BrianEatWorld

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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Except that a fair portion of that theoretical 8% is frictional. In the US at least about half of unemployment has historically been frictional or structural.
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Is there a reason you don't use one of the current data analysis languages like R, Stata, SAS, etc?
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
On your third point, I have few perspectives to offer. The first is that because the companies you listed are out to make a profit, it is easier to understand how your data will be used. The very fact that the government has less clear moti
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Have you all considered other methods of dealing with those issues? Its incredibly easy to make fake FB accounts these days and just based on many Disqus comment sections I have seen across the internet, I don't know that a lack of anonymit
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I can't give an example of one being lost, but thats the same reasoning Ford used for going after Ferrari last year. Whats worse is that wasn't even a real car, the F-150 Italia was their F1 chassis. A bit silly given Ford's F-150 is a mids
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
That is really clever. I had to build my own chair and desk on my first day and didn't even give it a second thought as to why that was the case.
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
When I worked at USDA, it was noted that it likely would have led to cheaper biofuels in the United States to the extent that such extensive legislation and tax breaks wouldn't have been needed to jumpstart ethanol in the US. So on the cons
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Maybe the problem isn't Facebook, but the concept of the social network. This particularly demographic seems to prefer Tumblr, which has social aspects, but isn't a social network in the traditional sense of Facebook or LinkedIn
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
You have to though, because when people are considering what career path to pursue, they aren't looking at one scenario, they are looking at the expected scenario. For a start-up this means lots of long hours at low pay with a slim chance a
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Its no substitute for a real db but, if you are stuck in Excel, I find that Microsoft's Power Pivot is a good transitioning step. It comes free with most licenses and is pretty well supported. It adds SQL Server functionality to Excel, spee
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I don't know why people resort to calling it jealousy, but there does seem to be some tension between SV culture and the media/general public/economy at large. People who work in SV are just like people anywhere else, yet how many times a w
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
That actually was the same thing as a PS1 and they stuck to that convention. The PS2 slim's official name is the PSTwo.
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
The market did though. Ignore the raw values and consider the amounts taken into consideration by the economic actors, expected returns, which have a probability component. As the chance of payoff for startups is low, a high payoff may actu
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
During the IO stream yesterday, they talked a good deal about Ingress. I think you are safe for now. You may even want to check in on some of their current IO promotions.
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
When I got dropped into crafting newsletters, I made the mistake of not looking into what different clients support only to find that my beautiful CSS buttons and the majority of the formatting was completely useless. I agree a standard set
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Unless you know what is actually distorting the market in the first place, counteracting a distortion with another distortion seems like a risky approach to problem solving. As the author points out, a good deal of money already goes into t
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Refusal to turn off electronics during takeoff and landing - the most passive aggressive form of terrorism ever.
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I like this idea. A bit like the pause buttons on my VMs. I have this type of issue more with Chrome than Firefox though and it always seems to be related to leaving a tab open with a video for a long time, even if it isn't being played.
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Extending that analogy though, the government can punish people buying votes, but that doesn't stop the billion dollar lobbying industry from shaping public policy. The incentive doesn't disappear, as there is a great deal to be gained by b
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I think that even ignoring privacy concerns, theres a quality difference between Dropbox and Google that Google is currently losing. Our team is only 10 employees, distributed across two offices, but the number of times that I have seen ema
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I like this distinction. I walked into a world of hurt when I was brought on to look at application user data after years of working with international trade data and national statistics. Even when it comes to formulating a hypothesis and s
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I'd agree with you on the model in question, but I could see costs going down, quality improving and designs shifting to cater to the limitations of the medium over time to the extent that more lethal firearms are being produced. For this p
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1.e. No PDFs.
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
My dad as well. I have set him up accounts a couple of different times and tried forcing use by only email the gmail address. Yet every time I get an email from him, its from that flipping AOL account. Yet, I install Opera four years ago an
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I think he is referring to abject failure. As he points out, failure to get a PhD, simply results in a MA or MS. As for the work schedule, that 80 hours a week may be a case for a tenure track professor, but the bulk of economists are emplo
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Fifth Gear is along the lines of Top Gear, but a little more fact based. My personal favorite is Evo car magazine based out of the UK. They do "long term tests" for a lot of exotics like Aston Martins. As an example here is a review of the
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by BrianEatWorld 13y ago
Part of me (the part that watches Better Off Ted) thinks this is just another change along the lines of the recent Gmail minimalism. The new logo which drops the word "territories" looks much cleaner and switching to Palestine from Palestin
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by BrianEatWorld 14y ago
I don't know that you would be insulting actual economists. You learn pretty quickly that EMH is an abstract model and should be treated as such. It is unfortunate that such caveats rarely make it across campuses into business/finance depar
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by BrianEatWorld 14y ago
I don't know what PA/University Ave used to be, but I wasn't impressed with it when I arrived in the Valley two years ago. I would say the community is what you make it. Personally, I found a nice home amongst MeetUp groups and the local Te
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Historic buildings can cause blight the way that any building restriction can. They limit supply and raise costs. Historic buildings in particular, affect the ability for new business owners to bring in businesses as well as limiting homeow

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