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by mjn 13y ago
There are many factors besides contemplation of future punishment that influences whether people become more or less likely to commit a crime, so I would focus on tackling the whole host of them, rather than moving that one lever. Mental he
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Brenda and John Romero to run professional degree program at UC Santa Cruz(news.ucsc.edu)
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People aren't used to driving 100km, but taking the train that distance is quite common. I've never lived in the Netherlands, but from what I understand it's even more compact and better connected than Denmark, and in Denmark
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by mjn 13y ago
> In short, it needs an editor. I'm plowing through 3000 words where a better structure could probably cut that in half. Ah yes, like an O'Reilly book...
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by mjn 13y ago
This depends heavily on the country. In Denmark a PhD student in any discipline will earn a salary of about €2000/month after taxes. However the positions are somewhat more competitive as a result: professors have fewer PhD students at
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by mjn 13y ago
The last sentence is somewhat questionable, except at the top universities. Only at the most grant-successful universities does the overhead actually break even in recouping the extra outlays universities put into research. Examples: constr
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by mjn 13y ago
I recently read one of Victor Hugo's shorter books, The Toilers of the Sea , and quite enjoyed it. I like Hugo's writing in general: has a rich feeling of time and place, with the style of the sentences he crafts sort of feeding
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by mjn 13y ago
I don't think that one is really read in schools. We did read an Ayn Rand book in my high school (in Texas), but it was Anthem , a much shorter novella, with a more general theme of future-utopia-is-actuallly-dystopia, ending with a p
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by mjn 13y ago
It sometimes does promote centrism, for example when the right and left parties each need to compete for the support of a centrist party to form a majority coalition. But that isn't an inherent feature of the system, and the opposite c
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by mjn 13y ago
In some cases it does. The University of California system has managed to scale up reasonably efficiently, with expenses growing more slowly than enrollment, thereby reducing the per-student cost of education. The result is that there'
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Thiel's Failed Education Experiment(forbes.com)
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Is it the top foundry? It depends on what sectors you look at, I believe. It's definitely still top in web technology. But in other areas I'm less sure. One slice of the successful startup market is looking at tech IPOs, which a
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by mjn 13y ago
This is particularly prevalent in geographical articles. I recently spent a few hours clearing spammy links out of articles on Greek islands (and towns, and beaches, ...). One strategy spammers are using to try to make their links in Wikipe
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by mjn 13y ago
That's also my impression. Groceries are about the same as the U.S., restaurants considerably more. It's not general inflation, but specifically an increase in the cost of goods/services where the difference between paying em
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by mjn 13y ago
It's $20 here in Denmark (de-facto, via the union wage-negotiation system) and I have no complaints. It means service-industry things like restaurants are considerably more expensive, but then since everyone makes at least $20/hr,
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by mjn 13y ago
It does vary by region. Russian serfdom was closer to a form of slavery, with serfs owned by the estates, while in Western Europe, serfs were usually formally free to leave but in practice unable to. The usual explanation for the emergence
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Riptide: Journalism and digital technology, 1980-present(niemanlab.org)
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Kaiser is one example where incentives align, because they're an integrated HMO, running both the insurance and the care side of things. It's kind of like an opt-in single-payer organization. Their model is that they charge you X&
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by mjn 13y ago
There's been a movement away from flat files even (perhaps, especially) among the kinds of people who like old-school Unix CLI and console tools for mail. There hasn't been a lot of movement in tools that directly read a Maildir o
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by mjn 13y ago
There's a lot of interesting ping-ponging back and forth in some of these technocratic / data-driven visions. Some parts of Soviet central planning were initially lifted almost directly from Western success stories of massively in
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by mjn 13y ago
It's an interesting phenomenon, but I'm not sure it has much to do with the internet or technology. People have gotten addicted to gambling on slot machines and poker tables, so the level of technological advancement needed to mim
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by mjn 13y ago
Yes, and that's the workload convdate is intended for: it batch-converts an entire column of a tab-delimited file. The larger crush-tools suite is intended for unix-style batch processing of tabular data, but fills in some functionalit
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by mjn 13y ago
If date formatting is a bottleneck for me (it is surprisingly often, because it's very slow in some languages) I typically just run it through the command-line program 'convdate' [1] from crush-tools, which is more or less
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What players think about narrative incoherence in anachronic games(kmjn.org)
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Of course, most people who think they are two standard deviations above the mean in expected returns, are not in fact that much out of the ordinary (monetarily, anyway). So the a priori expected return also needs to adjust for the risk th
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by mjn 13y ago
I'd be interested in some numbers as far as Stanford goes. If we restrict it to students who don't come from already well-off families who can backstop a risky career (say, look at students from families making <$100k/yr),
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by mjn 13y ago
> So if you want to focus on other things besides work, you're better off with a regular job than trying to start a startup. Or, alternately: if you're a rational agent interested in maximizing risk-adjusted returns, you'r
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by mjn 13y ago
Interesting question, both in its own right, and in terms of what Wikipedia should do about it (something I've had an interest in [1] for a while). Looking at the university databases I have access to, I don't really find anything
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by mjn 13y ago
Yes, generally n-gram-based analyses are a huge minefield. Computational linguists do use them, with a lot of caveats and careful analysis of confounding factors. One simple one that comes to mind here is that you need to analyze to what
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1981 Article, "Why Japanese factories work," Relevant for Healthcare in 2013(leanblog.org)
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