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by HSO 17y ago
http://www.c-base.org/cv50f/ (in German but still interesting to get an impression I think even for non-German speakers)
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by HSO 17y ago
"The weather was mild and the Nile would flood every year, providing them plenty of easy food. There was no need to strive for anything." I don't know anything about the Indian tribes but I know that slavery, serfdom, superstition, and tyra
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Smart Heuristics(edge.org)
1 points by HSO 17y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 17y ago
That's actually a really interesting question.
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by HSO 17y ago
I for one am with him on this. Just yesterday deleted my second FB account, just don't see the point of it. This whole social networking thing feels like high-school all over (might have sth to do with connecting to old high-school people,
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In South Korea, All of Life Is Mobile (nytimes.com)
14 points by HSO 17y ago|3 comments
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by HSO 17y ago
"...there are many mediums that do give you just the facts and then shut up when they have no more facts to report." Edgar et al. was not what I had in mind. More like a cross between them and today's news. The difference between data and i
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by HSO 17y ago
You nailed it. This idea or distinction is certainly not new, anyone who's attended university or even high-school knows this somewhere inside, but this is the best verbalization I've yet seen. Thanks! Now the question is, when is what stra
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by HSO 17y ago
At the risk of breaking the "silence" here (15 upvotes and no comment?!), let me add this: "Less than three minutes after an event, we expect a world of talking heads to pronounce judgement on the meaning of what's transpired." We don't rea
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by HSO 17y ago
Conventional Western notions of a childhood full of play and exploration are relatively recent (if we're talking evolutionary time-scales here). True, babyhood is obviously not "useful" in the sense of work. But in poorer or, dare I say mor
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by HSO 17y ago
At the bottom of the post, there is a video of an excellent lecture at Google Talks.
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What Are The Odds?(happydays.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by HSO 17y ago|2 comments
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Data.gov: Unlocking the Federal Filing Cabinets(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by HSO 17y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 17y ago
you mean like the french version of your alias? ;)
495.
by HSO 17y ago
In German, it's "sickness" (Berufskrankheit).
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by HSO 17y ago
Thanks. You guys might want to check this here: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0301543
497.
by HSO 17y ago
The problem is not really finding stuff. It's a filtering problem. If the article made it through this process, people's priors are more favorable and they might actually read it or not dismiss it immediately upon the first disagreement. I
498.
by HSO 17y ago
Perhaps one should add that the "apprenticeship" model would represent the ideal. If all goes well, it should then bloom into full research partnership towards the end and after. But again, that's the ideal. As others have said already, you
499.
by HSO 17y ago
This is a very naive (or doctrinaire) view. Please read one of the canonical value investing books, or Cunningham's book of excerpts from Berkshire Hathaway's annual letters by the chairman. For a more scientifically minded angle to this to
500.
by HSO 17y ago
"Having money, a depreciating asset, forces everyone into being a speculator. You have to make prophecies" You're exactl yright. Perhaps this is why people are almost asking to be creamed on their finances. The classic condition for stress
501.
by HSO 17y ago
I think he meant dominance w.r.t. Danish only, not all languages like English today.
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by HSO 17y ago
Agreed! A legal obligation to do a prenup would be like a law protecting you from the law... Perhaps you can scrap the laws about custody, alimony, etc. in the first place and let people figure it out by themselves.
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by HSO 17y ago
Your suggestion is off base. As for the rest of your comment, please read my comment again. It says nothing about realtors about whom I know too little to say much. It is concerned with the meme that people seem to earn money "on a day's wo
504.
by HSO 17y ago
"for less than a day's worth of work" Look, if Google earns x cents on a click from you, does it earn it on "less than a second's work"? It does not, because someone had to take the risk to acquire the necessary skills and contacts/reputati
505.
by HSO 17y ago
Actually, this is precisely what they are not teaching in economics: That people are weak, stupid, and make mistakes. Instead it teaches that they are informed, rational decision-makers who carefully weigh their options and choose the one t
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by HSO 17y ago
That's really fatal thinking. Actually, it's a well-documented psychological bias. To many people, a dollar earned != a dollar saved (or a dollar less in loss), although they are all conceptually the same.
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by HSO 17y ago
Or, perhaps, government should simply let them figure it out by themselves. And by the way, loan provisions are not mandated by government but negotiated up front. If you make a non-recourse loan, you won't get access to the borrower's pers
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by HSO 17y ago
Funny how the notion of simply paying back your debt becomes "enslavement" by the "banking system" in the minds of people these days. t's as ridiculous as a fat person blaming the food companies to make it easy to overeat. The author of the
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by HSO 17y ago
Exactly. If prenups were required by law there would be no emotional baggage in bringing up the topic.
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by HSO 17y ago
Really old one, but still good!

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