Thursday, November 2, 2023

The arbitrariness of the SEC's misguided enforcement-driven approach to crypto + federal bank regulators, [& their] State-level counterparts, abusing their supervisory authority to label businesses unworthy of having a bank account and worked in secret to purge disfavored lines of commerce from the financial system

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Overdue: Statement of Dissent on LBRY. Commissioner Hester M. Peirce. SEC, Oct 27 2023. https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-statement-...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The observed effect sizes of cash transfers on cognitive performance (short-term 2-5 wk, long-term 12-13 mos) were roughly three and four times smaller than suggested by prior non-randomized research

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Does alleviating poverty increase cognitive performance? Short- and long-term evidence from a randomized controlled trial Author links open ...

Several studies that claim heat suppresses economic growth fall apart under scrutiny; but the debunker thinks it is astonishing "that eminent economists, in universities with vast resources available to marshal evidence, chose to ignore [his] critique"

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Climate Change and ‘Poor’ South Korea. By David Barker https://www.wsj.com/articles/debunking-study-saying-climate-change-hurts-economic-gro...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Pacifist ChatGPT-3.5 on Christian Wolff's views of civil war. Reflection on corruption of truth.

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Question ... Summarize Ch Wolff's position on civil war in Jus Gentium Answer ... Christian Wolff, a prominent 18th-century German philo...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

[M]any witches she knew were talking about the degree program, announced last week, and were thinking about enrolling

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Bad times in several fronts: Christina Oakley Harrington, a retired academic of medieval history and the founder of Treadwell’s, a London bo...

The Washington Post & Gavin Schmidt on Sept 2023 temps

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1  Honesty at the WaPo...: A sudden spike in global warmth is so extreme, it’s mysterious, Oct 13 2023,  https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...