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I took econometrics on a dare once. You can't just describe a real-world change as an exogenous shock in general.

I get told "no" a lot.

I schwätz noch d'Muddasprooch.

I make a point not to reply to throwaway accounts. Sorry.

I only play a systems software engineer on TV; I originally went to school to be an actuary. I am cursed to live a life being intimately familiar with both Excel and Linux kernel internals.

The purpose of a system is not what its builders say it does but instead what it actually does. As it turns out, that's important to keep in mind.

"I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS." https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

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