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When a Quick Comment Is Worth $100M(smashcompany.com)
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I think you might be confusing a few different things. I originally wrote "Game theory predicts" because this has been worked out with some rigor in game theory. You should never assume that anything in game theory necessarily app
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Here is a start, follow the sources from here: https://www.livescience.com/19311-famine-male-births-sex-rat...
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Here is a start, follow the sources from here: https://www.livescience.com/19311-famine-male-births-sex-rat...
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Here is a start, follow the sources from here: https://www.livescience.com/19311-famine-male-births-sex-rat...
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We should expect to see this throughout the world, as the climate crisis intensifies. We should expect to see this especially in intelligent or social species. Game theory predicts that, from the point of view of parents, when the populatio
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Way back in 2006 I wrote a very detailed story about the battles that were raging around RSS. It's only history now, but I think it is both entertaining and educational. For anyone who might be interested: RSS has been damaged by in-fi
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I have a research assistant I hire to deal with FRED for me, since it is really its own specialty, and at some point we will get to the productivity numbers, but I'm not going to engage them simply for a comment on Hacker News. I proba
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" he would have changed his tune so quickly after being famously against HFT " He was still against HFT, that was part of his point. He was saying that even some of the surge of 1995-2005 might have been an illusion, because it wa
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I find this essay to be abstract to the point that it is difficult to understand what the real point is. In contrast, I’d like to recommend my essay, already much discussed here on Hacker News, which covers the same subject (the difficulty
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I hire teams and I absolutely encourage everyone to snitch if they see bad behavior. I will not tolerate abuse on a team I manage. Anyone who works for me is well aware they should snitch if they see bad behavior. Sunlight is the best disin
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by lkrubner 5y ago
“ She is publishing under her real name ” You are responding to her yet you use the 3rd person. You meant to write: “You are publishing under your real name” This is a complicated use of first person and third person: “ She sounds as if she
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“You're saying a productivity increase that amounted to around 20% across the entire workforce is mostly attributable to advances in HFT and logistics in the retail industry?” No one ever suggested that. It’s the excess productivity gr
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by lkrubner 5y ago
So here is a link that is a few years earlier than the one I want, but which covers the productivity numbers in the same way: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/reagan-mythbust... But that was writt
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The link should be here, if Google was working: solow hft retail site:krugman.blogs.nytimes.com At the moment Google is acting as if Krugman never mentioned HFT or retail. Adding to the problem, the New York Times is giving 503 errors over
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Can you have continuous change when you have isolated populations who are facing different environmental pressures, which are pushing them in different directions? "Continuous change" suggests a story with a narrative, an outcome
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We can put homo erectus in the ambiguous category, if you know of some argument to do so, but the early homo erectus (what splitters would simply call actual homo erectus) had a brain size of 900 cc, so you'd need to explain how modern
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I can not take credit for Solow Productivity Paradox, all credit needs to go to Solow himself. The uptick in productivity between 1995 and 2005 is mostly attributable to 2 sectors: retail finance In retail, it was the era of big boxes, lead
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Those are PPP numbers, which means they are a total joke. The graph you post does not show the post war boom, nor does it show the productivity stagnation after 1973. The USA went from 3% per year productivity growth, before 1973, to 1.5% p
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Let's set aside, for a moment, the very poorest people, who are just struggling to survive. Let's talk about every family (emphasis on family and not individual) that is above poverty. The people in the family work to achieve a ce
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And yet, when I criticized Docker in 2018, in an article much discussed here on Hacker News, many of the comments pointed out how much something like PHP would benefit. raziel2p wrote: " However, I think the author trivializes the amou
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It’s good to finally have a name for this pattern. The first time I was aware of it, and the most ambitious implementation of it, was probably at Roomkey. I heard about it from Colin Steele, who was CTO, and who wrote 2 detailed posts about
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by lkrubner 5y ago
You're raising a point that has no relevance to the conversation. Neither economists nor epidemiologists rely on self reporting. In the face of a large scale disaster, such as the rise in drug overdoses, self-reporting is meaningless a
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It does raise the question of "us" versus "them". But who was "them" really? It's clear there were some stupid humans: homo habilis home erectus homo naledi It's clear there are some smart humans: hom
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You contradict yourself. You raise the question of why those who are there need to suffer a change of lifestyle, then you tell someone who lives there that they should simply leave and move somewhere else.
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Wages for men under the age of 25 peaked in 1958. Afterwards, the loss of good paying low-skill agricultural and industrial jobs lowered wages for the young. Wages went up on average but only because wages for skilled jobs went up dramatica
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You contradict yourself. Less children born in one nation means less children at the global level but not necessarily at the national level because of immigration. My environmental commentary is about the global level.
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One need that comes up, over and over again, is the need for community and family support: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201... Therefore some of the things that we've done in
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Are you in college? I don't mean that as an insult, I'm just curious. I associate this kind of over-the-top writing with the kind of writing I did when I was 18 years old. About this: “You aren’t as happy as you think/report
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It’s a sad example of how much Hacker News has gone downhill. I can remember Hacker News 10 years ago, it was a beacon of rational thinking. But nowadays there is a lot more groupthink.

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