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by corporateVeal27 7y ago
I really like this. If these guys are smart, they could use it as an experiment to isolate how much impact a given "bad practice" has on a user's ability to accomplish their goal. Then if they're REALLY smart they could
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by corporateVeal27 7y ago
This reminds me a lot of the book The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley (author of the Red Queen). It's effectively an anthropological study that goes over how bottom-up self organizing systems occur even in human sub-cultures
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by corporateVeal27 7y ago
More bottom-up = more robust != centrally planned economies. This is what socialists don't understand. There are certainly spill over externalities that the free market hasn't yet curtailed (like pollution) but government coercion
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NFL Experimenting with Optimization Algorithms to Improve Schedule Fairness(espn.com)
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by corporateVeal27 8y ago
This is a good article. I'd say it draws heavily on the same themes as "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths and Total Non-Sense" by Sutton and Pfeiffer. Drinking Wild Turkey every morning isn't going to turn you into the S
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by corporateVeal27 8y ago
Agreed. Graeber brings up some valid points about how market systems which should make economies more efficient sometimes fail to do so due to elite's/manager's self-image enhancement practices. On the other hand, I think t
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by corporateVeal27 8y ago
Edit: I meant 22.8k not 228k. Type on my part. Good thing I don't publish articles :)
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by corporateVeal27 8y ago
I wasn't implying they DO measure it from conception I'm just an example that could explain a discrepancy that is not indicative of better results Agree on the point about underreporting everywher
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by corporateVeal27 8y ago
Skeptical of these numbers: 1. "4 (Cuban) vs 6 (American) deaths per live birth." Are we sure they're measured the same? Are we sure that the count for deaths starts at the same time? Could easily be that Cuban mothers are mo