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by imh 8y ago
Are there anti-monopsony laws like there are anti-monopoly laws?
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by imh 8y ago
It's great to account for what structurally led to the moment of a decision. What's tricky is that it's hard to get the right level of granularity. If you don't have data on how historically disadvantaged a given person&
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by imh 8y ago
The paper they're reporting on is pretty clever in its sourcing of observations. Abstract: >Modeling crowd motion is central to situations as diverse as risk prevention in mass events and visual effects rendering in the motion pictu
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by imh 8y ago
Yup. For the record, after writing this comment, I read the rest of the questions and either they're more clear cut, or I'm ignorant of the ways they may not be. Here's the paper, which isn't linked from most journalists
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by imh 8y ago
Here's wikipedia's take from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant : > Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were
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by imh 8y ago
Not to detract from the main take-away of "GM food extremists have poor and poorly calibrated knowledge" which seems reasonably robust, but the questions themselves are interesting and knowledge is harder than they give credit. On
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by imh 8y ago
Once you put them into a particular coordinate basis, I'm pretty sure tensor algebra is just operation on slices of arrays. The magic happens when you change bases. Its kinda like how a matrix is "just" a rectangular 2D array
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by imh 8y ago
>Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin invent Google in their dorm rooms. This is such a ridiculous version of "Stanford PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin invent Google as part of their doctoral research."
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by imh 8y ago
I've done this for years and would totally recommend it. I didn't know it was a growing "movement!" I use it to foster an attitude of work-life balance. When you wake up in the morning in order to go to work, work is the
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by imh 8y ago
On the causal bit: So, you'd probably be better off skimming the paper for the details, but the gist is that they estimate the effect of unemployment on skills requirements in a few ways, and the results all come out about the same. Th
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by imh 8y ago
That's missing the point. You can't get the same deal as an investor, true, but you can still do the due diligence they do. Or at least you should try to as much as you can.
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by imh 8y ago
Vox's headline is ridiculous, but the study in question is pretty neat. https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2019/preliminary/paper/yyS... (pdf warning) They show that even within a specific (job-title
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by imh 8y ago
I'm not defending get-rich-quick scheme peddles, but charging for lessons in how to make money doesn't prove the lessons are bad. Nobody says this kind of thing about how new software textbook of the week must be wrong be wrong be
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by imh 8y ago
Yeah, it's super hard with a full time job. That's why I recommend setting a low X pages per day target. Making sure to make just a few pages of progress per day really adds up quickly. You likely won't progress as fast as if
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by imh 8y ago
Stop focusing on MOOCs and youtube videos and study textbooks. Do exercises. Treat it like academic studying, and you'll end up with a decent education. It's important, because it's often easier to make a thing work okay than
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by imh 8y ago
It sounds like this applies to broad total market index funds too. I still feel like I don't know shit about the stock market so forgive me if that's a 101 question. If I am an index broadly tracking the market, weighting each sto
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by imh 8y ago
People in other areas don't respond very well to highly paid workers relocating to their neighborhoods and raising housing prices. I'd guess that as soon as this gets many people to move, sentiment turns and it vanishes.
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by imh 8y ago
Can you expand on that? How do those two features break things?
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by imh 8y ago
Your first link supports the opposite of your point, I think. >As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh. On the other hand, when it comes to actual messaging, women
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by imh 8y ago
Citation needed? I'd thought that men tended to have higher levels of agreement on what constituted attractiveness, so I'd expect the focus to be more concentrated on the top quantile of women, since more men agree who that is, bu
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by imh 8y ago
The initial group wouldn't even need $1k. The median bid here was closer to $100.
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by imh 8y ago
The raw averages are less interesting than the distributions here. Facebook is the prototypical example of the importance of network effects. The mean bids here are in the thousands, but the medians are $100-$200. That means you could pay i
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by imh 8y ago
> The PARACHUTE trial satirically highlights some of the limitations of randomized controlled trials. Nevertheless, we believe that such trials remain the gold standard for the evaluation of most new treatments. The PARACHUTE trial does
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by imh 8y ago
This kind of ballooning makes me think there should be a rule for propositions (and maybe most funding in general) that when allocating funding for XYZ, there must be clear criteria upon which the funding is removed. Like if the proposition
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by imh 8y ago
That's not the only upside. It also provides liquidity to the employees you pay in equity, which is worth a lot.
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by imh 8y ago
Weird that a university press release wouldn't make it easy to find actual details for work in question, but a few links deep you can find a paper on the winner: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dex-microsites-prod/alexapr
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by imh 8y ago
>While employees of companies are barred from buying or selling stocks based on information that has not yet been made public, lawyers told the Journal that they were unaware of any such ban affecting real estate transactions. It's
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by imh 8y ago
>And so people don't read them. You can't. It's even worse than you say. Standard english words have secondary meanings as legalese. You might read "The cat sat it the box" and think "Ok, I know what this me
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by imh 8y ago
(too late for me to edit my post, so I'll reply to it) The logic I posted above will show you that the log of your money X converges in probability to some value x that you can optimize. Optimizing x will optimize a monotonic utility f
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by imh 8y ago
Fair point. And while it's too late to edit my post, I think I found the flaw in the math. Just because X converges in probability to x, f(X) doesn't necessarily converge in probability to f(x). If that were so, then logarithmic u

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