thmcmahon

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by thmcmahon 13y ago
The pre-war southern economy was an agricultural economy made possible by slave labor. From Wikipedia, but any research will back this up: While about a third of Southern families were slave owners, most were independent yeoman farmers. Nev
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by thmcmahon 13y ago
Ridiculous to include PNG.
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Code Keyboard Hands On(youtube.com)
1 points by thmcmahon 13y ago|0 comments
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
It's not convenient in Australia to have packages delivered, if you're not there when they're delivered then they generally end up either at the Post Office or at some random courier's warehouse in an out of the way part of town.
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
I don't think the presence of political parties would be a significant cause. Australia has a strong two-party system and we're ranked seventh. New Zealand has an essentially two party system and they're ranked first.
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Yeah I was thinking of macro in my comments. I'm currently doing an MPP in economic policy (I'm a policy public servant). The great thing about the course is that it's multidisciplinary - we do look at economics, but it keeps coming back to
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
I think part of your problem was that PhD economics programs are so narrow, and this is part of the problem with economics generally. It has ignored too much of what is occurring outside its discipline, and turned in on itself and neat mode
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A new apparel start-up makes the greatest hoodie ever known to man(slate.com)
5 points by thmcmahon 14y ago|1 comments
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Nope I did too.
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
I think that might have other less desirable connotations.
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Josh Gans provides a good summary on Roth and Shapley over at Core Economics http://economics.com.au/?p=9423
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Why is that a problem?
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Forget your fancy data science try overkill analytics(gigaom.com)
4 points by thmcmahon 14y ago|0 comments
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Working in IE8 here.
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
The problem with this line of argument is that it is anecdotal. Yes, it’s great that this guy has gone on to earn a lot of money, but that result is not typical. This is the data from Australia: Over the working lifetime of a university gra
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Wes - I think that the reason I would keep using R over pandas is all the packages in the R universe. Which I suppose is the reason why you would use pandas over R if you had more experience with python. E.g. ggplot2 still seems to be quite
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Essentially what you're saying is that you understand it; therefore it's simple to understand. Obviously GitHub believe there are people who will benefit from using Git who can't be bothered understanding setting up ssh. Seems reasonable to
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Should Assange win it would not make him part of the government. Senators are only part of the Government if their party is in power. I'm not sure what the legal issues surrounding extradition of a senator would be though. Assange's main po
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by thmcmahon 14y ago
Just call Amazon - I broke mine by dropping it (completely my fault) and they replaced it within a week.
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
You think it's beyond the scope of government to be assisting low-skilled people to gain skills and employment in quality jobs in industries with a future? I don't. By all means reduce regulation to encourage job growth, but there's more th
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
It's also constant. Every single time someone tweets/blogs/talks about Codecademy they say Code Academy. It's inevitably followed by "actually it's Codecademy". It's a distraction from what otherwise seems to be a great idea.
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
Works OK for countries with parliamentary democracies.
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
Where are we losing it to? And if we need it again won't there be an incentive for it to come back? Australia doesn't have to be good at everything.
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
I agree that Australia shouldn't become complacent, and I agree that housing is historically highly priced in Australia, I just don't agree that we are looking at a catastrophic bubble. Ireland and Australias' levels of net migration aren't
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
Negligible Government support for industries that are not sustainable is a good thing .
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
Yes Australia has a higher cost of living than the United States, and recent high commodity prices have pushed up our exchange rate. However, if you are comparing prices across currency, then a lot of what you are seeing is due to a higher
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
In Australia we have a temporary employer sponsored skilled visa (the 457 visa). Median processing times for this visa are 21 days. It is valid for 4 years, you can be sponsored for a permanent visa after 2 years.
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
I wouldn't worry about your Kindle's screen. I broke mine, and Amazon replaced it, even though it was completely my fault. Although I agree about a Kindle and pictures.
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
Having done the db-class here's my experience of how things worked. Although I understand it's different from class to class. Course is like a typical Uni course. Lectures, readings, tests and exams. I received an email a week before the cl
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by thmcmahon 15y ago
Prof. Widom said that if she were to run the class again, it would be at the same time next year, because thats when she runs it at Stanford.

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