james1071

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by james1071 10y ago
Changes in prices are taken account of in the GDP calculation.
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by james1071 10y ago
These issues are very well understood and incorporated into GDP.
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by james1071 10y ago
No.
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by james1071 10y ago
Was he privileged when he was in Eastern Europe or only when he arrived in the US?
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by james1071 11y ago
Managements often like to use 'performance metrics' and other statistics as a means of providing cover for their own decisions. They hide behind the numbers, which they have rigged, to avoid taking any blame.
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by james1071 11y ago
Formation walking is the solution.
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by james1071 11y ago
Yes, good joke but true.
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by james1071 11y ago
This is not correct. The normal situation with escalators on the tube is that the flow of people onto the escalators is less than that which would cause a queue to build up. That is not surprising, as the system has been designed so that th
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by james1071 11y ago
That is a complete non sequitor, but never mind.
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by james1071 11y ago
You are talking as if construction were a large part of the economy.
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by james1071 11y ago
You don't understand what he has written.
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by james1071 11y ago
That is a separate issue. The main problem with p-values is that, without further information, one cannot infer from them how likely it is that a result is genuine.
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by james1071 11y ago
Just say no.
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by james1071 11y ago
Yes-I agree.
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by james1071 11y ago
Debt overhang-takes a long time to work through.
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by james1071 11y ago
I am not so convinced of the merits of SMP, having done it myself. It included some interesting things, but left out a lot of traditional pure and applied maths (especially mechanics).
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by james1071 11y ago
There are obviously different possible reasons. One is that the marginal product of a manager might be more than that of an engineer. Another is that the manager is better at capturing value than are engineers. These might amount to the sam
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by james1071 11y ago
A friendly, helpful regulator will get job offers to work for the firms he is regulating. A tough regulator will not.
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by james1071 12y ago
Agree-am sure that learning the hard stuff pays dividends years later.
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by james1071 12y ago
Think his point about MOOCS is that they don't filter the applicants, but let them fall by the wayside. That is inevitable if the object is to grant a prestigious qualification but do not screen at entry.
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by james1071 12y ago
My comment is: No-comp sci is not a branch of maths. Yes-you do need to know some maths to study it.
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by james1071 12y ago
This doesn't seem to be that difficult a problem. The solution is surely transitional payments to get people to relocate.
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by james1071 12y ago
I would be surprised if any correlation were spurious (assuming that the correlation is highly statistically significant and thus not a product of chance).
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by james1071 12y ago
One of the things that investors soon learn is that achieving any sort of compound growth over a long time frame is virtually impossible.
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by james1071 12y ago
It might be that one factor is the decline in importance of manual labour. Guys who are proud of their physical strength, which also gives them status and respect, may be more likely to resolve their differences through violence.
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by james1071 12y ago
Is there anything wrong with trolling hacker news?
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by james1071 12y ago
Perhaps the drug made him a more prolific plagiarist.
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by james1071 12y ago
You might explain this better to our American friends by reminding them of the fact that they have a highly commercial film and TV industry, where the profit and loss of individual shows is monitored very closely. What works gets repeated a
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by james1071 12y ago
It's always a pleasure to interact with people who respond emotionally, based on some other issue, than the one that is being discussed, so I congratulate you for your response. I presume that you're upset with life being unfair,
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by james1071 12y ago
As I said, this is pretty much complete nonsense and a classic example of the phenomenon of American blindness to their problems. Take your ludicrous assertion that healthcare costs will decline as a % of GDP over the next 20 years. You are

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