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by hugh3 15y ago
It's largely sampling bias, though. It seems to us, as regular consumers, that everything is made in China because we buy phones and monitors, but we never buy steel girders and Boeing 777s.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The point isn't that there'll be no jobs, because ten jobs building a hundred widgets an hour can be replaced by ten jobs maintaining a hundred robots that build ten thousand widgets per hour, thus making everybody significantly richer. The
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by hugh3 15y ago
So today's Europeans are really a bunch of African invaders who committed genocide against the European natives? In a world where folks are regularly guilt-tripped about the deeds of their ancestors, I wonder if anyone's gonna try and guilt
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by hugh3 15y ago
And thanks, boston.com, for spoiling it for everybody. No doubt the loophole will be closed now that it's out in the open.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Fun fact: the people on the internet who talk about economics the most appear to be the people who understand it the least. This is unusual. I mean, the people on the internet who talk about Batman the most generally turn out to know a lo
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by hugh3 15y ago
Oh, I'm perfectly willing to work in a corrupt industry, just not to do boring work. If anyone wants to hire me to build a planet-destroying supervillain weapon, email in profile.
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by hugh3 15y ago
How to get a really good salary: 1. Be really smart 2. Be willing to do something that's deadly boring to most smart people Me? I'm a scientist. I'm not gonna write your goddamn binary tree pricing algorithm or remove your varicose veins
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm concerned that some of the respondents wouldn't quite have understood the rules of the game, and that this might throw the results off significantly.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I've been pricing local real estate, so I can move some money across from my AUD assets and buy up some cheap property just in case the US dollar gets really low. I'm neither an optimist or a pessimist. If I have a bias, it's the belief t
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by hugh3 15y ago
I only learned about semaphores from Monty Python. Coincidentally, that's the same place I learned about Wuthering Heights. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oHw6niE9e8
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by hugh3 15y ago
My general feeling is that if this were really practical, there's no way we'd be hearing about it. The technology, and its author, would be quietly vanishing into the Naval Research Laboratory. I wonder what does happen in those situati
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by hugh3 15y ago
Though if you're not twenty-something you have even less excuse for not having savings. If you're twenty-something you should have tens of thousands in savings. If you're forty-something you should have hundreds of thousands in savings.
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by hugh3 15y ago
As I understand it, the differences aren't even ideological any more. According to Nate Silver's article from the other day, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/its-all-... the Boehner bill (which has been passed by the Ho
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by hugh3 15y ago
Hey, at least they're way ahead of Donald Knuth.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, there's two possibilities. Either it's a crashed alien spacecraft, or some kind of rock. Therefore it has a 50% chance of being a crashed alien spacecraft.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sigh. In the old days you'd get modded up for helpfully pointing out the rules against politics stories.
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by hugh3 15y ago
it depends on who is the boss. Lets suppose that your GF gave your a printed list which says: ... would you think that she is an asshole? Nope. Instead, you'd most definitely think that she is a queen. lolwut? Dude, if that's how the powe
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by hugh3 15y ago
Flagged? Flagged? You better fucking believe it's flagged. I flagged this motherfucker like it was the fucking United Nations Building. This article is as fucking flagged as the Apollo 11 landing site. If I could think of a third metaphor d
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by hugh3 15y ago
It made sense in the context of the now-deleted comment to which it's a reply.
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by hugh3 15y ago
if you read it as a list of rules for sane interaction with any professional rather than with a particular individual, it seems quite reasonable But there's some stuff here that's specific to this individual. He doesn't like email. Some f
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, if he really is a nice guy and seems like an asshole in the list, then that's an even bigger reason to think that the list is bad. You should send him this thread. Oh wait, he doesn't like email. You should have a micro-meeting with
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by hugh3 15y ago
Again, it's all in how you phrase 'em. Example: I wouldn't date a girl who was vegetarian, who smoked, or who didn't shave her armpits. And that's fine. But if I gave my girlfriend a printed list which says: RULES FOR DATING ME 1. Do not s
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by hugh3 15y ago
I also find great humor in the throw-away line concerning the necessity of the acquisition of T-Mobile at the end. Apparently AT&T has hired Cato the Elder to do their PR. This is bad news for Carthage.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't care how good you are, how good you think you are, or how lucky you think I am to be working with you, the tone of this "list of rules" comes across as rude, and being rude to your underlings just isn't a good way to get them to w
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by hugh3 15y ago
Representatives of the victims' families have also rejected pilot error as the primary cause, suggesting the economic issues at stake may mean a playing down of mechanical failures. I assume this translates as meaning "We're less likely t
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by hugh3 15y ago
I hope you see how But logic rarely matters when you're trying to be alarmist. is ironic when you're saying I wouldn't be surprised to see this picked up and used as a reason to push that internet browsing history law [1], or some other
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by hugh3 15y ago
He could do it without it, yes, but in the PR game every little bit helps. The twitter thing creates a full-blown narrative with a media-friendly hook (the media will publish any BS involving the word "twitter" at the moment) and the conclu
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not sure this adds anything to the discussion.
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is the reason why I'm long on GOOG. There's a huge world of revenue out there, and they just have to reach out and grab it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Thus creating a world where everybody struggles to look as poor as possible to Google's algorithms in the hopes of getting a good price? I'll just google "how do i gets my babby daddy to give me his welfare check" ten times a day, and use a

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