- "It seems like every jobs report is lowered after the news cycle picks up the inflates numbers and they're free to adjust to the real data" -- gave me the sense that you meant the numbers were manipulated to put out good news. I think that's what the other poster was picking up on.

This page has a graph of cumulative revisions of the last two months.

https://en.macromicro.me/charts/99068/nonfarm-payrolls-month...

BLS explains why the revisions occur: "The initial estimate of job change for a month is based on the growth or loss of jobs at the businesses that have reported their data. Generally, BLS assumes that the employment situation at businesses that had reported is representative of the situation at those that had not yet reported. BLS continues to collect outstanding reports from the businesses in the sample as it prepares a second and then a third estimate for the month. With each subsequent estimate, more businesses have provided their information. In 2012, the average collection rate at the time of the third estimate for a month was 94.6 percent. (See chart 1.)"

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/revisions-to-jobs-numb...

There may be a conspiracy to manipulate the numbers or a bias in the collection process or some dependence on the state of the economy. I didn't look closely at those theories. Some of which are compatible with the BLS revision process and some of which challenge it.

Maybe not optimistic about Reagan.

On January 20, 1983 we read “THE HUMP: TWO YEARS OF REAGAN DONE AND TWO MORE TO YEARS GO.” He was of course to be disappointed in this, and Election Day 1984 is colored a somber black. In April 1986, however, the calendars begin a month-by-month countdown: “Thirty-four months of Reagan left!!!”

100%

It's just nice that we can unite around our shared passion for correcting people who are wrong on the Internet.

Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how provocative someone is being or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

People like you? Like the original post, you aren't dealing with the substance, you're just slinging insults.

You are violating the first guideline. Which I reproduce here and offer you an opportunity to apologize to me: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

Right. Poster doesn't dispute any of the claims, just pours FUD on.

As an example, the piece is clearly identified as an "interview." Presented as a dialogue between CASPAR SHALLER and MAGDA MALINOWSKA.

Poster lodges this comlaint: "I knew something was up when the author asked the subject"

It won't surprise me if the photo or similar ends up banning your entire Google life with no reasonable appeal possible.

Sounds right.

Additional examples at

https://github.com/louyx/aplus/blob/master/src/a/k.h

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

How would you characterize that?

Heavy use of the C preprocessor and C defaults to embed a functional programming language. Language with a small number of core functions and ability to apply functions to lists of atoms. Aesthetically favoring short identifiers and minimal whitespace to create high semantic density. Eschew comments.

Here is quits rate data for US nonfarm jobs.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR

In late 2021 and early 2022, the rate was the highest it had been in 20 years.

Although people leave jobs all the time, this is a notable increase. It is worthy of a study and maybe even worthy of a catchy name.

Gotcha 93po. I intended only to playfully point out that YOUR comment hadn't engaged deeply with the substance. I overshot the mark and I apologize. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.

there were two questions. perhaps, opine, as an expression of your gratitude.

I like the way you think.

Here's CPI for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Shelter in U.S. City Average. [1] Index level in August 2019 234.853 Index level in Sept 2023 280.869

An increase of 20%. Very similar to overall CPI.

So rent hasn't kept up with housing prices? Some other anomaly in the calculation of CPI?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0L2

Approximately $333k after 20% inflation over the period.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=278200&year1=2...

Yes, I think you are right to frame it as a supply shortage. The prices might be rational, eg not a bubble, considering how many people want houses and how few have been built.

Compare Tokyo. [1]

In the past half century, by investing in transit and allowing development, the city has added more housing units than the total number of units in New York City. It has remained affordable by becoming the world’s largest city. It has become the world’s largest city by remaining affordable.

Two full-time workers earning Tokyo’s minimum wage can comfortably afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in six of the city’s 23 wards. By contrast, two people working minimum-wage jobs cannot afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any of the 23 counties in the New York metropolitan area.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/editorials/tokyo-...

Shelia Blair is a woman, not a dude. Her name is the first two words of the first sentence of the article.

Is part of the reason it feels meaningless because you only read 10 words of content and it was difficult for CNN to pack a satisfying explanation of the economy into that limited bandwidth?

I'm really surprised silent movies/tv isn't more common.

Interesting comment.

I gave it some thought. One place you can see the dynamics and opportunity for a language agnostic entertainment like you describe is YouTube or TikTok. There are plenty of videos across all kinds of categories that are language free or nearly so.

Indeed. Your reasoning was echoed in this critique from Prof David Curtis, Honorary Professor, UCL Genetics Institute.

“Around 20% of young people in Denmark use cannabis but in this study fewer than 1% of the sample had been assigned a diagnosis of cannabis use disorder and these may well have been people who had a pre-existing susceptibility to depression and other psychiatric disorders.

“Other studies have shown that cannabis use itself is not associated with increased risk of depression, so perhaps we are seeing that people with a pre-existing susceptibility to depression are more likely to be diagnosed with cannabis use disorder. This clearly does not mean that we should infer that cannabis somehow causes depression.

“I don’t think that this study provides us with much information to help decide the extent to which cannabis use is, or is not, harmful.”

[1] https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-...

There's one kind of privacy where someone has an archive of all reddit comments ever and looks you up.

There's another kind of privacy where your cousin sees your reddit user id and looks up your comment history and finds out you are [_____insert secret here___].

Deletion of your history is a protection against the second kind.

Likewise the old home phone provided some monitoring of phone use. We've gained and lost so much.

If someone is commenting on the article without reading

Yeah, I hear you. I note in my case, I read the article and posted about the clarifying sentence.

I did find it funny that so many people were in an animated discussion about the interpretation of the headline.

  gremlinsinc: "how does it know there isn't one further out past the observable universe?"
  doctoboggan: "the title is a little unclear, but I read it as the most distant known supermassive black hole"
  dotnet00: "I feel like contextually it's pretty obvious "