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by xapata 5y ago
Has your life really changed that much since computers? I guess I have a different career, but in most respects it's about the same. These things are addictive little tchotchkes I can't seem to put down. My wife was just complai
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by xapata 5y ago
Deflation forces the economy to grind to a halt. I hope that's not the only way to fight climate change and pollution.
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by xapata 5y ago
Is hundreds significant? It's hard to get a sense of scale without knowing the total number of listed companies.
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by xapata 5y ago
What ratio of bogus companies to total listed do you estimate?
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by xapata 5y ago
L'etat c'est moi. Taxes (and thereby price adjustments) can achieve some social goals. Empirically so, not assumed. Both the "state" and "us" are social constructs, and are simultaneously both essentially the
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by xapata 5y ago
Let's just tax carbon extraction and not worry about who's doing what with it. Although I suppose there's a separate externality to creating friable material. The issue of discarding too much should be addressed with higher
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by xapata 5y ago
Yes. Do you not?
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by xapata 5y ago
Ah, except for capital gains taxes and other transaction costs.
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by xapata 5y ago
> there is a big difference between these people buying this stuff for $2 2 years ago or investing $100k right now. Rationally, there is not (assuming a liquid market). Emotionally, maybe.
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by xapata 5y ago
> caused by a build-up of bad debt Why does it build up? A generalized autoregressive model explains that just as well as an oscillator does. The key difference is how predictable the periods are. The more waves you're composing
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by xapata 5y ago
Close. It's more a comment on the structure of those random variations, and whether it's appropriate to describe the system as periodic at all. For example, sometimes it rains, and sometimes the sun shines. Is the weather cyclic
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by xapata 5y ago
Many people look at a chart that goes up and down and imagine they see cycles. It's popular to speak of business cycles, for example. Unfortunately, it is not clear that anything in the economy oscillates such that it's appropri
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by xapata 5y ago
Cycles of arbitrary periods are nearly indistinguishable from a random walk. My guess is the latter.
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by xapata 5y ago
From the README: > Q: Who maintains dataklasses? > A: If you're using it, you do. You maintain dataklasses.
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by xapata 5y ago
You can always write some tests to verify behavior and fall back to the standard library if this winds up not working.
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by xapata 5y ago
I wouldn't blame anyone for gentrification. It's just a thing that happens.
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by xapata 5y ago
Perhaps you misunderstood my comments as advocacy. I was not, and would advocate for keeping the standardized tests. I was answering someone else's questions about the choice.
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by xapata 5y ago
Many analogy questions suffered from requiring cultural context, and it's hard for a question-writer to know which ones.
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by xapata 5y ago
It's not a question of whether the score is objective, but whether the score is an unbiased estimator of student quality, whatever that means.
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by xapata 5y ago
> The SAT doesn't even have analogies any more, perhaps as a result of this research. That's good to hear. It's hard to know what research is still fresh, unless one is employed to stay current in a field.
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by xapata 5y ago
Why would the landlord choose to rent at below market rates? I think we've drifted from the question of whether the rental apartment market is competitive. If a landlord chooses to consistently rent below market rates, for whatever fo
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by xapata 5y ago
Statistically significant, such that it created some academic literature and enough cover for Harvard to make this new policy. Practically significant, maybe not. Here's a comment from a different branch of this thread: > The findi
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by xapata 5y ago
Anecdotally, I've found that more prestigious professional schools -- law, medicine -- weight standardized testing higher. The less prestigious, more regionally focused ones, care more about GPA. This is different from undergraduate
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by xapata 5y ago
It is not clear that formal education in general is a causal factor for lifetime income, or merely a symptom of the same underlying cause(s).
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by xapata 5y ago
I think that was the implication -- that experts are often wrong. One could go the No True Scotsman route and say that a true expert would occasionally select randomly following a Bayesian Bandit approach for optimal decision-making.
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by xapata 5y ago
> meaningful amount of money Depends on how much money is meaningful to you. Time has its own costs, especially since an older teenager can work as an alternative.
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by xapata 5y ago
There is some truth to the argument that standardized tests are a flawed proxy for the combination of intelligence and motivation to learn that one wants in a student, and that the test may be biased towards some cultures that have a tradit
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by xapata 5y ago
> I think the majority just take whatever the landlord offers. Taking the price offered for a particular property is not the same as ignoring prices. Apartment shoppers search for the combination of quality and price that best satisfies
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by xapata 5y ago
> If that was true, apartment pricing would be flat or even trending down, as landlords would compete on price. It is possible to have rising prices in a competitive market. For example, the automobile market is competitive and experien
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by xapata 5y ago
Good point. However, we care more about marginal value for an individual. A dollar given to a poor person is more valuable than a dollar given to a wealthy person. Giving $10 to Elon Musk accompanied by $1 to, well, just about anyone els

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