I plagiarized a few times in high school to get out of deadlines for work I didn't care to do. I would copy paste the the essay on Word from a CliffsNotes-type site and rewrite some of it, rearrange some sentences and insert typos to make it look legit. Got As and passed the class. This was a long time ago, before it was possible to easily check this stuff. But in college? no way. they are way smarter at checking that stuff. Considering how much businesses delegate, I don't see the harm of letting people do it it. I think it's only wrong if someone is paying for original content or there is the expectation of original content through the implicit trust between the reader and the writer.
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yup..first the stock crash, then layoffs
It's the same thing with stack overflow/exchange, in which good questions and answers not uncommonly get downvoted and or removed. I think there is an epidemic of petty academic tyrants. These are people who are objectively quite smart but maybe not as accomplished as they wished or hoped so they take out their frustrations on others in the only way they can have control in a world in which they are otherwise irrelevant and powerless. Universities , graduate departments churn out so many students relative to the supply of good paying jobs annually that not everyone will be able to achieve their idealization of career success. What I do know: the TED talk stuff will not work on these people.
And how many economists pretend that expanding the money supply doesn’t increase inflation?
Japan spent decades trying to create inflation to no avail. Despite trillions in spending from 2008-2020 inflation was very low, until finally spiking in 2021.
Bernanke says the Fed’s slow response to inflation ‘was a mistake’
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$5 gas could become widespread as prices hit another record
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I have tried adding edits, many that I thought would have been beneficial as being part of that particular industry / having intimate knowledge of a topic; only to be rejected by some moderator that could not bother to understand the topic.
yup this is a common problem with Wikipedia.
My Response to Daniel Bergner's NYTs Piece on Psychotic Disorders
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Equity premium puzzle: The equity premium puzzle is thought to be one of the most important outstanding questions in neoclassical economics.[6] It is founded on the basis that over the last one hundred years or so the average real return to stocks in the US has been substantially higher than that of bonds. The puzzle lies in explaining the causes behind this equity premium. While there are a number of different theories regarding the puzzle, there still exists no definitive agreement on its cause.[7]
So solved in this context means consensus, not as in something mathematically rigorous. I think this is the problem with a lot of these unsolved problems. When I think of something being solved, it means that it absolves doubts.
Improved Black–Scholes and binomial options pricing models: The Black–Scholes model and the more general binomial options pricing models are a collection of equations that seek to model and price equity and call options. While the models are widely used, they have many significant limitations.[11] Chief among them are the model's inability to account for historical market movements[12] and their frequent overpricing of options, with the overpricing increasing with the time to maturity.[13] The development of a model that can properly account for the pricing of call options on an asset with stochastic volatility is considered an open problem in financial economics.[citation needed]
This is already done. There are a plethora of models to account for everything. It's not an open problem. It's just messy mathematically and does not have the elegant solution like the Black Scholes option pricing model does.
how are they not illegal? at least not in US jurisdiction?
I don't understand how this shit is still so persist on YouTube, do the engineers not realize the problem?
Sounds like an elaborate ad for AlgoExpert
Facebook, Google generating insane annual profits. I would buy the dips on those.
Digital Alchemy: A Post-Mortem of the Crypto Crash
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YouTube plagued by fake Elon Musk Bitcoin giveaway videos
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that would be worse than 2018
it dropped 20% over the past week and keeps falling now.
Why Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, Harvard Expert Say Colleges Are Broken
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On math exchange and other sites, a good chunk of top scorers are ex-US. Some of this is due to greater population, but its evidence also there is considerable talent overseas which may still be untapped.
this is not the same as the cryptography being broken
losing crypto due to hardware failure or forgetting keys is not the same as someone taking it by breaking the cryptography . If this were possible, there is tons of crypto right now for the taking. It's a self-funding bug bounty.
the Flynn Effect is controversial for this reason. IQ tests are still useful of assessing and predicting individual differences of ability.
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