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by _edo 7y ago
> Nunavut’s rate is 100 per 100,000, ten times higher than the rest of Canada and seven times higher than the US. Ok, that's bad. But we can connect that to the US: white males with no college, aged 45-54, have a suicide rate of 38.
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by _edo 7y ago
Or you could serve a lot of people, it's probably easier. Sell something for $10 that's worth $12 to the buyer and costs you $8 to make. Repeat a billion times. The people you did business with got an extra $2 billion, you got $
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by _edo 7y ago
The financing of long-term Public Goods has to be one of the best arguments for government debt there is. I'm not against debt[0] so much as I like interesting units and metrics. If you want to compare debt levels of different countri
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by _edo 7y ago
No, it's not. Because life isn't that simple. Investors and lenders play an important role in the economy. If theft makes what they do impossible it will cause a drop in the total productivity of the country as a whole. Which i
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by _edo 7y ago
> Because debt-to-GDP is apples-to-nonsense. No it's not. Debt is measured in dollars. GDP is dollars per year. Debt/GDP is $/($/yr)=yr This ratio converts debt, a number it's hard to have intuition for, to yea
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by _edo 7y ago
If you get rid of the part where you have to repay your debts, it's just theft.
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by _edo 7y ago
> There is no bias towards admitting females./ They do however emphasize top-of-funnel outreach for women to try to get more to apply. The 266/267 ratio of acceptance letters is probably too good to be true, it's hard to b
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by _edo 7y ago
> look at Caltech...[who] famously did not hire Emmy Noether because she was female What? I'm having trouble finding a reference. I know the story that she faced discrimination and Hilbert vouched for her, but that was in Germany.
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by _edo 7y ago
Table 6. The numbers you pointed out: White LDC 3rd Decile: 16.67% White non-ALDC 10th Decile: 15.27% The "much smaller gap" that I chose to focus on: African American non-ALDC 4th Decile: 12.76% Asian American non-ALDC 10
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by _edo 7y ago
Table 5 and 6. If you're a random (non-ALDC) African American in the 30-40% (4th decile) range for academics you have the same chance of getting in as an Asian American in the top 10%. They each have about a 12% chance. > Our model
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by _edo 7y ago
My.....technocratic oligarchy? Sure, yeah. Notice you have to assume that most people agree on what's good and that you know what that is. It's a solved problem, it's just a matter of implementing it. > If I invest $100
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by _edo 7y ago
I would really enjoy seeing an article like this paired with analysis from somebody with the same education level but from the University of Chicago economics department or something like that. They'd probably tell two very different
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by _edo 7y ago
If you want all of our productivity and competition to go towards something good you have to decide what good means. Is is it the total sum of all the wants and needs of society being matched up with our resources as efficiently as possi
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by _edo 7y ago
We're getting pretty far off-track which is what I was trying to avoid but ok, I'll try to bring it back around. I believe a human being has a fundamental right to their own labor, and even if this isn't the case I think we d
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by _edo 7y ago
> The only person who loses by locking up digital goods is the consumer. In the short term they my be losing out (kind of. It's like how I lose out when I don't steal at the grocery store.) but in the long term they're ga
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by _edo 7y ago
Really it's the seller's freedom that matters first. It's their product, it's their labor, they can offer to sell it to anybody who's happy with the terms. The buyer has the freedom to buy or not buy the product
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by _edo 7y ago
> Amazon paid NO income taxes last year. This is not true. They paid no federal income tax which is not the same as no income tax. In 2018 they paid $1.2 billion globally[0] and I don't understand how much they paid domestically
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by _edo 7y ago
> Funny how you can make the same comment about physical goods. No, you can't. That's why this is such a complicated issue. The inherent value in a physical good is consumed with use. If somebody buys a couch and takes it hom
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by _edo 7y ago
I'm pressing F for the golden years of Sierra :( > decreasing their opportunity for first-sale revenue increases the opportunity cost of making such a game. I don't understand the use of 'opportunity cost' here but I
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by _edo 7y ago
GP currently has the ability to buy a product in a way they like (not purchasing resale rights that they don't want.) Somebody wants to take that away from them. GP is upset they're losing the freedom to do business in the way the
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by _edo 7y ago
With laws like this you generally have to ask what's best for the consumer. I'm not sure reselling is. The current setup gives game developers a somewhat predictable revenue model and on the strength of that model they can encour
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by _edo 7y ago
Chapter 21 in the attached pdf gives a brief overview. There's also a (very challenging, I would guess 150-300 hours time commitment) MIT course online: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-a
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by _edo 7y ago
I've watched the video several times, still don't know what he was doing with his hands. Obviously in retrospect the police were in zero danger, there was no hostage, the house wasn't really doused in gasoline. There was no
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by _edo 7y ago
There was no SWAT, only police. Pointing a gun is a deadly threat and it's hard to believe (assuming this was a real hostage situation) he couldn't make out even one outline of a human to take aim at. The police thought they were
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by _edo 7y ago
Very cool. Also, if you're into this sort of thing here's the first in a seven video series on a very different mechanical computer - Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer which does Fourier Analysis: https://www.yo
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by _edo 7y ago
The fact we're even entertaining the thought of an electric car (a 4-door sedan!) going sub-7:30 at the Nurburgring is crazy. It wasn't long ago none of this seemed possible. The Porsche Taycan's 7:42 is a major achievement
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by _edo 7y ago
You've had to change the definitions of several words in order to keep your narrative going. You refuse to admit the difference between a peaceful and by-force arrest because you're expanding the definition of the word violence an
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by _edo 7y ago
Seriously? 1. He resisted arrest. He clearly stated his intent to resist arrest. He was given the option to be peacefully arrested, which he declined. In the resulting forcible arrest he was choked, which is wrong, he shouldn't hav
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by _edo 7y ago
The anti-cop sentiment in this thread is disturbing. I live in a bad neighborhood where gunshots are common. Since I've lived here there have probably been dozens of homicides within a .5 mile radius. Living here has changed my perce
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by _edo 7y ago
> choking a guy selling cigarettes to death. Please don't spread misinformation about a tragedy that's been used to create so much division in this country.

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