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New comment by arkis22 in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

arkis22 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:42:29 +0000

I used to proctor accounting exams. It's insane to me that people would just leave the room to students. At the very least they might have questions and then they ask the class instead of calling the proctor

New comment by arkis22 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

arkis22 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:52:27 +0000

one thing to also consider is that maybe the younger kids who are capable of buying houses may be getting their down payment from the bank of mom and dad. not good for people thinking things are fair

New comment by arkis22 in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

arkis22 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:05:42 +0000

you might consider me an ass, but I think every dollar you put into crypto should be considered dead money. it is not protected by anything. you are gambling on nothing

New comment by arkis22 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

arkis22 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:59:04 +0000

I think theres a possibility that Zaslav prefers Netflix because if the government denies the merger he walks away with the breakup fee and can keep running WB as his own fiefdom

New comment by arkis22 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

arkis22 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:40:32 +0000

If you have done this I would suggest selling now because of possible anti-trust problems

New comment by arkis22 in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

arkis22 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:29:50 +0000

*realign with China

New comment by arkis22 in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

arkis22 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:47:07 +0000

Most of my early 30 year old friends are very pessimistic about the future. I am pessimistic but less so. I think (and hope) that the republic will still be standing. But what I see and expect is that Trump will spend his time doing performative actions. He is narcissistic and he conflates the deference he receives when flying around the world negotiating trade deals with deference to the US. The reality is that telling him he deserves the Nobel peace prize is easy pickings for politicians who don't want to tank their economies while they realign with Russia.

Ultimately I think where we end up after his second term is he leaves, he says he did a great job and his supporters believe him. But we have problems. And he has this fantastic blessing of controlling all 3 branches of government, which he is wasting by grabbing power and solving NONE of them. So really we just wasted 4 years. And where the world is right now it's probably the worst 4 years we could ever waste.

New comment by arkis22 in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

arkis22 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:39:27 +0000

It is fascinating how there are two current opinions about Donald Trump and that one is that he is a serial liar and the other is that he tells it how it is. I'm sympathetic to the latter because he manages to talk without a filter, but the things he lies about are much more serious and much more obvious and much more dangerous. But it gets him very far because people seem to think that "owning the libs" is the success condition for domestic and foreign policy.

I agree though, the next 3 years are going to be him insisting things are great. China will probably try for Taiwan after he leaves and he'll just continue to say things like they wouldn't have done it if he was in office. And sure that's partly true, because why not just wait a year until he's gone, then China can really split the electorate on what we should do.

New comment by arkis22 in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

arkis22 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:01:56 +0000

If ignorance is bliss, then I am miserable.

New comment by arkis22 in "All-natural geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune"

arkis22 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:52:25 +0000

there are also many species on the ocean floor that do not get their energy from the sun, but from vents of heat from the earth. maybe they dont photosynthesise, they use heat instead

New comment by arkis22 in "All-natural geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune"

arkis22 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:39:43 +0000

there is a lot of silly stuff in Dune, but my understanding is that the still suit recycles the body's water. It's not just that you pee in a tube, it absorbs the sweat and recycles that too

New comment by arkis22 in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

arkis22 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:31:40 +0000

charlie kirk is not important enough to assassinate. jimmy kimmel is not important enough to cancel.

bummer.

New comment by arkis22 in "Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?"

arkis22 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:37:17 +0000

the fact that the candidates are worse than sacks of potatoes is a separate fact from the enthusiasm that young people have for the socialist candidate. if it were normal they would do what young people normally do, which is to not vote.

New comment by arkis22 in "Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?"

arkis22 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:52:51 +0000

You literally just described rent control.

That's kind of a joke right? it's a pilot program for 5 grocery stores? he wins votes off something that is something you admit is so inconsequential, while spending political capital to do it instead of other things? 2% margins baby

New comment by arkis22 in "Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?"

arkis22 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:00:27 +0000

well dumber people are getting into politics because gerrymandering is getting worse. the case where politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around leads to worse overall outcomes because the seats are "safe" from the other party and competition. without competition quality falls

New comment by arkis22 in "Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?"

arkis22 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:53:29 +0000

Great article in the economist today.

https://archive.is/sx6I2

which of the groups do you think read vs just swallow cable news?

New comment by arkis22 in "Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?"

arkis22 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:49:10 +0000

rent control just limits supply. city owned grocery stores is a huge capital and organization outlay just to save 2% margin with a huge opportunity cost. at least he backed down from defunding the police. the socialist democratic organization he belongs to hasnt though

New comment by arkis22 in "Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?"

arkis22 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:27:53 +0000

Mamdani was largely propelled by disillusionment of the young who then voted for him. They listen to the headline political message and they don't understand the underlying principles, his policies will not make them better off. But he'll try and fail, and then they'll just increasingly think the system is broken. If they read more they would understand that. It's the same thing that propelled Trump into office

New comment by arkis22 in "Delete tests"

arkis22 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 03:45:24 +0000

Adding a test is easy. Deleting a test should involve like 3-4 people who all know the codebase.

New comment by arkis22 in "What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?"

arkis22 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 04:36:02 +0000

What's really ironic, based on my understanding, is that the world that you have expressed a desire for, is much likelier in a world where economic growth accelerates based on AI. Granted, you need to have the political structure in place that allows the growth to benefit everyone.