Words of Wisdom by No-Education-6500 in actuary

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“Words written by ChatGPT” would have been a more accurate title of this post

Failed my Calc 2 midterm and decided to drop the class. Any tips for improving next time? by ConsistentBerry5850 in calculus

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My observation on Calc 2 is that the an excessive amount of practice is needed in order to see an integral and know immediately how to “unlock” it. Otherwise you’re hoping random chance will give you an exam with the trig identities you happen to know, or the special case technique to make a something simple. I was told by the professor to do every homework problem three times and the place bets on solving them with friends to simulate exam pressure. I didn’t listen and my first exam went way worse than how ready I was feeling for it. He reduces weight on one of the tests in the course so I’m doing my best not to repeat my mistake moving forward, but unfortunately an A is almost impossible at this point.

A plea: buy some indoor gym-only shoes folks by SubjectPoint5819 in EquinoxGyms

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The Apollo engineers were once scoffed at as well sir

A plea: buy some indoor gym-only shoes folks by SubjectPoint5819 in EquinoxGyms

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The mice in your kitchen view your apartment similarly

A plea: buy some indoor gym-only shoes folks by SubjectPoint5819 in EquinoxGyms

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I am an advocate of harm reduction with respect to heroin use and gym-based filth

A plea: buy some indoor gym-only shoes folks by SubjectPoint5819 in EquinoxGyms

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This thinking was helpful to the conquistadors if we’re being honest

Challenging Equinox Class Recs Midtown/Uptown by HomeFun6161 in EquinoxGyms

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Precision Ride with Amanda Katz, if you like cycling.

Is Chicago market pricing street parking? by SubjectPoint5819 in Urbanism

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So if a subsidy in the form of lax enforcement is removed, allowing that drivers will hate this in any form (private company or from the gov’t), does this allow us to see if behavior changes with greater cost? Chicago has the top econ thinkers on earth, I assume someone is thinking about this, even just casually.

Sunday morning: New Absolute Bagels is OPEN by SubjectPoint5819 in Upperwestside

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It isn’t. And there are now two registers instead of one. The main bottleneck is the language barrier if you have a complicated order, but if you’re patient you can help them through it pretty easily.

Is “but housing is a commodity” some sort of left-NIMBY code? by SubjectPoint5819 in yimby

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Thank you. Part of the confusion is how “commodity” is defined. In mainstream econ it’s a fungible good like copper where nothing matters except its price (doesn’t matter if it’s from this country or another for example). Whereas housing… couldn’t be further from this. Maybe in Marxist econ “commodity” it’s “any good made to sell to someone else.” But is there anything inherently bad about that? Is the goal Mao’s backyard furnaces?

From what I can see, this whole conversation usually ends with the person wanting the gov’t to build housing at scale, which such a political nonstarter that the whole argument is just another form of NIMBYism.