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by force_reboot 10y ago
Every user's looking for something. Some of them want to use Facebook. Some of them want to be used by Facebook.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Really happy to see this. Of course this is about immigration. Moderates on all sides of politics in all countries have long asserted that it is important that Israel remain a "Jewish and democratic state". Now some right wing
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Sorry to hear this. I chose to work at a big company because I knew that this would let me work 40 hours a week and so I'd have a chance to socialize outside work hours. Please bear in mind that this is always an option for you too.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Can you imagine the repercussions today for a sportsman or woman who said something like[0]: "no intelligent white person watching this show, or no intelligent white man in his or her right white mind, want black boys and black girls m
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvotes, this is completely accurate (except that the competitors aren't necessarily college kids, as a demographic they are closer to taxi drivers). But I would add that on net this is a good thing,
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by force_reboot 10y ago
My understanding of Python and its community is that they have good solutions for basic problems and so they have the luxury of focussing on cool or esoteric stuff. Also a lot of the power of Python comes from the extensive ecosystem, so th
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by force_reboot 10y ago
For future reference this story made it to about 4th position, and then was moved to 320. I assume there is some manual switch moderators pull to do this. This action is unfortunate because the article is peer reviewed and published in a t
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by force_reboot 10y ago
(repeating comment from last repost) This paper, accepted to the top economics journal "Journal of Political Economy", demonstrates how the pay gap in lawyers is due to differences in performance, and that "the differential i
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Gender pay gap in lawyers due to performance differences [pdf](upf.edu)
21 points by force_reboot 10y ago|3 comments
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by force_reboot 10y ago
This is very interesting research. In my opinion, consistency is very important in politics because, while consistency doesn't guarantee correctness, it does place some bounds on what can be true. Often smart people go to extremes in
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Violence can come from the left or the right. Sure, there might be a "reckoning" where the 1% are punished for their alleged misdeeds. Their might also be a "reckoning" where leftists are punished for spreading an alle
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I like EITC, but I find the focus on change in the tax system instead of absolutes to be very short sighted. Where are all the articles complaining that EITC needs to be even higher? Because it strikes me as unlikely that every state al
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by force_reboot 10y ago
You are are applying the standard definition of rent/rent seeking used by economists. But MichaelBurge's post is using the language of the original article, which claims that renting out an apartment, or making capital gains from
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by force_reboot 10y ago
1984 describes the world as if the Soviet Union won the cold war. So it does seem to capture some aspects of a leftist totalitarian society like North Korea. On the other hand North Korea is different any many ways, e.g. 1984 doesn't
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by force_reboot 10y ago
The no vote bias looks like a serious flaw in the DAO. As the authors say, it is safe for an informed investor to split than to vote "no" on a proposal (for reference, users who split are still entitled to the proceeds of any pro
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Assuming that the consequences of acting like X is true when X is false, are much worse than the consequences of acting like X is false when X is true, there's a subtle but important difference between saying "we should err on the
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Let me explain. You are looking from the outside at a community which has a lot of issues around languages, tooling and frameworks for complex historical and technical reasons. E.g. Things that developed over long periods of time, like de
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Really cool. From the description it sounds like you just made one for yourself. I would suggest you try selling these for $500 - $2000 each. You put a lot of work into it and I think that as art these would be command some money in the
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by force_reboot 10y ago
There seems to be a huge moral asymmetry in your worldview between hiring and firing, which I disagree with. Yes, layoffs are very disruptive. But not having jobs (or having lower paid jobs) in the first place is also bad. I don't th
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by force_reboot 10y ago
This paper, accepted to the top economics journal "Journal of Political Economy", demonstrates how the pay gap in lawyers is due to differences in performance, and that "the differential impact across genders in the presence
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Gender pay gap in lawyers due to performance differences [pdf](econ.upf.edu)
4 points by force_reboot 10y ago|1 comments
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by force_reboot 10y ago
You keep making assertions, but my original point in posting that reference, is that if your style of argumentation is to make assertions, and then pass the reader off to another source to verify your assertions, then all other things being
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by force_reboot 10y ago
That would cause inflation, and would cause markets to raise interest rates to account for this one they knew about the policy. Modern monetary theory is very non mainstream, flawed economics. It has a Wikipedia page, but very very few ac
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by force_reboot 10y ago
The article spends quite a bit of time citing intellectuals who argue against comparative advantage. As you say, all economists agree on free trade, but Krugman is talking about non-economists. And regarding HN, I would say a majority o
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I recently came across this article by Paul Krugman, which is different to his more recent writing (for one thing it is on his area of expertise, international trade). It's both a great exposition of mainstream economic thought on tra
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Ricardo's Difficult Idea by Paul Krugman (1996)(web.mit.edu)
23 points by force_reboot 10y ago|46 comments
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by force_reboot 10y ago
They are probably pretty excited to get paid far more than they could by farming. In China incomes have gone from 2000 yuan a year farming, to 2000 yuan a month or more working in factories. Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage
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by force_reboot 10y ago
The left on campus combines the rhetoric of victimhood, with verbal and physical harassment of those who disagree with them[0][1]. Of course this will eventually turn against them. [0] E.g. an activist says to a crowd "every single
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Fictionalism, and other formalist theories, will have to confront that problem that when we speak of mathematics as abstract rules governing strings of symbols, these rules themselves are mathematical. So it only replaces "numbers are
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by force_reboot 10y ago
What a ridiculous and insulting proposal. People in the military agree to serve the country within certain bounds defined by tradition, they are not simply meat that can be used for any purpose. How about use any politician who has every v

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