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Off-topic: Acceptance and Response(calculatedriskblog.com)
1 points by b_emery 10y ago|1 comments
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by b_emery 10y ago
I'm not sure what liberals want, and I agree, we have been at war for something like 15 years now. I suspect that Hillary would have essentially continued our presence in Iraq. In that sense she barely qualifies as liberal. If you want
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by b_emery 10y ago
Good point. Also, the cult of personality or celebrity. Arnold Schwarzenegger, as an ineffectual governor, demonstrated that you need more than just celebrity to get things done.
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by b_emery 10y ago
No it does not, perhaps because I don't see it as a genuine threat to my position in life. I don't excuse it, but hatred of any kind is only productive to the extent that it generates action, so I see it more as a waste of energy.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Trump has expressed all of those characteristics. Labeling him and his supporters by proxy may be a stretch, but it's not racism. Call a spade a spade.
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by b_emery 10y ago
No, what bugs me is the racism, the misogyny, the intolerance, the anti-immigrant rhetoric, and most of all that he rejects data that doesn't fit his views.
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by b_emery 10y ago
> Trump will pull back on the military interventions that it seems like many people don't even realize we're currently participating in. This directly contradicts what he has said he would do [1],[2]. Best case is we are much m
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by b_emery 10y ago
So buyers of these things think interest rates will be lower in the future (eg due to poor economy and further stimulus perhaps?)
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by b_emery 10y ago
I'll bet he doesn't know that the pubic sector shrank more under Obama than the previous presidents: "The public sector grew during Mr. Carter's term (up 1,304,000), during Mr. Reagan's terms (up 1,414,000), during
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by b_emery 10y ago
California tried term limits. They didnt work. Turns out you need to have actual political skills to do politics.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Excellent advice. I would add that Op needs to make his or her own safety net, and the only path to this is by building up savings. The goal is to get to a place where you can save a large fraction of income with the ultimate long term goal
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by b_emery 10y ago
An excellent summary of the factors contributing to the uncertainty in the forecast this year. I've not seen a write up based on other models that gets into the details like this blog does. Will certainly be interesting to see how it a
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538's Final Election Forecast(fivethirtyeight.com)
4 points by b_emery 10y ago|2 comments
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by b_emery 10y ago
Why use student t distribution? Why not ask Nate Silver: "This mostly makes a difference for very low-probability events. For example, for an event that a normal distribution regarded as a 1-in-1,000 chance, our t-distribution would as
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by b_emery 10y ago
Yes that one, and also "the heart and the fist" by Eric Greitens. Maybe the biography of Chris Kyle also, though I can remember for sure.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Indeed. "Growing old is not for sissy's" says my mother-in-law.
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by b_emery 10y ago
This comes up a lot in the accounts of navy seal training that I've read. The strategy is to just make it through the next few moments without letting your mind go to the future pain and suffering.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Simultaneously a great story and proof of the value of an 'experienced' coder. Looking forward to seeing how far this goes!
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by b_emery 10y ago
I respectfully disagree. Your assumption about the preference being heritable is questionable.
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by b_emery 10y ago
> The only way to long run sustainability is central control of population with mandatory birth limits This is demonstrably not true. Look at Japan and western Europe: declining population. Its a function of economic situation (no need f
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Pitch Drop Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by b_emery 10y ago|1 comments
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by b_emery 10y ago
The chicken on his shoulder is not lending much credibility either. However, 'some guy' is perfectly fine if the idea is good. One would think that DARPA would be very interested in throwing some money at this idea, if it was a go
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by b_emery 10y ago
You can teach adjunct at a local city or community college. People with your kind of skills are in demand, I'm sure they'd love to have you, even if just a few hours per week. And no PhD required.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Decreased shipping wont change the culture of consumption - that will only end when the culture changes. My loosely held belief is that the ecology of the planet will only be saved because of capitalism. We will only get to a sustainable ec
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by b_emery 10y ago
Sounds like you need a commonplace book. I read about them in the book "Where good ideas come from". A commonplace book was a notebook used by the likes of Darwin to store and rehash ideas. I use what I consider to be the modern e
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by b_emery 10y ago
As solar energy costs drop below those of fossil fuels [1], its seems possible that for a few trillion, some kind of sequestration would be possible. One could imagine entire PV farms devoted solely to restoration of the atmosphere to pre-i
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St. Louis Is the New Startup Frontier(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by b_emery 10y ago|0 comments
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Well, I'm still a work in progress! I'm working on a PhD and passed my oral exams because of these books. I have a weekly schedule that balances reading/doing math, writing and coding and producing toward the dissertation. Th
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by b_emery 10y ago
The most important books I've read in the last 10 yrs (with respect to professional growth) are: Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, by G. Colvin The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We
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Energy and Transportation by 2030(youtube.com)
1 points by b_emery 10y ago|0 comments

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