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by mrow84 11y ago
Maybe in terms of various metrics (though I'm not so certain things are progressing that quickly), but not in terms of source compatibility, which was the point I was trying to make.
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It's important to recognise that a lot of the model runs are done on super-computers, and the runs themselves aren't always easy to replicate from a practical point of view, because of things like resource limitations and configur
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> Right now, there are no other providers in these areas. This largely isn't correct. There are other providers, they just cost some money. This [0] comment by aravindet captures everything that one needs to know. These people are g
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Only Facebook has that level of control over the situation, and their only incentive is to try and make as much money as possible. On a personal level, whilst I don't have strong feelings about the campaign against internet.org, I woul
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It is almost certainly beneficial for each individual in the short term - having some sort of connection is better than having no connection. However, the value for that group of people over time is less obvious, as they will be incentivise
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by mrow84 11y ago
A bare standard of living in the administrative unit in question, in this case the USA. One of the reasons people move to cities is to find work - with BI they wouldn't need to do that, so they wouldn't need to move to cities (and
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by mrow84 11y ago
Mightn't the deferral of tax payments until newly-taxed properties are sold or inherited remove (or at least reduce) the time correlation, thus improving the market position of the sellers? Avoiding any adjustment in ownership patterns
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by mrow84 11y ago
In meteorology and oceanography we call this type of plot a Hovmöller diagram [0], and I'm sure it goes by many other names, because it's hardly a difficult idea to arrive at. Perhaps you should credit one of those prior authors?
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by mrow84 11y ago
Normalising "subscribers to Martha Stewart Living" and "consumers of furry pornography" by population would give you per-capita values, showing you places where those properties had high incidence per-person (to which yo
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by mrow84 11y ago
If the people who currently own the apartments have to sell because they are unable to afford the taxes then they would be in a poor bargaining position - they would pay for their "desire" for immediacy. Those who purchase the apa
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by mrow84 11y ago
Sweet, thanks. I see in the "possible applications" section of that wikipedia article it is stated that: "Plasmons are being considered as a means of transmitting information on computer chips, since plasmons can support much
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by mrow84 11y ago
Is it possible for signals to propagate as waves, without the electrons moving between atoms? Kind of like in this gif, but without them hopping along? https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/9/5/6/1/4/
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Something that is surely implicit in the claim that the limits on economic growth are not related to physical resource limits, is some definition of the minimum quantity of stuff, and perhaps of the types of stuff, that are required to make
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by mrow84 11y ago
Well said.
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I don't understand the link you're drawing between self-worth and willingness to participate in this spreadsheet exercise, but I suppose it is beside the point. I certainly agree that if someone is trying to make a statistical cla
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But of course they won't, because salary information isn't available, so it is difficult for employees to make these decisions. In other words, companies can systematically distort the free market in labour by withholding informat
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by mrow84 11y ago
Statistics is as much (if not more) about careful thought as it is about applying standard tests. What sampling biases do you think might be present in this sampling that invalidate the stated conclusions? For example, for a conclusion abou
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by mrow84 11y ago
Fitting a distribution to data is pretty common parlance in my experience, and there is even a wikipedia article with a relevant name [0]. I presume that the parallelisation point was with reference to the point made by the article, that th
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Isn't it more that there will be a transfer in the share of income, rather than the absolute amount - i.e. not ruling out a rise in absolute GDP?
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by mrow84 12y ago
Ah yes, sorry, I had a brain fart and confused growth and inflation... As for Piketty's point on technological innovation, isn't it that it is one possible mechanism to escape the capital trap, but only if the rents on the resulti
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by mrow84 12y ago
> over this anecdotally chosen timespan, the S&P 500 returned 3.98% / year on average > we've had 2 percent inflation over the same period So, still, return on capital "completely squashes GDP growth over the same p
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by mrow84 12y ago
They don't because they need to earn money, and to earn money you have to go where jobs are - cities. With basic income you wouldn't so people would be incentivised to move to lower cost areas.
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The idea that lenders will stop lending to poorer people seems very popular, but can someone explain why this situation will remain immune from market effects? Markets are not an exercise in rationality, they are an exercise in making a ret
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by mrow84 12y ago
The difference between the graphs are that the one linked by jusmus88 is illustrating the distribution of incomes of "families", whereas all three in the article you linked are for the distribution of incomes of "households&q
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I agree that the distinction between, to quote you, "society denying people opportunities directly, and people not taking opportunities that they have because of some self-fulfilling belief" is very important. I also agree that, a
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It is worth bearing in mind that this was, as noted at the start of the guardian piece, originally written as a reply on a forum. I don't think it is best to interpret what the author has written as a political argument about the objec
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I think a more charitable interpretation of the author statements are that she has an overwhelming feeling that she will never not be poor, and that feeling causes her to make poor decisions, rather than believing that it is an inevitabil
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I think that actually the caption is "correct", and they must have simply included the wrong image, because the text says "Figure 2 shows the original digital image of Balloon, which is of dimensions 512 pixels by 512 pixels,
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> Keep in mind this energy transition has occurred before, back in the 16th century. The UK used to depend on wood for its energy. The US led in adopting coal, which was used only marginally for thousands of years. Coal was dirty, it sta

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