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by ellyagg 18y ago
Just to clarify, Reagan's tax cuts were actually a revenue windfall for the Treasury, as it unlocked a ton of capital gains that investors had been sitting on and resulted in an economic expansion that, aside from a brief recession in 90-91
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Good point. I think what he meant to say is that the article made sweeping generalizations about the quality of human decision making, resting on a few superficial stats and questionable assumptions. It also fetishized tricks to change folk
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Yes, Time Magazine allows editorial writing throughout its content. I won't comment on what I think their biases are, but I'm pretty sure you can detect them on your own.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
You understand incorrectly, for the most part. A sinking tide lowers all boats. Buffett doesn't care what the stock market prices his company at in the short term, only how the intrinsic value of his company improves over decades. Also, the
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by ellyagg 18y ago
This doesn't address my criticism in the slightest, and I'm extremely well aware of all of this. My comment did not concern what statistics the press should report in presenting financial data, only the lie of the original headline which su
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Sorry, when a headline says "home sales fell 41% in February" I do not assume year over year, I assume month over month. This post's headline is needlessly provocative and misleading. Take it to reddit.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
If Newton were to meet Einstein, he'd accept Einstein's adjustments after a few hours (days?). If Hayek were to meet Krugman, they'd be ruthlessly arguing months later.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Nowhere does his post imply that the reason he's leaving is because his design aesthetic clashes with Google's desire for "clean, spartan, and utilitarian." It's perfectly possible to meet those goals and not be ugly, like, e.g., iGoogle an
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by ellyagg 18y ago
That's what unit testing is for? True, and do you understand the trade-offs? Unit testing is far more time consuming than assertions. Moreover, you're forced to write artificially short routines, routines of a length that research has shown
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by ellyagg 18y ago
I wish you and your parent would stick with Occam's Razor on this one. There really are a large percentage of reasonably minded people who think that legalizing drugs would cause more harm than good. Considering that alcohol has well-known
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by ellyagg 18y ago
We specifically don't appreciate those sorts of jokes around here.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
"[T]he love of traditional capitalist values"! The meaning of money, which she explained, is the same quite apart from your "traditional capitalist values" -- didn't want to let that rhetorical slap zip by unchallenged. If you can understan
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Good. I always thought punctuated equilibrium was a load of tripe.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
If you wait to say he's doing it wrong, then people will just say that hindsight is 20/20, won't they?
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Why do people keep saying that? He didn't suggest any implied assumption like that at all. And, no, if you don't understand the system, then you can have very little of value to say on it. Just precisely like if I don't understand quantum
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by ellyagg 18y ago
> The author's chief defense of academic economic hypothesis is they are complicated. I have not had much patience for the "its complicated, trust us" idea since Catholic school. The author didn't make a defense of "academic economic hy
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by ellyagg 18y ago
The comments here are disappointingly one-sided. Nowhere did Brooks suggest that he wanted to return to the good ol' days with all its warts. Incremental evolution of systems is a known good strategy. There's no reason whatever to believe t
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Indeed, and though you were voted down, the one major media article I read on this explained clearly that that was the case. However, the lede took great care to suggest the blame was the CJ's, before the article went on to clarify. It make
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by ellyagg 18y ago
As Einstein and many others have shown, we can reason correctly about the world without physical experimentation, you smug twit. I'm not Einstein, but then keyboard layouts aren't general relativity.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Based on the distance your fingers have to move to type average words on qwerty and dvorak, it's really impossible that Dvorak wouldn't be loads better.It's sort of like claiming that someone wouldn't be faster at running 50 meters than 100
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by ellyagg 18y ago
True, although as swilliams pointed out, your comment was borderline retarded. My guess is you have a tendency to dismiss Joel Spolsky out of hand, and have long since stopped bothering yourself to reason about your hatred.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
> You should assume funding will not happen. Follow your intuition here. That's following your intuition, not his. I agree with yours, though.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
I'd recommend sticking with ramen. There's zero chance that fruit is cheaper anywhere on a cost per calorie basis, ramen is easier to find everywhere, ramen is pretty tasty and you can take more calories of ramen before you want to throw up
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Your discussion of health care systems is simplistic. For example, the US system has a track record of innovation and there are very good reasons that some non-US populations have higher average health that are completely unrelated to healt
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Well, you have to realize that up until Ayn Rand, the only popular absolutism was Marxism. People were pretty excited to have an absolutism that promoted striving for excellence rather than striving for grey sameness.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
God, that's kind of despicable. I'm no Objectivist, but there's a big freaking difference between a work of superstition and one of reason and logic. Whether you agree with Rand's premises, you must have had no exposure to her writing if yo
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Don't understand your first sentence totally. You do admit that collectivists have controlled the Presidency and House and Senate for the last 8 years, yes? Bush, in particular, is no anti-collectivist. Some people get confused by labels, e