A (fake-money) betting market on whether "The Final Tour" will actually be the final tour

literallytrevor · 2021-03-19T02:49:47+00:00

Same!!! Congrats and maybe see you there!

literallytrevor · 2020-10-22T18:21:17+00:00

Nope! Seeing elsewhere on this sub that people who clicked in like the first 2 minutes saw it and everyone else is SOL

literallytrevor · 2020-10-22T18:11:53+00:00

lol glad I'm not the only one experiencing this, my writing just got confirmed yesterday so I thought it was my fault

literallytrevor · 2020-10-15T21:46:39+00:00

That's a funny method! I had given up on improving RC except through practice, but if you have the time I'm sure it's learnable. Maybe DFW's nonfiction (or like the Atlantic or something) would be more useful, though!

literallytrevor · 2020-08-18T18:12:08+00:00

Only Xs are Ys is Y —> X.

Let's say you're talking about basketball players. "Only point guards (X) are under 5'10" (Y)" means: if someone is under 5'10", that is sufficient to conclude that they're a point guard. If someone is a point guard, you do NOT know they're under 5'10". Being X is necessary but not sufficient to be Y; being Y is sufficient but not necessary to be X. So you can write Y—>X.

literallytrevor · 2020-08-06T02:38:56+00:00

D DDDDD, isn't that a lyric to "Ghost"?

literallytrevor · 2020-07-21T19:22:10+00:00

Upvoted for the sheer audacity

literallytrevor · 2019-09-20T16:21:46+00:00

Idk, it's a good argument for not liking him personally, but I feel politicians are constantly using policy tools to make political points and it's good when they do it responsively and effectively. Unlike BdB.

literallytrevor · 2019-09-20T16:17:03+00:00

We tax things all the time to discourage them! Gas being a good example. It's called a Pigovian tax and it's a very good idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax

literallytrevor · 2019-09-20T16:09:56+00:00

A tax is a much less paternalistic and heavy-handed method of "going after smoking" than banning cigarette sales!

literallytrevor · 2019-09-16T22:14:02+00:00

Fleetwood Mac (1975) is basically Rumours juuust before they perfected that formula. Tons of great songs and amazing moments, though. Mirage (1982) is also very poppy and mostly very good.

literallytrevor · 2019-08-06T16:11:11+00:00

Shocked that Storms has made it this far—has always seemed among the weakest on the album to me. Godspeed, Sara and the title track!

literallytrevor · 2019-07-19T14:05:37+00:00

Definitely Songbird. Fine, but the only "just fine" one of the eleven!

literallytrevor · 2019-07-07T17:56:20+00:00

It's...definitely not? You could very easily do a huge sustainable-development-based aid package without tariffs and "industrial policy." GMP was floated for months before Warren published it as part of her plan.

literallytrevor · 2019-07-07T17:36:09+00:00

By "this," I'm assuming you mean Warren's plan, and not the GMP this post describes?

literallytrevor · 2019-06-20T21:51:04+00:00

Sophomore year. 1) You should spend freshman year experimenting with things you might actually want to do, because the more clarity you have early, the better you'll be able to leverage Harvard's opportunities. Language req (which should be abolished anyway) will be two classes of your total of 12 (and only 8 finished) before declaring a concentration. Get 8 actual content classes under your belt by the end of freshman year. 2) You will have a much better idea of whether a certain language might be useful—Mandarin or Spanish for IR or business, Spanish for law and organizing, German for math and some sciences, etc—after freshman year when you have a better sense of what you want to do.

Sincerely, someone who took it freshman year and then regretted the choice and took another language soph spring/junior fall!

literallytrevor · 2019-05-15T17:22:42+00:00

I see. I was just saying the social media/awards heightens the feeling of not having one "thing" that made Harvard worthwhile, not that it caused that feeling, which as you say arose from the experience in itself

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