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   by pseut 13y ago

   I don't know your field, but the claim that there's no acceptable outlet for negative results isn't always true. There are usually outlets for interesting results, it's just that negative results tend to be less interesting than positive o
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   by pseut 13y ago

   True, but BI is actually really good for econ news.
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   by pseut 13y ago

   It's rare that we get such a clean natural experiment like this in economics; maybe future economists will thank R&R for cleverly introducing this negative exogenous policy shock (sarcasm).
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   by pseut 13y ago

   That is the AER's usual policy [1]; R&R's paper was published in the May issue (Papers and proceedings) which is for all intents and purposes a completely different and almost non-peer-reviewed journal [2]. I suspect (without any knowle
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   by pseut 13y ago

   Yeah, this was my thought process too (although I do use an iPhone unfortunately). The only point I'd add is that it seems unlikely that Google will move to be more open and more privacy conscious; any change seems likely to go the other d
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   by pseut 13y ago

   Note that you can often get jabber/xmpp from your email provider: e.g. https://www.fastmail.fm/help/features_chat.html
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   by pseut 13y ago

   Conde Nast no longer owns reddit
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   by pseut 13y ago

   IIRC there's a plugin that lets you call R functions within excel.
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   by pseut 13y ago

   I'd need to dig into the source code of this project more to be convinced, but I trust the implementation and algorithm choice in core R way more than any other stats package except possibly SAS: among other reasons it has far more of the r
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    by pseut 13y ago

    R&R haven't blamed excel. But I think it's fair game to criticize another workman's tool choice if it played a role in a mistake.
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    by pseut 13y ago

    142 characters is a headline. Often it includes a link to a supporting article and discussion. Sometimes your non-journalism is arranged on a page in a list. Sometimes with sorted and scored with points assigned by the site's users, sometim
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    by pseut 13y ago

    This article kind of misses the point in a few ways 1. During important events, a lot of us want to be/feel connected to what's going on. Watching on TV does that and following reddit/twitter/web does that too, but picking up the paper hou
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    by pseut 13y ago

    "Here's what you can achieve with oil paints and a brush! Buy the DVD to learn how!"
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    by pseut 13y ago

    They weren't universally careful -- they fudged the difference in other settings.
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    by pseut 13y ago

    yes, but M-x letter letter TAB can work pretty well and is easy to get down pat.
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    by pseut 13y ago

    I'll be the dick that suggests not using org mode for class notes; I typed up my lecture notes in it 4 years ago (for the class I teach) and there have been several backwards incompatible changes to org mode that required a few hours of deb
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    by pseut 13y ago

    Please link to the source for quotations like that (or cite it if it's not a webpage).
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    by pseut 13y ago

    Or they price discriminate, by selling the wool sweater at a high markup to customers who self identify as especially interested in handmade wool sweaters while advertising the cheaper acrylic sweater to everyone else.
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    by pseut 13y ago

    I plug it into my radio speaker through the aux in cable in my living room.
20. 350.▲
    by pseut 13y ago

    Yes: I have wireless in my office and house (and no data plan for my iphone).
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    by pseut 13y ago

    I'm disappointed by the description (but I never used wearehunted; if I had I probably wouldn't be surprised). I was really hoping for an easy way to share individual songs over twitter (in a way that doesn't require me or the people tha
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    by pseut 13y ago

    Give him a break! Commenting on HN using an iPhone while driving is hard enough and now you want him to proofread?
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    by pseut 13y ago

    Is there any other kind?
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    by pseut 13y ago

    Some examples here for Excel 2007: http://blog.meteorit.co.uk/2007/10/02/excel-2007-bug-shows-w... one example from the post: 425 * 154.2 was displayed as 100,000 and treated as 100000 for some calculations but not others. I remember olde
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    by pseut 13y ago

    I didn't read it as "playing to... your audience." When I write a public blog post, I put some thought into coherence, logical ordering, etc. and I (at least briefly) proof read the post for massive errors. I wouldn't do that for a diary
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    Intrade in trouble(economist.com)

    2 points by pseut 14y ago|0 comments
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    Voice quality: Can can you you hear hear me me now now?(economist.com)

    2 points by pseut 14y ago|0 comments
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    Google and the European Commission: A flavour of utility(economist.com)

    2 points by pseut 14y ago|0 comments
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    by pseut 14y ago

    >> what happened is your own fault entirely >Which isn't just a slip of the tongue. It's an explicit declaration that the blame is 100% on the victim. Not my quote, and not even implicit in anything I've said here.
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    by pseut 14y ago

    KEXP has some nice music podcasts