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It depends on what questions you're trying to answer. My intuition tells me that predicting socioeconomic status with Facebook's data would probably be reasonably successful, and you could look at feature importance from that. If
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Especially when the article was mostly about social mobility, rather than poverty per se. This list isn't really anything different than your standard Democratic talking points and doesn't even directly relate to the article. Not
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If I'm writing code for data science purposes and I'm not planning on putting that code directly into production (i e. exploratory analysis, general offline analysis, etc.)
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I don't think it's the political climate. China isn't a particularly immigrant-friendly country, so the scientists they're going to attract are mostly going to be Chinese expats in the West... most of which aren't n
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I don't think there's a person in the world arguing that China's economic success is due to its SOEs.
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In what way, other than in name, is China not following the individualist/"free markets" model?
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The demographic trends in the GP aren't unique to America. They're more or less the rule in most developed countries, and I think it's safe to say most HN users probably come from developed countries.
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Is there any evidence that higher spending in education actually improves student learning outcomes? I'm pretty sure we spend more per capita on our students than China does atm anyway.
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I was in a stats department for grad school. My assistantship load was nominally 20 hours, but I managed to teach a course as a GI in probably ~10 hours/week (doing my own grading). It took more time commitment if it was my first time
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They "didn't care to" because the Ming dynasty rulers felt that China was culturally, technologically, and economically superior to all other nations, and thought cutting China off was the best way to preserve that. Obviously
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> Voting with your feet -- What a very democratic idea! GP might want to consider that affluent Chinese (i.e. those with the means to) are trying leave China at record rates before he gets on a boat.
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Equally important is how you define "unethical." I'd imagine people in higher socioeconomic levels are more likely to lie in a negotiation or ignore traffic laws (traffic penalties fines are regressive in the sense they are f
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I'm not sure how a Cold War 2 wouldn't be preferable to a CCP-centric world.
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Right? I've thought about this as well. My guess is that: 1) Nearly all university students are making their decision when they're 18, so a lot of them are mostly interested in non-academic aspects of their school 2) It seems rea
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I'm not sure how the author can assert with a straight face that Dodd-Frank is essentially sacred, a lack of community banks is hurting the economy, and that it's all the big banks' fault. A loan to your your local mom-and-po
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But it's nonsense to pretend that the only factor that's been driving inflation-adjusted wage stagnation is Reagan's economic policies. Globalization, automation, Baby Boomers retiring, healthcare costs, education costs, and
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And do you think investors just flushed that dividend/share buyback money down the toilet? No, they invest it somewhere else, and for most wealthy investors the best returns can often be found in tech start-ups. So it still makes it ea
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My issue with this is that, in the US, PRISM was shut down--whereas in China that would never happen. The US by no means has a perfect or even necessarily good track record, but the people in charge are still accountable to the public and t
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Arguably the main focus Chinese economic policy over the past year or so has been to close loopholes in the existing (strict) controls to prevent capital from leaving the country. The RE markets aren't collapsing.
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The problem (started by GP, tbf) is that "investing in companies" is not a binary choice. A given amount of capital is economically more productive in riskier bets in most real-world cases (i.e. bets on tech advances drive the eco
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I think the biggest issue with Toronto is the fact that every American tech worker (60% of the probable HQ2 labor pool, conservatively) would need to get a Canadian work visa before being onboarded. Sounds like a horrible, horrible headache
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As if the CCP's "miracle" of economic development hasn't already been done in South Korea, Taiwan, etc. without the authoritarians who also brought the wonders that are The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution.
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In order to judge whether your math matches reality, you need to understand the math in the first place though. If you don't, then you're bound to repeatedly make mistakes.
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Isn't this the type of thinking that led to the replication crisis?
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This amount of cultural relativism is silly and frankly just plain ignorant. China doesn't restrict free speech for cultural reasons. The CCP restricts free speech because it fears losing its ruling status.
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Economics may not be about predicting, but if economic theories can't predict well (in the statistical sense, meaning the generated data should fit your predicted probability distribution), then the economic theory doesn't reflect
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>If your predictions consistently fail, you're not doing good science. I agree with where you're going, but I think the better phrasing would be "If your predictions consistently fail, your scientific theory isn't ver
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I was in the graduate stats program at Mizzou. It's definitely majority Chinese. I'd conservatively say 60%.
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China has been has been capitalist under the CCP (including the time spent pivoting towards it) longer than it was ever actually communist. Their "roots" in communism aren't that deep.
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Among what crowd though? I bet that's true for a random sample of the street, but I doubt it is for SF engineers, for example.

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