karmalizer

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   by karmalizer 15y ago

   Nice! Someone should make a website linking all the little improvements like this people have made to HN. EDIT: When I'm on page 2 ordered by date, then click on order by points, it takes me to page to ordered by points. It should take me
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   by karmalizer 15y ago

   I don't understand why you think the Ruby code has better SNR. The python code is two lines shorter. In python, you have to type the (), but that's not really "noise". I do hat the : at the end of python control statements. I always for
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   by karmalizer 15y ago

   The article's pretty short on analyzing what game best models the current debates. My vote would be for the ultimatum game, but that ignores the element of time in their decisions. Time is a huge factor in this game, so it probably isn't
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   by karmalizer 15y ago

   There's no time axis as this isn't particularly a time-based graph The graph pretends to be a time-based graph, though, by highlighting the differences between the Bush and Obama administrations. It's not like it would take any more work
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   by karmalizer 15y ago

   I totally agree with you, but that doesn't change my point about the time axis.
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   by karmalizer 15y ago

   It's hard to tell what exactly I'm supposed to learn from the graph. Normally, graphs like this would include a time axis, but this one does not. This makes it non-obvious that the Obama debt is over a shorter period than the Bush debt.