Malcolm Kass
@mkass
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Assistant Professor at the University of Dallas, former ChemE, now Econ.
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Joined October 2007
Random guy discovers what rural small towns look like.
I love Pennsylvania because you'll find random towns in the middle of nowhere that are more dense and walkable than every sunbelt city
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RT @OnTheWoolsack: I sincerely believe that most people think the cooling towers are releasing carbon, rather than steam .
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No teacher in any intro econ class is telling anybody that “arson“ falls under the same category “economic competition”. If anything, we go thru significant effort to explain what is meant by competition in the economic context This is willful ignorance.
@BrianCAlbrecht I take what they tell me. The “more competition” crowd never offers context. Arson, sabotage, & deception are/can be forms of competition, but we’ve chosen—through law—not to allow them. What is good or bad "competition" requires judgment, context, & detail, not blanket truisms.
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RT @toddrjones: Quick @Stata tip: use the "coeflegend" option in a regression to display the name Stata uses for each coefficient. reg pr….
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This is always messy because of course the US didn’t act in a moral way, but the US has controlled the black hills area longer than the Lakota. The Lakota showed up in the 18th century, slaughtered the locals, and continued to slaughter the Pawnee in Nebraska until the late 1800s.
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This is particularly true when u look at the us states most similar to these Nordic countries (Iowa, Minn, Neb, etc), have similar outcomes to these nations.
I will never not find it funny that the only examples leftists can point to as proof their ideas work (Scandanavia) are white ethnostates with populations smaller than new york city.
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I’m confident that Opp Cost is a concept that the vast majority of ppl will eventually understand regardless of formal education. (It still should be taught bc better to learn this at 18 vs picking it up at 25) But some don’t.
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media/entertainment has convinced kids that a normal person can take 20 blows to the head and be fine. And that herbivores not only are veg, but are actually very peaceful creatures when it reality every bison and elk in Yellowstone would happily kill you.
What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?
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Engineering solves these problems. We have known this for centuries. Because he’s a journalist and doesn’t understand the field, he has small minded opinions like this.
I mean what do you want? 15 billion? 20 billion? do you want to it to grow infinitely? I would love to hear what the birth rate panic people think should be the future trajectory of this chart on a planet with finite resources.
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RT @JohnJSSoriano: I see a video of this every year and I tell myself I will show my students this in the price ceiling unit. But then I fo….
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If NPR really is govt funded lefty bias, the crux of the issue isn’t the lefty bias, it’s the govt funded part. I don’t think journalists understand this.
My guess is that defunding NPR is ultimately going to leave behind a fairly large national media organization that moves further left as it becomes even more reliant on donors.
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Not a smart take. But somewhat understandable because often burgers need more garlic salt. But great burgers are kings.
@ReformedStoic Eating burgers past your teens really shows the maturity level of your palate.
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And one pie (probably from somewhere in the south, unless it’s rhubarb) rules them all.
Best I can tell Europe globally crushes most dessert types (cookies, cakes, laminated pastries, etc) but Asia (China?) kills them on dessert soup. It’s a whole category where Europe barely shows up.
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I spend a month reviewing this point. It’s something that students do not easily pick up. Luckily, getting nonstop lecturing on keeping track of units in undergrad eng helped.
Regression is a tool for making comparisons. If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running.
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This person has a hilariously child-like understanding of what is happening in Frisco. Oh sure, houses go up quick, but 99% of the house is fine relative to anywhere else. No social cohesion? It’s one of the most diverse communities in the nation! Is that why he’s angry?.
This is a community that's socially, economically, and environmentally unsustainable. No public transportation, no tenant rights, cheaply built houses unlikely to retain value, no social policies if you lose your job, and weak social ties between neighbors. The kind of place.
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I can easily see admissions not knowing how his parents are. Diff jobs.
I think the funniest part of the NYT story is the implication Zohran was trying to trick Columbia admissions—Columbia, where his dad was a famous professor. Like, yeah dude, I’m pretty sure they knew he wasn’t Black when he checked the box for African, lol.
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