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Daniel Bergstresser
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Finance professor at the Brandeis International Business School.
Brandeis University
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Nov 3, 2022
    Replying to @dbergstresser
    …when he got out of prison. Blanchard looked at me very seriously and said something like “being all over the news for felonious computer stuff will push his salary way beyond what we can afford.” tech.mit.edu/V122/N32/32tre…
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Nov 3, 2022
    When I was a PhD student at MIT the economics computer manager got a three year prison sentence for secretly using department machines as part of an international software pirating ring. I asked our department chair (Olivier Blanchard) if MIT was likely to hire him back…
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Oct 24, 2022
    My mom was an academic and her thesis advisor was still at Stanford when I was an undergrad there; I used to go by and chat and get advice from him. My mom only told me after he died that she thought her career had been derailed after she rejected his advances when she was his….
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Oct 24, 2022
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    …student. It’s easy for me to see that people don’t always tell even people very close to them about all of their bad experiences. It’s good to have some humility about the potential incompleteness of one’s awareness.
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Nov 16, 2022
    I recently heard a speaker at a conference say that developing a common currency in Asia would be much harder than it had been in Europe because the European countries didn’t have the same history of conflict with each other.
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Oct 14, 2022
    A lot of people seem to be looking for some complicated theory of Elon Musk, but the explanation I’ve heard from insiders that seems to fit the facts best is “He uses a lot of cocaine.”
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Oct 8, 2017
    Replying to @realDonaldTrump and @nypost
    You're nuts, man
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Aug 24, 2021
    We may end up with one Jeopardy! host in Avignon and one Jeopardy! host in Rome.
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Apr 7, 2019
    Had “the talk” with my eight-year-old son today about how correlation does not imply causation and about how helpful a rigorous identification strategy or experimental approach can be.
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Jul 18, 2019
    Not a subtweet, just a note that the Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling was born on this date in 1887. He was the nominal head of a Nazi-directed puppet regime, and in October of 1945 he was shot by a firing squad. His name is now used as an epithet that means “traitor puppet”.
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Oct 24, 2022
    Replying to @dmayzlin
    No, I think I just said “wow”. I was surprised in the instant she told me, but it was also like a puzzle piece falling into place. Resolved a bunch of things that had been a little mysterious before she told me.
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Nov 16, 2022
    Replying to @dbergstresser
    this belligerent aversion to books and knowledge is getting way out of hand
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Jul 9, 2020
    when it went into the MIT library I tucked a $20 bill into it and last I checked that cash was still there
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    Dr. Guy McHendry
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    Jul 8, 2020
    Describe your dissertation in the most boring way possible. I’ll start: An analysis of redactions in a government training manual.
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    Daniel Bergstresser
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    Nov 30, 2020
    I think that the weirdest thing about the Star Wars movies is probably the total absence of think tanks. All of them - Darth Vader, the Rebels, Palpatine - make claims and take actions without ever once referring to a think tank white paper or analysis of their policies.