RobertoG

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by RobertoG 8y ago
That's only one of his exploits. That this guy talk with a straight face about "enlightenment" and "ethics" is "funny".
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Have you considered the possibility that what we call 'human intelligence' could result being only advanced automation?
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Sorry for the late answer, I have a life ;-) Anyway, I don't think our discussion is going to arrive anywhere. You ask for Krugman (who is a guy that I like by the way) opinions: https://www.cnbc.com/id/46944145 F
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I think your concerns are valid, but if knowledge about development economics increase, even if it's not applicable to "rich" countries, this is a good thing. I'm a donor, and they had a program where they gave cash to p
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by RobertoG 8y ago
So, if I understand what you are telling me, when, for instance, Krugman, write his text book and his New York Times columns, he is just writing a simplification. Because he thinks that the notion that private banks create money as an accou
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>"[..] it says more about you than the economists..." I think I will be cavalier about that comment. >"[..] what mainstream economists really believe [..]" This is something that always puzzle me in this kind of di
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by RobertoG 8y ago
It seems to me that if the "the majority of modern macroeconomists neither disagree with the Bank of England's explanation" and it's only a pedagogical tool or an historical explanation, they would do well in saying so.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>Banks don’t create demand out of thin air by providing loans. This is exactly what MMT says (and the reason of their support for fiscal policies), but not what mainstream says. See the mainstream justification for 'quantitative
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I'm not sure that your metaphor illuminates the issue at hand.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
We look down mainstream economists (macro) because their level of knowledge is more similar to alchemy than to physics, and because they never change their theories never mind what happens in the real world. For instance (and there are more
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>" If MMT doesn't predict inflation as a result of arbitrary creation of currency, then it seems we can conclude MMT is incorrect." That is not at all what MMT says and I don't understand how an honest reader of t
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>"I tried reading TF/PyTorch docs but couldn't find a guide on how to make my game a friendly environment" Are you aware of 'Elf' and 'TorchCraft' by Facebook (creators of Pytorch)? From https:&#
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Fair enough. What is that minimum? The proposed minimum is always to grant the needed power to cover unlimited property rights, but not universal healthcare.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
It's a complicated issue, but it seems to me that, without tariffs, a good way to make profit, is to do arbitrage between the different prices of labour in different countries. Tariffs make more expensive to invest abroad than locally
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by RobertoG 9y ago
I though the problem in USA for getting things done with infrastructure was the deficit hysteria, not the regulations and the outrage. Was I wrong?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
There is a big difference between a country with its own currency (like Sweden and the federal USA) and a state like Illinois or a country member of the Euro. Sweden can't run out of money. How many resources they decide to use in thei
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by RobertoG 9y ago
It could be a moving target. Maybe you could start with a generic test, for instance: x miles in random location with random conditions. After that you could add tests when a problem appear. For instance, you could add the conditions where
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Tell that to the Greeks, where the "independent" Central European Bank, theoretically also the central bank of the Greeks, was used as a weapon against then. Tell that to the countries in the south that are financing the exports o
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by RobertoG 9y ago
If somebody is interested in a more data driven view, I would recommend this paper (1) by Ha-Joon Chang: "This free trade phase, however, was short-lived. Sweden started using tariffs as a means to protect the agricultural sector from
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by RobertoG 9y ago
In theory, but the reality of the issue is very different. The European Parliament is all powerful except for the important things. The real power is in the hands of the commission, which, in practice, it's not more than an internation
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Freedom from democratic governance sounds like a suspicious kind of freedom to me.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
It's a pity that, as the economic data shows, this is not the case.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"government behavior going unchecked" by who?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Something that deeply bother me about the "pro-life" stance is its hypocrisy. They put advertisements about "protecting life" and use "life" and "humanity" all the time in their discourse, but that ha
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>>"[..] Homo species on the planet that co-evolved to human level intelligence [..]" Can you elaborate on this? I'm a little at lost about what you mean.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>>'It is really the very existence of the legal-fiction of "public land"' I don't understand. How is the legal fiction of 'public land' more fictitious that the concept of 'private land'?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
If you think that the problem that we have with inequality is that some people have jets and hot couples you are missing the point of the parent's post. I couldn't care less that Mr.Rich have a jet, I care that Mr.Rich decide to m
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>>'Or worse still, you get Brexit-style direct democracy where the referendum settles only a broad objective and yet all criticisms of details of policy implementation are dismissed as defying the "will of the people".&
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Nice. Is there something similar for python?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
It seems to me that the dangers of direct democracy have been exaggerated (and maybe the dangers of the representative democracy downplayed). I don't see how, at the end of the day, representative democracy save us of the dangers of di

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