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Lengthening the term of a fixed mortgage does not make housing any cheaper. It just allows buyers to borrow more money for the same monthly payment. Both sellers and lenders implicitly know what buyers can afford on a monthly basis. So if you increase mortgage terms to 50…


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The filibuster debate strikes me as pretty silly because almost no one ever filibusters, they just use the threat of a filibuster to kill anything with less than a 60 vote majority Make them actually get out there and read from the phone book for 3 weeks straight


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I’m not a very political guy, but if I were ever in charge of the nukes, I would use them. The temptation would be too great. I’d use them immediately, most likely. I suspect one day I will be President


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I'm pleased to announce OxCaml! OxCaml is Jane Street's branch of OCaml. We've given it a new name and a snazzy logo, and done a bunch of work to make it easy for people to try.

yminsky's tweet image. I'm pleased to announce OxCaml!

OxCaml is Jane Street's branch of OCaml. We've given it a new name and a snazzy logo, and done a bunch of work to make it easy for people to try.

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Stop comparing yourself to others. It's too low of a bar.


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Each academic generation selected dumber & dumber replacements for nearly a century. In some fields, your average prof is dumber than the average WWII-era high school graduate. Best solution is to continuously defund & unwind the university; much of it is completely unnecessary

People in my DMs telling me how many retards there are in academia now including tenured professors. We think it’s bad now but in 20 years it’s going to be really really weird.



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The LA basin is prone to multi-year drought cycles and is independently also prone to Santa Ana winds, which of their nature will start fires, more or less at random locations. Neither is 'about' climate change, nor is either amenable to prevention


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Need I remind y'all 70yrs ago the average worker worked 38hrs a week and went to the moon, drove corvettes, and took the family to the drive in theater. They didn't work 90hrs a week on grindset bs looking for as many ways to rob their fellow man because they are competing with…


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I still don't quite understand how we've had nonstop tech layoffs for three years and yet still have such a shortage of workers that we need to import more.


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Demanding that your elite human capital works 80 hour weeks is how you get dysgenic fertility and population collapse. No, we should not demand that our best people give their entire life to their employer or risk replacement by someone who will.

i cant believe there is a birth rate crisis when our jobs are outsourced if we dont want to work 80-100 hours a week for technocratic overlords



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"what happens if we lose to China?" "it'll be terrible, they'll send an army of foreign bureaucrats to run the country & send the profits overseas, & they'll give their people explicit preferential treatment in hiring & education"


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VERY unpopular opinion humans were never meant to be this busy that’s why everybody is anxious and depressed.


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jupyter notebooks are such a retarded way to do anything, this industry is bullshit


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something I'm slowly coming to terms with is that maybe the old school royal society way of doing science where it's just a hobby of the rich might actually be better because making people's livelihood depend on producing scientific results is neuroethologically doomed


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like watching people suddenly come up with groundbreaking results THAT THEY EARNESTLY BELIEVE IN when they're up for renewal or need an R01 is just a whole fascinating case study in how the will to persist triumphs over the critical mind


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You should not rely on college for anything other than the piece of paper they give you when you leave; that's it. You are responsible for the things you learn—do not delegate this responsibility to your school.


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grab that redbull and LOCK IN

k7agar's tweet image. grab that redbull

and LOCK IN

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I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery


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