content warning: death. sickness. pain. loss. note: In keeping with Korean convention, I use the collective "our" rather than the individual "my". The sentiments expressed here are, nonetheless, entirely mine. (1) Our grandfather, Man-Hyong Yoo, died about a week ago, two months after his eightieth birthday.
note: Long after I posted this, PredictIt changed their policies on margin requirements in "linked markets", a small step towards market efficiency. Nevertheless, they left in place their 5% tax on withdrawals and 10% tax on gross profits, so the central argument that inefficiencies can stop even the
content warning: Short descriptions of non-violent sexual situations where consent is unclear. (first block quote only) (0) Leah Libresco asks: Is "Kindness-Adjacent" a Useful Category?, riffing off their previous post Avoiding Rape-Adjacent Sex. The latter (which came first): I do believe them that there's plenty of
(a) Open borders? No, that's a ... proposal ... which says essentially there is no United States... It would make everybody in America poorer -- you're doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don't think there's any country in the
(0) Walking through the Yard yesterday, I commented to a friend that if I met myself of three years ago, I wouldn't know where to begin to explain how the past three years have gone, except to say one thing: "Ross, you'll make the most