vertere

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by vertere 9y ago
The namespacing drives me nuts but it doesn't get mentioned very often in these kind of threads. How are people just ok with loading everything in the same namespace? You can use ::, but then that can have a ton of overhead.
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by vertere 9y ago
Not sure if it solves your problem but `source(file, chdir = TRUE)` can be useful.
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by vertere 9y ago
> Economic models, however, are themselves part of the economy. The ideas they are built on and their predictions become part of wider knowledge and influence the very thing the model is trying to predict or explain, possibly reinforcing
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by vertere 9y ago
> The capital/labor distinction is more productive, but since it is derived from marxism no one actually uses it. Capital and labour are very standard notions in economics (and go back at least to Adam Smith). https://en.
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by vertere 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
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by vertere 9y ago
Some 'enterprises' love doing that sort of thing. One project gets behind or fails and there are so many cascading problems.
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by vertere 9y ago
Ada Lovelace's Notes on the Analytical Engine or Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage; By L. F. MENABREA of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers; from the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, October, 1842, No
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by vertere 9y ago
> The only time avoiding the certificate entirely is when the signal it provides is negative. It is possible for the same action send a positive signal when done by some people and a negative signal when done by others. Specifically ther