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by tpeo 9y ago
Argument from redundancy? Nice.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Actually, I think the opposite might happen. If click-bait works by obfuscating the real headline of the article, then readers might choose not to click on a link due to uncertainty aversion. To put it simply, if click-bait works when you d
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why not both?
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by tpeo 9y ago
It's not like all vomit tastes the same either, but that's something that people somehow fail to take into account unless they've been on a couple of benders.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think people forget that, if by a "smile" we mean any showing of teeth, not all of them are created equal. And the impression they convey can radically change depending on facial expression. Some do look stupid, or dishonest.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Funny thing how the invention of plastics might reverse the pattern of future artifacts. Valuable/costly artifacts are currently over-presented, since they were made either of stone or metal, as opposed to mud and wood.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I've mentioned strings, and so did you now. What I don't understand is what's supposed to be uniquely puzzling about strings. Maybe I'm under the influence of the submission, because the guy said he had an allergy for no
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by tpeo 9y ago
How is this issue unique to strings? Nobody can look at a random graph and know what it stands for either. Otherwise there would be no need for labeled axes. You still need to explain what is it that we're looking at This isn't to
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by tpeo 9y ago
Personally, I'm grateful that it isn't a comic. Between some stick figures plus a diagram and just the plain diagram, I'll take the latter. Comics might help writers order their thoughts because due to the constrained and seq
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by tpeo 9y ago
Being bullied for this? Really?
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by tpeo 9y ago
Not all artifacts are religious in nature, neither are they always assumed to be such. I think no one would assume a bust of Cicero or some random mosaic is a religious artifact. But I sort of agree with the feeling, because it seems like i
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think "treasure hunter" is more likely to conjure the image of someone who'd pawn off an artifact to someone else. Like the people who busted into Egyptian tombs over the centuries.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Archeologists hate him! No really, they probably do. Archeologists have a love-hate relationship with laymen who hit upon artifacts. On one hand, a find is a find, and local communities can often point out likely archeological sites. On the
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by tpeo 9y ago
In all likelihood, this article is meant for people who don't worry/don't need to know about data storage.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I didn't say they were. They aren't, that's the issue. A college degree overshoots the level of qualification necessary for a general skills job and comes short of the qualification necessary for a specialized position. Also,
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by tpeo 9y ago
Conceivably, a system of tests or certifications could be used as a reliable signal of competence. Just make a candidate go through a battery of exams. The issue is that firms most likely wouldn't have any interest in doing this and an
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by tpeo 9y ago
You know, that's a problem too. I mean, I take that 90% of jobs aren't specialized positions. Once you need a college degree for a position that only requires general skills, or in which the employee can do just fine on-the-job tr
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by tpeo 9y ago
The Phillips Curve, at least in it's older formulations, was just a description of a certain regularity in the data. So it isn't a "theoretical" link, strictly speaking.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Besides all that, I'd add that the unemployment rate is an aggregate measure. There's no guarantee that the unemployment rate for arbitrary subsets of the population (e.g. college graduates) is the same as the aggregate unemployme
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by tpeo 9y ago
"Incomplete" in what sense? In the sense that our description of the world always seems to fall short of what it's trying describe? Or in the Gödelian sense of some theorems not being provable in finitely many steps in some p
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by tpeo 9y ago
Missing out on things you think you know, for whatever reason, is a thing. So we sometimes end up surprised even when traveling through well trodden paths.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Imagine that we want to travel between two points in a rugged landscape. By the very nature of the problem, we have infinitely many ways to do this. However, once we start imposing certain constraints e.g. that we should always prefer the p
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by tpeo 9y ago
Whether the persona they show is more or less like their true self depends on what you consider their "true self" to be. If you look at any sort of school of thought which embraced asceticism, you'll find people that, because
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by tpeo 9y ago
He probably did as well as he could given his risk preferences and overall level of, uh, insanity, for the lack of a better word. By "insanity" I mean that which allows a person to do something like always doubling down on success
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by tpeo 9y ago
You mean "obedience" in general or "obedience to the current Chinese government"?
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by tpeo 9y ago
I know about two of those people, but I attribute their change of heart more to a passing fad.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Yeah, I see it now. But then it ceases to be an issue of direct competition between high end cameras and smartphones and becomes an issue of shrinking economies of scale and scope e.g. raw material orders become smaller and lose previous su
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by tpeo 9y ago
What market? Smartphones and high end cameras aren't really comparable. They compete in the sense that they're both able to take pictures, but they don't compete across all possible dimensions. I mean, I could be wrong, but t
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why would they try to compete with smartphones? Dropping product differentiation when the competition comes from "a whole different market" doesn't really make sense. This seems more like an issue of quality control.
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by tpeo 9y ago
It's entirely possible that two people might not come to a unique solution to a problem, but whether or not they'll "disagree" over it requires the additional hypothesis that they'll pick some "solution" a

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