Usually I have never sobbed for any sorts of stories in the world, but Sergei Magnitsky's heroic tale against Russian corruption and Putin's regime is one but I cannot break down for.
Global Magnitsky Act is one of the most powerful sanction weapon in the entire U.S. sanction disposal, and to think this act may have very well not existed if not for Bill Browder's years-long effort into get it passed is mind-boggling.
@howroute
Native speaker here: I affirm what has been spoken about 90000 people got infected and virus have mutated. She repeatedly told whoever watched this video to stay in home and not go anywhere else. Also, the virus has mutated and there is no known systematic way to the new virus.
The fact that only one of the textbook mentions Gold Standard as the cause of Great Depression is depressing when Eichengreen spent 400 pages belaboring the point and Bernanke dedicated an entire chapter on his dissertation on it.
Rampant dissemination of intellectually vacuous cynicism stemming from the left. Huh. I guess it’s the 60s except we have fentanyl level of mass propaganda and media as opposed to good old cocaine 20 years ago.
I await for Chinese fascists and nationalists who are both antisemitic and Islamophobic waking up to the news and they will come up takes you can’t even fathom. The Chinese great fire wall is really for your safety. Not for them.
I think one underestimated aspect of China analysis is the industrial crackdown. 10% of my mom’s b-school friends were cracked down under X. The conversation nowadays are mainly about how terrible Xi is and how to get the family out of China and move abroad.
China is facing four big economic shocks now:
1. A real estate crash
2. Covid
3. Supply chain woes
4. Xi's industrial crackdowns
Fear of war could be a fifth...
Prediction: Musk eventually won’t afford 1B a year expenses and some banks will take over for a fire sale of its ownership for ~5 billion valuation. 90% down on investment.
I have shown this to my Ru history prof and she says those bonds were trading until 1923 because French credit market was thinking Bolsheviks were going to be defeated or collapse. Absolutely fascinating distressed debt history.
I found imperial Russian debt (authentic because it’s not redeemed and honored by Soviets with different numéros) held by French investors issued in 1914 to build Kazan railway and I bought it for 10 euros next to the Seine!
@zakavkaza
@devarbol
Honestly, if this were happen to me, I would just straight up write a complaint with the department. Feed the academic's publication and accuse them of plagiarism as well inside the department. Escalate!
Based apolitical Ukrainian and Polish peasants when asked about their nationality by scientific ethnic-nationality commission of USSR: "PEOPLE FROM HERE" and "CATHOLIC"
Economics. Absolutely wild difference in rigour and depth. It’s like the difference between teaching 1+1=2 and calculus . Grad students are often math and physics undergrads.
what academic discipline do you think has the biggest difference between how it's taught at the undergrad or below level, and what practioners (professors, scientists, etc.) do? the gap in political science is in my experience pretty big.
I can’t help to admire Bill Browder. I am but a mere “the last man” without any ambitions according to Nietzsche and Fukuyama and here we have retired hedge fund manager fighting for human rights and corruptions against Russian state Justice.
I am Oxford man now. Anyone wants to offer me a fundamental long short analyst position based in NYC? Preferably a pod willing to teach imbeciles would be nice.
French university courses (especially in STEM) are so universally poorly taught I may have mistaken them for Chinese instead. Also students at top universities simply self-study most of the time. Also absolutely crazy this is 1st year Finance masters courses.
Japan has better basic STEM education. The entrance exam for Tokyo uni and Kyoto uni are absolutely brutal compared to admissions to Cal and MIT but there will never be a SpaceX there. Institutions set the limit of the sky.
@mattyglesias
And wow there are so many things that are wrong in the article it’s extraordinary. I, too, love to brag about the books I didn’t read but at least they are in literature genre.
He is the exemplar of when Fukuyama referred to "And in fact men have proven themselves to endure the most extreme material hardships in the name of ideas that exist in the the realm of the spirit alone" In the abstract idea of rule of law and Holy Trinity he has endured it all
@ChrisPhelanEcon
Half of the profession is literally about randomize giving cows and malaria nets and pills to the poorest people on earth. You decide their lives based on coin flips too?
UC's suspension of SAT or ACT means Californian public schools will now race against each other to inflate grades for there is no disincentive against inflation (which is already bad enough at most schools). 1/n
Three days in Copenhagen and I can’t understate how incredibly richer Copenhagen is compared to Paris, not only on the wage level but also the quality of life and general welfare. Also helps a ton that a studio here is not a rundown shithole but a proper studio.
@xsphi
The problem is that by 1903 that were like several thousand trained and amateur engineers all working on a prototype flight machine and it can be constructed capital-light. Space colony is far more tenuous with money.
Absolutely fascinating: Qing state taxed ~5% of economy in the 1880s. Direct annual tax burden of commoner was 1-2 day of wages and the rest of the revenue are from commerce.
Whooh I love this type of speculative sections in economics. Very much possible. 1 ASML machine only costs 340 mil. That is like 200 houses in California lol. Most of capital is in housing rather than factors of production is very much possible.
Average software developer moment. The proliferation of CS degrees and its consequences are disastrous for the mankind. Fix your garbage memory leak or never develop a software ever again, this team deserves the software gulag.
This pop cynicism and "intellectualism" are aimed at the slightly-above-educated, under-read, vaguely above mid-twit audience. It is easy to grasp. The cynicism offers a grandiose worldview without you needing to read the Critique of Pure Reason or Theory of Justice.
I found imperial Russian debt (authentic because it’s not redeemed and honored by Soviets with different numéros) held by French investors issued in 1914 to build Kazan railway and I bought it for 10 euros next to the Seine!
@zakavkaza
@devarbol
Walking among the luxurious areas of Shanghai I must admit I had never felt such density of bourgeois capitalism even in the most luxurious areas of Paris and New York. Here’s a picture of people lining up for perfum that costs 310 dollars per 100ml.
@mattyglesias
Kant started his critical period in the 1781 by the publication of the first critique. Also his critique is aimed at the Leibniz-Wolff tradition where it thinks the pure reason by itself can cognize things in themselves, which to Kant is a terrible mistake.
Asking if Americans have culture is like asking fish if water exists. Americans breathe culture. American culture is so omnipresent that the world has been reshaped to conform to their image. Imago Americanorum.
BRICS:
Brazil: downward GDP trend since 2011
Russia: clusterfuck, subsidizes Chinese development
India: hates China
China: hates India
South Africa: not an economy
Multipolarity for real
@Tim_Hua_
@LinkofSunshine
CSS subsidies, some random thing about corner farmers and ethanol, basically huge retooling of energy infrastructure subsidies for climate purposes.
The accidental commodification of housing as a core capital appreciation investment is one of the stupidest shit invented, and arguably the case for retardation of Americans, Australians, and Britons are much stronger because of a voting NIMBY class.
Globe twitter politics has now evolved to be incessant regurgitation of common
@ne0liberal
talk points and dunking and you learn nothing from it. It is fresh when you are 1 month old on twitter but not anymore. Very disappointed in the general quality of the discourse.
Am I the only one totally indifferent to this because LLMs the way I use it have made me think more rigorously about general matters than otherwise? Also there are some dense philosophical writings not conducive to education at all
The reason why we know about Wittgenstein's early Cambridge life so much is because Russell had an affair with a wife of a MP and he would write letters to her about every single detail of his life. Three letters a day too. The affair lasted 5 years. Remarkable man. French.
Putin is a Russian nationalist with a light dose of autistic early Rus origin historiographical debate (beef with Ukrainians) whereas Tucker have never heard of anyone of their names before and is just dumb. I hate this timeline.
bet Tucker's audience is really excited to hear about all these copies of letters written by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the 17th century that Putin gave him!