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by tpeo 9y ago
The impact of colonialism is studied under the institutionalist approach to growth theory, with the two most proeminent recent authors being Acemoglu and Robinson. The submission doesn't elaborate on it, but the literature is out there
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by tpeo 9y ago
Oddly, how I feel towards the expression "human resources" is more like what you feel towards "human capital", because human capital is merely attached to the workers but doesn't fully constitute them, and it only e
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by tpeo 9y ago
>Linux distros are ugly and the people making them have no taste. Of all possible complaints about Linux, you've picked this one? Come on.
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by tpeo 9y ago
This doesn't have anything to do with Marxism. The notion that people might have ulterior motives is as old as the hills. The actual Karl Marx, on the other hand, didn't think that people's beliefs were determined by their so
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by tpeo 9y ago
But it is exactly what you said. "Human capital" was conceived in analogy with physical capital as the stock of knowledge and technical ability embodied in human workers which can be used to produce wealth. What else you wanted it
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by tpeo 9y ago
Sounds like Berkeley's version of idealism.
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by tpeo 9y ago
This definition bothers me immensely, because it can tempt people to make argumenta ad lapidem against idealism. Yet "idealist" philosophers can superficially fit the criterion of "believing that reality is mentally constru
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by tpeo 9y ago
What? How do you "optimize" reality?
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by tpeo 9y ago
Of the things he listed, the technical change parameter only represents productivity. Though he does wander quite a bit, I don't know what's particularly obscure about trade. You should cut the guy some slack.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Is "resilience" really the word for what's on your mind? As far as I understand, "resilience" is the ability to recover from loss. But if electricity is rare enough to be treated as a gift rather than a given, shoul
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by tpeo 9y ago
I feel uneasy when I see people suggesting regulation by analogy e.g. with public utility regulation, as if laws regulating one sector could be transplanted onto another. Regulation must be properly thought through. But people seem to be ru
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by tpeo 9y ago
Yeah, lots of people saw this coming light-years away. People really should stop ignoring the TOS.
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Besides being an issue of freedom of expression, couldn't this be construed as a form of damage? I mean, part of a journalist's trade is to reach out as many people as they possibly can. Taking stuff down goes in the opposite dire
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by tpeo 9y ago
Nor does repetition make it any less true. Also, that's a misattributed quote [0]. [0] : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't think would be a problem of armchair analysis. Rather, it would be an issue of trying to fit the wrong distribution to the data. Granted, not having even a peek at the data would increase the likelihood that the distribution so
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by tpeo 9y ago
And so the old tale of the internet tough guy repeats itself. Again.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't see see anything which would intuitively suggest that some degree of uncertainty regarding a worker's output would make per-piece payments preferable to a fixed wage in the eyes of the firm. There's such a thing as an
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'd suggest you don't. Gibbs' attempt at deciphering the Voynich manuscript wasn't bad simply on the account of it's premises, but because it was something lazily slapped together without much further thought. But a
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by tpeo 9y ago
The improved accuracy is all due to the increased guess variance between groups, right? If so, it isn't an unintuitive result. I feel as if the authors cheated a little bit in the abstract when they wrote that their findings go against
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why the quotes?
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by tpeo 9y ago
This reads more like a bag of complaints against Google and Facebook rather than a case for how the current trends in technology might be actually threatening individuality.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Unfortunately, none of these things have that subtlety of terrible designs which makes them so insidious.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Where's the instinct towards doing nothing and minding your own business? I feel left out.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Frankly, I've held the opinion that elections don't matter for so long that I don't see what's controversial about it.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Given that the pact is self-enforced, it would simply be broken when it becomes undesirable.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'm curious. What are you calling a "commodity"?
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think that how much a country is "feeding the world" would be more properly measured in metric tons, rather than dollars. So saying that the Netherlands are "feeding the world" on account of the total value of their ag
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by tpeo 9y ago
I dislike how this makes the suggestion that the issue is that chatbots are "emontionless" instead of just terrible. I'm looking for something that will solve my problem, not something that will pat me in the back and ask if
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by tpeo 9y ago
You can name that character after his chief trait. It could be "John Slow", "Lazy Daisy", "Tardy Hardy", "Hagar, the Laggard" or whatever else you might think of. Or even literally name them after the
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by tpeo 9y ago
The solution to both problems is the same.

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