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i think my favorite proof of the rich being just as dumb or dumber than normal people is that early investor in theranos that shows up in the documentary wearing a loving bitcoin tie (and at some conference he said he'd still invest in a company holmes was a part of if she was say chief science officer). these assholes get lucky once and think they're geniuses.
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gently caress that's good (edit: the Heeeere's Johnny tea girl vid)
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https://twitter.com/tlmnlpstz/status/1115374170630705154 E: oh yeah good moment to ask, what is Taleb's like day job or claim to fame? I know he's a weirdo with insane ethnic theories but why does anyone know him? KICK BAMA KICK fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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he's a stats and stock markets guy. I think his book The Black Swan was what him a public name.
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his diet is 75% squid ink. this is the source of his power.
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Yeah I was just looking him up and he's an economic theorist. I have no idea where his obsession with genetics and haplogroups comes from.
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He writes formal papers.
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Lmaooooo at Nate silver haha
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I asked them to talk about anime and make Matt watch K-On in the reddit thread. I hope my wish has been fulfilled
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Also, didn't there used to be a chapo thread in CSPAM? What happened to it?
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icantfindaname posted:Also, didn't there used to be a chapo thread in CSPAM? What happened to it? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3877054 ?
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ah yes, that one. never mind me
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Henchman of Santa posted:Yeah I was just looking him up and he's an economic theorist. I have no idea where his obsession with genetics and haplogroups comes from. His job is basically to churn papers/books/etc out. He ran out of ways to do economic theory after like five hundred different versions of the same stuff so now he's gotta measure how turkish a city is or whatever.
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"Fooled by Randomness" was a good book. It's weird that the guy who wrote it became a race scientist.
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yea his stats stuff is actually kinda legit, so it sucks that he went insane but welp that's life in this bitch of a world
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Groovelord Neato posted:i think my favorite proof of the rich being just as dumb or dumber than normal people is that early investor in theranos that shows up in the documentary wearing a loving bitcoin tie (and at some conference he said he'd still invest in a company holmes was a part of if she was say chief science officer). these assholes get lucky once and think they're geniuses. Tim Draper is a goddamned buffoon and it should be constantly mentioned that while he's a "venture capitalist" he's third generation rich and has made almost no money himself.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i think my favorite proof of the rich being just as dumb or dumber than normal people is that early investor in theranos that shows up in the documentary wearing a loving bitcoin tie (and at some conference he said he'd still invest in a company holmes was a part of if she was say chief science officer). these assholes get lucky once and think they're geniuses. In WWE, they ran a storyline where Vince McMahon was forced to sell the company to Donald Trump and their stock prices immediately crashed because shareholders thought it was real.
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Dimebags Brain posted:In WWE, they ran a storyline where Vince McMahon was forced to sell the company to Donald Trump and their stock prices immediately crashed because shareholders thought it was real. I think you mean he sold it to Ric Flair
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sexpig by night posted:yea his stats stuff is actually kinda legit, so it sucks that he went insane but welp that's life in this bitch of a world There’s no money in sanity.
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I really like listening to Amber answer listener questions. She's sensible and reassuring, but doesn't feel like she's just bullshitting. 
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Bar Crow posted:There’s no money in sanity. he's made hundreds of millions of dollars as a trader and hedge fund manager. I don't think the race science stuff is meant to be profitable
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Moist von Lipwig posted:Tim Draper is a goddamned buffoon and it should be constantly mentioned that while he's a "venture capitalist" he's third generation rich and has made almost no money himself. yeah both his grandad and dad founded venture capital firms. i think he claims in tthe documentary he was an early investor in skype but that was actually his dad. also spent 5 mil on that initiative to split california into three states lol.
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As near as I can tell, Taleb made a bunch of money in the stock market, decided he was an expert on some concepts like "antifragility" that he made up, and is now qualified to speak publicly about anything and everything to which he can kinda-sorta apply these concepts, from climate change to weightlifting. The bizarre thing is that he claims to despise public intellectuals even though he obviously is one. Some reviewer for Bloomberg put it best when he moaned "Why do hedge fund managers seek to be seen as philosopher-kings?" Matt Taibbi posted:Nobody thought it was odd when a baseball statistics guru, Nate Silver, became a godlike figure in the campaign bubble and America’s foremost expert on what was going on in the heartland. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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The Daou of Peter is complete https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1115593007854694400
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TheBigAristotle posted:The Daou of Peter is complete quote:The majority of Americans agree with progressive positions, and Democratic leaders must finally learn to speak in clear, moral language. To speak of right and wrong. To have the courage of their convictions. To counter the GOP’s inhumane policies. To fight back with the determination and intensity required in this fraught moment. 
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https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1115616810412519425?s=19 Gonna be paying $5 so I can get the bonus episodes where he talks about his favorite episodes of animes.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1115616810412519425?s=19 https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/1115618392986267648
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Gonna be paying $5 so I can get the bonus episodes where he talks about his favorite episodes of animes. With this recent spate of disappointing statements from him, I'd bet he's just super normie and has only seen Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online
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Gripweed posted:With this recent spate of disappointing statements from him, I'd bet he's just super normie and has only seen Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online Bernie I'm begging you watch Initial D.
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I'm voting for the politican who was posting S.E. Lain fan theories in 2003. Harris, post your livejournal publiclly.
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Moby Dick and the Brothers Karamazov are two books I dreaded when i was assigned them And i ended up absolutely in love with them.
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I thought their answer to whether people should have kids was, dare I say it, pretty bourgeois. They seemed to confuse the inevitably of people having kids in all sorts of circumstances (the vast majority of which, historically, involved absolutely no say in the matter on the woman's part) with the issue of whether, as an individual, one might have very reasonable qualms about bringing a person into being during a particular set of circumstances. Also talking about "historical perspective"--the whole point of global warming is that there is no perspective, and no context. It appears to be unlike anything in human history, which at the end of the day shouldn't be that unlikely or surprising given how short human history really is.
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Yeah, I thought the historical analysis was particularly weak considering that people didn't have access to birth control and you generally put the kids to work in your subsistence economy ASAP.
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I also didn't quite agree with the Biden analysis. I think Biden should be attacked on both the "he's a creep" and "he's a horrible politician with bad policies and a terrible record" fronts. Like they said themselves Biden's shine is from his two terms as Obama's VP - and you can't really fight that kind of appeal with policy arguments. And even if the voters don't care, if the consultant class does, that may matter in a primary. He has not officially announced yet. What if he or his advisors decide it's not worth the risk exactly because the lid of that Pandora's box is already opening? As a bonus, the Anita Hill stuff is a double whammy of misogyny and bad politics. Sulphagnist fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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