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by xixi77 11y ago
IMO equity is not the only consideration -- there may be a value to workplace diversity itself, and #1 adds some transparency to the issue. The #2, if you look at it, actually suggests solutions where gender is invisible, rather than push f
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, actually my anecdotal experience kinda aligns with what the article says in that part: I know a few people -- all of them women -- who would look at an ad saying "X,Y,Z,and T", and say "sure I am comfortable with X, Y a
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by xixi77 11y ago
The evidence you are linking refers to women being less likely to go into those fields; but I don't think that is the point of the cartoon at all. It is trying to dismiss those who argue for trying to address the imbalance as having no
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by xixi77 11y ago
This looks like something a lot of people would want to believe, but is imo rather disingenuous -- I admittedly haven't followed the discussions too closely; but from what I've seen, a lot of women talking about these things are i
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by xixi77 11y ago
All looks very reasonable; but I have some partial doubts on the #3, Improve Job Descriptions, more specifically on picking words that women prefer to see. It may be the case that women on average prefer job descriptions mentioning (quoting
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by xixi77 11y ago
Hmm, what kind of a mechanism do you have in mind for this? :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
The problem with that is that changes in market cap don't directly translate to taxable income -- and when they do, they do already get taxed through capital gains.
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by xixi77 11y ago
I kinda agree, although perhaps there might be valid policy reasons to have corporate tax as an instrument in the toolbox -- e.g. encouraging R&D or promoting energy saving investments?
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by xixi77 11y ago
I would say that fees would be more fair, yes -- I don't see why the amount a company pays for using public resources should vary with its profitability: even if they don't make any money, or shift profits to a subsidiary abroad,
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by xixi77 11y ago
- Corporate jets are not the kind of property that is taxed in most places (are there any jurisdictions that tax this kind of property?!) -- in all cases I know of, property tax is applied to real estate, and I suspect is mostly borne by
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by xixi77 11y ago
Er, "most people" certainly don't do that; and incorporating comes at a tax penalty (corporate profits that are distributed to shareholders are taxed again ) -- the primary reason people are doing it is limited liability.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Does coffee roasting really require that high-skill labor?
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by xixi77 11y ago
I suspect most of the time there are no major competing local businesses -- e.g. I don't see what Dutch businesses would directly lose from Starbucks moving their headquarters there; most likely, there will be gains in local supporting
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by xixi77 11y ago
Now, let's see how long it takes until we see until someone cites this as evidence that social networking cause poor functioning :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
Part of it is about skills. Part of it is about things like making questionable connections between what is actually mathematically shown in the model, and what is claimed in terms of real-world relationships. Of course this is much easier
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by xixi77 11y ago
His point is that there is a good way to use math, which is to clearly state assumptions and definitions and then derive the result, and a bad way to use math, which is to avoid clearly defining objects that math operates on. It helps avoid
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by xixi77 11y ago
Nope, the article is not about that. It is one thing to clearly state assumptions and derive the conclusions from there (which is what your professor seems to have done). This is not "mathiness": indeed, this is exactly how theory
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by xixi77 11y ago
A lot of social science, including economics, does not involve experiments. Perhaps you want to argue that social science is not science, but if so, I personally find your definition of science a bit restrictive.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, it appears we just have to disagree here. I see very immediate and legitimate threats to our (and our allies') well-being from the likes of Iran or Russia (I might agree with you on Cuba as it stands now -- but let's not for
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by xixi77 11y ago
I don't see how analyzing comments on ex-post known successful businesses can tell us anything about anything -- it (at least) needs to be compared to how comments on average startup proposals do, to see if there is any predictive powe
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by xixi77 11y ago
I don't think "real" and "new" are opposites -- if someone only realizes that she wants X after hearing about X, why does it make her need any less real?
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by xixi77 11y ago
I agree that there are times when it fails, although I am not so sure we would agree on when exactly that happens. But it's a bit of a stretch to say that anything not perfect does not work -- particularly since there isn't that m
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, why should people necessarily care about this issue more than about any of those? Also, just because people do not agree with you, does not always mean they do not care. Sure, there are many innocent victims of drones -- but your opp
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by xixi77 11y ago
How do you define "positively evil"? If there are people whose objective is to destroy our quality of life (material or otherwise), is it immoral to make an effort to eliminate them? Now, I do have serious doubts whether the drone
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by xixi77 11y ago
One immediate question is whether this might be a result of overfitting -- when enough hypotheses are tested, some will surely be confirmed at any given significance level. Still quite interesting of course; now what is needed is a follow-u
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by xixi77 11y ago
Function docs are fine, but they are not really that helpful in figuring out how to use a new package.
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by xixi77 11y ago
I am (sort of); but most packages don't have vignettes. Zoo and ggplot2 (and a few other major packages) have great documentation, but they are an exception.
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by xixi77 11y ago
That's good to know, thanks :) Although, for single dispatch, the S3 system of R is kinda hard to beat -- you just name your function print.myclass and you are done :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
data.table is another handy one here :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
the last one is, of course, a result of the atrocious handling of the default arguments in Python :)

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