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“Ruining Your Credit So No One Wants to Steal Your Identity”: An Excerpt from Evan Waite’s New Book, Life Wants You Dead

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In this era of economic turmoil, climate catastrophe, and cliques of cool teens just waiting to make fun of your shoes, we live in a heightened state of fear. We’re afraid of the world and afraid of each other—but not nearly as afraid as we should be! McSweeney’s contributor (and co-executive producer on Family Guy) Evan Waite’s absurdly hilarious survival guide, Life Wants You Dead: A Calm, Rational, and Totally Legit Guide to Scaring Yourself Safe demonstrates that being afraid of literally everything is the only guaranteed way to stay safe.

Today, we’re happy to offer an excerpt from this important and very funny guide.

I Am a Gen Z Employee Who Job Hops Every Two Hours

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Wed, 15/05/2024 - 22:00

And… send. Sorry, I’m just wrapping up my application for a six-figure Data Analyst position at a fancy tech startup. Please continue with your interview questions. What makes me the ideal candidate for the open content director position at your fancy tech startup? Terrific question. In a word: verisimilitude.

It’s the believable appearance of success I project as a proud member of the Gen Z workforce, and it’s all thanks to my ever-expanding résumé. I never remain at one job longer than two hours, so my career never stops progressing.

Hang tight while I answer this phone call.

Yes, Mr. Douglas, I’ll have that client pitch completed by EOH. Yes, sir, at the end of the hour. Also, I quit. Thank you for all the mentorship and guidance you’ve bestowed upon me these last 120 minutes. Goodbye.

Parents of Kye Schaefer make heartfelt plea for information into son’s murder

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Wed, 15/05/2024 - 19:18

THE parents of Kye Schaefer have made an emotional plea to anyone with information about their son’s murder to come forward. About 6.40am on Thursday 2 May 2024 emergency services were called to Ocean Parade, Coffs Harbour, following reports a man had been stabbed. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...

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The Day That Never Comes

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Wed, 15/05/2024 - 18:43
Thanks to neoliberalism, government in the UK feels like one long trick played on the people. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th May 2024. The news should have stopped us in our tracks. Astonishingly, however, it was scarcely reported here. The latest map of mental wellbeing published by the Global Mind Project reveals […]

Leveraging language models for prudential supervision

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Wed, 15/05/2024 - 18:00
Adam Muhtar and Dragos Gorduza Imagine a world where machines can assist humans in navigating across complex financial rules. What was once far-fetched is rapidly becoming reality, particularly with the emergence of a class of deep learning models based on the Transformer architecture (Vaswani et al (2017)), representing a whole new paradigm to language modelling … Continue reading Leveraging language models for prudential supervision →

I found a paper that denies one of my two obvious thoughts about originalism, so stating the obvious turns out to be useful!

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After a couple days to think on it, I think this post is right on. I just stumbled on a paper that stumbles, badly, over one of my two obvious thoughts about originalism. So let me point that out. Quick review. My first obvious thought is it’s weird, if you think about it, that one […]

love to think the normal amount about fictional characters with my normal vocabulary featuring words such as "blorbos"

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Demand in the Repo Market: Indirect Perspectives from Open Market Operations from 2006 to 2020

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Wed, 15/05/2024 - 11:30
In Australia repurchase (repo) obligations are traded bilaterally 'over-the-counter' between parties, rather than on an exchange. As a result, it is difficult to obtain quotes of executable prices, trading volumes, and related data that are representative of the market. Market conditions are therefore not easy to assess and often dependent on anecdotal evidence. Over the years, the Reserve Bank of Australia has published data and analysis of the repo market by providing indirect perspectives using data from its own open market operations that are conducted using repos. This paper contributes to this work. The Reserve Bank conducts open market operations to manage liquidity in the interbank market, provide settlement balances for the smooth functioning of the payments system, and for the implementation of monetary policy. Repos are an integral part of these operations. The eligible private sector counterparties in these auctions have a variety of reasons for participating. We arrange their bids in an ascending order in a number of distinct phases so that they can be used to make inferences about the demand for repo and hence market operations.

Using Comparative & Absolute Advantage To Explain China’s Rise

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Using Comparative & Absolute Advantage To Explain China’s Rise

Economists spend a lot of time talking about comparative advantage: France has just the right climate and land to make great wine, for example. In the Industrial Revolution England had good quality coal in just the right place. Germany has a lot of good industrial workers and craftsmen.

Most comparative advantage, however, is cost advantage. If it’s cheaper and you can produce it for less, it’s hard to compete against you.