Sure, I get what the author was trying to do, but I also think that they went about it in a way that would have elicited a groan in freshman philosophy. Let me offer an alternative solution that was unexplored in the article:

Aaron Sorkin is the kid you give a B+ to because he was brilliant in the first half of the semester and got solid As. And then he went on Spring Break and came back a pothead and thought his shit was cleverer than it really was.

Law and Order (OG)

“Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travel, his was the most ... .. human.”

“Parenting” as a cause of behavior (good or bad) is vague to the point of uselessness. Parents certainly have some say in the direction their kids take, but there’s also a pretty large set of psychologists (myself among them) that tend to subscribe to Judith Rich Harris’ theory of group development which holds that…

I didn’t get the impression at all that this was occasional weed use, and the idea that you can’t get addicted to marijuana is totally ludicrous. Alcohol isn’t habit forming, but it can certainly be addictive. Look at /r/leaves if you don’t think that weed can be addictive.

The people who are preventing blockchain from being taken seriously are the people who post things like this. Bitcoin is a faddish “currency” that hasn’t been used for actually purchasing goods or services since August. Blockchain is the underlying technical concept for which Bitcoin was the first broad use case but…

Which external actors determine the value of US Currency? Setting a price at market is a systematic way to arrive at value, which, by the definition you posted, makes it not arbitrary.

The value of the US Dollar is set at market, which is decidedly not arbitrary. This is the same as every other fiat currency, the same as gold, and the same as pork bellies. If your argument is explained by a misunderstanding of the definition of arbitrary, you may want a new argument.

...assuming there were orders for 10k BTC at $9987, which there aren’t. If you wanted to sell 10k BTC, you’d chew through all the open orders and drive the price down to about $5,000 and you’d make about $75mm (per Coinbase at ~6:15pm CST).

“What do you do for fun?”

Which adjustments are you talking about? As far as I know, with some minor exceptions (McMullen, e.g.), the model hasn’t really changed. If your beef is that the model changed after 2012, then it strikes me as a very strong (read: bad) assumption that there shouldn’t be updates to it.

That’s a silly criticism. If you look at the 538 model (which I suspect you’re referring to), it’s predicting a Clinton victory, but it’s not sure about it. That’s just the nature of mathematical forecasting: it doesn’t give you a definite answer, it tells you how likely each outcome is. The inputs and assumptions are…

This.

Foreclosure rate is important in that higher rates lead to lower property values.

Or, better yet, leave the skin on when you boil them and then use a ricer, which won’t let the skins through. They also make “objectively” better mashed potatoes.

It’s hard to deny that there’s a much stronger reaction to this than, say, the new TMNT movie (or Transformers, or GI Joe, etc etc.), and in terms of goals, style, and scope, Ghostbusters - judging from the trailer - is much closer to the “original” material than any of those.

I’m just disappointed that all those movie theaters are going to have to presumably stop their weekly Saturday night showings of Ghostbusters (and Ghostbusters II, of course) since these were the greatest works ever put to film and now, thanks to Melissa McCarthy, they’re garbage.

I’d add one more thing to that: “It’s really not that hard to empathize with people” - I feel like there’s a strong aversion to giving regard to anyone else’s feelings out in the wild, especially among people who, uh, spend a lot of time on the internet. Working in retail (and service) made it clear to me that a…

China has exactly as many people as the USA per 100,000.