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by cuchoi 10y ago
You are right but Twitter benefit from Spammer and the people that sells followers. They have no incentives to go after them. Any person that uses Twitter knows that many of their followers are bots/Spam.
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There is academic research documenting the impact of trade agreements on the labor market. The main take away is that on average the welfare gains are huge, but not everybody is better of. Still, if you do not believe in the impact of tarif
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Most of the comments say that this is unreasonable or that it makes little economic sense. But let's take the case of tariffs. An heterodox economist will tell you that every country should eliminate all their tariffs, because it is &q
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What about 70%? The core point still stands.
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Probably they have State infrastructure, maybe it was never profitable for businesses to invest in FM radios in that geography. They still CAN do it, but they won't.
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Not the typical Hacker News reader, but might be interesting for some. I used to work (I am a graduate student now) at the Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL, http://www.povertyactionlab.org ) in Latin America. It is a research center tha
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Peter Thiel recommends creating monopolies in Zero to One. That's basically what YC companies are doing.
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One returned me the error "You changed your password 5 months ago"
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I was open to trade my Mid 2012 (upgraded RAM and HDD to SDD), but they offer me $350. I just bought a new charger for $80 dollars (you have to include it in the trade to be eligible)...
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As far as I know, only the US describe economically liberal ideas as conservative. My theory is that they bundled moral and economic ideas (Republicans are conservative in moral ideas, but economically liberal).
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While the name that you propose might be technically correct I would recommend sticking to the "from first principles" kind of name. This introduction was created for beginners (like me), and the name was attractive and was what I
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This is a good read about the topic: http://overheadmyth.com/ "In 2013, GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator wrote an open letter to the donors of America in a campaign to end the Overhead Myth—th
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I think the article is a very good explanation of the application of Bayes theorem to p-values. My only issue with this kind of calculations is that their assumptions dramatically changes the results. He says that 10% of the drug tests are
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The abstract of the paper was more informative than the article: "Reliable data on economic livelihoods remain scarce in the developing world, hampering efforts to study these outcomes and to design policies that improve them. Here we
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And non-profits? Salary is not a measure of talent.
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How did you manage to get that?
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ELI5?
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Eyefi to Brick Its Older Wi-Fi Cards(petapixel.com)
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GiveWell recommends charities where you should donate based on impact-per-dollar: http://www.givewell.org/
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Thanks!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_trade_agree...
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I agree with you, but I am curious about which specific real-world examples are you thinking of. It would be great if you can describe one or two.
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The US did a free trade agreement with my country, Chile. I doubt they find the UK not important enough to try to make a deal.
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Is this the course that you were referring to in 4)? https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesandScience/S...
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For those who prefer videos, here is the MIT version of the course: 9.520 - Statistical Learning Theory and Applications, Fall 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AWZS4Ho2Z8&list=PLyGKBDfnk-...
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So I should have 3 different Google messaging apps? Please stop
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What is the definition of an employee? They are employees because: - Uber drivers can be fired. - They can't set up their own rates. - Have to follow several conditions. They are not employees: - Because they define their own working h
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If Whatsapp had a desktop app, I would use it for almost everything. Right now my main way of communicating while I am in my laptop in Google Hangouts. It would be also very useful for the few times that I run out of battery.
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If you use their service more it is less likely that you will cancel it.
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How good are heuristics methods compared to exact solvers? Which kind of metric is it used to compare these algorithms?

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