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by nanis 8y ago
Why are most people barely able to read in such a society? Do you think if there is net return to being literate, people would not be able to learn without government?
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by nanis 8y ago
> In the context of schools, literally everybody benefits from population wide literacy and education. Education is more of a private good than you seem to realize. It is definitely excludable and in traditional settings it is quickly be
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by nanis 8y ago
> Most opposition to the mini-hotel industry (AirBnb) is community oriented. See, e.g., "Hotel Money Is Funding Anti-Airbnb Sting Operations"[1]. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-12
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by nanis 8y ago
Hotel owners do not want competition. For a politician, it is easier to extract surplus from a limited number of hotel owners than from a large number of people renting their individual units. So, under the appropriate excuse, a law prevent
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by nanis 8y ago
Figure out what money is for, and spend on it.
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by nanis 8y ago
I find the constant use of "we" in these types of headlines rather off-putting. Who is this "we" you speak of? It may be true that "As recently as 1999, it was commonly stated that babies could not feel pain until t
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by nanis 8y ago
When your one-liner takes six lines, it is time to open up a text editor and write a decent shell or Perl or Python or whatever script which can be read and understood later. Then, it might turn into 50 lines, but you'll know what it
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by nanis 8y ago
Even if one chooses to believe the fairy tale that Tank Man survived the bloody assault that day[1], it is foolish to pretend that he was the only risk taker at Tiananmen Square. It is even more shallow to think that the fact that "...
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by nanis 8y ago
> What is the logic behind this? I guess my disdain for this kind of approach was not obvious.
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by nanis 8y ago
>> The historical temperature data sets were not generated by a well designed sampling scheme. > I'm curious where this opinion comes from? ... my understanding is the sampling takes a lot into account There is no sampling.
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by nanis 8y ago
There are a lot of interesting things. For example, have you noticed when the Sahara makes an appearance? How many of those stations remain in the data set later on? Given that so-called "anomalies" are deviations from averages ov
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by nanis 8y ago
The historical temperature data sets were not generated by a well designed sampling scheme. Instead, they are a function of where people decided to live, travel, measure, record, and store temperature levels. You might want to repeat my lit
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by nanis 8y ago
Some people never learn how self-selection into your convenience sample affects results. Also, here is the NY Times article on which this click-bait is based: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/style/dati
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by nanis 8y ago
And, just like that ... The "Principal-Agent problem"[1] makes an entrance. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
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by nanis 8y ago
> Nor can I decide that I’d like to trade higher electricity bills for a longer life span; the government has already made that decision for me . Frustratingly, it’s not even clear that this is good for the environment , because it tak
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by nanis 8y ago
> We need go-go capitalism to afford a generous welfare state, and people won’t support go-go capitalism without a safety net. The failure to distinguish between a "safety net" and a growth killing punitive transfer regime fr
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by nanis 8y ago
Well, at least the GDP identity is an accounting identity, so it has some value, but the causal relationships are not there. Every mathematical statement is a tautology (in that they are inevitable conclusions logically derived from a set o
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by nanis 8y ago
The Kaya identity (just like the GDP accounting identity abused by all sorts of interventionists) is devoid of empirical content.
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Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?(youtube.com)
1 points by nanis 8y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 8y ago
So, at DEF CON, they had set up a server with SQL injection vulnerabilities and had issued specific instructions on how to use that to alter tables. And, this person went one stepped further and DROP'ed some tables. I am going to say w
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by nanis 8y ago
> You're welcome to run away with your tail between your legs ... LOL!
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by nanis 8y ago
I am also going to point out a subtle mistake committed by this specific library. The examples include this: hanımelinin çiçeği (flower of a plant called hanımeli) That's subtly wrong. The flower is called hanımeli çiçeği ju
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by nanis 8y ago
> You just provided a valid interpretation for q. So what’s the problem here? Isn't it obvious that interpretation does not apply in this situation? > You’re accusing me of not understanding the Dutch book argument. It is not
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by nanis 8y ago
> The rants are mostly related to synonyms. Which synonyms?
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by nanis 8y ago
On Google translate, Dolar düşsün → Dollar dream → Dolar rüyası.
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by nanis 8y ago
> not superior to Turkish in this regard Computers cannot deal with the ambiguities of Turkish. That says nothing about English being superior to Turkish. However, not having a central controlling authority and not having gone through
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by nanis 8y ago
> If a language is understandable, analyzable, executable, expressible by humans, computers most probably can process it (this is a claim, not a fact). In English, a sentence[1] is " a set of words that is complete in itself, typi
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by nanis 8y ago
As I pointed before[1], Turkish and computers don't really get along. The beauty of Turkish lies in its irregularity, not the rules you learn. That irregularity is amplified by the shrinking vocabulary in use owing to the disappearance
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by nanis 8y ago
> Bayesian probability is emphatically not about an experiment being repeated in the future. That's the frequentist interpretation of probability. As I mentioned elsethread, you misunderstand what I am saying. But, just to help yo
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by nanis 8y ago
No, I have no idea what you are defending.

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