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by setgree 6y ago
I think I should have said "full-time" or "professional" landlord. I had thought that the word had a connotation of it being a full-time gig, but I was wrong.
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by setgree 6y ago
I would prefer a world in which we didn't call some people griping on twitter "news". Two popular HN pieces have recently touched on how journalists and newspapers give twitter too much weight: https://news.ycombin
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by setgree 6y ago
The coffee shop near my (former) Manhattan apartment is one of the places I miss most in all this.
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by setgree 6y ago
> Shutdowns for cafes and restaurants -- which typically account for about 25% of demand -- were overwhelming, and it could be a while before things pick up again. I was originally going to theorize something about office workers having
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by setgree 6y ago
These are fair points, all of which I think could be addressed by finding the optimal taxation point. The keyhole solution I favor would be something like: a US passport for 10 years, with no political rights or access to SS/Medicare&#
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by setgree 6y ago
Bryan Caplan addresses this as one of his "keyhole solutions" to various perceived negative externalities: [0] > For instance, if the problem lies with migrant welfare use, the most keyhole solution-like approach is to change t
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by setgree 6y ago
What we've experienced is not open borders, at least in America it's mostly a mix of unskilled workers coming in over the Southern border and high-skilled workers coming in via visas. Naturally those recruited specifically to joi
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by setgree 6y ago
Ha, I originally provided a cite to this but took it out to make my comment shorter :) Glad you liked it!
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by setgree 6y ago
> we're trapped in a system that doesn't provide workable means to solve our pressing problems Generalization: most of those problems are political rather than technical, and unlike with technical problems, if you make a wrong
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by setgree 6y ago
I just uploaded the papers I’ve co-authored — all were licensed CC 4.0 — to Research Hub and emailed to say hello. Looks like a great platform!
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by setgree 6y ago
Just for the record my definition of an identification strategy is not quite right -- it should be > a way for assessing the impact of x (downloads on sci-hub) on y (citations) which _identifies_ a source of variation in x, that is indep
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by setgree 6y ago
> This one managed to get 700 upvotes on HN and still be meaningless. On the other hand, the top/most salient comments on it are all pretty critical of its causal claims.
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by setgree 6y ago
Hi Dr. Correa, Thanks for writing. I've taken a quick look at your paper and its OSF page, and you all clearly know what you're doing and have some great work here. I am not your target audience (I am not an academic), but if I we
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by setgree 6y ago
The econometric term for what this paper lacks is "identification strategy" -- a way for assessing the impact of x (downloads on sci-hub) on y (citations) which _identifies_ a source of variation in x that is independent of y. A r
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by setgree 6y ago
Pity the person who takes their work so seriously they'd send a bloody pig mask in the mail for it -- for a faceless, corporate behemoth like ebay, no less.
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by setgree 6y ago
I'm hanging in there, thanks for asking. In mid-March, after a messy parting from a startup, I left Manhattan for my parents' place in the suburbs, intending to stay for a few weeks; three months later, here I am. I had blue perio
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by setgree 6y ago
And would this be useful as a map?
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by setgree 6y ago
Two great illustrations of this concept from literature come to mind: * Borges's 'On Exactitude in Science' [0] about a map that is as large and as precise as the territory, which renders it useless; * the wonderful Eschaton
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by setgree 6y ago
But Elsevier's lawyers would presumably argue during negotiations that the option to have CC0 distribution of text meets this stipulation, whether in spirit or letter. I would bet that MIT's choice to divorce from Els came from a
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by setgree 6y ago
good point. I just double-checked and ours says: > Copyright: © Cambridge University Press 2018 > This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence ( http://creativecommo
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by setgree 6y ago
> 2. No author will be required to relinquish copyright, but instead will be provided with options that enable publication while also providing authors with generous reuse rights. I've published a few papers (and have worked closely
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by setgree 6y ago
I had some issues with Jitsi on Brave but it worked fine on Chrome
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> "We are outraged by this act from Zoom, a U.S company," Zhou and other organizers told Axios in a statement. "As the most commercially popular meeting software worldwide, Zoom is essential as an unbanned outreach to Chin
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by setgree 6y ago
> the single most cost effective way to speed up math and physics research by a philanthropist would be taking a few million dollars and hiring a team of developers to bring LaTeX into the 21st century This might be a niche opinion, but
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by setgree 6y ago
> The bigger risk with getting a job at Uber is "will they be in business in 2 years?" what's median job duration for a software engineer in startup-land anyway? I'd be surprised if it was much over 2 years... I'
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by setgree 6y ago
I've been thinking about this comment a lot today. It's cool that you have relationship with the owner of a local restaurant! I know the owners of a local coffee shop pretty well and it's been really interesting (and a bit de
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by setgree 6y ago
I'm surprised the 1650 super is ~ 30% cheaper than the 1660 super but it looks like current prices pretty accurately reflect original MSRPs * https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/evga-nvidia-geforce-gtx... vs. *
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by setgree 6y ago
It's gauche to say it on the day a bunch of people lost their jobs (and there's no need for the schadenfraude) but I think the underlying point is sane. Uber's business model is replacing FTEs in a a hidebound, regulated indu
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by setgree 6y ago
When learning something, trying to reward myself when I feel stupid or frustrated, because that generally means I'm doing something difficult that will pay off long-term. I think of this as another 'habit to unlearn from school&#x
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by setgree 6y ago
This article identifies some places where economic growth is the deeper, non-proximal cause of biodiversity loss, but that doesn't mean the two are incompatible. The answer I personally prefer is to take the brakes off of urbanization,

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