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When do clock hands overlap? – Numberphile [video](youtube.com)
1 points by oli5679 9y ago|0 comments
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The end of local authority libraries(adamsmith.org)
2 points by oli5679 9y ago|0 comments
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by oli5679 9y ago
Ask yourself, What's the personal value to me or someone else of owning this unit of currency, in terms of purchases enabled and transaction costs avoided?There are frequently financial bubbles, where people just buy because you expect
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Two new papers on militarized police(afinetheorem.wordpress.com)
1 points by oli5679 9y ago|0 comments
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by oli5679 9y ago
Hi, I'm in the U.K. I work as an economist and am really interested in programming (reasonable component of my job, have made a couple of cool side projects and completed some online courses and programming challenges). Is it possible
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Too many people have peed in the pool (2016)(stephenfry.com)
151 points by oli5679 9y ago|121 comments
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by oli5679 9y ago
You have an implicit assumption that the competitor was previously charging close to cost. They have an incentive to cut prices too after Space-X enters. The old monopoly price is different to the price where Space-X wins the contract.
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Uber CEO advised employees on rules for a company celebration in 2013 memo(recode.net)
60 points by oli5679 9y ago|68 comments
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Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman [video](youtube.com)
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Erik Spiekermann: No Free Pitches(99u.com)
1 points by oli5679 9y ago|1 comments
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Why Would Aliens Even Bother with Earth?(lithub.com)
2 points by oli5679 9y ago|0 comments
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by oli5679 9y ago
Your son seems smart!
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It’s a Wonderful Loaf(wonderfulloaf.org)
47 points by oli5679 9y ago|37 comments
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Anagram Scoring(blog.plover.com)
295 points by oli5679 9y ago|77 comments
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What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord(popularmechanics.com)
244 points by oli5679 10y ago|154 comments
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by oli5679 10y ago
Ok great. Thanks for going into so much detail. How likely do you think 1 is in the next 15 years (surely less than 100%)? To me, 50% seems generous. How much can Uber's revenue grow with/without 1 (bare in mind they already repre
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by oli5679 10y ago
Can you articulate: (a) your beliefs that Uber's fleet shifts to driverless at various points over the next 20 years. (b) Their change in costs and revenues following this scenario (and in cases when this doesn't happen). I can on
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by oli5679 10y ago
Posner (possibly alongside Bork) is the most influential figure within the Chicago school of competition law. He shared a blog with Gary Becker for many years.
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Hidden in Plain Sight(gatesnotes.com)
1 points by oli5679 10y ago|0 comments
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A better game clock history on Lichess.org(en.lichess.org)
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by oli5679 10y ago
I worked as an intern at a couple of companies spending a lot of money on digital marketing, and I was amazed by the assumptions underpinning the marketing 'attribution models' that they used. Both used 'Last Touch', and
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Announcing Instant Chess(en.lichess.org)
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by oli5679 10y ago
This is a good, assessable discussion: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=710
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The shackles of scientific journals – And how to cast them off(economist.com)
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Review of Pill-Reminder Apps(pogueman.tumblr.com)
1 points by oli5679 10y ago|0 comments
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The Demiurge's older brother(slatestarcodex.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
To give some context: Daily Mail is a right-leaning UK newspaper that sits somewhere in between a tabloid (celebrity gossip and other entertainment) and a broadsheet (news and political commentary). It has been criticized for publishing inc
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High Fade(theparisreview.org)
2 points by oli5679 10y ago|0 comments
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by oli5679 10y ago
Really confused by the following error message: "We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a w
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The End of the Olympics as We Know It(theringer.com)
6 points by oli5679 10y ago|0 comments

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