ikirill

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by ikirill 14y ago
While that's definitely a blunder, if you look at the right figures (in the article: inflation-adjusted median income of $48,500 then and $60,000 now, and inflation-adjusted average house price of $154,587 then and $369,677 now), the averag
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by ikirill 14y ago
Flash Crashes are not a phenomenon caused by algorithms. The SEC/CFTC report on the 2010 Flash Crash describes how it happened. Quote: One key lesson is that under stressed market conditions, the automated execution of a large sell orde
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Airport security debate(economist.com)
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Online/offline dating comparison(psychologicalscience.org)
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by ikirill 15y ago
I agree. In general, I find the task of "introduce yourself to a specific person" or "make a specific case for something" much much easier than "talk to people about nothing in particular", if only because there is always a specific goal th
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by ikirill 15y ago
The author does explicitly state that his proposal is only about publicly-traded stocks, so your first point is moot. Secondly, regarding your second point, some company or person would be holding those publicly-traded shares, which means
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by ikirill 15y ago
So the idea is to use Prozac to make it easier for therapy to reprogram a brain's responses to social situations that induce anxiety. I'd be curious to know what this says, if anything, about the kinds of problems that have less to do with
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by ikirill 15y ago
I'm afraid I don't follow. Could you elaborate on how that means they became evil?
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by ikirill 15y ago
To tvtropes I also want to add comedy and music. Humour is a mild painkiller, interestingly enough: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=laughing-ma...
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by ikirill 15y ago
I think it's interesting how the focus of the Nature articles is on elucidating the process by which autism develops and affects people, and not on whatever coping mechanisms there are for people on ASD or their relatives. I don't think it
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by ikirill 15y ago
It advises using Strunk and White. I think it would be helpful to point out that S&W need not be considered all that authoritative: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549... The people behind Language Log often h
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by ikirill 15y ago
One of the finer points of that book is that it is a biography of Dirac's life, not just a description of his insights into physics. His personal life was unhappy and makes for rather depressing reading. When Feynman was described as a seco
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by ikirill 15y ago
That is not a good measure of debt. Government debt is only meaningful as a fraction of GDP (large countries have more debt than small ones, e.g.). So in this case you want this graph: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=2TG whi
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Analysis of whether a double-amputee can compete in the Olympics(economist.com)
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Immigration enforcement - American Immigration Lawyers Association(economist.com)
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Exposing a Fake Video Trick(wired.com)
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by ikirill 15y ago
The richest pay the largest proportion of taxes because they earn so much. In the article, 400 hundred people make $90 billion, and it takes 3 million people working at $30,000 a year to collectively earn as much.
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Tohoku Tsunami Creates Antarctic Icebergs(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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