shawn-furyan

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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Dusting off QFT for: "In a strongly divided country, interpreting anything as a clear public mandate can be disastrous."
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
'for whatever reason' I think his numerous, recurring, overtly and thinly veiled racist remarks may play a role.
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
> I think you're confused. How delightfully condescending of you. Yes, I didn't realize that the 5% number came from you, that hardly makes me "confused". Taking that into light, it's not obvious to me how a very
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
You've been criticizing the rough order of magnitude estimate for an hour and still haven't offered a significant improvement. I find that more more ridiculous. If the improvement is so obvious that not including it is ridiculous,
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
So... we're about where we were at with the very first estimate... Precision isn't particularly helpful for this sort of rough projection. Which highlights that your original criticism wasn't particularly productive. clarific
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
What is it? You could actually improve the estimate rather than /just/ pointing out that it has flaws. And your original criticism was vague. At least this one moves things forward. After a quick Google search, the number of vehic
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
How do you think that decisions are made under uncertainty? You can't always wait until you have very solid numbers to come up with an analysis. It's not "ridiculous" to come up with an order of magnitude estimate when b
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Man hours have a direct impact in court cases. Therefore money is a thumb on the scales of justice.
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
I agree that there is a tremendous amount of dissonance in the ideas that executives deserve massive compensation and that they don't have much control over such gargantuan organizations. The way I resolve this dissonance is by not buy
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
The offerings of humongous multinational conglomerations are not coherent. You could generate stories of this type all day, because the offerings of the likes of Nestle, GE, J&J, P&G, Coca-Cola, et. al. are the results of the effort
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Care to explain why this would make a difference, or else what it's a reference to?
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
You're putting words in saulrh's mouth. saulrh didn't claim that the copy, once liberated from the DRM wasn't equivalent to the original, so you are injecting the inconsistency into the argument. But you are also being o
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
This is the idea of progressive overload that has been a core tenant of many weight training programs for a long time. It may be that body composition changes are primarily adaptive responses to stressers, rather than the typical simplified
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
> But do you think this is easier to do if you get less candidates This is one of my pet peeves. The number of applications you get has absolutely nothing to do with the number of candidates you should consider, because it has absolutely
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Those sort of riders are a sentinel to signal that the venue read the contract carefully, not diva behavior, as is commonly assumed. If they caught the brown M&M's thing, they probably got all the stuff about rigging safety, so you
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Salaries. Low in Oklahoma. High in San Francisco. Come back with the budget number in terms of median employee salary, and we might be able to start to compare the two.
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I'm not talking about hedging (like buying call options). I'm saying that oil price would be expected to be a potentially large part of the risk profile of the business, so it doesn't cut muster to just assume that the price
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I can't imagine a serious investor that doesn't consider oil price volatility when deciding whether or not to invest in an airplane company. You seem to be assuming that all of the investors are abjectly incompetent.
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
That's true but the article does mention how most of the things that impact price went in patio11's favor. One can reasonably infer that if the seller feels everything went in his favor at the end of the process that he wasn'
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
[Oops, see the correction at the bottom] Re: the common refrain that always pops up with these stories about how companies are "forced" to defend their trademarks lest they lose control of them The issue I have with this argument
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I don't think this is accurate. Piketty throws a big wrench in any assumptions which rely on increases in the average being disseminated widely throughout the economy. Economists have mostly made this assumption before Piketty, and the
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
We should be careful when talking about market characteristics of the market for college degrees, at least in the US. It is one of the markets that is most heavily skewed by government subsidies. The US approach to Government subsidies on t
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> Hypothetically, if I were, then as an employer I might be more interested in the guy who stuck it out working with the government at Apple. One of the principal drivers of the positive effect on career prospects is the publicity this s
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> engineers need not fall on their swords I would quibble with this characterization. Security engineers may well improve their employment prospects and professional visibility by publicly demonstrating that they are unwilling to do work
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
It's hard to tell whether this is a joke with a lot of truth, a genuine sideways takedown of the effort being reported in the article, a cynic's lament, or just a straightforward answer to the question of what would be the most he
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Excellent point. This is the fundamental issue with meme outrage. It almost always relies on assuming the complex incentive structure that leads to something existing in the world reduces to 'lazy idiots made it happen'. Looking f
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I don't agree with the complaint. I would be much happier if more companies actually tried on security, competed on that vector and then bragged to high heaven about their successes. Usually when you hear a company touting it's se
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Stepping out to a clearer source, Wikipedia[1] summarizes data from the World Bank and the CIA. I think the numbers that best reflect current China suggest a 12% (CIA at birth), 17% (CIA 15 or younger) or 19% (WB at birth) disparity dependi
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Well, but that's part of the issue, isn't it? The whole point of a trial is that, at least in theory, the two sides of the scale are balanced. If you remove the balance aspect, then you remove the purpose of having a trial in the
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> if the court does appoint an attorney, the attorney will need to explain these same concepts to the child as part of preparing a defense. There are lightears of space between doing your best to see that someone who can't defend th

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