overpaidgoogler

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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
I don't closely follow which articles are flagged, but I think that articles with a tech angle or some novel statistical or scientific analysis are favored over general politics. The reason I flag general political articles (eg articl
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
When I see someone who doesn't care about language I think the following: "I'm too stupid..." The ironing.
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
For me the main issue is not that github removed offensive content, but the politicization of the concept. The most glaring discrepancy to me is that even though the word "nerd" is used to incite physical violence, that word is no
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
It's not that white privilege is real or not, but that there is no reason for constant articles about it on hn. In this case there was a "life hacking" angle, but as far as I can tell the author is applying this label to som
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
You're right I should have looked at the website before posting.
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
If you look at a graph of world GDP, you'll see that it grows steadily and exponentially. The full set of causes is this is not known, but it can be shown not to be merely due to the gradual accumulation of capital. A large part must
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
DSGE models are precisely "dynamic discrete-time simulations with evolving state" and they are the workhorse of modern macro.
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
Yes, restrictions on prices indirectly redistribute wealth. But what I was saying was that the government should only redistribute wealth directly, via welfare and taxes (eg income, sales or vat).
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
While hn is full of orientalism, I don't think it's helpful to call out a specific poster, especially one who is trying to back up their claims with actual evidence. I usually post a top level comment when I see a lot of posts fr
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
"Society has decided" is not a good substitute for an actual reason for a policy. I'm not arguing against democracy here. I also think you are confusing minimum pay with minimum qualifications. A medallion is not a qualifi
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
I get that. But the two ideas are very closely related. See also my final sentence.
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
While I agree with most of your points, I think the informal economy mainly exists for tax avoidance, and not because very short term jobs involve an onorous amount of paperwork. If this is correct, then those jobs would still exist in a c
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
One difficulty with functional style c++ is just how verbose it is. Every time I tried to use std::transform (the equivalent of "map") I had to delete it and rewrite as a loop because it was just too hard to read. Functional sty
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
People support Uber because they support the logic of the free market, which is that the government should redistribute wealth, but not fix prices, including wages. Yes it's tough being a taxi driver, but the real problem is that it&#
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
Economic models are computer simulations! The difference between conventional models and the kind of simulation you would like to see lies in the kind of assumptions that are made about agents and the environment they operate in. What they
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
First, can you describe what the predictions were and what you consider their significance to be?
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
I don't see any fundamental difference between what your call simulation and what economists call models. The only difference is that your believe in the possibility of models so accurate that one could easily verify that they give co
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
The problem with Krugman is that he used a very "old school" Keynesian intellectual framework, while the rest of the field has moved on. The ideas of Keynes were not abandoned, but they were rendered in a form that is more consis
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
The distinction is usually referred to as saltwater vs freshwater economists (referring to the geographical location of the university's). Apart from MIT there is also Princeton and Stanford in the saltwater camp. And Krugman is right
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
Not in any specific way, but he has a nerdy demeanor. There are many interviews of him online your can watch.
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
I met Terry in 2002. I had heard about him when I did the IMO training, but at some point someone said he was in the department so I should talk to him. He showed me some work he was doing related to what happens to the determinants of ma
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
"Let then eat Quinoa"
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
You can't have it both ways. "in the meantime" there will also be cases where $6 an hour would have made the difference between having a job and not having one.
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
Really odd that the professor does not mention carbon taxes in the story. It doesn't make sense to borrow game theory from economics but completely ignore the idea of taxing externalities
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
How about a rule title change to "poorly performing video gamers more likely to harass women". Not only is the title inaccurate and click baity, but as someone who was physically bullied in school for being an actual loser, it tri
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
Despite his verbal ineptitude, at six-foot-two Eric is one of the more desirable seniors, and many sophomores would, I suppose, have been flattered by the attention... [I asked] "What you're saying is tantamount to saying that yo
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
I would not read to much into it. This is a very specialized competition that selected 6 people from an entire country. Some aspects of soviet education are very conducive to these competitions (e.g. an emphasis on euclidean geometry). Be
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
I would suggest "elements of statistical learning". If possible I would also try to study some econometrics which gives unparalleled insight into the correlation vs causation issue. You can think of econometrics as a branch of s
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
A lot of people here are saying that if job titles/pay grades are public (which they are not completely) then so should pay be. The problem with this is that promotions are already very political. People can and do get very angry whe
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by overpaidgoogler 11y ago
I hope not. When I did math Olympiads (including the IMO) I was presented with a false dichotomy of pure math or finance. This is really unfortunate because finance in general does not use very deep math. A tiny number of people might us

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