Showing posts with label I don't think that's quite how it works. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I don't think that's quite how it works. Show all posts
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Tether - risky, but probably not for the reasons they keep telling you

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I keep being forwarded this article that came out in Medium recently. It poses as a big expose of tether , the stablecoin that powers lots ...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Suffering is Interesting, Ending Suffering is Uninteresting

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One of the most important statements of Buddhist philosophy is the Four Noble Truths . These were taught by the Buddha in the Dhammacakkappa...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The surprisingly inconvenient implications of hereditary politicians

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So Canada elects another Trudeau , the son of the last one. Meanwhile America ponders electing either its third Bush in 30 years or its seco...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Bun Arbitrage

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It is left as an exercise to the reader to show that, under the law of one price and the absence of arbitrage, the market-clearing pric...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

A good heuristic for a certain type of BS

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One phrase that in practice means almost the exact opposite of what it claims is the expression 'scientifically proven'. I have kn...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A non-rhetorical question for people who believe race has no genetic basis

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A certain class of trendy lefty and soft social science academic is fond of asserting loudly that 'race doesn't exist', or '...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Oh Noz! OMG!

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Apparently the USDA website is shut down  due to the government funding crisis. This prompts two responses from me: 1. Oh no! How will w...
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Monday, July 2, 2012

That's why you're in admin, not in IT

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In the annals of hilariously lame administrative @$$-covering messages, I always enjoy receiving these emails: 'Department [X] would li...