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by murbard2 12y ago
The government is different from the Mafia in many ways, and similar in other ways. Analogies are helpful as a source of moral intuition. What matters in this example is that two wrongs don't make a right. If it's morally wrong to
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by murbard2 12y ago
Valentino Mancini has been coming to your grocery store and he's offered to protect you against fire hazards. He made such a compelling offer you couldn't refuse it, and you've been paying him off for years. Valentino protect
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by murbard2 12y ago
http://www.synonymo.fr/synonyme/heureux
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1) It could be the translator's choice to drop a connotation rather than go through a cumbersome periphrasis to express it faithfully. 2) English words tend to be much shorter, which is reflected in the book's length.
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by murbard2 12y ago
What do you make of the statistics quoted below which shows that, at the 95th percentile, French uses 50% more words than English? Compare http://www.eupedia.com/europe/missing_words_english.shtml and http:/&#x2
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by murbard2 12y ago
> 14,736 versus 21,231 at 95% So about 50% more words for French. The very extreme tail is less interesting because it captures the size of the dictionary, and words very rarely used. I think the exponent of the tail would be the most re
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by murbard2 12y ago
This is mostly based on my own observations, I don't have a very specific study on the matter. Here's a data point though. Many French students learn in English class, as an anecdote, that "shallow" has no equivalent in
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by murbard2 12y ago
I'm a native French speaker and fluent in English (and of course, as luck would have it, I'm going to stick grammar mistakes in this post) Some have pointed out that French is almost always longer. It's a bit more complicated
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The radioactive material in this case is contained within the tungsten ball. It would emit few harmful radiations, as the metal absorbs them and converts them to heat, but most importantly it would leave no radioactive isotopes behind since
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Does it count as a landing if the probes melts the ground?
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Coolest technique for going deep? The self-sinking probe. A big ball of tungsten filled with radioactive elements that just melts its way down to the mantle. http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/refael/league/radioactive-cor
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by murbard2 12y ago
So the argument is that cabbies weren't making enough money and thus had to supplement their income with petty crime ? Rubbish. First of all, the medallion system does not raise the pay of cab drivers in the long run, since those medal
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by murbard2 12y ago
Useless. What would have been valuable would have been to generate a random private key at installation time. As it stands, it seems like the private key extracted can be used to mitm all Lenovo users.
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by murbard2 12y ago
You're correct, and I'm aware that the point is that transaction costs exists and that you want the law to allocate rights by default to the least cost avoiders. However, it is a very valuable insight that, on the first order, all
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by murbard2 12y ago
LibreOffice attempts to replicate the MS Word "experience", which is good if that's what you looking for, but which I find atrocious. Do you have recommendations for a word processor which - Focuses on writing text documents,
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by murbard2 12y ago
If Google penalizes it, does it mean some people can frame competitors by doing false-flag spammy SEO?
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The thing that happened historically is that cabs lobbied for licensing to cut the competition. Do you have any evidence regarding your safety claims?
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OP was referring to passengers, not pedestrians. In the case of pedestrians, the liability depends on who owns the street. It the street is owned by the municipality for instance, it may require cars to have civil insurance. This has nothin
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Ah, nothing like standard, mainstream econ theory to burn karma.
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Actually no, as Ronald Coase showed, it doesn't matter who the liability falls on initially - If it falls on the driver, the driver will demand higher wages / fares to compensate for the cost of insuring himself. - If it falls on
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by murbard2 12y ago
You're correct in your distinction, but you are giving the impression that this is a bad thing. If some companies like Uber and Instacart can nullify a nefarious law using loopholes, this is a Good Thing. In general, there are strong r
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by murbard2 12y ago
For that matter, it's hard to beat the NaS battery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery
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by murbard2 12y ago
How do you defend not paying from your own pocket to caption all the non captioned content out there? The creator of a video has no more of an obligation towards the deaf than anyone else.
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The service was a good idea, but it probably needs to be decentralized to avoid a central party bearing legal liabilities. Run by Google, it was killed by all the regulation surrounding the sale of services. Can't give medical advice,
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It totally depends on your means, your audience, your goals, etc.
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I agree with you and find it immoral to compel MIT and Harvard to close caption their courses. This is because I embrace a deontological ethic. If I were to be the devil's advocate however, I would say that the difference between you p
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by murbard2 12y ago
Ok, but you're extracting the price of SPY, so you're not counting SPY's dividend. Use a portfolio that simply buys SPY at the beginning of the period and holds it. The volatility thing it the biggest effect though.
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If you're looking for systemic mispricing in the market, that shouldn't matter so much as there are enough tax free vehicles (such as IRAs) to smooth out these effects.
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Looking at your graph, it's clear that you need to adjust for volatility. Your "Women CEO" portfolio is much more volatile during that period. Compare Sharpe ratios, not total performance. After that, you may have to worry ab
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1) A0 is 1m^2

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