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by icambron 13y ago
> Not everyone acts as rational machines OK, but now you're arguing that Yale students shouldn't be exposed to free expression because they're incapable of handling its consequences. I think that's silly, but fine: it
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by icambron 13y ago
> In doing so, the developers violated Yale’s appropriate use policy by taking and modifying data without permission, but, more importantly, they encouraged students to select courses on the basis of incomplete information. To claim that
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by icambron 13y ago
Thanks, those are good answers.
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by icambron 13y ago
Sure, but the OP could have just published their spreadsheet and you wouldn't have to build that either.
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by icambron 13y ago
> You're saying you don't think so which obviously means it's a "worse" deal for investors. I did not say that. Experience is worth a lot, I suspect [1]. What I said was that needing a higher salary makes it a
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by icambron 13y ago
IANAL, but since the database is just (presumably) all of the classes at Yale, it's hard to see how their selection could be copyrightable. I haven't used the app, but it's quite possible they have course descriptions in ther
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by icambron 13y ago
As a piece of technology, this is really cool. But I guess I don't get how it's different from a nice Excel model. How is it that this allows you to capture 25 different use cases in a way that the a spreadsheet can't?
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by icambron 13y ago
> I've always heard that a founder's salary should be the amount that allows the founder to focus on the business From whose perspective? For you as a founder, certainly that makes sense (how else would you do it?), but requiri
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by icambron 13y ago
Or has a receipt, or knows some people who could be witnesses for it, or lots of other possibilities. Filing bogus lawsuits is a tried and true intimidation tactic, but perjury is just dumb.
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by icambron 13y ago
> I dunno, I'm ok with anonymous reviews, but not false reviews. It sounds like you're not OK with anonymous reviews, even true ones, because you support stripping the reviewers anonymity even in the absence of any evidence tha
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by icambron 13y ago
Why do you think this is more prevalent in Turkey than in other countries? Is there something unique about Turkish culture that would cause this misunderstanding or misprioritization?
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by icambron 13y ago
You're right, I misread that. Nevertheless, the idea that ISPs are just not interested in Cambridge is prima facie absurd.
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by icambron 13y ago
Right, so the relevant point is what "seeking a license" actually entails. RCN works in neighboring Somerville and FIOS is all over greater Boston. Cambridge is a bit less dense than Somerville but generally more affluent, so ther
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by icambron 13y ago
If the Cambridge City Council were even remotely serious about promoting innovation, they could at least stop locking out ISP competition. Might go a lot further than empty commemoration.
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by icambron 13y ago
Contaminated water is expected to reach the US west coast this year; it's just not dangerous. (So I agree the pill solicitation is likely incidental.) Here's a good writeup of the whole thing: http://deepseanews.com&#
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by icambron 13y ago
I take back what I said about the definitional problem. But I don't see where you've established that Bitcoin has such a floor, as I said above. I don't think we're getting anywhere, though, so I'm going to break of
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by icambron 13y ago
That was in response to: > In your example, I bet IBM was still predominantly male despite the anecdotal hiring of a few women that you mention. Responding to someone's completely unsupported generalization with an anecdote to the c
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by icambron 13y ago
The question is really what's in the average bucket of things you will put off versus the bucket you won't. One important note here is that the bucket off things you can put off is roughly proportional to the advancement of your e
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by icambron 13y ago
> then the individual accounts within its purview obviously have whatever values it records them as having. I think there's a basic disconnect here about what we mean by "store of value". The simplest way to put it is that
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by icambron 13y ago
I tend to agree, and my musings to the contrary were mostly just spitballing. But to play devil's advocate because it's fun: to the degree to which it is useful to hold onto the currency you also use as a medium of exchange, then
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by icambron 13y ago
No, it doesn't. BTC isn't a good value store (or have intrinsic value) just because the infrastructure that processes it is--in a different sense of the word--valuable. If a bitcoin conferred a fraction of ownership of that infras
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by icambron 13y ago
Yes, remember that this is a utility calculation. The cool thing about buying Xbox One now is that I can play it now . So let's say these are my options: * Buy it now for $300 and play it for 10 years * Buy it in ten years for $30 a
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by icambron 13y ago
Krugman actually takes that on directly in the article: > I have had and am continuing to have a dialogue with smart technologists who are very high on BitCoin — but when I try to get them to explain to me why BitCoin is a reliable store
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by icambron 13y ago
This is an important point, because interest rates would exactly make up for the undesirability of the inflationary currency; i.e. the inflation risk would just be "baked into" a lower interest rate for the dollar-denominated loan
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by icambron 13y ago
The positive part of Krugman's argument that discusses floors is saying that external forces have ensured that dollars and gold are useful even in the event that people stop wanting them as a value store. Your infrastructure argument s
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by icambron 13y ago
The nature of self-evidence is that you don't have to say how. (Though I'm not sure I agree with the parent point that Americans as a group really believe equality in the relevant sense here.)
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by icambron 13y ago
Also ridiculous. That some institution granted you a degree doesn't compel the rest of us to call you by a special name. When I ask medical doctors about that (my wife is one, for example), their main reason for supporting the "Dr
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by icambron 13y ago
I believe the safest and least weird thing to do is simply not call anyone by the ridiculous honorific "Sir" or generally maintain the distinction between knights of any order and the rest of us.
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by icambron 13y ago
That's not a measurement problem, though; that's a what-should-our-policy-response-be problem. Food and energy prices are actually easier to measure and compare year-over-year. There are good arguments for (and some against) exclu
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by icambron 13y ago
Points 2 and 3 both sound like steps forward to me. Also: > middle income counties has also seen concurrent high real inflation on the ground which is highly under measured. What does that actually mean? "Real" is an economic t

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