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by fyi80 13y ago
"and the reputation" "I wanted to work in finance and so Wharton was a good place to go." That's what the old-boys-network IS. It's not literally people smoking cigars, it's the preferential treatment you receive for having the brand name o
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by fyi80 13y ago
Depends where you draw the line. Compared to a public state school, the Ivy League course cover far more material faster in more depth, because the students are better prepared harder workers and can handle it. Harvard has 4 levels of Multi
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by fyi80 13y ago
I'd rather go bankrupt than actually have to pay all my net worth.
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by fyi80 13y ago
There is no personal debt on the planet that costs less than bank interest rates. This is because personal debt comes from banks.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Explain? Is this some offshoot from the original Creative Commons licenses that Aaron co-invented?
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by fyi80 13y ago
And then you get called in for lengthy interviews, and you get scared and make unrelated false statements, and get convicted of a felony. C.f., Martha Stewart.
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by fyi80 13y ago
That's not "modern" prejudice. That's traditional kin selection / tribalism / in-group prejudice.
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by fyi80 13y ago
It's kin selection, which is regular Darwinism. "Natural" != "morally right"
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by fyi80 13y ago
It is absolutely prejudicial. Citing a case where I benefit from it doesn't make it right. Why not randomly give a beer to every 1000th patron, or every 10th shirt with lettering, as a conversation-starter?
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by fyi80 13y ago
The Sunlight Foundation may be happy for you to know this is their PR. Not really their fault that the Rebecca Rosen is too lazy to write a proper article. It ironically drives home the very point of their app, which perhaps was intentional
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by fyi80 13y ago
Of course, the simple solution to that is that "Exclusive" is never in the reader's interest.
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by fyi80 13y ago
If the PR was circulated privately to a high value, unique target (like Congress), would you expect an eternal analysis to find it?
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by fyi80 13y ago
This is a solved problem for journalists, and it is called "citing your sources". Either your source is anonymous and you give a good reason, or your source is cited. When sources are not cited, we have PR or lies masquerading as journalism
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by fyi80 13y ago
Nice how every solution (except the bike-pump) business, involved abusing someone's trust or creating negative externalities (artificially extending lines, hijacking class time). It's a good education, but a depressing one.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Can you pick a decaf herbal tea for afternoon drinks?
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by fyi80 13y ago
Yes, you'd need a linter to stop you from using explicit null in your code. but than be layered on top of javac with something FindBugs and its friend @Nullable. It's not "Standard" Java, but it is compiler-time enforcement.
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by fyi80 13y ago
That non-scientific summary article is incredibly vague, but it appears to be saying that "problem solvers" are more leaderly than "problem fleers", based on the given definitions. "Guilt" and "shame" are the labels they tacked on without j
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by fyi80 13y ago
That's not Steve "not understanding", it's Steve saying "I know your reason doesn't matter".
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by fyi80 13y ago
People listen to vinyl for its quality , not it's quantity on some technical metric.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Still scary -- plenty of kids live in neighborhoods where they get dragged into gang turf issues.
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by fyi80 13y ago
It's because a the database isn't completely agnosticly load-balanced, and a single story is stored/processed with more co-locality than a random sample of, say, 10000 randomly chosen comments. It's easier to cache and serve a fixed piece o
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by fyi80 13y ago
Harvard should keep them, and endure the reputation decrease as a result. This incident should stand as a long-term reminder that the Ivy League is does not have an infallible monopoly on genius.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Is it good for your career to get high impact factor for a paper that admits that your most famous work was a fraud that destroyed the economy of several nations?
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by fyi80 13y ago
Lent, indeed. And now they default on those loans.
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by fyi80 13y ago
That's not what happens. The problem is: When times are good, governments frequently LOWER taxes, because hey, we can raise the same revenue When times turn bad, governments frequently LOWER taxes, because hey, people can't afford it. borro
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by fyi80 13y ago
The difference is in who suffers. How is it distributed among creditors, debtors, cash holders, wage earners, etc...
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by fyi80 13y ago
Was Canadian austerity like European austerity? Or was it a cut from (making up numbers here) 2x European social services to 1.5, vs Europe's 1x cut to 0.5x?
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by fyi80 13y ago
Is there a way to quantify QE in personal finance terms? Like, can I saw "QE is an X% inflation" for some X, so I can apply that to my personal understanding of the purchasing power of my savings once people try spending their inflated doll
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by fyi80 13y ago
The title could be factual instead of sensational.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Like anything else, it's an auction, and generally on a per-issue basis.

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