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by woopwoop 6y ago
The first scenario can be repeated an infinite number of times, too. Just have A sell the share right back to B and do the same thing. Now A has to deliver two shares to B.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Are you concerned that B could sell his contractual right to have A deliver a share to someone else, so that when A is obliged to deliver a share that actually gets delivered to a third party? Why is that bad?
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by woopwoop 6y ago
A can fail to deliver in the first activity, too. More generally, when you agree to have someone give you something of value at a later time, you take on some risk that they will fail to do so.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
The author seems to be really upset about this, but I don't understand why. Nothing they are describing, if you ignore histrionic language like "counterfeiting", seems especially nefarious. Maybe I am misunderstanding. Basica
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Double-check your arithmetic.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Usually because they use the power of the state to veto development on land they don't own. You have the skin in the game question backwards.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
So would you favor making it illegal for talented people to leave regions of the United States that are unusually dysfunctional? Should people born in Detroit have to stay there to rebuild the region?
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From Complexity to Perplexity(www2.econ.iastate.edu)
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Color me genuinely surprised. I would have guessed that wage theft was much larger. Experience suggests to me that ~everyone has been pressured at least once to roll hours forward to avoid overtime, but most people don't shoplift.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Want to bet?
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by woopwoop 6y ago
The title for a news site and the title for a scientific journal needn't be the same. The title here should absolutely reflect the fact that the study was in mice.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Only one I could find at OU of that age with either a bio or cv online was Andy Magid, who graduated in 1969 and did a postdoc before taking a tenure-track position there. Seriously, if you have evidence that this was common, provide it.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
I've seen it claimed now several times in this thread that in the post-war period it was typical for mathematicians to get hired into tenure-track, or even tenured, positions directly after graduating. I don't see any evidence tha
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Just did this exercise with three senior faculty who are all ams fellows. They all did 2-4 years of postdocs, including one guy who now is quite famous.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
I recently finished a pure math ph.d at at a highly, but not THAT highly, ranked public school in the US. I didn't continue in academia, but based on my classmates, most of whom did, the market is not as much of a pyramid as you'r
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Thanks for the response. Hmm, it's still pretty mysterious to me. Why should a deep network with the same number of parameters as a wide network represent a wider variety of functions? In some sense they represent the "same"
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by woopwoop 6y ago
It seems to me all of these arguments apply just as well when the "deep" network has only one hidden layer.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
It's truly extraordinary to see "dey terk er jerbs" level analysis coming from people who make six figures a year.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Independently of the rest of your argument, the claim that open borders make it impossible to enforce any kind of law is falsified by, for example, U.S. states and municipalities, which enforce their own laws and have open borders with each
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by woopwoop 6y ago
So, more generally, you could say that you can save money by doing a task yourself that you usually leave to a professional specialist. In most cases, this is clearly ridiculous. I'm not going to start sewing my own clothes, or doing m
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by woopwoop 6y ago
To counter the extraordinary volume of bland negativity in this comment thread, I'll add my own bland positivity. I came across the 2003 version of this list in my early teens, and listened to a bunch of the albums here (or at least so
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Again: come on.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Come on. Kennedy was confirmed in November of the year before the election.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
But at the time I didn't know the phrase "Steiner curvature centroid", I just knew "Steiner point". The definition I knew was not in terms of the curvature, or in the terms I gave above, but as a certain integral of
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by woopwoop 6y ago
I don't think descriptive names per se would be especially helpful. The challenge of understanding a concept typically dwarfs the challenge of remembering a name. Some people, though, have so many things named after them that Googling
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Note that the author of the linked piece killed and maimed a bunch of innocent people in order to blackmail major newspapers into printing it. In my opinion, out of respect for these victims and a desire to discourage such behavior, you sho
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Trade is basically the opposite of a prisoner's dilemma, though. Cooperation dominates defection.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
> This is pretty much exactly how reciprocity works in other areas like travel and immigration. We treat their nationals as they treat ours. What? Which part of our immigration system is reciprocal?
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Is there any way to know with certainty whether the president has any financial interest in Microsoft? If there is, does he?
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by woopwoop 6y ago
I mean, if this goes through essentially what will have happened is the president used the power of the state to get a foreign company to sell control of a valuable product to Microsoft at what will almost certainly be a firesale price. If

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