jlongr

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by jlongr 7y ago
I think a system where one persons gets literally all the wealth would also be difficult to enforce or sustain. However, without getting bogged down in the details of the implementation, I think GINI-1 would result in a society where no one
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by jlongr 7y ago
Why shouldn't the coefficient be zero? I'm curious what your reasoning is.
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by jlongr 7y ago
I often see people try to "prove" the solution to this problem as the author did, using a large number of trials to approximate the long-term probabilities. But I don't think this method really proves it, nor does the proof r
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by jlongr 7y ago
I think that at least two of your four points are primarily concerned with gifted and talented students (autodidacts, ambitious kids). I would like to point out that calling the US public school system broken because it doesn't suffici
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by jlongr 7y ago
I'm currently reading "Empire's Workshop" by Greg Grandin which talks about this at some length. Apparently Ford ignored the advice of local experts to avoid blight by planting the rubber trees sufficiently far apart. Fo
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by jlongr 8y ago
Jasper Reports seems adequate. The report designer can be frustrating due to it's various quirks and bugs, but it gets the job done. The main perk, in my opinion, is that it provides source XML files that define all the components of t
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by jlongr 8y ago
The article you linked says that your claim is 'mostly false.' Don't spread lies.
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by jlongr 8y ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/ Although that article is about gun deaths in general, at the end you can explore the data choosing suicide as the gun death category and comparing the different dem
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by jlongr 8y ago
In the first example, the JIT version takes 0.218s and the non-JIT version takes 0.0007s. Isn't the JIT version supposed to be faster?
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by jlongr 8y ago
I respectfully disagree that many low-skill jobs are not stressful. They can often be dangerous, unpleasant, and managed by little tyrants, all of which leads to stress.
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by jlongr 8y ago
Although her story was an abject tragedy, it's inspiring to hear about this writer's urge to humanize her and tell the story of the downtrodden. We need to see more of this compassionate attitude in all aspects of life.
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by jlongr 9y ago
You memorize the order of an entire deck of cards every day?
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by jlongr 10y ago
Peace Is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh One of the most influential books on meditation I've ever read. Quote from the Dalai Lama about it: "This book has the capacity to change lives."