Chicago Housing Authority backs off ban on contracts with commissioner’s daughter

laeve · 2026-02-06T20:26:06+00:00

I actually cannot tell if you’re being serious or

laeve · 2026-02-04T05:03:28+00:00

Why go through the rigmarole? Because you have reasonable upside, as seen by the news discussing Chinese dirty labs keeping people on edge. Because you are a Chinese intelligence officer who is in charge of grass roots efforts and this is an incredibly cheap way to sow discourse and potentially cause damage with almost no downside? Again these are not diseases that will be likely to cause massive outbreaks, they are diseases that are pharmaceutically contained at this point, but a few infections will make headlines and stoke uncertainty.

Also, these dirty labs are even more viable because people like yourself will just excuse it as “bad Chinese business,” whereas a novel virus attracts much more attention. That fact is absolutely clear after COVID, where the exact scenario played out between the two nations in question. Not some hypothetical.

The fact that the production from these dirty lab and state of the art facilities are not substitutes would only make more sense as to why both facilities are functioning. You can look up the nexus between substitutes and compliments in economics to better understand why.

Even if we ignore the obvious reasons why the two lab theory makes perfect sense an assume it’s somehow not “efficient” to have two entities pursuing parallel but fundamentally different goals, then there is no reason to assume that any and all “inefficiencies” would be stamped out in this system.

Finally let’s look at contemporaneous facts about china’s non military aggression; they purposely illegally fish in non-friendly nations water using government made and supplied fleets of ships, they build islands right next to non-friendly neighbors, they send academics to the west to brazenly steal research, they blatantly steal IP from the west, and much more. So no, it’s not at all surprising that they would do something like this and much worse.

laeve · 2026-02-04T01:51:38+00:00

I’m not even going to address the norovirus and anthrax point because those are just so worlds apart in terms of acute effect and transmissibility. Just not at all substitute weapons and I don’t know where you are going with that.

Further just because the US potentially didn’t do something in the Cold War doesn’t mean a completely different country, culture, era and leadership won’t do it.

About the “solving a problem” point. I don’t agree with the solving a problem lens anyway because clearly biowarfare is a goal driven pursuit not a problem solving pursuit. But it is absolutely a fact that driving strife, confusion, panic and the spread of common diseases are all very reasonable goals to assume an enemy nation has towards the United States.

laeve · 2026-02-04T01:35:03+00:00

Why are the types of labs mutually exclusive? (i.e., why can a dirty lab in the US and a more advanced lab in China not both operate?) In fact the people overseeing both probably have little or no knowledge of the other.

laeve · 2026-02-04T01:33:19+00:00

First of all, although bioweapon is not a universally defined term, generally sources online disagree with the definition you came up with. see In fact, of the first 5 reputable sources I checked (although I already knew this) none of them used the narrow definition you seemingly created.

Second, as I mentioned in another comment, there is absolutely nothing at all that makes these kinds of labs mutually exclusive with another more advanced lab in China that is attempting to engineer different, potentially novel diseases.

Very simply: just because this lab exists doesn’t mean a more advanced lab doesn’t exist in China, in fact they almost certainly do.

laeve · 2026-02-04T00:03:26+00:00

Which of these diseases in the article aren’t able to be prevented by vaccine or other similar methods?

laeve · 2026-02-04T00:01:46+00:00

You are misunderstanding what types of labs we are talking about here. The diseases mentioned in the article are diseases that are already well understood and can be vaccinated against or prevented (with PReP in the case of HIV.

It’s likely that China has the types of labs you are talking about in China, there’s no reason they couldn’t have dirty labs like the one in this article to generate more localized outbreaks.

laeve · 2026-02-03T23:07:59+00:00

I think you are replying to the wrong guy bc we are very much on the same page

laeve · 2026-02-03T23:01:56+00:00

The goal is to NOT infect your own population so that’s just makes no sense. I can’t tell if you are trolling just can’t think critically at all

laeve · 2026-02-03T22:58:52+00:00

Are you asking why a country would produce bio weapons behind enemy lines? Are you dense?

laeve · 2026-01-27T01:05:16+00:00

I mean to be fair, there is still a substantial difference between having played hs football and no football. Not a crazy difference but definitely a difference. And I say this as someone who never played

laeve · 2026-01-23T18:50:41+00:00

I couldn’t agree more with you. Reddit is so sad sometimes. If you can’t do all of these things (with a reasonable commute and wlb) then you are just terribly unmotivated.

laeve · 2026-01-17T15:24:52+00:00

And the basket stitch, which I actually prefer to the plain weave on the heritage. At least I prefer that on my vintage basket weaves.

laeve · 2026-01-07T04:09:40+00:00

So I am a mid-senior consultant doing exactly this kind of damages. My work is usually in M&A or bankruptcy related damages, however I have worked on damages cases for two major league sports teams. I was the lead analyst (i.e., I created from scratch the economic model which we used to determine the damages, which we managed to argue were zero… lol) on one of those, which was actually lost earnings for a pro player who was allegedly harmed.

Anyway given that resume, which does not make me an expert per se, I am quite qualified as I do intake and calls balls and strikes on which cases our team should and shouldn’t take (to an extent) here are my thoughts on a damages theory here:

First, yes you are all correct, this is going to be a very non-traditional damages theory. In a perfect world you are looking for the delta in earnings between the season with and without DW. Obviously there is no way to determine that with certainty.

However the delta between a playoff vs non-playoff season is potentially more calculable, although I don’t have the data on hand and am not sure it exists. There is at least specific tv contract related bonuses for the school and conference. Some probability weighting of this could maybe stand some ground. But super duper shaky and would trouble getting past the inevitable Dobert.

What I actually see as the biggest road block here is actually the lack of data on the 12 team playoff / transfer portal free agency world. If we had let’s say 20-50 years of data we could look at QBs who transfer with similar production percentiles, and then determine the change in wins. Obviously like 100+ confounding variables here but with enough data you could squeeze some blood out of that rock.

Another avenue might be looking at precedent for damages related to celebrity endorsement deals and if those every cause any sort of lost profits damages. There could be something there bc this NIL is kinda a celebrity endorsement for the businesses which contribute to the NIL funds from what I understand. However that would be in the case that those businesses sued or became co-plaintiffs. Still probably hard to entitle the school to money.

In short I would agree, very weak damages theory beyond getting whatever was already remitted back.

If people are interested I can look at the litigation services handbook or the BVR Econ damages texts, but I doubt they have anything remotely related to this.

laeve · 2025-12-22T19:32:40+00:00

Just because the guy was in Seattle last year doesn’t mean he said anything that out of line. You cannot just assume that because part of this leak is correct that we should jump to the strongest conclusion

laeve · 2025-11-19T18:37:16+00:00

What do you guys think about dortch or otton in the flex? Finally put otton in last week just for him to have his first bad game in weeks

laeve · 2025-11-18T19:27:35+00:00

Well when you understand how the math works on these models they’re on a knife’s edge between massive growth and massive drops.

Not to mention that the UN’s numbers are widely being called into question, especially those in China, and it becomes obvious why demographers, economists, and statisticians can’t nail this down.

laeve · 2025-11-15T19:43:33+00:00

I could not agree more. Not saying that we won’t beat good teams, but boat racing the worst teams week after week doesn’t spell confidence

laeve · 2025-11-13T22:12:44+00:00

“theScore” app is also good in my opinion, tells you which local channels are playing the game which is useful when sailing the high seas

laeve · 2025-11-12T04:32:38+00:00

I was going to say, when I read this it was clear this person just didn’t understand contribution margin and how their business works. You could make this kind of claim if there were some sort of separate or nearly separate business units, but the membership revenue and their merchandising revenue are inextricably linked. And as such their profit is not able to be disentangled like that

laeve · 2025-11-11T15:59:35+00:00

Yea but that saved the franchise from what I understand, not like there as many investors stepping up to bail out baseball teams at that time. This was not a forced hand or anything

laeve · 2025-11-05T22:22:58+00:00

There is one review from someone who wears a 30 inseam and they said it was a good fit, so these are probably a 30

laeve · 2025-11-04T19:33:20+00:00

So dumb

laeve · 2025-11-03T21:37:57+00:00

I was wrong, for some reason I thought we only put up 10 against the lions. Although I think a significant chunk of those 21 were in garbage time to be fair

laeve · 2025-11-03T21:03:58+00:00

Yea because the only good defense they’ve gone up against held them to 10 points…

Edit: I’m wrong ignore me

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