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by swatow 12y ago
>I would first point out that the quote from my first reply, which discusses the benefits of small businesses on local economies, is taken from the FDIC 2012 Community Banking Study. The quote doesn't actually demonstrate that com
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> putting aside the debate over free market theory for the moment... But this is the central point, whether a person is interested in investing locally, or investing in small businesses. I already addressed the issue of investing local
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It's pretty clear that this is a misuse of tinder according to its current usage. In some alternate reality or future world when tinder explicitly condones this, then your point would be valid. I doubt tinder would consider this becau
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by swatow 12y ago
If the product costs/benefits are equal, why not buy non-local? It seems like your avoiding discussing the actual reason I gave for why local vs non-local is not a valid criterion for judging potential investment opportunities. In gen
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by swatow 12y ago
tl;dr > We created a Tinder profile using a picture of the woman who broke into our office. This seemed like the easiest way to get her face in front of a few thousand San Francisco residents. I was hoping for some ingenious use of tind
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by swatow 12y ago
While I guess it's good to provide people with information that they want, I disagree with the premise that Local banks and credit unions work within established localities and reinvest depositors' money into local businesses, fa
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by swatow 12y ago
In my experience (on HN and other places) economics orthodoxy is always unpopular. People like to believe "if only if weren't for X assholes, the world would be much better". Economics teaches that the assholes are us: the
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by swatow 12y ago
Probably because the tutorials for beginners reach the most number of people (because advanced users are more likely to self-learn or use documentation, and because advanced topics are often specialized). Therefore there is the most value
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by swatow 12y ago
Where does "one year" come into it? ROI means the total discounted future returns divided by total present investment. Talking about ROI is nothing to do with short vs long term thinking. ROI should always be taken to mean expec
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by swatow 12y ago
This is interesting because it's essentially the same security model as the web. Your app runs in a controlled environment, and it has the option to nest another app (on the web, in an iframe) which it can send messages to, but can&#x2
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perhaps off topic, but evfolds algorithm looks very close to estimating a Markov network. Can anyone comment on how their model differs from a Markov network, and how these differences arise? For reference, given some variables, a Markov n
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>When a person says we shouldn't send people to space, is that also an implicit claim they know the ROI to be insufficient? Obviously. My point is that having an opinion either way implies knowing the ROI is greater/less than
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by swatow 12y ago
When a person says that we should be sending humans into space, they are implicitly claiming to know the ROI, (at least that it is greater than some amount). I personally don't believe we should be doing human space exploration, becaus
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by swatow 12y ago
In the late 1990s, my parents divorced, and my mother took my brother and myself and had us go live in a very rural area of Australia with a psychopath who was wanted in 3 states. This was our new stepfather, so we were to remain in isolat
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by swatow 12y ago
Yes I am. I don't think they are a useful way to think about the world. One model in isolation can appear compelling, as some other posts in this thread indicate. But you can't view them in isolation, because all the model shows
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by swatow 12y ago
>The maths demonstrates the consequences of different distribution of attitudes. It demonstrates the consequences of a modeling different distributions of attitudes in a particular way. >What the model does demonstrate is that the set
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by swatow 12y ago
If the point is the story, what purpose does the model/simulation serve? In this case, the best that the model does is prove that the story is internally consistent. It doesn't prove that the story has any relationship to realit
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by swatow 12y ago
No I didn't. My point was that when you expand or change the model, you open up a whole new range of possibilities. I'm not particularly interested in how the model is parametrized or what parameters lead to what result.
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by swatow 12y ago
Mathematical models can be used to argue for a wide range of viewpoints. You could also write a model where people have different innate preferences over the lifestyle they want to lead, and so self-sorting is an unambiguously good thing. I
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by swatow 12y ago
Interesting that his views on race in America are now mainstream, while his views on Zionism are rarely voiced outside the far left or far right. It seems to me that his views are based on a consistent application of principals, while Amer
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Maybe mystic beliefs are over-represented among scientists. But all these quotes show is that some scientists have these beliefs and find their beliefs to be intimately connected with their scientific views. They are not "scientific q
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by swatow 12y ago
Suburbs also have specific connotations when it comes to race and class divides. Accurate or not, they are seen as promoting monoculture, relative to cities. I think a lot of discussion of suburbs vs cities, is influenced by these connota
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by swatow 12y ago
How familiar are you with Content Security Policy in browsers? It is designed precisely to protect user privacy. I don't know what you mean by 2. Do you mean that sandboxes can break? If so that seems like a very weak point. The br
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I think the case of JavaScript makes the ideology of the FSF very clear. To me, closed source source software running in a sandbox is not a problem. The problem arises when (a) binary blobs that might do literally anything with your machin
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by swatow 12y ago
it's nice to see an article that says "X isn't for everyone" in the field of text editors. While the author talked about emacs being "painful" to learn, they later rephrased in terms of a time investment. But