Prrometheus

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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I don't think it matters as much how great a percentage of the GDP government spends, so much as how it is spent. Is the government spending money in ways that produce net positive social return? This becomes much harder as the absolute siz
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
It's great for math.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I'm trying to decide between a CS MS with a machine learning specialty or a bioinformatics specialty. Would you say machine learning is more employable? Bioinformatics probably interests me more.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Hating on the US is Politically Correct. An American doing the same thing is American chauvinism.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Moral of the story: you can sell a fart application for the desktop, too, even if it isn't as glamorous as a fart application for the iphone.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/html/pa580/pa580index.html page 13 Keep in mind that these are "soft libertarians", people that consider themselves economically conservative and socially liberal, but don't necessarily go around trolling mess
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
People seem to be accustomed to that, though. And they enjoy being able to look through various options for a particular good in person. And the store makes out when people buy things that they weren't planning on buying. And most folks ten
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
What do you think about the timing right now for putting together apps for other mobile platforms, like Android? I am thinking of getting into it, since iPhone seems crowded.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Don't you edit text when you are new to a language?
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
If people became rich and the price-elasticity of demand dropped way off, then a business model based on squeezing every last bit of inefficiency from the supply chain and passing the savings onto consumers to gain market share would be in
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I see that you disagree with their viewpoint, but I don't think that you "discredit" them.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Cato actually has done some studies on the libertarian vote. It went overwhelmingly for George Bush in 2000, but swung about 20 points democratic in 2004. I'm not sure that they've updated the study for 2008, but my gut (and surveys of self
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Doesn't emacs really make more sense for a low-level language, though? A programmable editor seems like it would be more helpful with more code and more code repetition. Maybe it's because I'm starting with Matlab/Ruby/Python, but I really
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I'm learning Python in emacs after learning Matlab with its default editor and environment. I miss the visual file trees and the easy visual debugging, though I haven't completely gotten used to the emacs way of doing things yet. It does st
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
If they drop rent, couldn't they get stuck there because of rent control laws? I'm not sure exactly how the law works, but I know that landlords don't have a lot of flexibility in NYC.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
In our TA pedagogy class, I read a study that found international-level performers in chess, tennis, and violin all put in somewhere around 10,000 hours of deliberate practice in childhood. It stated that this requirement didn't necessarily
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
How is he not motivated by money in this post? Is plumbing his love and passion, or is he trying to provide for his family? And what's so wrong about being motivated by money, except for that it offends the secular liberal religion?
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Do better next year.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
That's an interesting anecdote about business practices, but I don't understand what it has to do with the pro/con virtue/evil desirability/undesirability of being motivated by money.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Yeah, it looks pretty dumb. On a somewhat related note, if we folded the federal government and signed a free-trade and migration pact between the 50 states, would we miss anything?
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I once saw a newspaper website ask readers to email in examples of global warming in their neighborhood. As you can imagine, "I didn't see many squirrels around this year as usual" and other such intelligent commentary topped the list. Way
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Yes, if central planners know the optimal way to spend each marginal dollar, then there is no broken window fallacy. I haven't heard any such case made for the popular green schemes.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Is he seriously saying that nobody needs to use large matrices in these days of internet data? Google uses online implementations of some algorithms because they can't hold the whole matrices in memory at the same time. Maybe Google is not
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
That is interesting because in practice it looks like China is borrowing a lot of the best ideas from the rest of the world and mixing it with its society.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I seriously doubt her $800,000 is going to large scale industrial power projects, though you are right that they are the only economical green projects.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
That's not a good argument for the gold standard, but it is a good argument for studying it as a serious monetary policy.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
The PC line is that everybody is equal, and if there are measurable differences between groups then it is due to white male heterosexual upper class capitalist oppression.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Selgin and White wrote some papers in defense of the gold standard. Hayek was sympathetic to a commodity standard, though not the classical gold standard per se. The gold standard, having been around for 2,000 years, is the constant subject
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The McCain plan was an attempt to equalize the tax incentives facing individuals and large businesses looking to buy a health insurance plan, thus severing the tight link between employment and health care which hinders potential startup fo
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>"But more importantly, he fails to aknowledge the roads he takes to work, the water he drinks, the electricity, the schools he went to.... you get the idea." All paid for by local taxes and usage fees. Now what, exactly, does he get fo

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