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by msellout 14y ago
And then they go on to put secretaries in the room in front of the open door to stop people from going through the doorway. I once happened to walk past the open door to the office of the Director of the CIA. I briefly considered walking in
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by msellout 14y ago
Executives allocate budget. That's what she did. She chose what things to pay for. This is pretty much all any executive does at any company with any scale.
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by msellout 14y ago
Yes, I have done this. A few times. I think for not more than one week at a time.
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by msellout 14y ago
Fox News tried the Half Hour News Hour. They aren't very good at satire.
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by msellout 14y ago
Stetson Kennedy's ridicule of the KKK was able to reduce membership. It's been effective in the past.
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by msellout 14y ago
Anyone who gets upset at stack ranking has never heard about how management consulting works. They advertise stack ranking in order to RECRUIT. Life as a management consultant is a perpetual job search, networking internally to get placed o
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by msellout 14y ago
Study more anthropology. Small communities have existed without hierarchy, but they have been murdered (literally) by nearby hierarchical societies. There's something about hierarchy that makes us humans more efficient. Perhaps it has somet
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by msellout 14y ago
The vendors are intentionally not a part of MS, because they're lower margin operations.
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by msellout 14y ago
I think someone here quoted Bezos: "If you have a bad manager, then quit." Companies can only detect bad managers when their direct reports leave.
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by msellout 14y ago
It's weird. The Oracle site has many dead links, esp. for Java docs.
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by msellout 14y ago
I also appreciated the concept of _In Time_, even though the plot was awful. I wouldn't hedge by saying there are limits to this type of thinking. Everyone should take it very seriously. Time is money in a very real sense. Speaking of which
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by msellout 14y ago
And even more likely to be systemic in anyone who is not trying to measure the world. Science works.
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by msellout 14y ago
Ever use numbers to help you make a decision? Enjoy rhetorical questions?
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by msellout 14y ago
It's easier to demonstrate a counterfactual than to prove the theorem. Therefore the burden of proof should be on you to demonstrate the counterfactual.
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by msellout 14y ago
There are "humanitarian" groups.
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by msellout 14y ago
Then what is 'play time' if softball qualifies as 'struggle and purpose'?
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by msellout 14y ago
Right. He's critiquing the term "predictive model" by saying we should use the term "hypothetical model" instead. Is he suggesting it's impossible to test a hypothesis? I thought Kant and Hume had this argument long ago.
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by msellout 14y ago
Taleb wrote better. Yes, prediction is hard. If you're interested in these topics, do some reading on over-fitting, stationarity, and nonlinear dynamics.
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by msellout 14y ago
Where did you get the count data?
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by msellout 14y ago
Don't judge them too harshly. Fracking isn't clearly bad or good. As the article pointed out: coal is worse.
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by msellout 14y ago
Does this article say anything?
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by msellout 14y ago
No idea how it could be unethical. He can offer to complete the project as a freelance consultant if they're desperate enough.
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by msellout 14y ago
So he doesn't use GitHub and he's not cautious about using it?
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by msellout 14y ago
There are some efficiencies that come with scale. For example, it's preferable to have very large utility companies with heavy regulation. I tend to agree that scale is unnecessary for investment banking. If an entity needs capital in bulk
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by msellout 14y ago
Pangloss.
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by msellout 14y ago
The EPA and many other agencies try to quantify the value of life (cost of death). Without that estimate, they would be unable to decide the appropriate level of pollution to allow.
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by msellout 14y ago
What's wrong with that statement? To compare policies that affect natural assets and human assets, we need to be able to measure those assets with the same index. If not dollars, then what? "Utils"? Once you pick the units, then we can argu
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by msellout 14y ago
Thanks for the link.
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by msellout 14y ago
The amount of savings in the economy is exactly equal to the amount of investment. Changing the capital gains tax rate does not affect how much investment takes place, but instead affects the choice of investment vehicle.
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by msellout 14y ago
How about an externality tax? Anything that hurts anyone else, even via causing jealousy, gets taxed as appropriate for the size of the externality.

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