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by vitaminj 17y ago
Will you remove some of the obvious fake outliers from the data set? eg. Line 338 on the .csv file is a 99 year old female self-employed, pre-high schooler with 10+ kids working 140 hours per week and earning $1M per year. Sounds a little s
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by vitaminj 17y ago
If you go to the bank and deposit $20, you are entitled to get your $20 from the bank. If you fulfill your half of a contract, you are entitled to the other party’s performance. Well, if you enter into a verbal agreement with someone, you
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by vitaminj 17y ago
The government thinks they'll receive $990M at $50/oz in tax revenue. That means they've projected to sell 19.8 million ounces, which is equivalent to about 561 metric tonnes. That's a lot of weed... EDIT: from http://www.canorml.org/backg
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by vitaminj 17y ago
Laos
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by vitaminj 17y ago
Slightly off the beaten track - I'm currently in a small developing country in Southeast Asia working on renewable energy projects for rural villages. I've been here for 4 months and am absolutely loving it... it's actually a satisfying use
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by vitaminj 17y ago
For those that can't be bothered going through the photo slideshow, here they are: Engineer Nurse Skilled Trades Teacher Sales Representative Technician Truck Driver Information Technology Staff Laborer Machinist or Machine Operator
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by vitaminj 17y ago
I'm not a Krugman apologist, and can't bear to read his NYT columns, but he does actually have academic credibility ( even though it is from work he did a fair while ago). This is a good analysis of Krugman's contributions to international
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by vitaminj 17y ago
I was rather underwhelmed by this book, which has somewhat blunt policy prescriptions (eg. stop accepting foreign aid, take chinese money, issue bonds, etc) for what probably deserves a more nuanced and considered approach. I think Shanta D
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by vitaminj 17y ago
I've got a maple custom absolute and I think it's pretty sweet, but that PHX looks sick... how new is that?
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by vitaminj 17y ago
I don't think I've ever met anyone with a consistent perspective on everything (me included). People will accept contradictory premises, especially across different fields, all the time.
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by vitaminj 17y ago
To be fair to the kid, he does state that the value is in 2008 dollars. But 27 years on the same real wage is still a stretch.
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by vitaminj 18y ago
I've got nothing against her philosophy in the abstract, it's how people interpret it that I have a problem with. The "selfishness" in living for yourself is supposed to be open ended, but often people interpret this as taking as much as th
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Virus battery could power cars(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by vitaminj 18y ago|0 comments
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Viral web campaign turns homeless man into wealthiest bum in US(theage.com.au)
2 points by vitaminj 18y ago|0 comments
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Wind powered car breaks speed record(news.bbc.co.uk)
9 points by vitaminj 18y ago|1 comments
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by vitaminj 18y ago
Economists (eg. Wolfers, Stevenson, Lundberg, Becker, etc) have been looking into the effects of no-fault divorce laws on the rate of divorces for quite a while now (refer to [1] for example). Their general findings are that "the data broad
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Twitter: the new way to find a job(theage.com.au)
6 points by vitaminj 18y ago|0 comments
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"Super fast" game download launch(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by vitaminj 18y ago|6 comments
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by vitaminj 18y ago
There's only a paradox if you look at self-education from a vocational / market perspective. I'd imagine most auto-didacts learn purely for the sake of curiosity and the sheer joy of it (eg. it feels good to play music well, even if only to
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by vitaminj 18y ago
Also tangentially related, Rockets GM Daryl Morey is often referred to as "Moneyball Morey" by the basketball press.
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by vitaminj 18y ago
Some economists have proposed imposing a tax on cash holdings, which would theoretically push nominal interest rates negative... this would really give people an incentive to hold assets instead of cash. http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/2008/
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by vitaminj 18y ago
Some economists have proposed imposing a tax on cash holdings, which would theoretically push nominal interest rates negative... this would really give people an incentive to hold assets instead of cash.
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by vitaminj 18y ago
As far as HBS articles go, I thought this one was pretty good. If you've ever tried to push a new idea onto a group of disinterested people, you'll know that you'll generally get apathy or pushback, no matter how much you extol the virtues
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Explore the Ocean in new Google Earth(earth.google.com)
3 points by vitaminj 18y ago|1 comments
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by vitaminj 18y ago
I'm not entirely sure why a god (or gods) would ever want the people to have a warship. Unless it's used to fight off other warships from competing gods. In which case warship possession is a plausible want for a god.
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by vitaminj 18y ago
There seems to be a preponderance of these types of tenuous studies in social science. Somewhere, I'm certain there is a procedure for generic, shifty research that looks something like this: 1. Think up a hypothesis steeped in your own pre
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by vitaminj 18y ago
Woodrow Wilson was basically arguing the same point in 1909: “We want one class of persons to have a liberal education. We want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privileges of a liberal education
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by vitaminj 18y ago
Yeah I thought this article was from the Onion.
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by vitaminj 18y ago
A little off topic, but I've always felt that physical labour is undervalued in our society. I did some work for a removalist and that was alot harder (and probably more satisfying) than my better-paid office job. My perfect job would invol
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by vitaminj 18y ago
It may be just me, but I was continually irked by the thread's subject line: "So… Why’d you left, guys? I mean, seriously." I mean, seriously, it doesn't even make sensed!

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