Always trade-offs. It would also maximize the size of the set of annoying people it would make happy (as does mentioning "trade-offs").

It's always funny to read things like "anti-immigrant Czech-Japanese entrepreneur"

Soccer is a globalist sport and it is hard to imagine an organization better equipped than FIFA in navigating corruption. Trump stands no chance.

DHS: Where was this lead pencil made? ME: State of Washington, mines in South America, Malaya, and other places I don't even know about, by thousands of people who don't speak the same language, practice different religions, and might hate each other if they ever met DHS: denied

Worried that Adams secretly wants to help Cuomo: he did not endorse Mamdani

You might sneer at that, but you should not. He has in fact unparalleled expertise on using language that incites violence and terrorism.

Anthony Kennedys

Bsky gloats about Milei, but if you read about it, it is more subtle and not quite what people here think. His reforms require commitment and seemed to be working. He has the commitment, but voters don't and the likely outcome is another failed attempt to reform out of Argentina's permanent crisis

I sent this social democrat to this exile here that nobody visits to keep him away from the public

Sociologists for Bullying

Technically speaking, blackmail is not regulation

My favorite conversations are when people invoke market failures and it turns out that it's true, except that the failure was created by government policy.

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Water is wet

Important

I feel a bit uneasy because nobody has thanked me for my attention to this matter recently

You don't get there by being slow

I'm comfortably for as much independence of the Fed as possible from politicians of any type. I also don't think there is anything undemocratic in democratically setting up institutions that are protected from continuous political pressure

Vance: "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." Washington Post, May 8, 1945: "Germany Surrenders Unconditionally."

Safetyism invading NYC

Capitalism 😍

A refreshing perspective on education

Is one greater than zero? No, it is just an unsavory compromise with an ugly legacy of colonialism that keeps you from getting to two

Quantitative impressions from Istanbul: about 0.6 cats per minute during daytime and rising to 1.8 cats per minute at dusk.

The steaks of the stupid tariff policy are very high

Fahrenheits make life difficult

Let's be honest, bluesky doesn't like this dumb policy only because it doesn't like the person who proposed it, not because it's dumb.

I am not going to check, but I might have missed one in between

It could be made more effective by using AI to detect AI images

It's summer. Loch Ness monster sightings are exactly what you'd expect

My Tesla works fine during the day and the sail sometimes helps at night, but it is a hassle, I admit.

The worst thing about the Columbia settlement is seeing Harvard alumni behaving as if they are selfless heroes

It is very heart-warming to see how many academics are now concerned that government has too much power

I have no sympathy for what my employer has been doing for the last two years, but it's amusing to see that Bluesky and she agree that it's a "victory" for administration. I do see extortion and ability to spin PR around it, but otherwise - if you read the agreement - what is the actual "victory"?

I bought a shredder 😍

Older Millennial discourse

The news here is that he has a heart.

An interesting question here is how you could solve it within LLM approach and my guess is that censorship of inputs is the only way. Humans struggle with the same thing and with no built-in model of the world that allows you to to say no to inputs fed in as facts LLMs have no advantage

So there are at least two of us with this achievement

An honest mistake, unpredictable outcome

Try to beat that

The missing context is that the school is in Berkeley

Getting inside the head of Ludwig Erhard

Another pet peeve: don't waste time and space talking about how your "parallel trends assumption" is satisfied after you did synthetic controls. Most of the time, you have now removed variation that allows to investigate whether it is satisfied.

This is why you need to elect some defensive linemen for congress

Interesting endowment tax changes in the Senate budget bill proposal. This is driven by (1) counting all students (not just domestic) and (2) exempting schools with fewer than 3000 students. jamessmurphy.com/2025/05/10/t...