josephdviviano

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by josephdviviano 7y ago
I'm not sure why in a democracy, the majority of people don't have the majority of the power. If they happen to be urban / rural, so be it. The developed world is becoming more urban because we do not need that many people in
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by josephdviviano 7y ago
It would be hard again, under your arrangement.
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by josephdviviano 7y ago
this would result in the life expectancy hitting ~25-30, just like the good old days.
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by josephdviviano 7y ago
Yes Japan is a perfect example. Having low rates for a long time has given rise to a lot of companies that are frankly non-competitive and would fail immediately if interest rates were raised. Consumers do not win because the quality of the
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by josephdviviano 7y ago
One of the beauties of complex systems is that these individual failures do not produce system-level failure unless you are extremely unlucky and they all fail simultaneously. If you are simply counting the number of failures, complex syste
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by josephdviviano 7y ago
Yes but also, people in rural areas should not have a dictatorial say in what those who live in urban areas do. If democracies like the USA (Canada has a similar problem) simply counted the votes, the majority of the country would be happi
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by josephdviviano 8y ago
Is it possible that the kinds of people military entering service has changed over the years in Norway? I haven't searched very hard, but it isn't clear how the conscription/selection criteria has evolved over the years. Thes
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
I think after adjusting for cost of living, you are making far more with your 70k salary than OP is with their 120k salary.
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
the key with money/investing is you want to stay alive long enough to get lucky. if you sock away money every month, make sure you have 6 months of living expenses off to the side for emergencies, bet ~20% on crazy things with unlimite
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
all back of napkin but im guessing you're playing with 55k after taxes, so 4.6 k a month. so your total costs (rent/mortgage, food, kids, all in) is only 1.6 k? and you're saving ~65% of what you take home? you must live ext
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
To be honest the number is sort of hearsay. I didn't mean 80k as an entry-level pay, but it seems to be about right in my experience (downtown core jobs).
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
While Toronto does need to cut back on development regulations, we've been developing like crazy. A good deal of speculative money had pumped housing prices above what most people can afford in a very short period of time. AirBnB is pa
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
Implying people are actually rational. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-irr...
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
I believe the Canadian number is the average across all students. The American article breaks things up more: + 66 percent of graduates from public colleges had loans (average debt of $25,550) + 75 percent of graduates from private nonprofi
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by josephdviviano 9y ago
I predict people taking out ostentatious lines of credit on their mortgages (esp. in GTA and Van) will lead to very high rates of default if the housing prices drop dramatically (~10-20 %).
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by josephdviviano 10y ago
Thanks -- does the fact that the top 1% and bottom 99% show different distributions not imply they are gambling on different scales though? Is it as simple as the 1% gamble on a log scale and the bottom 99% gamble on a linear scale?
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by josephdviviano 10y ago
That's interesting. I was referring to 1% w.r.t. the USA, where the cutoff is actually ~250 k after taxes and adding back transfers. http://www.economist.com/node/21543178 Really brings to light how bad global ine
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by josephdviviano 10y ago
Thanks for the paper, very interesting. All the below is total speculation as I am no 1%er ;). Curious that there's such a sharp change in distributions. It seems like the top 1% participate in a very different sort of financial networ
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by josephdviviano 10y ago
Gawker played dirty, then Peter Thiel played dirty. Peter won. Nothing of value was lost. We're not talking about Reuters here.
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by josephdviviano 10y ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like gradient descent, so I put optimizers on your optimizer so you can learn while you learn.
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by josephdviviano 11y ago
Well, in the case of Toronto, I make a better salary relative to the cost of living (all things considered -- rent, health care, insurance) than I could make in SF or NY at the moment. Taxes in Cali aren't that different from Ontario,
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by josephdviviano 11y ago
You can't calculate an average across all industries. That does not make any sense to do. As an example, men choose to work more dangerous jobs than women in industries that tend to pay higher (miners, oil rigs, etc). If you want to pl
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by josephdviviano 11y ago
Yes people with schizophrenia do exhibit specific abnormalities that are a reflection of the culture, but the real environmental factors that lead to schizophrenia are things like stress, which incidentally lead to synaptic pruning. I thi
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by josephdviviano 11y ago
You're assuming these networks can be disentangled. There's no evidence that the brain is modular in the way you propose.
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by josephdviviano 11y ago
To deny that women experience discrimination in the workplace would be pretty ignorant. This might not be true of every company, but it is a feature of many. It seems logical that a woman who reaches the highest levels of a corporate struct
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by josephdviviano 11y ago
Yes, but this does not include any functional data, arguably a huge contribution of the HCP project. The history of neuroscience has taught us that you can only look so far by looking at anatomy alone!
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by josephdviviano 11y ago
The resolution is some of the best in the business, so to speak, but the biological interpretation of all MRI-derived metrics are still hotly debated. So the true level is detail is sort of dependent on something we don't know yet.