I think we agree more than we disagree. Perhaps the only thing on which we don’t see eye to eye is that I believe there is a real benefit to selling new tech as luxury items. It allows the tech, however niche at first, to take hold within the market place; it allows the company selling it to stay in business; and,…

Fair point. But the batteries won’t always cost $5k. And solar panels won’t always be this expensive to install.

Which, as we all know, dwarfs the emissions created by the utility companies whose product you’d rather buy.

If you don’t think any businesses should get government help in the form of subsidies, that’s certainly an argument you can make. (For the record, I think it’s a pretty myopic and self-defeating one, but it’s an argument nonetheless.) However, this is a bad example for you to use, because what you don’t seem to…

That player actually existed from about 1996 until 2010, and his name is Alex Rodriguez.

There's no soda water in an Old Fashioned.

I’m not defending most of what Cowherd said. However: his point that, given where the science is right now, it’s basically impossible to directly link x number of y kind of concussions to someone committing suicide is absolutely right. All we really know right now is that getting concussions seems to result, in the…

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I couldn't have said it better. While knowing exactly how and why these treatments work may in fact lead to better treatments, this article is essentially saying we should consider letting the perfect (or at least more good) be the enemy of the good.

I can only speak for myself—sample size of one—but I've been on an non-SSRI anti-depressant for some time, and it has worked wonders.

If the goal is to equalize the expected value of each choice, I think this is actually a pretty good compromise. If the options are earning 1 point 90% of the time or 2 points 47% of the time, going for 2 is just barely smarter, all things being equal. Given the conservative nature of most coaches, you can still…

That's exactly what it was. There's a long article about it somewhere in the archives at fivethirtyeight.com.

Or make the kick worth one point but have it where the odds of making it are 2x the odds of converting the 2-point conversion. Same math, doesn't require changing the values of the different plays.

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I'm doing this thing now where I point out people who are trolls and/or have completely misguided and unhelpful things to say but are allowed to say them, while I'm still in the greys.

Why are these people "rapey"?

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Agreed on all counts: Bill Simmons definitely didn't invent the "mailbag" format, and almost nothing Drew writes on this site is funny.

The Cubs are getting good, and the Indians are always solid, if not competitive. No argument on the other three teams though.

Poker is not basketball or baseball. There is much more luck in Poker than there is at the highest levels of these sports. And, accordingly, wins relative to losses is a far better indicator of team strength in baseball and basketball.