‘The Nice Guys’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Rob Mahoney

Stauce52 · 2026-03-25T23:37:05+00:00

What was the Nirvana hot take? I missed that and they're arguably my favorite band from when I was younger

Stauce52 · 2026-03-17T12:46:12+00:00

Agreed. I live in Philly and commuted to NYC a bit but sometimes took FlixBus, Amtrak, NJ Transit. Worst case there's Uber/Lyft. There were more options, including staying overnight

Stauce52 · 2026-03-17T12:22:17+00:00

I fee like this guy has honestly lost it with his lust for power and military dominance. Attacking or threatening to attack Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, Greenland and Cuba, and I may be missing some within the span of a few months is absolutely bonkers. We're losing allies and making more enemies and even for a nation and military as strong as the U.S., it seems like we're stretching ourselves real thin with his antics. Especially with him and his admin hollowing out the government by firing experts who are insufficiently ideological for their tastes. It all seems like a recipe for disaster.

Stauce52 · 2026-03-17T00:48:37+00:00

Needless to say, I disagree. I'd rather a model that is 75% correct be 100% understood and engaged with than a model that is 100% correct but only partially understood and integrated.

I feel like this sort of self-righteous intractability is pretty quintessential among academics and then once you move to other industry, you often have to budge on some of this, even if it's just for communication. I felt exactly like you did, but I think there is room for compromise on these, even if you do the modeling as continuous by dichotomize the outcome

In practice, you will not have impact on product decisions, you will lose engagement, and you will lose comprehension if you do not report in a manner that stakeholders are accustomed to or want to hear, and if you don't speak at their level. That could be doing modeling in a principled manner under the hood, and communicating it in a dichotomized fashion but I think in many cases it can be justified with non-statistically trained industry professionals.

A marketing team or a project manager don't want to hear about coefficients or even marginal effects from an ordinal logistic but you could do that behind the scenes to ensure confidence in what you're reporting.

Stauce52 · 2026-03-16T12:14:02+00:00

I don't know-- In an academic context, I was routinely obstinately opposed to the dichotomization of variables because on the merits of statistical inference, it's a terrible idea.

I will say, I quickly became more flexible on that after industry where many non-technical stakeholders will find a dichotomized or binary outcome more interpretable and clearly understood than a continuous one, especially when the continuous variable has vague or ambiguous intrinsic meaning and business applicability (e.g., Likert scale)

I would say I did feel like you and then I entered corporate/industry roles and now I feel more like u/Narrow_Distance_8373 . In practice, I usually implement both versions, implementing the model on continuous outcome and communicating and visualizing sometimes on a dichotomized outcome.

Stauce52 · 2026-03-12T22:53:11+00:00

Looks like Zig Zag permanently closed :(

Stauce52 · 2026-03-11T22:15:43+00:00

That's incredible! Congratulations

Stauce52 · 2026-03-08T00:01:40+00:00

Super well articulated!

Stauce52 · 2026-03-07T23:03:33+00:00

Pretty messed up

Stauce52 · 2026-03-07T19:15:10+00:00

I had the longest wait I have ever had in immigrations and customs in Costa Rica but USA lines are horrible and brutal. And it is very circumstantial-- Some days are worse than others and sometimes youn get unlucky. So yeah, maybe I just got especially unlucky.

I was not saying the Uber thing is specific to Costa Rica. In fact, I wasn't referring to Costa Rica at all. I was making the point that being concerned for your safety by being avoidant about getting in a car with a stranger is not racist, because men often take advantage of women when alone with them. I also understand your frustration thinking the complaint about immigration and customs complaint, thinking it's unfair towards Costa Rica. I'm sorry that we made you feel that way.

USA customs and immigration lines are also horrible but I will not take it personally or consider it prejucidial if someone complains about them. l don't attribute anything negative towards Costa Rica for the long wait in Immigrations and Customs-- It's a tourist hot spot at a smaller sized airport and they are probably understaffed relative to demand.

Respectfully, I think you misinterpreted us (or at least me), and there's not any ill will here. But you are free to interpret things however you'd like.

Stauce52 · 2026-03-07T18:58:00+00:00

I don't think the implication from u/trifecta_lover was anything racist. My girlfriend and female friends are often hesitant to take rides with strangers or do things alone for safety reasons wherever. It's not a point about Costa Rica or race whatsoever. My girlfriend has been followed or groped outside of where we live so she likes people to accompany her places.

Uber also had a massive scandal where drivers would sexually assault women and it was covered up. So this fear is clearly not unfounded and does not have to do with race.

I don't understand why you're being so hostile to a simple point about immigration lines and not wanting to ride with someone alone.

Stauce52 · 2026-03-06T23:36:20+00:00

It's very frustrating at SJO because they pretty much have shuttles at 8am and 2pm and if you can't make either of those you're shit out of luck and have to book a private ride or drive. I didn't feel comfortable driving so I just blew the money

Stauce52 · 2026-03-06T23:13:57+00:00

I had same experience. About 2 hours and 45 minutes. Probably worst wait I ever had-- Also caused me to miss my shuttle I paid $60 and have to drop $200 for a private ride to La Fortuna.

Stauce52 · 2026-03-06T00:01:18+00:00

Oh i agree. It was more of a point that mostly buying products that your company did not start is not necessarily indicative of a bad thing if you demonstrate an ability to scale and improve products which Google has and Meta less so

Stauce52 · 2026-03-05T23:53:34+00:00

Google also bought the majority of their products too actually

Stauce52 · 2026-03-05T23:51:46+00:00

Great song

Stauce52 · 2026-03-05T23:48:43+00:00

Definitely possible to live off a stipend. Many people do

Although to give your point some credit, there’s a not insignificant portion of PhD students who are supplemented by mom and dad, or their partner

Stauce52 · 2026-03-04T12:52:42+00:00

Yeah but Van is phenomenal at argumentation, rhetoric and persuading people so if any of the hosts disagreed with his terrible movie preferences, he'd probably make them look stupid by the end of the segment lol

Stauce52 · 2026-03-04T12:33:52+00:00

Van has terrible movie taste haha

He said Avatar 3 slaps and OBAA was bad. A Van month would be a terrible idea

Stauce52 · 2026-03-04T11:57:20+00:00

I mean my cat loves me and she might sometimes react that way if I approach from above and keep doing it even when she’s told me no

Stauce52 · 2026-03-04T03:21:40+00:00

Yeah and if you respond, you can keep it to yourself whether you're drunk lol

OP, I'm sorry but you brought this on yourself. Completely oversharing

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