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Leland Stanford [founder of the school] engaged in numerous actions that would be considered prosecutable crimes todayâ"including massive financial fraud, embezzlement of public funds, and illegal self-dealing. He escaped legal accountability because he used his powerful connections and political offices to orchestrate what historians call one of the greatest raids on the public treasury in American history.

Like with drugs, how many get away with it because they have the right connections?

Have you watched the TV series "The Audacity" wherein the Silicon Valley founder protagonist tells his daughter about getting into Stanford, "Cheaters don't lose and losers don't cheat"?

If you told Reagan the national debt would reach $38 trillion, would he have predicted the US dollar was still king and the US stock market set 24 new record highs year to date, with lower taxes? How much more money could he have printed without consequence for his grandchildren?

Have you tried getting it to challenge Econ 101 assumptions?

From whom does the Fed borrow when it does QE?

Is that why Linux isn't on the desktop?

Do you think Musk read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson?

AI Overview:

The AI in Red Mars: "Paul"Unlike standard science fiction tropes of sentient, rogue androids, the artificial intelligence in Red Mars is depicted with grounded, near-future realism.

The "Paul" System: The primary AI is a ubiquitous, advanced operating system named Paul, run on the colony's wrist-bound computers (vidphones) and lab networks. It is named after the physicist Wolfgang Pauli.

Functional Utility: Paul acts as a highly sophisticated, natural-language personal assistant and analytical engine. It handles complex data filtering, scientific calculations, drone piloting, and habitat system automation.

How much you wanna bet slashdot's own favorite commenter gweihir wrote the letter?

Does advertising even work? How come they show me meat ads when I'm vegetarian? Why show me tire ads for weeks after I've bought tires? Is the real point just to annoy?

There is a tendency, among both scientists and non-scientists, to assume that our current scientific theories are correct in some fundamental sense ⦠but the history of science suggests otherwise. Almost all of the theories that were at one time viewed as correct have been abandoned.

â" David Merritt, 2020

AI Overview:

David Merritt is an American astrophysicist and prominent scholar in the philosophy of science. He is a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), having previously taught at Rutgers University.

How come the same capitalism that lifted billions out of poverty made them not want to replace themselves?

Did slashdot editors really think they could stop AI by throttling my posts to one per day here?

So if bitcoin tumbles, sales go up?

"Insurance companies don't print their own money either. They redistribute the costs of these payouts over their risk pool."

If you ran an insurance company, would you invest premiums to make more from financial returns? Do they turn the popular notion of redistribution of premiums into distribution of financial market profits?

By ignoring the concept of reinsurance, do you contribute to a misinformational myth (whiich benefits insurers because, poor me! I can only pay out what I get in premiums!) that insurance is zero sum when in reality stock market investments make it positive sum?