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by wjnc 8y ago
It's a site where we browse published stories and then go at length having meaningful discussions. The pinnacle of social media.
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by wjnc 8y ago
I totally agree. But keep in mind the effect "doing the right thing" has on the effect to be estimated. I venture it will not change the gist of the story. Heck, I should contact the author and build a shiny app to demonstrate. Ev
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by wjnc 8y ago
Well it might be. They also include a casualty from NL at face value, while casualties are MUCH rarer here. I agree with the need for discounting of a Chinese casualty, but it's quite common practice to try to get more data points. Tha
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by wjnc 8y ago
So please explain. It's quite a long story but with some good finds (data quality problems, obfuscated reporting, probability of much higher casualty rate). I wonder what your statistical rigour makes of this.
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by wjnc 8y ago
The is some space between always a command and control mechanism and not always a central monitor. There are cells that communicate / coordinate via hormones. So you get coordinated behaviour via stimulus / reponse.
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Because infancy-related deaths have clearly declined most in recent decades and excluding them by some arbitrary cut-off still is reasonable methodologically? A graph would have been better.
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by wjnc 8y ago
What a story. But it's not insurance that's bad, it's (local) insurers. In the Netherlands for international coverage there are two main support companies covering all insurers that provide help while abroad. That help is pre
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by wjnc 8y ago
The concept of social impact bonds is not used often enough, but not new [1]. I first read about them about a decade ago, tried to get some politicians and civil servants engaged but alas. And then in 2017 my firm, regular profit-seeking li
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jacquesm is known to give pretty exhaustive answers ;) I knew it wasn't an easy question, but the article seemed to indicate that at least some parties do indiscriminate blocking which struck me as rather dumb. Hence the question.
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An underlying question I have: Is it useful to trust IP-addresses on their range / owner / (distant) past behavior?
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by wjnc 8y ago
I don't re-read. But the other posts in this thread conjure up many, many good memories of awesome books. I always feel there is another classic just on the horizon. So why re-read if you can expand. Time with 3 kids and work is limite
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by wjnc 8y ago
Since nobody's answering. Amazon is demonstrating a possible further branching into the augmented speaker market, and demonstrating a quality build that suggests improvements still to come - that is a great threat to any incumbent (can
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The simpler explanation, with a grounding in marketing and cognitive science: we basically train ourselves to ignore ads. If successful our active brain doesn't register, while our passive brain might. Have we recently activated subjec
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by wjnc 8y ago
A company's value is still the present value of expected future cash flows to investors, right? For 2 billion and 15 yrs horizon, that's about 130 million in dividends a year. Profits still a bit higher to account for capital need
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by wjnc 8y ago
Those would be the all caps rooms (COBOL, FORTAN, LISP).
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by wjnc 8y ago
My favorite course ever had the same structure. It was an elective, with only about 15 3d and 4th year students. Those not up for the reading dropped out. We covered about 20 high quality economic papers in 6 months, quite impressive for a
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by wjnc 8y ago
The thing is... morality is a lot more fluid in the years < 20. Doesn't absolve him from responsibility, but the protagonist was hacking Xbox code at 10 and was into serious stuff long before being an adult. If someone, anyone would
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by wjnc 8y ago
The part of being ethical in business outside the legalise still holds? I would agree with your point of professional contracting: contract for the worst and write out scenarios in contracts. In this case though the employer acted in a way
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by wjnc 8y ago
I agree. It's a theme I run across in many US-worker situations we read about on HN. There is such a lack of basic rights, but also basic norms when relating to workers. Ethical behaviour, from my perspective, would be to compensate th
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by wjnc 8y ago
Since I lack the skills to riffle succesfully, I usually sort and shuffle based on the properties of the game at hand. I usually sort somewhat randomly to stacks, where the number of stacks is larger than the regular set in the game (but &l
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by wjnc 8y ago
The whole article hinges on an empty premise: "Possible explanations could include changes in brain plasticity, lifestyle changes related to entering the workforce or college or an unwillingness to learn new things — potentially while
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by wjnc 8y ago
So how does one go about reading such classics? Any tips? I often get distracted by the arcane language of many translations and go for a modern translation, preferably annotated. Even when the English seems pretty readable (say, Shakespear
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by wjnc 8y ago
I have that in my 2017 Volkswagen. It brakes by itself in normal operations, gives very loud feedback if intervention is needed, but does not brake if the intervention is unexpected / probably erroneous, only audio then. I hope but do
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by wjnc 8y ago
It's a good find and will probably be a continuing controversy, but I fear transparency cannot win from adequately funded disinformation campaigns. All this controversy does is prove a point (structural disinformation campaigns exist)
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by wjnc 8y ago
Yeah exactly that, offline. We always play with paper and pencil. Fishes having babies is the analogy for drawing the first few steps of 2^x. And then reasoning about that. That went in easier than divisions. Although candy and cookies real
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by wjnc 8y ago
Does anyone have tips on how to go about once you've been a few years in math games with your children (5 and 3)? The thing is that school curriculum math quickly gets boring for my 5 yr old. Not to strange since playwise we've ev
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by wjnc 8y ago
Our office has those installed as a regular feature in all meeting rooms. Main takeaway lesson: never fit more people in a room than was designed for. Air quality is a balance of inflow (equals outflow) and usage. Fit 9 in a room for 6? PPM
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by wjnc 8y ago
A dissenting opinion: in The Netherlands, with pretty awesome universal healthcare, >50% of healthcare costs are made for 600k 65+ yr olds. That in a country of 17 million. It's 28 B€ for this small group in 42B€ total cost. The soc
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by wjnc 9y ago
In a recent EconTalk episode, the CEO of Burning Man [1] says otherwise. They even try to police bartering, based on tips from the community. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/01/marian_goodell.html
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by wjnc 9y ago
Sorry, that might be too local: Beta = natural science, alpha = humanities, gamma = social science. So my point is even humanities and social sciences are becoming more empirical (at least in subfields, and the retort that a lot of statisti

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