diognesofsinope

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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
I've always thought it was weird how the 'Information Age' has barely changed an institution entirely based on passing information to new generations (education). Bryan Caplan (economist at George Mason) wrote The Case Agains
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Exactly my thought: A CS degree from Stanford almost has to start at at least 90k.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
I chalk it up to politics (politicians) -- the reality is the Republicans would never live 9/11 down if they didn't go to war.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
But, have you seen how nice the houses are in Northern Virginia? /s
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
>I will quibble with your first point a bit. Law is a profession that attracts large numbers of people who default into it because they can’t think of what to do with their liberal arts undergraduate degree. It’s a demanding, detail orie
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Because then you can employ more of your lawyer buddies to consult on the complexity.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
The other side of the coin is that complexity creates jobs because you need individual who guide you through it. Lawyers and bureaucrats careers are based on this complexity of criminal justice systems and government administration, respect
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Exactly! It's about reducing evidence and accountability, along with increasing enrollment ($).
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
That's because Richard Sander from UCLA Law has demonstrated fairly well that there's a really good chance that affirmative action is a net negative for those it's trying to help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Funny story in Malaysia it's well known that if you get sick you want a Chinese doctor because the Malaysian government discriminates heavily against the Chinese, and thus the ones that actually become doctors are only the elite.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
They've turned climate change into the new boogeyman, which is a shame since it's an important issue.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Not originally me from here: https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/olwous/airbnb...
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
First, getting into really major concerns, this paper suffers from some serious potential for omitted variable bias. The goal of this study is to find the causal effect or treatment effect of Airbnb on violent crime: "This study tested
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
I mean, it is an investment. However the success of that investment basically means depriving future generations of a home, which they are fine with doing, clearly.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
The threshold is > ~100k living abroad to pay taxes. Almost nobody pays this. Moreover, it's not ridiculous that if you're a tycoon traveling the world and you're implicitly using US citizenship as your escape card, you sh
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
This seems plausible. My first thoughts were (1) fraud like you said or (2) money laundering.
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Agreed, you can definitely work from home, but you're being quite charitable -- 'let's assume their behind closed doors with no accountability and do everything we expect'. This is basically how we ended up in the replic
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Similar to how in psychology replication studies when they asked professors to predict which studies would and wouldn't replicate I think they were ~75% correct. Replication was ~50%. They have an idea of what is bullshit, but there&#x
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by diognesofsinope 5y ago
Not only this, academia is a really cushy job. When I was an economics RA literally half of the econ professors didn't work Fridays and barely worked summers. It was incredible you get paid 150k with that kind of schedule.