They’re obviously intertwined. It boggles the mind that people can’t see how consigning minorities to live in low-income areas with low-income jobs with underperforming schools (all of which leads to little opportunity for educational/economic advancement, which then makes this a self-perpetuating generational cycle)…

Who then, does the black community see as more good than Bernie? I highly doubt race issues are a big part of Scott Walker’s platform, beyond limiting your ability to get out the vote.

I usually love Greg’s pieces, but the logic herein makes no sense. Sure, Bernie won’t be elected (neither will all but one of the other candidates running), and Bernie can’t fix racial injustice. As opposed to Jeb’s plan to do so? Trump’s?

I really enjoyed the point about # of aircraft/ships metric being a misleading way to assess our military capability, as doing so would be to ignore the march of technological progress.

Hadn’t thought about that. You’re right.

The very definition of “addiction” is pursuing something to your own detriment. Yes, having a car service on call is great and will help people on the margins, but Smith clearly has a serious problem here, and it goes way beyond simply “bad judgment.”

What are my early thirties, Alex?

That’s how client expert testimony works (the NFL’s not about to pay Exponent $600,000 to say they’re wrong). How else do you get doctors arguing that Michael Jackson’s cocktail of drugs was totally normal (or whatever myriad other examples of “experts” offering batty testimony).

I’d imagine Exponent knew of their omissions (and the different findings resulting from such) and committed them purposefully.

as a private company, can do whatever it wants in terms of running its company and disciplining its employees

Right; it’s valid that we’re using different assumptions for the value of time lost (though, philosophically if not economically, I’d say $0 is difficult to support).

Ah, yes. Given those assumptions (which you point out are those Melanie laid down), I totally agree.

Sure, assuming you assign no value whatsoever to boarding on the original flight/time you bought a ticket for... which is the original faulty premise of the above expected value argument. If EV was 100% of $400, obviously everyone would clamor to volunteer. Because, hey, 100% chance at $400 (you can see how this makes…

This is terrible advice and you don’t understand the concept of expected value.

One random, likely drunken act of violence isn’t exactly a conclusive verdict on humanity’s disposition toward kindness. And it’s certainly not indicative that “people in the U.S. couldn’t get on board” any more than some spontaneous act of stupidity committed by a Canadian (like, say, the post I’m responding to) is…

I’m not sure why High Life worked over even milder beers but High Life somehow cured me of my aversion to beer freshman year in college, speeding up that “acquired taste” thing by a factor of 10. Thanks High Life!

Weakness: Once listed himself as “Hispanic” on a voter registration form, which is very silly because he’s a Bush, which is like double the white of the average white.

That’s pretty cool because, aside from it being HBO, it seems like he’ll be pretty free to continue throwing bombs at Roger Goodell.

Canadians may be, generally speaking, more polite than Americans but their perma-thin skin is arguably their best asset.

1gb of data? How do you live?