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by xixi77 13y ago
it's very hard to find someone who does not understand Ukrainian and Russian at the same time Hard to find in Ukraine, since most people (both Russian and Ukrainian native speakers) have been constantly exposed to both, very easy to
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Actually, all three are pretty close. The thing about Polish is that in Polish words that are similar and understandable to Ukrainians are pronounced a little differently. My background is similar to yours, and it only took very little prac
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Assuming that "most of them would fail" has little to do with this investment strategy being good or bad. Venture capitalists also assume that most of the companies they fund would fail. What the hedge funds you are talking about
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Yes, database access is probably not the strongest side of R. I think part of the issue is that the typical use cases of Python and R are a bit different, so a lot of functionality that in case of Python comes in well-debugged and well-docu
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by xixi77 13y ago
Interesting. What features of R did you particularly dislike, and what was your background before then? I'm asking because S-PLUS (subsequently mostly replaced by R) was one of the first statistical languages I learned, and I have lear
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I agree that with basic income, flat tax would make much more sense, and would be easier to sell too. Write that as another potential advantage :)
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I have not seen the Carroll paper, but actually all the description in the article fully applies to the original Krussel and Smith paper, which I know very well. One problem here is that actually, heterogeneity does not really matter much f
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by xixi77 13y ago
Departures from rationality are interesting -- in fact, the Krussel and Smith paper and the related line of research does depart from rationality, even though in this case this is done for computational reasons. The question is, how much,
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by xixi77 13y ago
I think you are confusing irrationality with ex-post regret. It is to be expected that people would come to regret many choices that were rational at the time they were made. Not everything we do is rational, but all the things you mentione
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> Logographic-based languages... actually allow Japanese speakers to become comfortable with processing a lot of information in short period of time / space not true - article with references: http://persquaremile.com&#x
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There are actually many methods in survival analysis -- just as in the rest of statistics -- that do not impose strict distributional assumptions, and account for the fact that many drives are still operational. But as someone else mentione
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He is saying that the actual demand (amount of food people buy) is not going to increase much, so the whole argument rests on you being the only grocer -- and if you decide to increase your prices that much, that would only result in either
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by xixi77 13y ago
I love capitalism, and think that the thing some people call "social justice" is anything but. However, we seem to be in agreement on this one. Isn't that nice? As for help, my suggestion would be that your message definitely
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by xixi77 13y ago
If the basic income is reasonably low (the income figure seems high for the US, but cost of living is much higher in Switzerland), I don't see a major decrease in productivity. If anything, I see an increase, due to elimination of extr
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by xixi77 13y ago
This is a beautiful idea. Replacing the means-tested transfers, such as housing assistance, food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc.etc. with a simple check to everyone would provide dignity to all citizens, save on administration costs, re
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by xixi77 13y ago
It's all true, but in practice, in the US, and I strongly suspect in Switzerland as well, there are all kinds of means-tested transfers, such as unemployment support, so the first equation is actually U(job income) - X > U(unemploy
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True, but competition among sellers sets the ceiling.
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As someone else said, it's around 25% of GDP -- and while I am not sure how costly are the programs it replaces in Switzerland (such as unemployment benefits, etc.), eliminating those would go a long way towards paying for this.
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No, the whole point is that it goes to everyone, and is not means-tested, so that there is never a disincentive to work. But, since it will eliminate poverty, it would also eliminate existing government programs to help the poor, such as un
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by xixi77 13y ago
It's a good question, but really, his government is already taking his money and giving it to the poor in the form of existing (means-tested) social programs, that have an additional effect of creating an extreme disincentive to work
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by xixi77 13y ago
"slow boom, fast crash" is pretty much a property of any financial investment of any kind. Most assuredly, it will be the case with bitcoins as well. It hasn't destroyed stocks, it hasn't destroyed bonds (which not very
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However, for some reason we don't see hordes of underage slaves manning McDonald's, do we? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that burger joints are legal, and hence violating labor laws has real consequences for their
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by xixi77 13y ago
Their legal documents are taken from them. They are told that the police will lock them in prison or deport them if they try to get help. You are down to the very root of the problem here; the logical thing to do would be to make sure the
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by xixi77 13y ago
First of all, NYC landlord-tenant law is so far past the "let people contract however they want" phase that it would be laughable to let AirBnB operate under these rules. Nearly 50% of the apartments in New York are rent-stabiliz
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by xixi77 13y ago
I have no problem with the landlord restricting renters from re-renting on AirBnB or the like, but how is that different from the host (first-instance renter) doing water damage himself?
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These are not city regulations, these are buildings rules -- the owners who would like a rule like you are suggesting are surely free to propose that at condo owners association meeting. Zoning BS is quite another matter.
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Looks like the landlord is really quite worried about getting authorities involved in anything, and surely he is much more worried about getting a negative review than you do (read a recent post here from a guy in LV for the landlord's
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Surely they are rent-seeking -- I personally can't blame them. Perhaps if more people do this, it might even lead to the end of these immoral and wasteful "government-granted preferences". The fact that NYC rentals are some o
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Does this thing even support C++11? I see no mention of it on the home page...
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I don't think it's possible to "crack that" -- while many people will agree that they suck, there won't be any agreement on exactly how, and why, and what the ideal would look like. In reality, they suck no worse th

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