ArkyBeagle

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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Language choice is secondary to methodology, but Ada does a darn fine job of checking an awful lot of methodologically useful things up front. It's less the language than the ecosystem and the infrastructure. It's eminently poss
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http://www.amazon.com/Transition-Advanced-Mathematics-Dougla... My bad - I mispelled "Eggen" as "Eggers"
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Suppose you play baseball. You have a teammate who is less talented than you are. You are the best hitters on the team. He works hard; you don't. You both play Little League, then High School, then when you encounter American Legion pi
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Just to reinforce things: we are talking about kids very early in their math career. And math is drill; Khan academy, all that. It's an investment. You can do drill in 8th grade, or you can do it in your freshman year of college. T
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
This is really how to fix this: http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/2011/01/axiomatic-approach-t... I was an undergrad with Cary, and he got A's, I got B's with the odd C and this is exactly why. Until I too
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
It is phenomenal how many of those books are on the scrap heap of history.
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Look up Henry George, specifically "Progress and Poverty." His land taxation regime is to say the least controversial, but it's still compelling and it's something . It's also considered responsible for much of the
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Orwell had tuberculosis, not uncommon for people from urban environment in his day. That's why the "bad lung". Whether he smoked or not is probably quite irrelevant. Orwell fought against Fascism ( both of the Lft and of th
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
I think it's important to understand both Hedges and Friedman. IMO, the more you look at it, the more profound the divide there is. I think we think we know what we mean by these things, but the older I get, the less sure I am of tha
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Perhaps I've just surrendered to laziness, but I find that in trolling through BookTV to find books to read, I usually get more and better value from the discussion of the book than the book itself. Emphasis "usually" - som
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He does so absolutely. But he is also careful to identify conclusions as opinion, and you get to decide for yourself. He leaves you the framework for his conclusions, and you can continue to work on it. If you use him, Chris Hedges and Noam
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So don't do that.
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Cubes are not cheap. Price them some time. The last time I saw figures, the were considerably more expensive than offices made of sheetrock and steel 2X4s plus modest desks. They do increase potential density of employees.
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
I expect he assumes you are already familiar with Keynes: "In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. Monetary Reform (1924), p. 172" ( cut & paste from Wikiquote ) Krugman is directly opposed to har
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Matt Yglesias hates cars and loves density. So what else is new?
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Risk is cost we can't measure because it would require the ability to predict what we cannot. Rents are profits that aren't really profits. The thing to do is be open, transparent and honest about risk and rents. But at our core,
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
Arnold Kling has developed his "three-axis model." The three axes are: - Civilization/barbarism - Oppressor/oppressed - Freedom/coercion The idea is that people will have different attitudes on issues and that th
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
"The value we are trading away, under the surveillance programs as presently constituted, are quality of governance. This is not a debate about privacy. It is a debate about corruption." http://www.interfluidity.com&
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Well, he apologized for it. Things like "how high do we build the levees around New Orleans" are inherently political. When it comes down to it, you pays your money and you takes your chances. You cannot know how high is high enou
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by ArkyBeagle 13y ago
It might be worth reading "Why Orwell Matters" first. It's not a large book, and having a map helps.
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by ArkyBeagle 14y ago
The other 99% has been stagnant, not ( as an aggregate measure ) going down. This is critical to understanding this issue. I will say that we don't have a clear understanding of this. There is a general extreme preference for the present eq
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It is a shame, but it is also wonderful.
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There was one of a sort around Dallas, but it's dead.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/houston-most-divers... Houston is more diverse than New York.
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Each of these depends on the predecessor, so these seem to be layers. Production went way up during Consumer America. And it is not clear that Cosmopolitan America is any America ( as a distinct idea ) at all. Since it's transnational, it
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by ArkyBeagle 14y ago
Dropping back the frame for a bit - Jeff Sachs is on EconTalk this week, and he says what ( IMO ) should be the idea under scrutiny - employment prospects for people without college degrees have declined quite a bit since 1973. The present