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by tpeo 9y ago
Biased, maybe. But the sample sizes are pretty big, whether "bigness" refers either to absolute numbers or to being big enough such that whatever they're estimating will come pretty close to the true value of that variable fo
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by tpeo 9y ago
What if PPI users are more likely to have some other health issues compared to other patients due to some unobserved variable (e.g. lifestyle, strength of the physiological reaction to stress, genetic factors affecting both the likelihood o
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by tpeo 9y ago
The paper can be freely accessed at NBER ( http://www.nber.org/papers/w23552 ). There's no need to pay anything. Anyway, it's not really a presumptions question. Or at least, it wasn't supposed to be: the
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by tpeo 9y ago
Not really news. This has crossed the mind of just about anyone who has seen the Face2Face clips on YouTube. Could be interesting to see what will happen to big media conglomerates, though. The day that any form of media is regarded as reli
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by tpeo 9y ago
Sort of. If it steps anywhere near religion, it would be closer to theology - the idea that a complete mathematical description of reality is not merely possible but the foundation of reality echoes Plato's theory of forms, as well as
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by tpeo 9y ago
>[...] that our reality isn't just described by mathematics – it is mathematics, in a very specific sense. Not just aspects of it, but all of it, including you. Cue to Whitehead's "a series of footnotes to Plato" qu
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by tpeo 9y ago
So, I was sleepy and going off to bed when I made that comment and now I've realized that how massively I botched it. Major failure of communication on my part, sorry. But it's good that you mentioned the Hemingway article, becaus
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by tpeo 9y ago
It could be. The part of economics which deals with this stuff is the Optimum Currency Area Theory. Basically, if different regions respond differently to shocks, they might prefer to have different currencies. And apparently someone posted
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by tpeo 9y ago
I cannot be anything but skeptical here. Who's to say what Camus would have said if actually asked this questions? Can the dead be "reconstruted" from things said in different contexts, at different points in time? Certainly
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'm somewhat flattered that you think that the man on the street might count economics among the "sciences", because from my experience laymen are already pretty skeptic when it comes to economics. Psychology too, though to a
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by tpeo 9y ago
Terrible. I love it!
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by tpeo 9y ago
If the author wanted to pin something on the rich, I think he should've gone explicitly after think tanks instead. I don't think your run-of-the-mill celebrity intellectual living off book royalties, paid talks and columns has tha
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't understand. What's the relationship between one person's dating strategy and another person's dating strategy? What's about gays? Also, I don't see why, for instance, there wouldn't be something li
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by tpeo 9y ago
Truly, the romantic comedy for the late 2010s. Actually, could be a nice quirky film - and profitable too. Romcoms are cheap to shoot. We're past peak American-romantic-comedy (I think) so the whole "ugh, not another one" f
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by tpeo 9y ago
What I meant is that "economic" phenomena encompass a much wider range of phenomena you might be thinking of. It's the opposite of being restrictive: any problem at all where have something like an agent which has to choose s
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by tpeo 9y ago
Don't remember hearing an argument along those lines, but the world being "too connected" in 1914 would be only partially true, since the Great Powers were in frequent commercial competition among themselves.
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It certainly didn't come across like that to me, because to me as if he was talking about the economic spoils of war, not the financial spoils of war. And mind you, these are different things. So long as a group is able to fulfill it&#
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by tpeo 9y ago
>Limits the likelihood of Congress being dominated by rich white guys >There is no downside to this I guess that whoever wrote this piece didn't consider that it also increases the likelihood that some poor white guys whose polit
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by tpeo 9y ago
As a drinker, I think there's the issue of how those 14 drinks are distributed over the week. IMO 2 drinks a day is pretty doable, but 14 drinks every Friday night over 30 years sounds like a terrible idea.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Well, I'm disappointed that the majority of their flights are this short. I thought there were some of them which were permanent atmospheric weather stations. But short flight times don't really have to be the case, because it see
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by tpeo 9y ago
They are used to solve extended air time. That's what a weather balloon is. If what's bugging you is why lighter-than-air vehicles aren't used for commercial transportation, that's an entirely different issue.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I second true_religion's comment. "Some" here stands merely for an undefined non-zero quantity.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'd go further and say that as long as a person can keep the listener's attention, they won't sound like a douche. It's finding out all the confounding variables which makes them sound annoying (e.g. how close you'r
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by tpeo 9y ago
Might be mistaken for a humble-brag though.
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Frankly, accounting is so old that it might actually be true. Also, it depends on what is meant by "trade": individuals exchange goods between themselves in a free-form setting, like as in sharing a bite off each others' meal
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Well, I didn't explicitly take the time scale into account. Or rather, it was like I assumed it was arbitrarily small. But I wouldn't exclude possibility that someone would try to hammer through his own head that he enjoys a job w
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by tpeo 9y ago
Well, given enough effort, a person actually passionate about his work is indistinguishable from a person just faking it, which is also indistinguishable from a person who just does whatever - but for whatever reason is curious enough to tr
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by tpeo 9y ago
Is that really a fitting metaphor, though? Because the Eye of Sauron never stopped anyone from going into Mordor or from going on with their own business. It just looked ominious. Whereas HN submissions actually crash the websites they&#x27
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by tpeo 9y ago
Reading the word "pseudo-problems" sets me off to a rough start. But calling problems stupid merely because they're unsolvable is a mortal sin, specially if there's a non-trivial reason why we cannot mathematically go
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by tpeo 9y ago
>We should not be employing people in jobs that can be automated. We should try and automate everything. Suppose that automation can be automated. Not that implausible, really. Will we just sit in a corner waiting through eternity on the

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