Incentivizing quality over quantity always leads to more fraud. It happens in academia, and it happens in sales (e.g. Bank of America scandal). If I need more of X to get promoted or to get my bonus, then it's easiest to just create fake X.
I've moved 22 times in my life. I've never moved from an area due to a single neighbor, but some areas you just feel different than everyone living around you. That causes you (or at least me) to think about moving.
I live in a rural community that is a 20 minute commute from a major research university and another significant college. It's got plenty of "good old boys" as well as others for whom Caroline is basically a bedroom community.
Politics are quite fraught.
Donald Trump is so unpopular in our community that the Republicans have quit running candidates on their own line but instead run independent candidates and even ran a slate in a Democratic primary.
A coworker of mine from years ago has been active in the local Republican Party (successfully ran for town board, lost his race for town supervisor) is one of the leaders of a movement to opposing zoning in our town, something our town board is in the process of implementing. If you counted lawn signs you'd think zoning is unpopular because you see angry NO ZONING signs in front of many of the large properties close to Six-Mile creek where you'd expect Dollar General or another dollhouse village
to come in. They lost their primary and they lost the general election pretty hard so they wound up giving the town board a mandate.
Over time I think the "bedroom community" population is going to increase but it is also possible that national Republicans normalize and their brand becomes less toxic in our town.
>More than half of Oakland Unified’s 48 elementary schools and eight of its schools serving seventh graders are on the audit list for 2022-23. This includes Markham Elementary where 65% of the 66 kindergarten students were not fully vaccinated last school year. The school had the highest percentage of kindergartners in California’s traditional public schools — with over 20 students — who were not fully vaccinated.
>Of the 27 Oakland Unified elementary schools on the list, more than 20% of kindergarten students in a dozen schools did not have all the required vaccinations last school year.
Not sure what data you're looking at, but that's completely off. Trailing 12 month food inflation is over 4%. Transportation inflation is over 10%. Services excluding energy are up 5.9%.
The boom gets started with an expansion of credit.
The fed sets rates low, are you starting to get it?
That new money is confused for real loanable funds,
but it’s just inflation that’s driving the ones
who invest in new projects,
like housing construction.
The boom plants the seeds for its future destruction.
The savings aren’t real,
consumption’s up too!
And the grasping for resources reveals there’s too few.
https://youtu.be/d0nERTFo-Sk?si=mcHcwlGi-TPaf5q-
The claim being that to back a loan with new “printed” money is necessarily inflationary.
Loans backed with saved/invested funds are non-inflationary, because the saver gives up their ability to consume with those funds, in proportion with the consumption the borrower takes on.
"I wouldn't underestimate how... having one company as both your registrar and cloud service provider can impact the choice of which otherwise commodity service to use." THIS. Even if I'm just spinning up a simple blog, unless I'm buying a premium domain name, I'm gonna buy it on Bluehost instead of a cheaper registrar like Namecheap just to avoid the few minutes of work and few hours of wait time to link that domain with another hosting service.
The generator isn't very accurate. I prompted "a sad bald construction worker" and I got a smiling construction worker wearing a hard hat. Only 1 out of 3 adjectives was implemented.
I started my PhD doing algebraic topology and tried using TDA for a couple industry projects before eventually switching to work on quantum computing algorithms because I decided TDA wasn't that useful. It's definitely a solution in search of a problem, and while there do seem to be a couple interesting use cases (such as genetic data analysis), I completely agree with you that there are better alternatives in most situations.
Many (most?) events aren't separated by gender, but most games will still be man vs. man. Men outnumber women in chess by almost 6:1. At higher levels, the ratio is more extreme (something like 40:1).
There are women-only competitions to encourage more women to play and to give them some visibility, but it's not the same premise as separated sporting events, that women have an inherent disadvantage.
There was a lot of good discussion about gender in chess a few years ago when Queen's Gambit was released on Netflix[1].
FIDE has many high-profile events in countries with very conservative views on social issues. My guess is they are under considerable pressure from these stakeholders.
Or maybe they're just trying to do the right thing for women. Perhaps the decision-makers in FIDE have listened to feminist critique of this recent policy movement that advocates for men who call themselves women to be allowed in what would otherwise be women-only spaces.
A lot of the toasters shown from 1910-1940s only toast one side of the bread at a time and have a flipping mechanism to then toast the other side. The flipping mechanisms seem like they would be nearly as expensive as just adding a second heating element. So is the reason for the one-sided toasting a constraint on how much electrical power was commonly available to homes 100 years ago?
