daxat_staglatz

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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
There is a simple solution to this problem: redistribute part or all of the carbon tax money. While it will likely not be possible to ensure that there is no loser among the poor (ie. the ones that buy the most carbon-intensive goods), it c
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
It seems strange to call a place of origin a "brand". Is "Ameican" as in (for instance) "American car" a "brand"?
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
Power laws in economics [0]: Many of the insights of economics seem to be qualitative, with many fewer reliable quantitative laws. However a series of power laws in economics do count as true and nontrivial quantitative la
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
This also explains why Americans tend to doubt the usefulness of learning cursive writing: it is feels terrible and is quite slow when using ball point pens, but smooth and fast with a fountain pen.
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
I actually was part of the CORE team. It's nice to see people actually reading it! In my (biased) opinion, it is a very good introduction to the _economy_, though it is perhaps too light on _economics_ [0]. That is to say, it is much,
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
It seems that you assume that if one producer sells its product for slightly less than its competition, then it will get all the customers, à la Bertrand competition. But if it is not the case, and lowering your price only wins you _some_ b
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
I do not think it does overlook that research: those papers generally assume that once those things are controlled for, the remaining variation is as good as random and thus we indeed recover the causal effect of X on Y. Many papers are pro
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
This seems wrong: an even exchange does not change absolute balance but magnifies relative balance, which you do not want if you're behind. Let's say your "strength" is simply the sum of the value of your pieces. The los
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
Google got me this [0], which seems to fit what you want [0] https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/901/1/MPRA_paper_901.pdf
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
They have already done it, it is called the T* series chips. The first version, T1, did the secure enclave thing, and controlled Touch ID, thermal and power management and a few other things. The second version, the T2, added storage manage
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
If computer programming is an art, perhaps it could be taught as others arts are [0]. [0] https://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
This is solved by the hotel tax as well: if you want to decrease the number of tourists, raise the tourist/hotel tax.
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
Sparkleshare [0]: SparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer. You can add remotely hosted folders (or "projects") to this folder. These projects will be automatically kept in sync with both the host a
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
Interestingly (?), courts disagree about the legal nature of the CSG/CRDS (see [0] for some information): - According to the Cour de Cassation, it is both a tax and a social contribution - According to the Conseil Constitutionnel, it i
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
> the part of the French economy not under the government control (circa 45%)! That public spending is c. 55% of GDP does not mean that private spending is 45% of GDP, since private + public spending does not equal GDP. Back of the envel
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
Indeed : https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
People interested by the use of Python in economic research should check out QuantEcon [0], a project to develop tools and courses for computational economics [1] in Python and Julia [0] https://quantecon.org/ [1] A fancy e
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by daxat_staglatz 8y ago
I haven't found any, either. This is a shame because economics is already a computational discipline and increasingly so. It can be of interest to the HN crowd. There is an awful lot of programming done by people that are not professio