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by bokonist 16y ago
EdgeCast CDN offers dynamic gzipping. You can also force a cache miss/refresh by altering the query string, which is really helpful if you are changing content. They are a bit more expensive though (about 25% more). I also had to go thro
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Do you apply the same reasoning to the physical sciences? It would be awesome if you downgraded the germ theory of disease to a kooky religious superstition. A church can have branches that do sound science. Copernicus worked for the Cat
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Can you point to any papers published in reputable journals that make that point? Its not that I don't trust you, being some random guy on the internet, but there are people who study history and government structure for a living and I'd t
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I don't see any reason to believe that the ability to recite pointless facts correlates significantly with good decision making. I know many smart people who make very poor decisions, including in the voting booth. On average, all mental
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It seems like any testing regime would lead to a state where people with time and money could afford to take test prep so they'd know what answers to write on the test without actually having to change make their voting consistent with kno
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In-depth and globe-spanning reporting is essential for a running democracy, but everyone would rather spend their money on American Idol than American Morning and would rather read about celebrity domestic scandals than domestic policy In
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Men desiring attractive, fertile looking women is built-in. Women desiring high status men is also built-in. But which women find high status (banker versus starving artist for example) depends on culture and the particular woman.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but because the person is not paying into those taxes, they also will lose out on social security benefits when they are older. So it's not a total free lunch.
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The question is, is there evidence to suggest biological factors could play a significant role in explaining the extremely low amounts of women in science? Your original comment said the biological arguments were "refuted". Lacking concl
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I'm simply saying "men think and women feel" is a debate we were having a long time ago before the biological arguments for the lack of women in science were refuted. When were the biological arguments refuted? source? From what I've he
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Hamburgers with tomatoes. There just wasn't an easy enough way to handle tomatoes at the volumes McDonald's does. Interesting. My primary reason for always eating at Wendy's over McDonalds is the tomatoes (well that, and Wendy's has a mu
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And eventually you're going to be stuck in the $300,000/year treadmill at a life-sucking anonymous job with no chance of ever hitting it big (or making an impact on the world). Are they still paying that much for say a ten year engineer?
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Nate Silver's post has absolutely nothing to do with forecasting. Why include a quote about forecasting? The quote is a snapshot of the thinking inside government statistics offices. Nate Silver's evidence may have some flaws in it, but
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Unfortunately I don't have the statistics on hand, but one time I was looking at the average price of cars compared to the price index that had adjustments applied. During a given seven year period, the average price of cars had risen by a
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The growth curve includes inflation. But both the calculations of growth and inflation are utterly untrustworthy.
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The statistics Nate Silver uses are extremely problematic. I would not trust them at all. Any index that uses Fisher price indexes introduces huge amounts of subjectivity. For instance, the decision to use an "overlap method" rather than
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If you want to consume less and work a shorter work week, then do it. Save money and buy store brands rather than advertised brands, don't buy as much, etc.
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by bokonist 17y ago
You originally stated that, "Over the past 30 years funding per student has declined". What is your evidence for this? The paper I cited states that funding had no general trend over the time period, although with ups and downs based on t
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by bokonist 17y ago
So what is your source? The author is controlling for inflation, that's why he says, in 2005 dollars , meaning inflation adjusted dollars. I don't think it's a particular good piece, since he doesn't cite the raw sources, which is what I'd
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by bokonist 17y ago
Over the past 30 years funding per student has declined Source? According to this paper: "From 1970 to the present, state support for higher education has generally kept pace with both enrollment growth and inflation, as measured by the
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Why on earth should the average person make an investment with significant leverage? The only reason, ever, to make an investment with leverage is if there is some arbitrage opportunity that requires a large amount of capital to make money
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The best ideas are a combination - ideas that come out of consulting for a real business with a problem that the business will pay to solve. Like with the organic idea, the founder will have great original insight into the problem and poss
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If having an education causes women to enter the workforce more (either in order to pay off college loans or because they feel like they'd be wasting their degree if they stayed at home), then that could cause the correlation. Total hours
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by bokonist 17y ago
I've found "Thy Hand, Great Anarch!" by Nirad Chaudhuri to be a very interesting source. He was an Indian civil servant who lived through the independence movement. He has unkind words for both the British and the nationalists alike. Let
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by bokonist 17y ago
I'm curious - before math clicked for you, were you good at other subjects and generally one of the brightest in your class? IE - did your teachers think you were dumb overall, or just that you were a smart kid who for some reason didn't g
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on one hand stunting the natural evolution of their societies What does that mean? What was pre-colonial Africa evolving towards? And what is your evidence?
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I'm curious, did marrying her end up curbing your ambition or making you complacent?
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Your points are correct, the interest rates affect inflation rates, but do not fully control inflation rates. In my own opinion, interest rates are a terrible way to regulate inflation.
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As I understand it, the Fed would control the amount of inflation by setting the interest rates directly. Essentially, banks would be able to create money when they are able to find a lending opportunity that will pay a greater amount of i
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by bokonist 17y ago
Sort of, but China's main concern is to prevent its currency from appreciating too much. The danger of too much debt is the opposite problem - too much debt forces a devaluation. So again, the level of debt is not a problem for China.

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