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by lewis500 9y ago
Scholars can often make their work free via pre-print. The issue is that the published version isn't free, and the pre-print is hard to find and often not as nice looking. I made a github repo of my last paper published in an Elsevier
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by lewis500 9y ago
I use the chrome plugin. This plugin looks bad but is actually pretty sick. One certain pages it will replace the DOI with the sci-hub link.
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by lewis500 9y ago
I believe there is self-selection in the professorship as to who teaches what, and this explains this student's experience. Feminism has (relatively) direct political and behavioral consequences, and so the professors who teach it will
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by lewis500 9y ago
Wow the tax cuts are so powerful that Starbucks went back in time and gave employees raises in July of 2016: http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/11/news/companies/starbucks-bar... Economic theory doesn&#x2
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by lewis500 9y ago
Looks awesome. Makes me wish I still used LiveScript because of the \string syntax and other features that would go great with ijk. You refer to h but what is it? I searched around but obviously something called h is hard to find.
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by lewis500 9y ago
Currently Vancouver is also seriously considering a scheme. I do believe they are going to implement one. Singapore is also switching over to a satellite-based per-km charge.
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by lewis500 9y ago
There are already tolls on lots of roads and bridges, and you have to pay to park in public parking garages and street spaces. You have to pay to enter national parks, get services from municipal utilities, ride transit, use the courts, reg
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by lewis500 9y ago
There are so many exemptions and discounts--e.g., for taxis and private hires and residents---that only a fraction of traffic is charged. Also, London has changed its road network a lot to favor buses, pedestrians and cyclists. Speeds today
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by lewis500 9y ago
I wrote a history of downtown congestion pricing a few months back: https://medium.com/@lewislehe/a-history-of-downtown-road-pri... Since then I've written it as an academic paper with a lot more material.
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by lewis500 9y ago
One of the sad parts of this story is that, in order to sabotage the HSR, Republicans wound up sabotaging the federal share of Caltrain electrification, even though electrification is good on its own merits.
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by lewis500 9y ago
I wish that voters and leaders could’ve seen a menu of policy options when they approved this. I think they wouldn’t have gone in for such an irreversible project. For example, electric bus technology has been getting better and cheaper and
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by lewis500 9y ago
It is possible to choose the loans. The default rate for for profit colleges is high, but you don’t need to buy those loans. https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-looming-student-loan-...
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by lewis500 9y ago
Would it be better if banks owned all the debt? I think the really bad statistic is just how much student debt there is. Progressives in Oakland want the city to create a municipal bank. If they do, maybe progressives will then complain &qu
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by lewis500 9y ago
I grew up in a city southern Appalachia. Only later on when I moved to California did I realize we basically lived in a forest, even in the city. I really miss it, especially the thick mass of sounds... cicadas, birds, frogs. If you stop to
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by lewis500 9y ago
Regarding PhDs, grad international enrollment is declining. Regarding the full-paying foreign undergrads, their tuition contributes towards the costs of the university that are shared. American students, especially at middle-ranking public
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by lewis500 9y ago
There are really three different downsides to this. First, the foreign students cross-subsidize the locals' education. There are large fixed costs to running a university and these students pay way above their marginal costs. So now th
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by lewis500 9y ago
I think this is the most important part. It reveals one reason why things are bad: uncompetitive bidding.
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by lewis500 9y ago
Yep they are lucky. The stock market is a gamble in the short run. Even a home is a gamble sometimes. But to me what was important is that they started putting away a much larger share of their income; even negative returns are better than
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by lewis500 9y ago
All of my research so far has been either theory/simulation or descriptive (e.g., this is how much this project did cost). After going to a lecture on someone's empirical research two weeks ago, I found myself asking why I have al
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by lewis500 9y ago
I thought about that but it makes the visualization much more complicated and, moreover, would require forecasting wages way out into the future to be relevant to a millennial. If you had tried to do some wage forecast in 1970 you would&#x2
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by lewis500 9y ago
By "a few years" I mean about ten or eleven years ago. Fortunately, that means they bought most of their stocks since 2008 and have gotten great returns. They were also fortunate to buy a house in a good neighborhood during the bo
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by lewis500 9y ago
This is horrible. A few years ago I realized my parents were way behind on savings and just incessantly nagged them until they got on a good plan. They kicked and screamed the whole time ("You're our son. You can't tell us wh
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by lewis500 9y ago
that indeed could be an advantage. on codewars it sometimes takes a while for tests to run.
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by lewis500 9y ago
Can someone tell me what this has over, say, Codewars and Leetcode? It seems like there are not too many practice problems yet.
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This is absurd. Look at the cost escalations over time. Were ER’s not well equipped ten years ago? No they have just ratcheted up the cost because they can. Consider that, given their bargaining position, wouldn’t it be a surprise if they d
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Social Security Explained Visually(lewis500.github.io)
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by lewis500 9y ago
No but from an accounting perspective I don’t get how this works. Phd students often do no use any of the univeristy’s real resources. The marginal cost of a phd student is often zero or negative, due to the work they do. There are no plato
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by lewis500 9y ago
I don't understand this. During my PhD my "scholarship" was just basically the university choosing not to charge me money. It's not as though I sat down and set on fire $20k worth of paper every year. So now they have to
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Social Security Retirement Benefits Explained Visually(lewis500.github.io)
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A History of Downtown Road Pricing(medium.com)
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