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by boxy310 11y ago
Student loan rates are set by Congress, and student loan consolidation does not generate a bonus at closing. As a result, there's no direct consumer surpluses to be gained by having a separate owner of student debt. At best, the Fed bu
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What specifically leads you to conclude it's a "flawed model"? Is it the problem of private ownership of a semipublic community, through individual accounts "owning" a subreddit?
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Agreed. Another way of looking at it is that a pure cash exchange would filter through the market demand for all goods, and as a result the nominal value of all goods would increase through the mechanism of inflation, not just land rents
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I don't like it, but it's definitely relevant. In a broad sense, the shift towards a services-based economy is a type of "make-work" in the shadow of heavy automation in first agriculture then manufacturing. This is very
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Also there's a significant problem of infrastructural efficiency. There's research indicating that city infrastructure follows a 3/4ths-power distribution, where doubling the population only increases the need for infrastruct
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The main skepticism regarding Columbus was that they knew the Earth was much larger than what Columbus was projecting. It would be a generation before we had the technology and infrastructure to circumnavigate the globe by piggybacking off
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This largely comes down to the state being primarily defined as a monopoly of force. When non-state actors end up wielding the most threat of force, then collective decision-making is effectively deferred to those most capable of enforcing
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This is at its core a problem of elasticity of demand. Most factories are only tooled to produce a certain output, and business inputs are constrained more by their contract terms and raw material prices than they are by labor bottlenecks.
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A "secretary" as they first began was a person you entrusted your secrets to. In the same sense that a "personal assistant" app is supposed to raise productivity, a real-life secretary does so but with all the intelligen
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This is probably because evolution operates on a genetic systematic basis, rewarded by external outputs. Capacity for rational thought is a side effect of this process, and does not necessarily proceed from first principles like much of eco
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I'm sad that journal reputation often trumps practicality of not exactly "breakthrough" articles that are nonetheless extremely interesting. One could argue that blog-reading should form an important part of being well-read i
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Agricultural engineering has a significantly better interrelationship between academia and industry. Or in other words, ag engineering closes the loop on the R-to-D stage of R&D. As a result, developing practical solutions leads to more
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I'd say the bigger concern is spurious correlation. The two factors may very well be unrelated, or share a common cause (like drowning and ice cream prices -- they're both driven primarily by heat). However, when talking about pri
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The mad + sad takes seemed to give a lot more emotional nuance than either of them separate. I like this, but hope it doesn't become as over-abused as autotune is.
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Solid guide, but having to purify the water coming out of your tap defeats much of the purpose of having a city water supply.
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Central Indiana here. These photos are definitely hard-scrabble, but they're definitely not the worst I've seen even in a 5-mile radius.
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The firebombing of Dresden in WW2 (which killed 25,000 civilians) was according to at least one RAF memo due to the fact that it was primarily a civilian city with undamaged housing: “Dresden, the seventh largest city in Germany and not muc
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Being smart in a particular subject requires a certain coalescence of talent, training, and timing. Most people do not have the prerequisites to be smart in all subjects, or even a significant amount of them. The economic division of labor
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These are the same case-uses as Excel and Access, and these also end up bloating in size and becoming unmanageable. The problem is that the selection criteria that lead to using Matlab in the first place also lead to never paying down techn
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From your link: >I’m afraid I may be accused of political incorrectness here. I hasten to say that I myself practice (at minimum) demon worship and abominable rituals. I'm afraid I can't believe this commentator at all, becaus
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>Using a set of open source machine learning algorithms known as SciKit Learn—code freely available to the world at large—the service seeks to automatically identify blatant vandalism and separate it from well-intentioned changes. It&#x2
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According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's financial declarations [0], assets as of December 2014 read at a hair under $45 billion. This very much rivals the size, even if it will take some time to build momentum and make a
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My work in statistical learning is always about multicollinearity, variable cardinality, and model selection. Understanding the topology of the data space is critical, and day-to-day concerns of data cleaning had made me lose sight of that.
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There's uncertainty introduced by the idea that you don't know how big that range is supposed to be. Technically the M/n figure should be (M-L)/n, where L is the sample minimum observed, and the estimated population mini
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The "maximum number" is a statistic both of a population and of a sample drawn from said population. As the sample size goes up, the sample statistic will converge to the population statistic, due to the Law of Large Numbers. Beca
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The New Testament also has several verses admonishing freshly-converted Christian slaves to obey their masters (Eph. 6:5, 1 Peter 2:18). Christianity at that time was controversial enough that they didn't want to add abolitionism to th
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The timeline changes from the new Star Trek movies imply that the Vulcans (pacifist science beatniks driven by cold logic) hold dramatically less sway over Starfleet Command, which is why Admiral Marcus almost succeeded in a coup. Kirk alwa
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It was in the airport, so I wouldn't be surprised. They looked about the same price as coffeeshops in downtown Indy, so I think it's more reflective of the cost per square footage than it is about the inputs to the sandwich. I wou
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I went to Germany this past summer and bought amazing gas-station sandwiches for 4 euros apiece, with great quality meat, cheese, and bread. I came back to America and bought a Starbucks sandwich for $12 and almost threw it out, it was so b
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Interestingly enough, all of the bullet-pointed problems are problems inherent in physical plant management for manufacturing (except privacy). This is possibly due to the lessons capital-intensive industries that have to date been manufac

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