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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Review of the book Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner. A couple other reviews in the NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/books/bach-music-in-the-ca... ...and the Washingto
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
In a competitive labor market, raising the minimum wage results in lower employment, lower output and higher prices. But we just saw "How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages," so we know we don't
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
I think ageism is implicit in modern Western culture. The Fields Medal has ageism built right into it: "a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age ." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org&
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Traditional crop irrigation methods are notoriously inefficient. Lots of room for improvement. I saw a novel solution on a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank. The Wikipedia article on water conservation has a section about optimal crop
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
This bill is DOA, thanks to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. I wonder how much Verizon, Comcast and AT&T spent to get these clowns elected? Americans should expect to pay a lot more for internet services like Netflix
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The author, Dean Baker, has a very narrow view of what libertarianism is and isn't. I'm a left-libertarian. I take a great deal of inspiration from the libertarian activist Karl Hess, who developed the language of the 1% versus th
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Another slanted NY Post op-ed: Blame Obama for the NSA's power and the IRS's revenge. Funny how none of the groups "targeted" by the IRS were actually denied C4 status. Funny how President George W. Bush appointed Lois L
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Fallacy of negation... The Daily Beast denies Obama's statement A:"Women make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns" and conclude B:"No, Women Don't Make Less Money Than Men," a non sequitur. Unfortunately, A a
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The GEA is the trade association for the geothermal energy industry. Their website http://www.geo-energy.org/ has a 72-page booklet with a lot of info including details on how a geothermal plant works (pp. 9-16) and a compa
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
I'm a big fan of Rowan Atkinson's TV series Blackadder . It follows the Blackadder family over many generations. "As the generations progress, each Blackadder becomes increasingly clever and perceptive, while the family&#x27
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Did Zynga lay off 15% of its workforce to recoup the $527M investment it made in NaturalMotion? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7153395 This article says they'll take a $17M charge this year on the lay off and
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Did Zynga lay off 15% of its workforce to recoup the $527M investment in NaturalMotion? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7153709 That article says they'll take a $17M charge this year on the lay off and then sa
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
GDP and penis size in 76 countries?!
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
But we need those uranium mines, so we can maintain our arsenal of five thousand nuclear warheads, so we can destroy the planet four times over. Duh.
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
RE: "the demonization of the rich" What exactly attracts an American billionaire to a haunted house in Scotland? You be the judge. First, some history: "Boleskine House was the estate of Aleister Crowley from 1899 to 1913.&qu
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
This NYTimes article is behind a paywall. When I click on it, I get shaken down for money, with the following message: "Thank you for visiting NYTimes.com We hope you’ve enjoyed your 10 free articles this month." Then it tells me
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Girls play chess??? News to me. Never saw a girl at chess club in high school or college. Never saw a girl playing chess in the park. Never saw a girl at my local library's weekly chess night either.
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
There was a brief (1min 30sec), funny interview with Mukhtarbay Otelbayev discussing his achievement on Kazakh TV. He says: "When Westerners think of Kazakhstan, they think of 'Borat'--I want to break that opinion." It w
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The terms crony-capitalism, klepto-capitalism, and casino-capitalism are all very descriptive of the US economic system, which has become like a bad Yakov Smirnoff joke: "In America, bank robs you!" So what's happened to the
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The legality of crypto-currencies in the US ultimately hinges on whether Wall St. execs can make money off them. If they could "frontrun" bitcoin trades, "naked short sell" into bitcoin exchanges, and execute "wash
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
> Just because a market is not perfect, doesn't mean it provides no benefit. Imperfect markets that permit slave labor provide a clear benefit to the slave holders. No real benefits for the slaves--they're worse off. 1st &
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
"deserve": Are you arguing economics or social justice? I'd like to see everyone's standard of living go up. But when equilibrium doesn't exist because of cheating, Pareto optimality no longer obtains, and some peop
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Arrow-Debreu (1954) showed that under conditions of perfect competition, a general equilibrium must exist. But no comparable existence theorem can be found in the various models with imperfect competition. For example, if you remove the con
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
My car was parked at the grocery store during an electrical storm. Lighting hit nearby and my "keyless entry system" unlocked the doors. After that my key fob no longer opened the doors. In the next few weeks I noticed more odd be
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The key sentence from this article: "the FBI is adapting to the age of big-data with an NSA-style collect-everything approach." NZ PM John Key famously said: "If you don't want to be spied on, hide under a blanket."
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So its OK if Chinese workers are cheated, as long as you get a bargain? The ultimate impact of foreign slave labor on US free labor boils down to this: Is free labor superiority per hour more than counterbalanced by labor that can be flogge
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
For there to be equilibrium between supply and demand, several conditions must be met: perfect competition; perfect information; no economies of scale; no barriers to entry; no negative externalities; and no cheating. Things like slave labo
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I recognize the symbol ☉ for gold (or sun) on one of the 20 faces, namely a circle with a dot in the middle (encoded in unicode as 2609 or in html as 9737). Does anybody know what symbols appear on the other 19 faces of this die? Also, has
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
You could also try a play-by-post game at the Original D&D Discussion forum http://odd74.proboards.com/
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
> Where can I find a community that offers games with that rule set? Dragonsfoot bills itself as "the home of 1st Edition AD&D" on the web. They have many resources for AD&D, including character sheets, adventure module

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