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by hogFeast 6y ago
The reason why the FOI exception exists is because that is how the scheme ran in the US, and having political pressure on this program will kill it. Also, remember that FOI isn't some magic tool for stopping corruption. Blair brought i
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Just to be totally clear too, a certain section of the British public is neuralgic about the Tories (inner city Remainers usually). They believe there is massive levels of corruption because, unfortunately, the media is largely composed of
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by hogFeast 6y ago
You didn't hear about SolarCity?
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Addiction by Design by Dow Schull is an interesting book on this.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The same is true in the UK. One of the highest rates of bullying in Europe (the other big one is Finland). Somehow, one of the highest rates of sexual violence against girls in schools too (this is globally, so including developing countrie
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I believe order is important. The way to verify this is by running a simulation with players whose skills are all equal but vary with some normal distribution, and you will find that skill levels to do move about quite a bit even though the
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by hogFeast 6y ago
As someone else has mentioned, the time-dependent nature is actually pretty important because PageRank (and there are a few others similar to this, Massey ranking is one...I can't remember them all) depends on every team playing each o
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The CMA in the UK did an investigation into this, and targeting is worth a 30% bump in price. It is very effective for all parties. That being said, it is possible to get around this. The trade-off is: the privacy cost versus efficiency of
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The way to solve an issue, for example local police behaviour, is to either go into politics or the police (depending on how exactly policing works in your country)...to go directly at the problem. A CEO asking police to do X or Y is litera
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, the Americans aren't going to like this. I also live in Europe, this view is becoming more common but it is totally incomprehensible to me. I don't need to know about the political views of people I work with, it isn't i
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by hogFeast 6y ago
How can you "validate" it? Are companies making all their staff take these tests and then measuring performance? But the people in your company isn't RCT. Are companies basing this on research that is done on random people? O
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by hogFeast 6y ago
If you could measure what would have happened if parents stayed together then yes. But parents break up for a reason, and trying to put that back together makes zero sense. In the US, a large minority of single parents have fathers who have
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by hogFeast 6y ago
That was very surprising. If I buy shares in Lockheed Martin, can I claim "national security" too. It is a very powerful and opaque defence. Companies use it all the time too to avoid anti-trust action (AT&T did so for decades
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Whether you should or should not, you can. That is why there is a designation that seperates professionals from retail, and why retail isn't allowed to invest in some things. All of this stuff has been happening for over a century. Thi
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Robinhood accounts were net selling most of last week. All the big holders were already gone by this Monday. Only bagholders left. What is surprising is that this happens in every pump and dump, 100% of the time, and people act like it is a
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yes, being stupid enough to put your money into this stock is correlated with not understanding that you shouldn't put all your money in. This is why financial regulation exists. To protect people from themselves.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
With these projects, there are Veblen effects. No-one wants the $50k/year consultant who quietly cranks out good work...they want the $300k/year consultants whose work may or may not be good but they can spin, make things easy wit
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Just to say, there are two sides to this problem. The UK govt had spent two or three decades before it brought in fees attempting to get universities to reduce costs...this was unsuccessful. The idea was: we can do literally nothing about t
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Alternate idea: make something fast by removing stuff that isn't required...as opposed to adding a bunch of complex stuff, adding more complex stuff to make the complex stuff fast, etc.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
No. If you do any of those things wrong then you will get charged. There aren't bot accounts. There are people telling other people to buy who are probably selling (there is a reason why DFV isn't posting anything but account upda
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Because there is the first amendment...and there is securities fraud. You are saying: anything that anyone says at any time has no legal consequence because of the first amendment...no. Misleading stuff is being posted on wsb. And some peop
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by hogFeast 6y ago
...I am not sure that I disputed that. What I said was: the reason why LEH didn't get bailed out was because the stock was worthless, and mgmt mismanaged that from day one (even towards the end, LEH was trying to sell its real estate a
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Dick Fuld has said that several times publicly, there are interviews with the FCIC where he said that there was a conspiracy against LEH, and almost every part of the meetings at the NY Fed are public knowledge...you have no behind the scen
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by hogFeast 6y ago
You realise that all of this stuff has specific rules. There are specific rules about posting research, there are specific rules about media (newspapers and TV), there are specific rules about algorithms (I will answer your questions: no, n
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Gates was also introduced to Warren Buffett through his dad.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I am not really sure why people think the model is economic. The fixed costs are huge, it is either difficult or impossible to actually offset a living wage to the delivery person if they are only fulfilling one order at a time. The only wa
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Welcome to the Guardian. Remainers are in denial: Brexit has happened, the world hasn't ended so all these articles are going to be of the "I told you so" variety...without the evidence. It is unfortunate because the trade si
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, a lot of this isn't true. Unfortunately, there is a ton of misinformation on this topic (almost no-one in Britain has experience ordering things from outside EU). So... No, you won't have to pay anything with Amazon. I ordere
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by hogFeast 6y ago
It is difficult to think of a worse example than Islam or a religon generally for "uniting people". Any attempt to unite people is inherently exclusionary. That is not problematic in itself but, inevitably, some people equate unit
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by hogFeast 6y ago
True, I have heard they are assimilating their Muslim population very effectively too. They even have assimilation holiday camps, fun for all the family.

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