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by hsitz 13y ago
I think there must be some mistake. The author seems to have no idea of how the subsidy amounts are rolled back as a participant's income grows. You can use something like the Kaiser calculator to do a quick check: http://k
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by hsitz 13y ago
Yes, and I expect you (anigbrowl) understand this, but it wouldn't even necessarily require that copyright be transferred to make a promise to publish enforceable. One view of contracts is that a contract is merely a set of legally en
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by hsitz 13y ago
There is no legal requirement that contracting parties give equal value in exchange. What you're referring to is commonly referred to as the "consideration" required for a valid contract, but it is easily satisfied. It does
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by hsitz 13y ago
Ha, interesting. Yes, well, back when the problem was invented it was assumed that everyone was aware of the TV show "Let's Make a Deal" and how the scenario worked. The host/offeree (a man named Monty Hall) _never_ pi
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by hsitz 13y ago
Interesting. Thanks. And I had always thought of 'muckraker' as a derogatory term, though it seems it must have started out, at least, as an approbatory term for the positive development of muckraking out of yellow journalism(?)
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by hsitz 13y ago
Hmm, I certainly thought he was implying that things used to be better. The fact that "journalistic credibility was hard to come by" was surely a good thing, no? It means readers are applying more stringent standards to what the
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by hsitz 13y ago
I get that newspapers and the journalistic profession used to be different, and in many ways better, than they are now. Still, doesn't it strike you as interesting that brilliant, thoughtful people living at at the same time as those
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by hsitz 13y ago
"It has a lot more actionable advice than this Slate article." I enjoyed the talk, but I don't really see how actionable the advice is. Or, rather, I think it's either wrong or what he says is incomplete. As he sets th
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by hsitz 13y ago
The EMT (or EMH) is obviously false in its strongest form. However in a weaker form it is generally accepted even by behavioral finance guys. That is, even many (most?) behavioral finance economists believe market is efficient enough that
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by hsitz 13y ago
"Even professional investors, who devote their lives to following the market, only occasionally beat the market." There are lots of investors and traders/speculators who beat the market. I think this is one of the main reaso
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by hsitz 13y ago
"I recently heard from an American friend that he felt exactly the same when visiting Britain." The "same", meaning he felt like Britain was stuck in 1980's version of the future? Or the past? Strange, my experien
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by hsitz 13y ago
I don't know whether he was suggesting a nefarious agenda, but I do get discouraged when I see people accepting something as true at least in part because it gets communicated to them with a good story. People are better than that, ne
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by hsitz 13y ago
I'm assuming the task these guys have done is tiny portion of the actual work needed for the website. I've been wondering for a while, though, why the federal government can't just buy/beg a copy of software running one
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by hsitz 13y ago
I was going to say something similar. The poster sounds like a young one, assuming things were different before he was born. Not so. For example, back in the 60's muscle cars were hugely important for auto makers and they were large
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by hsitz 13y ago
He said he's saddened by people using statistics "almost" correctly to prove what was already "gut feel". I can't quite tell whether his real concern is what you thought he was saying (i.e., wasted effort), or
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by hsitz 13y ago
Thanks to benguild for the blog article. I had seen used books in Amazon price lists as shipped by Amazon and qualifying for free supersaver shipping, but I'd never gotten around to finding out how this "fulfillment by Amazon&quo
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by hsitz 13y ago
I think Bertrand Russell's comments about the eventual extinction of human race are, as a matter of psychology, much closer to the way most people think: ". . . if you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that
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by hsitz 13y ago
Uprooting your life and doing a "reset" as described will make you feel good for a while. Unfortunately, "wherever you go there you are." You can't outrun yourself, and thinking a reset like this is anything more t
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by hsitz 13y ago
This seems like a non-starter to me: "You can connect to computers running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Enterprise." "You can't use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers running Wi
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by hsitz 13y ago
I also think the linked article was somewhat strange. Or maybe just linkbaity. The title can be paraphrased as "To an alarming degree, science is not self-correcting." However, the article actually describes the way science is
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by hsitz 13y ago
"Then again, I am only 1 potential customer and perhaps I'm just not your demographic so good luck!" I agree, and I don't think it's just that we're no in target demographic. Being bombarded with the search li
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by hsitz 13y ago
Well, whether or not you get increased coverage depends on what coverage you have now. Since a higher percentage of young people are either not covered at all or have bare-bones catastrophic plans, young people in general are going to get
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by hsitz 13y ago
Maybe because most works generate revenue, if at all, in the few years immediately following first publication, so a period based off that is all that's necessary to encourage creation? Maybe because if a copyright holder has a family
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by hsitz 13y ago
I'm not clear on to what extent the mandatory coverage requires young people to pay more than the expected cost of their cohort, or if it simply requires them to carry their own expected cost so that the older insured people (or, perha
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by hsitz 13y ago
In case you didn't know, Org-mode in Emacs has support for export to Beamer. It frees you up from needing to use LaTeX at all: http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html Probably not reason
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by hsitz 13y ago
Why would you think everyone must have the same purpose? Even among the people who think every person's purpose is to serve God, every person has a different way of doing that. This specific way of serving God is their "purpose&q
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by hsitz 13y ago
Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is? This is the human condition. I&#
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by hsitz 13y ago
"It's extremely hard to come out badly if you are prepared to hold a property long term" You seem to equate some appreciation in house value with "not coming out badly". Well, if that's all you want, then fine
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by hsitz 13y ago
"In that respect people do make good buys when the house goes up value: It means they largely locked in their housing costs at a lower rate and their insurance is paying off." No, the rent vs buy question is a lot more complicated
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by hsitz 13y ago
"The 'rn' case is one of kerning, and is an issue independent of the mono- or proportional-ness of the font; it's one of kerning." No. Kerning applies to proportionally spaced fonts, not monospace fonts. See, e.g.

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