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by msellout 13y ago
One is Python, one is Clojure. Different namespaces; no collision.
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You could also try something like pave.com or upstart.com
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No, pedestrians hit by a bike at speed may be seriously injured, same as anyone involved not wearing a helmet.
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Inflation means higher salaries, which is highly correlated with middle class net worth.
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This "natural instinct to truck and barter" only showed up about 200 to 300 years ago. Before then there was feudalism, chieftains, etc. Humans have had other technologies for distributing social assets.
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Most situations do not involve genocide.
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What are these magical ways to hedge against inflation that wealthy have access to and middle class don't? By definition, inflation equates to higher salaries for the middle class.
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"In 2013, the total Social Security expenditures were $1.3 trillion, 8.4% of the $16.3 trillion GNP (2013) and 37% of the Federal expenditures of $3.684 trillion" (Wikipedia). Medicare adds another half billion, rapidly increasing
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by msellout 13y ago
Consumer spending will increase and therefore also tax revenues. More importantly, we can cut other programs to recover the difference. Edit: rough calculation in other comment
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Depending on your social group.
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I'm not sure that size of mammaries correlates with fertility.
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The gas tax doesn't fully fund road construction and maintenance. Those of us who don't own automobiles or buy gas are still paying our "share". BTW, road maintenance costs are mostly due to heavy vehicles such as trucks
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Actually, in many ways they are. They dissect cadavers as part of education. Some schools have dental students and regular medical students take the same classes for the first two years.
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Medicaid does get decent prices, but providers may refuse to accept Medicaid. So some people have no access to affordable care, despite having Medicaid, because none of the providers within a reasonable distance accept Medicaid.
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You can't train overseas and "just" get a license in the USA. Even if you've been practicing as a dentist in another country, to practice in the USA one must attend dental school in the US and pass the board licensing ex
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To the Tanzanians, all Americans are white, regardless of pigmentation. According to the article.
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Funny, I was going to say something similar but favor Python.
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I was able to avoid the appointment and fee by telling the sales rep that I am a computer scientist and able to handle the installation myself.
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Remember how rapidly the general opinion on smoking changed? It wasn't that long ago that smoking was cool. I think we are seeing the beginning of a similar shift for personal automobiles in urban areas. It wasn't the taxes that d
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It's all relative.
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There's a distinction between numerical approximation and simulation. The former is a technique to solve an analytical model of the world. The latter would have an analytical model of the simulation outcomes rather than of the world di
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The Santa Fe Institute is awesome. I'm especially a fan of Mark Buchanan ( http://physicsoffinance.blogspot.com/ ). I also found that simulations weren't exciting to the economists in my program. My advisor suggeste
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>> There is no scientific reason to use it in statistical investigations in the age of the computer > As someone who uses it daily I am eagerly awaiting his argument. The use of root mean square error|deviation comes from the ease
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Yes
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Are we not willing to accept a certain number of false positives if the net effect is good?
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I think the latter is exactly what they're saying. It's not weird. What question is being begged?
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Testing 42 shades of blue seems like an experiment "without much investment". Are you saying that's an example of a bad experiment?
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The html slideshow fails to work on Chrome on Samsung Galaxy S4. It tells me to swipe left to move to the next slide, but nothing happens.
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No. Dollar cost averaging is splitting an investment into chunks over time: $X in 2013 invested as $X/12 each month.
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The area appears to have a high murder rate, as mentioned in some other news articles.

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