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by bengebre 16y ago
I think the tendencies you're pointing out are anecdotally accurate occasionally, but they are in no way "by definition" from immigrate or immigrants.
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The End of Management(online.wsj.com)
1 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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Common as Air - A Graphic Review of a Book on Intellectual Property(bnreview.barnesandnoble.com)
1 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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Exploring Happiness(online.wsj.com)
1 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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Jonah Lehrer: How Power Affects Us(online.wsj.com)
3 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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The New Science of Morality(edge.org)
3 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 16y ago
The argument is that stock market returns are not a random process but exhibit mean reversion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_reversion_%28finance%29 In short, large deviations one way are more often followed by large deviations the ot
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by bengebre 16y ago
Living like a student for 5 (or more) years is a great strategy, but I just wanted to correct the doubling time math you presented. To double every 5 years you need a 15% annual return (1.15^5 = 2.011). A 10% annual return doubles every 7
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'Artificial Intelligence' Gains Fans Among Investors.com(online.wsj.com)
4 points by bengebre 16y ago|1 comments
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How Microbes Defend and Define Us(nytimes.com)
3 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 16y ago
It's really fascinating (horrifying?) that some of these ETFs went to zero for a moment. I can't understand how they cancel all these trades though. Seems like the biggest accounting nightmare ever.
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China Moves to Tighten Data Controls(nytimes.com)
2 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 16y ago
Looks like mashable broke the story: http://mashable.com/2010/04/23/blippy-credit-card-numbers
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by bengebre 16y ago
Texas really did behave entirely differently during the recession (employment-wise) than the rest of the country. Not only did the state start adding jobs in the middle of last year, there are now more jobs today than before the recession:
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Is it time for a new approach to finding extraterrestrials?(economist.com)
1 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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New York Isn’t Silicon Valley. That’s Why They Like It.(nytimes.com)
48 points by bengebre 17y ago|16 comments
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by bengebre 17y ago
Which is similar to saying an increase in labor productivity with the spoils going to businesses that deploy labor saving technology more so than wage earning employees. (if I interpret you correctly)
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by bengebre 17y ago
In short: Do we need a modified definition of recession if our current definition doesn't address the nature of recent recessions?
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Should We Classify GDP Recessions and Jobs Recessions Separately?(deptofnumbers.com)
2 points by bengebre 17y ago|4 comments
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by bengebre 17y ago
Hmm. I think a lot of people are aware that GDP has its shortcomings. I think many would embrace a metric that fully captured well-being in an economic manner, but I didn't see the author suggesting any new metric that we should be follow
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Al Gore: We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change(nytimes.com)
32 points by bengebre 17y ago|22 comments
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by bengebre 17y ago
I think it's hard to criticize the man on those grounds since he has pledged to give the "bulk of his fortune" to the Gates Foundation. That's arguably more productive than donating money to the government. http://www.washingtonpost.com/w
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by bengebre 17y ago
As a thought experiment, isn't it possible that the pie (wealth) could grow larger but that the distribution of that wealth could be narrower due to technology and outsourcing of jobs? That may not be zero-sum, but it could certainly be pr
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The End of the Space Age(douthat.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by bengebre 17y ago|0 comments
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Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal, Department by Department (Infographic)(nytimes.com)
54 points by bengebre 17y ago|56 comments
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China Battles the Information Barbarians(online.wsj.com)
8 points by bengebre 17y ago|1 comments
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by bengebre 17y ago
I posted this after reading through a thread using PHP. This technique is significantly more simple-minded, but it's still been awfully handy.
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by bengebre 17y ago
I think we all want to believe that because building interesting things is so much more fun than marketing them. Unfortunately, I think we're all wrong. White hat SEO and analytics seem like the most amenable techniques to the coder's w
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Deep Discount on Space Shuttles(nytimes.com)
3 points by bengebre 17y ago|0 comments
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U.S. May Take Formal Measures Against China Over Google Hacking (bloomberg.com)
2 points by bengebre 17y ago|0 comments

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