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@Complex Petit disque orange (rotated), by František Kupka, 1932

Scott Sumner was spitting here:

I think the pity and mockery stems from so many Europeans (usually institutions/"experts") dismissing AC's utility. The vast majority of the debate is not over the mechanics and logistics of deployment, but whether widespread AC is in principle desirable in the first place. I think it garners so much attention from Americans (and Europeans such as myself) because it's a vivid distillation of the self-destructive "degrowth" hysteria that is so prevalent and harmful in many European policy matters. It is the same impulse that led to Germany decommissioning its nuclear capacity, and it is a substantial contributor to the broader economic challenges of the continent.

Europe experiences tens of thousands of heat deaths a year. "The real explanation comes down to two letters Europe stubbornly refuses to learn: A/C. Across the continent, only about a fifth of homes have air conditioning, against nearly 90 percent in the United States and more than 90 percent in Japan." Here's heat deaths in European cities versus American cities with similar weather.

GLP1s for weight loss impact lives beyond health. My new paper shows single women’s marriage/cohabitation rates rise 29pp, employment among nonemployed women rises 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years. Link to paper below:

I asked Claude about the air conditioning debate in Europe, and it really didn’t pull any punches.

"ive been in office for 13 years and our yearly budget is 7 trillion but we can't help children unless we steal from the guy doing spaceflight"

Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren

2 weeks ago

If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America.

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you can fuck up pretty bad at most ages and still have your life work out, but the people i know who wound up in bad relationships or with health downturns while single in their 30s mostly missed the boat on kids. for all the talk of permanent records and getting into the right college when you’re young, it turns out that career paths are winding and forgiving across the course of a lifetime, but there is actually a relatively short window to find a partner and start a family.

As the boring debate about spanking children is back. Here is an excellent review of the data. Occasional, properly administered spanking as punishment for misbehavior is likely neutral or even beneficial for children, rather than inherently harmful. Physical discipline is common in the animal kingdom, for example mother dogs/cats growling, snapping, or lightly biting pups/kittens to correct behavior. Humans have used corporal punishment for millennia and modern bans are a very recent development. Most studies linking spanking to worse outcomes i.e. aggression, mental health issues, etc. fail to account for shared genetics between parents and children. "Bad" child behavior (partly genetic) leads parents to punish more and punishment doesn’t necessarily cause the problems. Behavioral genetics studies suggest 60–80% of the spanking outcome link is genetic. Horrific abuse cases don’t prove that mild spanking is damaging. Claims of long term trauma are often based on retrospective self reports from neurotic adults.

Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil

2 years ago

Is spanking your kids good or bad for them? emilkirkegaard.com/p/is-spanking-…

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@Masterofwhine The disconnect between central Paris and the periphery is huge, I never found the center to be that dirty. 18th arr. is still incredibly squalid for instance

One thing I learned from being one of the first users of JustinTV is that even the most interesting person's life is boring 99% of the time.

After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.

Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers

a month ago

Another major problem, this time in additive combinatorics, has fallen, this time to humans rather than AI, but using methods related to the AI solution to the unit distance conjecture.

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The worst predictors of job performance, according to hundreds of studies and the best meta-analysis available: 1. Years of experience 2. Unstructured interviews 3. Personality-match What best predicts performance: 1. Structured interviews 2. Objectively tested biographical predictors 3. Work sample tests

I strongly dislike the phrase “Epstein class”, largely because it is genocidal rhetoric. A genocidal culture needs to tell lies about the depravity of their enemies to justify their actions. Democrats should have nothing to do with it.

One fascinating consequence of GLP-1s/Ozempic: For decades, people said that big pharma would never release actually effective obesity drugs because they’d lose too much money from downstream chronic disease treatment. We’re seeing almost the exact opposite.

This is what antisemitism has always looked like. Take successful companies, list them out, add “Jewish,” pretend you discovered something.

Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian

a month ago

Who controls the media? Meta owns: Facebook Instagram WhatsApp Messenger Threads Oculus / Meta Quest VR Meta AI Meta is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg who is jewish Alphabet owns: Google YouTube Android Gmail Chrome Pixel phones Nest smart home devices Fitbit (acquired in

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Three new papers on weight loss maintenance just dropped!🧵 The first found that people could maintain most of their weight loss after tirzepatide by just using a much lower dose:

anecdotally I've noticed that plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma is often p63 weak/neg (vs typically GATA3+) nice study by @byrk_bsr and colleagues formally highlights this phenom PMID: 41775505

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Mao persecuted the pre-revolutionary elite savagely, with millions dying in famine. Their children were stigmatised, and were less educated and had lower income than average. But today their grandchildren have regained much of their lead. economist.com/graphic-detail…