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Trump, Russia, and fake news: How bullshit conquered the world(vox.com)
10 points by viburnum 6y ago|3 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
Not sure the labor theory of value is a legal argument, but it would set quite the precedent.
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On Cryptocurrencies (2018)(jwmason.org)
33 points by viburnum 6y ago|59 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
Yeah, it's crazy, Hamilton is obviously amazing. He's clobbered his teammates his entire career. He was so good his in his rookie season that Alonso, himself one of the greats, quit Mclaren rather than be the number two driver!
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by viburnum 6y ago
This worked for me. You don't hear about it much because they're nothing to sell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjDBOJfMfY
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by viburnum 6y ago
Auction theory is excellent at predicting how other economists also using auction theory will behave.
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New Zealand just stamped out its third Covid-19 outbreak(stuff.co.nz)
7 points by viburnum 6y ago|1 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
What I've never understood is how you're going to get a car to understand a construction worker or cop doing hand signals without artificial general intelligence. Why even bother with the car until you've figured that out in
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The Lucas Plan(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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Mike Cooley Obituary(theguardian.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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The Financial Infrastructure of Corruption(the-american-interest.com)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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Why the Film Industry Is Booming in the Russian Wilderness(time.com)
4 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
It's been a long time but I remember one explanation of the value premium was value stocks are more likely to get wiped out in a crisis (no free lunch). Another was that high commission costs would have eaten up all the gains in actual
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How Cities Could Push Back on Pickups and SUVs(bloomberg.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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What I didn’t understand was how much it would cost to live(luke.substack.com)
4 points by viburnum 6y ago|4 comments
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Archie McPhee hit with even weirder PayPal problem, foiling Tardigrade sales(geekwire.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
Telling myself I only have to do it for five minutes and then I can quit is usually enough to get me started. Never actually have to quit. Another approach is to take three steps back and think about how to change your life so these tasks a
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Macroeconomic Inequality Review(ineteconomics.org)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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3.5 °C in 2100? [pdf](peri.umass.edu)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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Astra Taylor on the End of the University(newrepublic.com)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
A friend works for Microsoft in the Netherlands and apparently the way it works there is everybody can dial their working hours up or down as they see fit. When he had a newborn he worked 70%, then 80%, then 90%. Averaging a half day once a
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Solitary Citizens: The Politics of Loneliness(theguardian.com)
3 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
It was React/GraphQL/Apollo that broke me. I liked it better when just knowing ruby and sql were good enough. Those jobs are still out there but they’re getting harder to find.
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by viburnum 6y ago
I had three false starts with Fagles but just tore through Wilson’s translation. Her introduction is really good, too. A fun postscript is Atwood’s “The Penelopiad.” It’s short and really entertaining. “Let me add that meat was highly value
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by viburnum 6y ago
Finland’s successful education reforms are especially interesting because they went from below-average to the top. They did it without gimmicks, just continuous improvement and sustained attention and investment.
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Date Formatting Errors in OAS Analysis of Bolivia’s 2019 Elections(cepr.net)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
I remember that article too! Can’t believe it was 17 years ago.
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by viburnum 6y ago
This article doesn’t know it but it’s explaining to middle-class people what being poor is like.
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by viburnum 6y ago
I loved the technical book store too but it was always too good to be true. It was fun while it lasted.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Some OUP books look like they were printed on a laser printer from 1988 now. I think they’re doing print-on-demand for some titles. You expect better for a $40 paperback.

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