imagination is nothing but belief

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"right, of course!"

But there are a million other hypothetical risks, too, and selecting one to focus on is — or might look like — a political choice. Perhaps a banking regulator might send banks a memo saying “hey, lending to gun companies is risky” solely because she is worried about the financial risk to banks’ balance sheets of lending to gun companies. But you might suspect her of having other motivations.

"sure, sure."

Anyway if the US government deports an immigrant, that immigrant might be less likely to pay back a bank loan,

"financial engineering is both a system to distribute risk and reward to those who want to take on specific risks for specific rewards, and a system to get rich while doing this" is one thing money stuff really makes sure you get.

the sort-of-equivalence of debt financing and leveraged investing is novel and fascinating. I guess if a company takes on debt, its stocks become more volatile and its shareholders take on more risk and more reward (per unit of stock), and also pay the borrowing cost. if it instead just issues more stock, shareholders can borrow money to buy more stock and take on more risk and more reward, and also pay the borrowing cost. in a way this is perfectly symmetrical for everybody (the shareholders, the company, and the bank), neat!

also this dream may have triggered my on-waking-up headaches again*, on the other side of my face again, so I guess fuck you brennan or whatever.

There's a particular plot type that I'm kind of obsessed with (example) in which a set of data points on a single axis is displayed using non-overlapping, evenly spaced circles such that the position on one axis is preserved (i.e. every single piece of data in the set is displayed at full precision), and the non-overlapping nature of the circles inherently makes the other axis form a probability density chart/violin plot out of the data given that the arrangement is done with a clever algorithm (force simulation, I think, usually). Generally speaking, I'm led to believe this is considered a beeswarm plot, though that term does get used to refer to plots that don't quite meet this description.

edit: I should point out, actually, that in many cases the position on the data axis is allowed to drift in order to make the packing work, and I don't actually know whether all of the below examples are cases of such. The first one clearly is. I do think that's something that needs to be specified.

I could go into the list of reasons why I think this should be a nonnegotiable component of the visualization of any single-axis data set, but anyway, my question was: why do I know about this? I'm quite sure the answer is FiveThirtyEight, which famously used it for all of their topline election forecasts. (They describe it as a "ballswarm" in one article.) But those aren't actually cases where the distribution is all that interesting or where all of the data points are being shown (they picked a random subset). The thing that's sticking in my mind is that I thought they did one of every congressperson on some particular metric that really made me all-in on the idea, so I'm looking through fivethirtyeightindex.com (it's great, check out the charts search). And... eh, maybe these actually aren't the greatest examples of the distribution being hugely consequential, but they are kind of interesting, at least:

open-ended question, but what would you say to me if I say I'm trying to understand the aesthetics of sneakers re: the look of a whole outfit? perhaps I feel like they always feel disconnected from the rest of what someone's outfit looks like. it's more a "it never looks right to my eye." but I'm trying to figure out how to explain the angle I'm coming at this from; many ostensibly fashionable things look incorrect to me too. I think I'm sort of viewing the person, including their outfit, as a whole object that could be designed—the "rhyming" point there you made hits the most. yes, that tracks. like, spaghetti straps and sandals would make sense, say. from that lens, my actual question for myself: I tend to wear, I dunno, a henley and uniqlo pants? some collared stuff, zip hoodie, fleece. this is a bit of "finally I am trying to figure out what I would like to look like after a lifetime of not prioritizing it." certainly an unfinished product. so: any ideas on shoes? on the right track, yeah. on color, I've always been curious about that: in computer/video games (where you get a ton of flexibility, and certainly where some of the "outfit as an entire aesthetic" mindset probably comes from), I often find myself basically trying to minimize the visual impact of the shoe. of course, that's not necessarily literal (though in ways it is; as you said, white stands out on almost any surface), but in the context of an outfit in a way it's a search for the unremarkable shoe, sort of the default. (not that I necessarily want to look entirely like a default person—acknowledging that certainly I mostly do, compared to substantially all outfits I see—but I think there's some sense of, "the divergences from that should appear intentional and be something that appeals to the wearer, standing out in a good way", which requires one to have a baseline to contrast with). but often, no available shoe color ingame seems to give that "this is the default" vibe, and that sort of translates to real life too.

"usually annoyed. next question."