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by ulucs 6y ago
Someone not letting their wife out because burqua is banned is outright abuse, and should be dealt with that way. It isn't even a common piece of clothing in the majority of muslim countries. (+1 point to horseshoe theory: apparently i
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by ulucs 6y ago
Point is, islam was a progressive religion. But many countries took it in as a regressive one since they were also taking in customs from the culture which islam was supposed to progress. Which totally misses the point. You shouldn't
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by ulucs 6y ago
Optimal auctions, and mechanism design in general (ie screening problems) is a very useful application of game theory. But caution: game theory is not about winning games, but finding equilibria. You might be more interested in behavioral g
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by ulucs 6y ago
How old was Danearys at the start?
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by ulucs 6y ago
But that's factored in EUT anyway: you simplify the compound lottery and it turns out you have a huge probability of hitting zero. You might ask whether people will take the bet, and that's where the utility comes in. Enough ris
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by ulucs 6y ago
Burqua isn't islamic to begin with anyway.
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by ulucs 6y ago
> In traditional economics a rational actor will make decisions that maximize the SUM of the 1,000,000 rational actors money ??? Have you not heard of competitive equilibria at all? Is game theory outside of the realm of traditional econ
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by ulucs 6y ago
> # ... so they should end up with ~1.2e1000 at the end... Who has ever claimed this? Also, people end up with zero because you are doing integer division in your code (ie the simplified expected return is wrong). Here are my results wit
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by ulucs 6y ago
It still makes for a great incentive to label any deaths they couldn't prevent a Covid death.
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by ulucs 6y ago
Since you have a throwaway account, why not name and shame? At worst, it would give some information any student who was thinking about applying to your department. Lab sciences tend to have accepted "the way things" go: your advi
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by ulucs 6y ago
Js doesn't really care about types, and doesn't seem to convert a string "true" into a boolean true: > temp0.innerHTML = true // no error > "true" == true false > true == &q
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by ulucs 6y ago
> most sales for such games happen in the first few weeks of release, and people forget about them after 10-20 hours of play time. Hot take: I support piracy because it hurts the firms I want it to hurt. The market would be much better i
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by ulucs 6y ago
Okay, I'm stumped. Isn't the gaussian function a probability density function, which means it should have an area of 1 by definition? Are you taking it as f(x) = exp(-x^2)? To keep f(0) equal to 1?
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by ulucs 6y ago
>Economics is not a science because nobody ever does controlled experiments. Now that's provably wrong, and outs you for not knowing anything about the literature.
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by ulucs 6y ago
It's really clear cut. Just check the annotations: it clearly writes nega.
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by ulucs 6y ago
I think frowning upon physical contact is a British custom that spread far because of all the imperialism. It's really weird how people avoid close contact, something a human body needs.
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by ulucs 6y ago
1 and 2 have the same answer: it's signaling. Going to college has enough discriminatory power between good and bad workers, and it's also cheap enough for the good workers to buy (behaviorally speaking, it's almost free in U
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by ulucs 6y ago
Nothing that ultimate bypass/redirector can't solve, assuming the target url is somewhere in the GET data
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by ulucs 6y ago
short answer: signaling has enough power to stop freelancers from competing on price until zero
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by ulucs 6y ago
It's like reading a Politico fact check on a democrat.
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by ulucs 6y ago
Last time I checked, there were six parties in my country's general assembly. Also in my country, in your situation two parties would have to form a coalition to form a government as none of them would have the necessary majority in th
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by ulucs 6y ago
On the contrary, not refilming Mulan would have saved Disney quite a bit of money and some respect from the fans of the original movie.
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by ulucs 6y ago
Concentration camps in China are apparently fine, but god forbid if someone makes an "edgy" joke.
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by ulucs 6y ago
It's a two party system because everyone in US tries their hardest to keep it a two party system. Every election is the most important one ever, so there are "no options". Instead of this, you can stop acting myopic towards e
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by ulucs 6y ago
Yeah, the paper which lead to war in Iraq vs some blogger with at most 10,000 reach. That's clearly a fair comparison
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by ulucs 6y ago
Excel is an amazing piece of software if you are disciplined enough to use it well. Hell, I've even solved some Advent of Code problems on it: it's really powerful when you enable iterative calculation
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by ulucs 6y ago
Adults just want their children out from home so they can "work in peace". No-one really cares about what the want: not the parents, not the schools, and definitely not the the board of education
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by ulucs 6y ago
Anti-maskers mostly don't acknowledge COVID as a risk. Valve-wearers do acknowledge that COVID is a risk, but choose to disregard others' health anyway. One is dumb, but the other is malicious.
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by ulucs 6y ago
Thankfully they are not valved, people who wear valved masks are worse than anti-maskers.
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by ulucs 6y ago
Another way to frame this for library developers: adding parameters is a breaking change in javascript, and it should be noted in changelogs as such.

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