Standard Deviator
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Standard Deviator
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Rational capital allocator. Life is a random walk.
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My guiding principle on policy: government should not concretely harm the many to benefit the few, under any circumstances.
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New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈

Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇
January 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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obviously this is all very much speculation but if true it suggests the shooter was not the victim of his insurer but of provider overtreatment, the thing that everyone was saying didn’t exist two days ago
December 9, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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I'll be honest a lot of the "fuck health insurance" posts are full on the fault of the doctor/hospital you want to kill the wrong person in this story man
December 5, 2024 at 6:45 PM
End of life care rationing: a facet of all healthcare systems, even the socialized ones.

www.vox.com/2020/1/28/21...
In the UK’s health system, rationing isn’t a dirty word
The UK has one of the most equitable health care systems in the world. Here’s how.
www.vox.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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I think this is a key point. It shouldn’t take forever to get construction permits and approvals. Like Kamala Harris said in a speech, it only took one year to build the Empire State Building. It can take longer in dallas doe the most basic building or home
December 1, 2024 at 10:07 PM
My guiding principle on policy: government should not concretely harm the many to benefit the few, under any circumstances.
November 25, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Did some social media digging on the Craig Sorger murder. One of the murderers is a pro-life activist now. The lead murderer is somehow married with a child despite showing no remorse. His mother is now a lesbian ResistLib but still maintains the innocence of her convicted felon son?
November 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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This is one of the best papers on discrimination in recent years. Read it, read it again.

More and more evidence that introducing subjectivity at almost any stage increases discrimination.
Subjective assessments of culture or 'fit' often have an enormous class bias.

New paper showing how personal interviews often allow employers to discriminate against minorities.

soumitrashukla.github.io/research.html
November 24, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Went on Threads. 3rd post I see was the good old "Why do I have to pay for insurance if I never make claims???" It's way easier to control the quality of the discourse you see on here.
November 19, 2024 at 10:58 PM