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by xixi77 11y ago
As has been said, road paving is a commodity business, so the reason why this particular road might be that expensive is probably that it's a remote road on difficult terrain. Which raises the question: should this very expensive roa
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Many very good points there, and it's definitely nice to see this suggested from the left. Although: - "We already live in a world that is, as far as the distribution of wealth is concerned, about as unequal as it gets. It may eve
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by xixi77 11y ago
Very true about folding, and org-babel is amazingly capable. It is great for things like examples, notes, short tutorials, etc. But, I have never been able to actually make use of the features in any kind of a more complicated setting: I fi
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by xixi77 11y ago
"Non-stationarity" is really an umbrella term; the truth is, there is no single authoritative model of asset returns, and really there will never be one. This should not preclude all statistical analysis though, and it is done by
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by xixi77 11y ago
Which exactly proof are you talking about? I briefly looked at the paper (I've seen it before, but it's been quite a while...), but it seems that they pretty much use a previously known approach, and the only proof in it is simply
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by xixi77 11y ago
Never heard of rationalwiki until now, but particularly in context of this discussion, it would be nice to see actual examples of what you are talking about (it seems that you are talking about them selectively withholding specific and impo
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by xixi77 11y ago
Conflict of interest does not at all imply bullshit of this nature -- it may imply a biased presentation, but a biased presentation is not the same as deliberately repeating arguments one knows are bad. Also, more often than not the source
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by xixi77 11y ago
(1) I'm not sure self-driving machines will actually need that much more infrastructure. For one, driver training would be less necessary, and car utilization could go up. (2) assuming they did require infrastructure, what does Africa&
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by xixi77 11y ago
You are assuming that the girl's age changes, but it really doesn't have to for the situation the parent describes to be true -- the skill of not being an idiot can (far) more than adequately compensate for a ~15 year age gap... B
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by xixi77 11y ago
This depends what you mean by economic simulations -- if you are looking for general equilibrium models, Dynare is pretty popular, although many people would just code from scratch, and there are various codes here and there. Someone else m
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by xixi77 11y ago
Quite a frivolous case, nice to see the legal system working for once. One interesting thing I've learned from the court rule though: apparently software delivered online and through downloads does not qualify as a good or service unde
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by xixi77 11y ago
omg, live and learn. Is there a list of these somewhere?!
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by xixi77 11y ago
I think opinions also vary on that one, and effectiveness of anti-ship missiles vs carriers has obviously not been combat tested -- a carrier group has a lot of means to defend against cruise missile attacks though, the aircraft themselves
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by xixi77 11y ago
I would think Lockheed Martin would be able to hire whoever they need, do they really have to be actual military staff?
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by xixi77 11y ago
Also, we certainly haven't lost the war economically from a loss of just one carrier -- we have a few. Our opponents (whoever they might be) would though. It's not a bad example actually -- US economy and military spending are so
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by xixi77 11y ago
F-35 has lots of problems, but it does not cost a billion a piece to build. And I'm not sure that drones vulnerability to ECM will ever be solved, so quite likely there is always going to be a role for a manned fighter. Whether F-35 sh
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by xixi77 11y ago
It wasn't a criminal case, so there was no presumption of innocense. The jury found that preponderance of evidence was in favor of the defendant. In theory, sentiment shouldn't matter, but in practice it might, which suggests that
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by xixi77 11y ago
er, how so? as I see it, this is the case of options being used for their intended purpose, that is, to buy insurance.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Sure, I take it that they don't need it. But they do not know if you, or me, or anyone else needs it, and whether the effort is worth it for others, and really shouldn't pretend that they do.
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by xixi77 11y ago
I think you may be assuming that the purpose of a CS degree is to teach people how to write programs that work, while it's really not :) And there is such a thing as a correct implementation of an algorithm. Running it does not exactly
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by xixi77 11y ago
That is not a proof by the CS standard though -- well, unless the job is defined as "write a program that processes these N test inputs known in advance", in which case a program that prints the expected hardcoded output in respon
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by xixi77 11y ago
well the answer to that depends on whether in one's language "mathematics" is a "science" -- as I have (to no small surprise) discovered, in English it's quite often not, and there is no really agreed-upon defi
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by xixi77 11y ago
It's an interesting list... To me, improving provision of medical service and education definitely seems possible, as a lot of current problems are due to the fairly artificial constraints in the system. Removing them, or going around
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by xixi77 11y ago
A couple things I am curious about: - Basic income is usually proposed as a replacement to some or all services and income support people currently receive. I wonder if it is feasible to simulate that -- e.g. adjust it downwards for people
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by xixi77 11y ago
My gut feeling is actually similar, but I'm not sure it's quite correct. One big difference from what you are describing is that it while reward is guaranteed, it is not fixed -- any earnings are on top of that. I can see how it m
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Lenovo hard-codes 12345678 as wi-fi hotspot password(theinquirer.net)
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by xixi77 11y ago
Actually, the article does talk about the higher price sensitivity of younger smokers: namely, they note that the price sensitivity estimates are based on data collected during periods of low cigarette prices, and that at higher price level
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by xixi77 11y ago
how do you separate harmful things from those that are just unhealthy then? If addiction is your criterion, just pick one of the things you classify as "just unhealthy", and type "X addiction" into google :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
Buying vs. not buying lottery tickets has very little to do with pursuing vs. not pursuing any particular goals, so I'm not sure why you frame it as a choice between the two. Buying lottery tickets looks irrational on basis of expected
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by xixi77 11y ago
It could change in the future, but there are a plenty of languages that got pretty mainstream while closed source -- in terms of working with numbers and data, I'd definitely call matlab and sas mainstream, stata and mathematica are ne

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