There’s a long history of postmaster corruption

It’s only a loss if you’ve been invested for a short time. The market is up a ridiculous amount. It would need to drop close to 40% to be back around 2014 levels. You could still sell shares from 2010 that would be sold at a profit, if you’ve been investing for a decade

Alternate title “Astrophysicist Consultant makes grandiose comment about metallurgy”

What is an approachable book on Ramsey's theory for non-mathematicians ?

(Graham's number applies to Ramsey's theory.)

There's a quick introduction to it here:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/InfiniteRamseyTheorem.html?tg...

That's just a taste of the ideas. For an entire book there's this:

https://www.amazon.com/Ramsey-Theory-2nd-Ronald-Graham/dp/04...

Many books on Graph Theory will have a section about it.

I’ve heard the phrase “history is stranger than fiction” before .. and you discovered that!

The fake’s username shows up in green is a sufficient flag. What more do you want? I like the unverified functionality

Wow, thanks for sharing this. I’m going to close my Instacart account now. I haven’t used it in a while but I don’t want my data sitting on a platform that doesn’t care about security

It’s not only medical data that’s of concern, but also nation states Could try to use the data to identify embedded foreign agents/spies implanted in their country. Those are the ones without diplomatic cover

> I'm pretty sure in a skeptical sense they'll be trying to pay associate professors less for the same reason. and charging students more.

From what I’ve seen, this has already been happening over the past decade already. I agree they’ll continue doing it for “new reasons”