socrates1998

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by socrates1998 13y ago
The irony that banks take a stand against these small time shop owners is ridiculous, they are all guilty of laundering billions of dollars. I can see smaller credit unions being genuinely concerned, but big banks? Really? It allows them to
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by socrates1998 13y ago
Interesting read, but about half-way through I realized he could be manipulating me into thinking he was decent person, just misunderstood. Anyways, it is scary to realize that there are lots of powerful people out there like this. Actually
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by socrates1998 13y ago
I too, enjoy the position in history I was raised in. Old enough to remember memorizing phone numbers and having a list in my teenage wallet of all the girls (and friends) I knew. Remembering how things were before cell phones and facebook
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by socrates1998 13y ago
I read this article a few days ago. It's a very interesting read, one that made me rethink some of my online habits. It is somewhat misleading because the guy who did this isn't in jail or even in trouble, he just stopped posting
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by socrates1998 13y ago
> And of course economics==financial economics. Yes, because of the huge influence of the leading economists have on the world today. Economics, in general, is plagued by poor research, poor results, and bad logic. They help shape fiscal
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by socrates1998 13y ago
Economists, not economics. The current people who are the "top economists" in the world, are, generally, ill-fit to their jobs. Their abilities to assess risk are horrible. They are making the world a more dangerous place, not saf
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by socrates1998 13y ago
You are falling into the curve fitting trap that is epidemic in economics. This is typically what economic "scientists" do, they find a formula that fits a lot of past data, then they publish it as science. If they actually used i
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by socrates1998 13y ago
Thank you, this award is really a joke. Economists, generally, don't use their models in the real world. And when they do, they lose billions of dollars. See Myron Scholes. He did it twice. Because his "science" was flawed.
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by socrates1998 13y ago
My problem with economists is they call themselves scientists, yet have very little actual "science". Science means, reproducible, testable and predictable ideas. Economists use curve fitting formulas on past data, then call it sc
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by socrates1998 13y ago
This is a joke. It's not a Nobel Prize. It's a propaganda award given to promote economics. I have a question, how many "Nobel Prize" winning economists does it take to lose billions of dollars in a hedge fund? The ans
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by socrates1998 13y ago
Protecting prosecutors is just like protecting police officers that plant evidence. The power relationship between the government and the people is horribly skewed towards the government. This is just another piece of the puzzle. As soon as
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by socrates1998 13y ago
The reason a lot of people think this story is true is because our government wastes a lot of money, so it seems believable.
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by socrates1998 13y ago
I never liked the keyboard, but for a while, it was the best thing around. Blackberry was dead when they didn't recognize the iPhone's impact. They could have easily have developed something to compete with it, while still having
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by socrates1998 13y ago
I coached high school football and I have always thought the high emphasis on sports in American education is a bit strange. Does that mean it is bad? No, I don't think so. Last year, the high school I coached at had to raise about $
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by socrates1998 13y ago
As a former teacher of ten years, I completely agree that school is a waste of time, money and resources. School is a baby sitting service that doubles as an "education". The whole system is flawed. No one wants to be there. The
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by socrates1998 13y ago
It sounds good, but players have already had a program in place to help them. This app might help a little, but I don't think it will solve the problem. And they can afford taxis and car services. Football players have this "I can
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by socrates1998 13y ago
This is crazy. I have traveled a lot and I have never even been close to having any of those things happening to me. I hope this gets published and circulated widely because women need to realize how dangerous traveling can be. I have know
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by socrates1998 13y ago
Yeah, it sucks to be fired. But, if you were worth more to your company than you are being paid, then they wouldn't have fired you. This is tough to hear, but it is the truth. Some might say that the company was wrong, and that may be
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by socrates1998 13y ago
I know a lot of programmers are focused on being efficient and trying to maximize productivity. But, it isn't nearly as cut and dry as you think it is. Yes, you should be concerned if you aren't getting your work done, but this se
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by socrates1998 13y ago
I am not 100% sure, but this could have a lot to do with the Asian currency crisis of the 1990's. Thailand might be more sensitive to currency issues than other countries. They were told to float their currency on the international mar
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by socrates1998 13y ago
This all a bunch of newspeak. "People who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither."
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by socrates1998 13y ago
> Oh, you're so awesome it hurts? Sorry to hear about your rich people problems. Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking. It's the humble brag. He talks about ambition like everyone thinks it's great. I don't k
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by socrates1998 14y ago
If you are fired for something you said outside of work that doesn't really affect your job, it means you weren't very valuable to the company. This is my criteria for understanding if I actually worth something to my company/organization/t
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by socrates1998 14y ago
Wow, speechless.
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by socrates1998 14y ago
I first realized this concept on much simpler level. In college, my older friend and I were slowing waking up after a very successful party. There was one beer left. And I said, "That would perfect if we had zero beer left". He replied, "No
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by socrates1998 15y ago
I am a football coach, and while this article seems logical. I believe there are too many variables, like stock trading. And even if you could write a program to identify all useful variables, coaches will often evaluate themselves for tend