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by animefan 11y ago
Spin them off as separate companies and you're onto something good ;-)
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by animefan 11y ago
For reference, "consideration" is the legal principal that contracts must be exchanges not just one sided commitments. E.g. if you had just quit and your employer asked you nicely to sign a noncompete, and you did sign, the contr
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by animefan 11y ago
In order to get the most economic benefit (for both the worker and the host nation) per worker, immigration limits, if they exist, should be based on a minimum income. You are right that there is no reason to single out tech. However my cl
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by animefan 11y ago
I think the most important test is "do you care deeply about or are fascinated by the subject in question". If the answer is yes, then a PhD is not a bad idea (conditional on ok job prospects, inside or outside academia). A PhD
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by animefan 11y ago
I think this critique can be rephrased as saying that the anthropic principle is equivalent to saying that the relevant probabilities are not the "raw" probabilities, but the probabilities conditional on the existence of a conscio
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by animefan 11y ago
Re ceteris paribus, I address simliar criticism here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064126 . The key point is that the original post I was critiquing was already implicitly keeping all other factors fixed. And I o
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by animefan 11y ago
I've answered similar criticisms elsewhere in this thread, feel free to respond to them directly. I have a PhD in economics, so hopefully more than a "slightly-better-than-average" understanding of economics.
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by animefan 11y ago
I always thought that the primary difference between econometrics and statistics was the focus on causality/endogeneity. But I guess that in most cases, the endogeneity is caused by self-selection, e.g. selection into a treatment gro
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by animefan 11y ago
I did my PhD in econometrics. Reading this article, it looks like it was a general interest article profiling a professor who just got tenure. So if people are asking "how is this relevant to me", "how can I use this"
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by animefan 11y ago
This article made some really good points about the politics of the upper middle class (who I belong to). The author glosses over certain things like the real fear of not being able to afford to live in a low crime area (and yes, crime rat
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by animefan 11y ago
Accessibility is itself something can can be and is lobbied for. Compared with many smaller interests, like specific kinds of business, this lobby may even be considered powerful.
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by animefan 11y ago
I think that there are softer versions of Platonism (which in other contexts would not be considered Platonism at all, but are closer to Platonism that Smolin's idea) that are somewhat consistent with naturalism. The softer version is
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by animefan 11y ago
I don't think this is of the same order of magnitude importance as the potential for wifi. For any policy change, you can find some case where it negatively affects someone. Churches, schools and nonprofit theaters might tug on the he
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by animefan 11y ago
I don't see any discussion on that page about how this project helps house "the world" (which I assume to mean the developing world). It looks like the only places this has been used is in burning man, and there is no discus
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by animefan 11y ago
Odd that the conclusion of such a meta-analysis would be a list of what doesn't work. Surely we should be as interested in what does work.
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by animefan 11y ago
I think that the issue is that I only wanted to critique the following line of argument: CA farmers are increasing nut trees acreage because nut trees require a lot of water, and thus nut prices are going up in the current drought, and thu
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by animefan 11y ago
> In a world of pure supply and demand considerations that would be true. but as I've pointed out, we don't live in that world. We live in a world where many consumers are experiencing the same drought as the nut growers, and a
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by animefan 11y ago
I actually have a PhD in economics. You are right that revenue can increase due to a supply shock. What I should have said is that revenue net of costs can never increase due to a supply shock. Because of this, the full statement this c
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by animefan 11y ago
If you believe in a platonic ideal of evolution, then maybe this means something to you. Otherwise this would be better titled "Computer Scientists Find Simulated Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Simulated Evolution".
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by animefan 11y ago
I suppose that could happen, is there any particular reason to think it is? > Even if we assume that the price increase must be supply driven ... That doesn't matter to me, I was arguing against a specific mechanism. I never said t
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by animefan 11y ago
Nut costs are up, because nut trees are thirsty. Everyone knows this, so consumers accept that nut prices go up That doesn't make sense. Consumers have no reason to care why prices change. Do you really think that when there is a
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by animefan 11y ago
If water wasn't an input cost for all farmers, then the price of nut wouldn't have gone up in the first place. As I said, there must be some farmers who face increases in costs, and there must be some farmers whose costs incr
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by animefan 11y ago
That could well have happened, but that's not my point. I was critiquing a certain mechanism, which claimed that an increase to input costs could, in itself, cause in increase in supply.
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by animefan 11y ago
CA farmers are increasing nut trees acreage because nut trees require a lot of water, and thus nut prices are going up in the current drought It simply isn't possible for things to happen the way you describe them. Prices are a funct
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by animefan 11y ago
One issue is that this will still require people to behave strategically, since the auction is a complex game when you take into account everyone's information. In theory, continuous trading should be the simplest game, and let people
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by animefan 11y ago
Re your second sentence, I think it's unfair to attack the author in this way. By my reading, the author didn't attempt took describe the discrepancy and just included the abstract of a paper that does. We should thank the autho
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by animefan 11y ago
Similarly in frequentist statistics "you can only disprove a hypothesis" is false. If you think you can disprove x > y, (where x and y are parameters like the mean of some quantity for two different populations) then it follow
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by animefan 11y ago
That ship has sailed. Today, "open source" means "free" in Stallman's terminology. Asking people to use nonstandard terminology in order to promote a particular viewpoint is not reasonable.
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by animefan 11y ago
Just curious why this series of blog posts if getting upvoted so much. After the first few I thought itaniun must be some cool new thing that I should know about, but further research showed that it is being eclipsed by xeon and only used
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by animefan 11y ago
The market for watches that cost less than $1,000 is most at risk, as consumers in that price range have indicated they’re the most likely to buy an Apple Watch This makes perfect sense. IPhones are already a status signal, while sub $10

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