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by Perceval 9y ago
Mass immigration and drugs are the class war
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by Perceval 9y ago
Here's a post on how to address trying to map the abnormal while controlling for variance across sample sets: https://medium.com/@uwdata/surprise-maps-showing-the-unexpec...
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by Perceval 10y ago
There was that moment with Theil's speech, but there was also the moment in Trump's acceptance speech where he said that we were going to protect the lives of all LGBTQ Americans, and he got a big round of applause from the crowd,
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by Perceval 10y ago
I don't have an example of one getting punished, but I do recall this book, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt : https://www.amazon.com/Traitor-His-Class-Privi
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by Perceval 10y ago
Living together is no guarantee that a couple will discuss those things. The solution to the problem of not discussing things isn't to live together, it's to discuss those things.
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by Perceval 10y ago
Here is a good article explaining U.S. path dependence on a clearing/settlement infrastructure that's stuck in the 1970s: http://priceonomics.com/how-credit-cards-tax-america/
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by Perceval 10y ago
Embedding a 651 page PDF in an iFrame?
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by Perceval 11y ago
There would have to be some probabilistic model balancing the energy costs of continuing to circle vs. the risk x cost of a ticket vs. the possibility that a legit parking spot will open up.
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by Perceval 11y ago
I wrote a long essay on the problems of preserving community in the face of scale: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
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by Perceval 11y ago
Federalism was supposed to enable pluralism within a single political entity. Each state could live the way they wanted to and have different rules/laws than their neighbors. The urge to use the federal level of government to impose
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by Perceval 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
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by Perceval 11y ago
“There are many causes for a suicide, and generally the most obvious ones were not the most powerful. Rarely is suicide committed through reflection. What sets off the crisis is almost always unverifiable. Newspapers often speak of 'pe
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by Perceval 11y ago
> Mods can't just delete those posts either, because this reddit gets pissy that they're playing favorites. You absolutely can, and it's easy to do so. I moderate a small sub, and you can remove individual posts with the
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by Perceval 11y ago
> The point of a professor at a research university is to interact with graduate students lol no—at an R1 university the point of the professor is to publish their own research. Managing grad students is just another obligation to be av
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by Perceval 11y ago
> an actual loss of student interest in building relationships with professors Relationships are built in person, except for getting "married" on EverQuest when you're 15. > I give my students my phone number and encour
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by Perceval 11y ago
Looks like this may be Prof. Leek's course mentioned at the end of the article: https://www.coursera.org/course/statinference Also there was previous HN post on p-values, which I found really interesting: https:&
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Ublock collaborators gorhill and Deathamns leave the project(github.com)
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by Perceval 12y ago
I agree that his evidence is sound. But like any other constructed data set, Piketty makes choices about measurement indicators and categories that are open to challenge. The way that he composes his measures of wealth and capital could b
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by Perceval 12y ago
There is a long-standing distinction within classical political economy of differentiating between land, labor, and capital holding classes. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx among many others make this distinction. Capital holders
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by Perceval 12y ago
Thanks, edited.
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by Perceval 12y ago
During the Bronze Age, bronze weapons and armor were rarer. It cost more to mine and work bronze, and it cost more to buy a panoply. Therefore the distribution of those possessing the top-of-the-line violence capacity was concentrated in
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by Perceval 12y ago
Sparta maintained a 10:1 ratio of helots to Spartans, and that was in the early iron age. I imagine the ratio could have been substantially worse in the neolithic and bronze ages. (Iron democratized violence compared to the bronze age, d
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by Perceval 12y ago
Yes, if you're located in DC.
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by Perceval 12y ago
I know you're joking, but Wizard ( http://www.wizardmac.com/ ) for OS X is a really nice place to start before delving into SPSS, Stata, and R.
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by Perceval 12y ago
> …browser developers refused to cooperate and develop something better. Microsoft and Apple… Javascript was the language for nearly a decade before Apple shipped Safari. Netscape shipped Javascript, but no one was necessarily locked in.
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by Perceval 12y ago
"Year Zero" was more a reference to the idea of trying to wipe out symbols of past culture (i.e. Anno Domini) for political reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_%28political_notion%...
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by Perceval 12y ago
> the culture-specific BC/AC split Any dating scheme is going to be culture-specific. The point you pick to be "year zero" is always going to be a point in time that's culturally valuable. > The ascendance of the
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by Perceval 12y ago
Grants are easier to come by in certain fields than in others. Natural sciences, for the most part, have it much easier than social sciences and humanities. Tuition begins to matter when students lose funding. Then it's no longer &qu
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by Perceval 12y ago
> there's only so many teaching slots available, and there's a fuckton of Phd graduates desperate to obtain one regardless of the salary or employment terms This is another problem produced by academic exploitation. Ph.D. stud
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Depends. Milk has two types of protein: casein and whey. They may only increase whey and not casein (casein tastes much worse than whey in my anecdotal experience).

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