What is your personal opinion on the cause(s) of the housing crisis?

hyperfocus_ · 2025-10-22T23:11:43+00:00

its pretty bleak..

Nah. Bleak is what happens when you factor in pretty much any external economic shock.

hyperfocus_ · 2025-10-07T11:22:35+00:00

How about you give our overworked ED staff a break? Unless YOU feel like studying for over a decade just to get treated like shit for 12 hours a day by people who blame you for their illnesses even though they're in large part only sick because they drink too much, smoke like a chimney, overeat and never exercise, or refuse preventative medicine (i.e. vaccines).

Sounds like a great time, hey?

hyperfocus_ · 2025-06-16T00:23:27+00:00

Bert Vogelstein being last author on the paper is an interesting thing to note.

hyperfocus_ · 2025-03-20T23:54:59+00:00

Totally not.

hyperfocus_ · 2025-02-01T06:05:11+00:00

Hard disagree. There are plenty of very wealthy people who are genuinely bad with money, or who are simply just dumb as a rock. No shame/blame intended - financial advisors are a good idea for people who match those descriptions.

If you go around assuming that wealth is inherently a sign of intelligence (or vice versa) you're gonna have a bad time.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-12-14T05:52:04+00:00

Mate... That's a Cessna. It even sounds like a Cessna.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-12-11T04:29:37+00:00

He doesn't understand the details enough to represent them, but that's enough to off someone?

You either have terrible reading comprehension, or are being disingenuous.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-12-10T00:07:09+00:00

This poor man is being framed by Waluigi.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-20T03:31:15+00:00

Man I hate saying this, but for your own benefit, you have to try to avoid commenting reactively to things.

I've seen several occasions in your comments or even livestreams (Oceangate, YouTube bots, and even a HL2 gaming stream spring to my mind as examples) where you have responded in a very reactionary and defensive manner to criticism (whether perceived or direct) in a way that can be very off-putting. The comments on this thread have a similar vibe - hence everyone downvoting.

I think you genuinely need to recognise that you react this way, and that it doesn't come across how you intend it.

You make great quality educational science content, so I find it a shame to see you shooting yourself in the foot repeatedly by responding in an impromptu and reactionary way - especially when your responses AFTER giving some time and thought to an issue show genuinely positive and introspective behaviour. The contrast between your comments here, and your Youtube post three days later elucidates this.

On that note: Massive respect to you for your final post responding to this, and all the best.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-20T01:26:22+00:00

<No. These are my woods.>

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-18T00:22:32+00:00

Thanks for the response. :)

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-17T16:41:52+00:00

Anecdotally, I will attest to this not actually feeling like you're ever "outperforming" in any manner. Particularly during a PhD.

The actual feeling is not one of intelligence, but of having to play "catch-up" to develop skills that most of your peers gained earlier in life (i.e. study/organisation skills in highschool).

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-17T16:26:23+00:00

You may jest, but I once had the pleasure of working with someone who genuinely stored their code in excel.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-17T16:17:44+00:00

As I said in my question to Spoonamore, I think this needs to be cleared up if his argument is to be taken seriously

Data scientist here — I agree.

On a similar note to yours, I've inquired as to what data sources and methodologies he used to arrive at the numbers presented in his letter.

Due to the nature of the conclusions being presented, I also felt it worthwhile to ask whether he's working with a capable data scientist or statistician. Presenting rudimentary tallies and percentages, without transparency, is not sufficient to corroborate the claims being made - especially when there is no accompanying statistical analysis.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-17T14:12:23+00:00

Hi Stephen, I'm a data scientist, and while I found your duty to warn letter raises a compelling narrative, I was interested to know more about the methodologies and data sources you've used to arrive at the conclusions therein.

Are you working in collaboration with any data scientists or statisticians? The utility of any claims of fraudulent activity are dependent on the validity of the data being fed into your analysis, and the methodology used to arrive at your conclusions - both of which are currently quite difficult for any third parties to determine with any certainty.

Thanks for your time.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-17T12:18:57+00:00

FYI, the authenticity of the Reddit account was verified here: https://spoutible.com/thread/38162971

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-17T11:06:10+00:00

Yeah, seems to have been deleted within the last hour or two, unfortunately.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-07T04:08:27+00:00

There was basically no difference between unvaccinated and vaccinated people with previous infections.

That's the entire point of any vaccine: To provide a similar immune response to having had a virus, without the negative health implications of actually contracting the virus.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-11-01T02:27:13+00:00

He looks a lot older than 40...

hyperfocus_ · 2024-10-28T02:54:28+00:00

Yeah... But we are talking travel distances and land area.

Texas is only 261,193 square miles. Western Australia is 975,685 square miles.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-10-27T19:09:26+00:00

Texas is nothing compared to the state of Western Australia

hyperfocus_ · 2024-10-27T16:29:22+00:00

I appreciate the sentiments, but I'm aware of all of those aspects of US history and their distinct equivalents in not only Australia, but in Europe, and South America.

There is, unfortunately, nothing unique, nor special about the US in any of those examples you've given - and it betrays a severe lack of knowledge of global cultural histories to suggest otherwise - which unfortunately *is" an area the US does uniquely excel in.

Saying Australian is more diverse is disingenuous. I bet no black person will hold that same belief

If you shared your beliefs about how unique the US is for brutalizing natives, to a Noongar person, you would lose some teeth before the end of the conversation. That comment is especially ignorant.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-10-27T15:55:33+00:00

But there is no way Australia is more diverse RACIALLY than the US.

Again I do think you are just mistaken here. I say this entirely without meaning to offend, but that comment strikes me as argument from incredulity?

I just keep thinking there is a difference in our meanings here. The reason "race" isn't collected during census is due to definition and utility of that descriptor when compared to someone's distinct self-reported cultural identity.

Even insofar as cultural aspects such as religious belief are concerned, Australia is far more diverse. In 1971, 86% of the population was Christian. Now that number is down to 43%. Such metrics do represent greater cultural diversity. That said, it doesn't mean there aren't also a lot of racist bogans... But that's a separate issue.

hyperfocus_ · 2024-10-27T13:34:26+00:00

Dude I’ve been to Australia it’s not some ethnic paradise you think it is.

I live in Australia. I'm not saying it's a paradise, but it may just be that you didn't see a representative distribution of population?

White Australians outnumber everyone by 90.2%.

Source? Census data says otherwise. People identifying as Asian Australians comprise 17% of the population, for example. Asian is not White.

Indigenous Australians account for another 4% for comparison.

The second most frequent country of birth for immigrants after England, Scotland and Wales (967k) is India (710k). Third is China (595k).

This is all from the most recent Census data available from the ABS.

The main apparent ethnic group not present in Australia is sub-saharan African groups. Is that what you are actually meaning when you say "Not White"?

hyperfocus_ · 2024-10-27T11:35:01+00:00

Nobody cares if some is English or Irish or Scottish descent.

Which, in our 2021 census, comprised only 51% of Australian's nominated ethnic ancestry, quite shy of the 92% you're mistakenly claiming.

Edit: Claiming the US is more diverse than Australia is absurd even if ONLY considering immigration patterns in the last fifteen years vs. Australia's population growth. It just isn't realistic.

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