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by swatow 12y ago
Any idea what the typical wage for workers who get the tipped minimum wage is, after tips? I don't see a problem with the "NRA"'s position if those end up the same as others after tips.
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by swatow 12y ago
Err, please consider the context of this discussion, which is Peter Thiel's views on monopoly vs competition. From the article: > I argue that great companies succeed not by competing with everybody else but by differentiating them
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by swatow 12y ago
Interesting ideas, but the economics are bogus. Saying that successful companies avoid competition is like saying Joyce Gracie avoided competition in the early days of the UFC. Being so much better than you opponents that you beat then ea
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by swatow 12y ago
That was 13 years ago. Seems like the economics have changed in favor of the internet by now.
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by swatow 12y ago
Well that wasn't obvious to me, but you explained it well. As you say, it's as much about controlling the market for professional repairs as it is preventing DIYers. It reminds me of how much more expensive it was to get my car s
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by swatow 12y ago
As I said, statistical significance is a prima facie argument for the claim. If someone wants to dispute it, they need to show why the alleged statistical significance does not support the claim. The statistical significance trumps the sa
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by swatow 12y ago
The article claimed that the (original) article's conclusions about strenuous running were suspect because they were based on 2 deaths out of a sample of 40. But is that really the case? I get sick of hearing that "the sample siz
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by swatow 12y ago
I think the problem with this sort of thing is it doesn't capture the beauty and elegance of either Haskell or physics. Take the first line data Vec = Vec { xComp :: Double , yComp :: Double , zComp :: Double } The auth
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by swatow 12y ago
String theory was supposed to simplify everything by replacing all the vertex factors with the free space propagator for a string. But then it turned out that string theory wasn't that simple and actually made things even more complic
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by swatow 12y ago
I totally agree on your assessment of the weird politics around farmers. But I also thought that the article was a good illustration of the general issues around DRM. Sometimes it takes a compelling example to illustrate a general princip
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by swatow 12y ago
HN does strike a good balance between civility and diversity of opinion. Or at least they get a lot of one controlling for the other. I tend to post from a right wing perspective but only had one comment flag killed (where I pointed out t
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by swatow 12y ago
I think a lot of the US has progressed a lot since that book has written. But it may have relevance to some places such as Alabama or Israel [0]. [0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10717186
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by swatow 12y ago
And yet the difference between the strenuous and light joggers are significant (the light jogger mean is outside the strenuous jogger 95% confidence interval and vice versa).
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by swatow 12y ago
Ng's point is that babies don't need to be explicitly taught the concept of phonemes. They learn them from the intrinsic structure of the language (same with syntax). Training with text is roughly analogous with pointing at thin
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by swatow 12y ago
But the market funded companies like Google and Tesla, and continues to have faith in the profitability of both companies. Google's price earnings ratio is 25, Tesla's is 1207. You are trying to force a round into a square hole,
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by swatow 12y ago
The current batch of government sponsored technology seems different to me. With radar and transistor technology they were doing something that was fundamental (perhaps some hindsight bias here, but that's my opinion anyway). The new
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by swatow 12y ago
Ok you're probably right on the cost of the writeoff, and now I see your point on the size of the debts I agree with that too. Given this, the program isn't really that unique. For example, the US has a program to help out peopl
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by swatow 12y ago
Where are you getting your claims about the recovery rate on these debts? >Most here also do not note that the balances here are also, by design, small as well. Can you explain how you think that relates to this discussion? If the deb
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by swatow 12y ago
"Know your history" is a very high handed phrase. History is very complex and subjective, so implying that people who disagree with you are simply ignorant of some facts is almost never justified. And in general one should be as
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by swatow 12y ago
The economic gain of writing off this kind of debt has to be balanced against the moral hazard effect on future borrowers. Also, it's not clear that you are correct that this debt was largely written off. Certainly the banks didn&#x27
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by swatow 12y ago
Banks do take the loss via bankruptcy, or people just not repaying. If the banks had lobbied the government to repay these debts with taxpayer money, I would agree that this was trying to eat their cake and have it. But the government&#x2
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by swatow 12y ago
So let's get this straight: The author takes a single critique of Danish culture. Then asserts that this demonstrates that Danes can't be all that happy, and therefore concludes the Danes really just have low expectations. Then
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by swatow 12y ago
The Israeli military has been doing this for a while: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/... http://www.fastcompany.com/3003305/inside-israeli-militarys-...
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by swatow 12y ago
In my school, bullies even at the time justified picking on nerds by saying we were elitist and snobby. It really annoys me when people make unfair attacks against nerds or intellectuals, because it doesn't just hurt adults, it hurt
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by swatow 12y ago
To the person who doesn't share the progressive political viewpoint, the flood of stories about diversity in tech, always written from a pro diversity viewpoint, is itself a form of political activism to be resisted.
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by swatow 12y ago
But he wasn't talking about campus politics per se, but the college scene in general. The policing is not so vicious because the stakes are low, but because there is real doubt about whether people are "racist" or "sexis
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by swatow 12y ago
you are correct. There is a huge difference between the two and as you say only coq is able to express proofs in themselves and not just a coarse grained summary of their structure.
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by swatow 12y ago
I think the best analogy is that general equilibrium theory is a zeroth order approximation to reality, and optimal (Pigovian) tax theory is the first order approximation. You might think a priori that no simple model can tell us much abou
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by swatow 12y ago
ok so your point is that when technology creates long term downwards trends in the value of labor, anything that decreases the value of labor can be thought of as an externality? Redistribution can counteract this effect. If productivity i
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by swatow 12y ago
That's not what is meant by an externality in economics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

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