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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Simpson's Paradox is the relevant keyword here. Averaging a across non-homogeneous groups (multimodal distributions) makes garbage statisics
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The argument goes that if those cutbacks didn't harm outcomes, they were luxuries not necessary expenses.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You might find this interesting reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
How is Trayvon Martin relevant to this discussion? Are you suggesting that Black people are somehow more prone to violence, after controlling for poverty, and that makes education harder for them? That's a .... controversial line of r
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
There's nothing inherently wrong with paying higher wages even if they generate no increase in performance. That's a wealth transfer, which could be either good or bad, depending on other factors.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Would you want to run a $100MM/yr business that costs $120MM/yr to run?
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Steel and concrete buildings need a huge amount of time to get fires spread enough and hot enough to collapse, except in freak catastrophes like jet plane crashes.
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You have to cultivate a ten year reputation in the art gossip community before you can make money at that. An artist's trendiness is a similar bubble.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
What is "the library approach"? Library approaches have failed. See http://www.well-typed.com/blog/2016/09/sharing-conduit/
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Can you give in an example? Keeping a debug reference at end of transaction (via a shared-reference type, since a non-shared RAII reference type could never get into that state) isn't a coding error, it's a design error -- the de
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Green Card has a risk of deportation that citizenship does not. But the current administration is working to make citizenship revocable.
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That sounds great. Come to USA after college, make a million dollars in a few years, move back home, get married, and build the Indian economy. You don't want a country where every who has the ability will leave.
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That's a stange argument. In USA a victim with a gun (or anything metal) is an easy justification for police killing ciivilians. If more civilians pulled guns out, police would kill more civilians. Unarmed victim martyrs are the only t
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That's not right. USA Antitrust law was invented around 1900 to fight excesses is service of profile. A corporation could be chartered for any reason. What is true is that in the early 19th century there was a legal pretense that corpo
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Human Genome Project? Tunmmor detecting AI? Global weather simulations?
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>You have a duty to shareholders to more or less do what everyone else does. This is a insidious myth that has never been uphed in court. It's just an excuse managers use.
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Register does give a source for the first, most interesting sentence.
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It was implied in he commment, since commenter didn't add in a factor to cover donations to others.
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This American Life did an article about the writing of this article. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/531/got-your-back
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's an overly reductive view of poker that misses the point of the game. If a high bid isn't an implied threat of high cards, what is it? Bidding is correlated to hand strength and player stacks, so a bid is a statement about
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
"Alpha nerds" as a term is unhelpful and distracting.
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Yes, areas that suffer higher than normal cost increases, are areas that capture the attention of the public and government, because those are the areas that have important concerns to address.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Kanye's request was to make slavery more legal, not less legal. The 13th didn't make prison slavery legal, it made non-prison slavery illegal.
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Most Americans can't provide a coherent definition of net neutrality. What they want is cheap fast internet, but they don't know what regulations will get them that.
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Did Snapchat really flop, or is the equity market undergoing a correction and return to sanity? Snapchat was a fun fad, not a sustainable enterprise. Everyone involved should have taken money off the table in the high times and realized the
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Most people don't remember the rules of the road, they just adapt to common and intuition practice over years of driving. In the USA, many or most states have laws stating that drivers must yield to pedestrians at unmarked crosswalks (
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The free market provides more efficient price discovery for indulgences
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The transaction costs are bad, which may or may not be substantial.
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We could invest in lofty ideas to alleviate starving...
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's a famously unconvincing argument.

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