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An Ultra-Selective University Just Dropped the ACT/SAT. So What?(chronicle.com)
4 points by yasp 8y ago|3 comments
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Study Finds Bitcoin Mining Energy Consumption Highly Overestimated(btcnn.com)
4 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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by yasp 8y ago
How do other countries solve the problem?
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The 7 Tribes of Intellect(unz.com)
3 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, with 28 Subphenotypes(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. It was a fraud(vox.com)
11 points by yasp 8y ago|1 comments
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by yasp 8y ago
Exposes the ability to downvote comments at >500. Seems to give flags and possibly votes more weight.
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by yasp 8y ago
Fortunately if you earn minimum wage, most governments will give you money if you have children.
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by yasp 8y ago
Why would we expect a minimum wage worker to be able to afford a 2-bedroom apartment?
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Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment [pdf](pnas.org)
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by yasp 8y ago
I'm sure I'll be downvoted into oblivion for making the observation but surely this isn't surprising given that people with lower IQs tend to have more babies and have babies earlier in life than do people with higher IQs. [0
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by yasp 8y ago
This. Journalists don't want skin in the game. Elon wants to give it to them.
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by yasp 8y ago
Ok? That companies chose not to conform is more indicative that consumers ultimately didn't care very much.
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by yasp 8y ago
Ultimately it comes down to whether a user should be free to choose whether to use such a service. Ostensibly the user is receiving some benefit despite this "harm". If the harm outweighed the benefit there would be no user.
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by yasp 8y ago
I would have preferred promulgating a set of standards to be GDPR compliant, and allowing companies the option to choose whether to conform. Individuals in turn could choose whether to use GPDR compliant services or not. Rather than hitting
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by yasp 8y ago
With this and GDPR the EU is seemingly begging to be cordoned off from the broader internet.
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by yasp 8y ago
Thanks for all the links.
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by yasp 8y ago
Did they ever?
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The War on Dignity(commentarymagazine.com)
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Bryan Caplan’s ‘The Case Against Education’ – A Review(quillette.com)
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by yasp 8y ago
Increasing labor costs and reducing employment flexibility at companies that already have notoriously poor business fundamentals? Can't wait to see how that plays out.
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Rewarding failure has become an American epidemic(nypost.com)
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by yasp 8y ago
Ditto for Connecticut.
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by yasp 8y ago
Until the tax death spiral.
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by yasp 8y ago
Most people that make predictions and call themselves Austrians are IMO in the business of selling something. Mises, who was perhaps the most influential Austrian economist, instead took the tack of demonstrating that if you wanted X that Y
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by yasp 8y ago
Rationality and efficient markets are never mentioned once, to my knowledge, in Man, Economy, and State.
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by yasp 8y ago
The Austrian school overall disavows empiricism as the means by which to infer economic laws and instead views economics as a field closer to philosophy. For more information on the method I recommend the pamphlet Economic Science and the A
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by yasp 8y ago
Even forgetting about cryptocurrency: if each country had a constitutional amendment requiring that its currency be backed 100% with gold reserves (no bi-metalism; no fixed gold pricing), domestic custodianship, annual audits, and the elimi
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by yasp 8y ago
Probably not. I suspect the Austrian school of economics will be proven right about money and credit eventually.
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by yasp 8y ago
Part of the charm of gambling is interacting with the dealer.

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