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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
>we bullied them in school with no come back and they are crap a lobbying as a group so lets go to town on techies. This motivation is not sufficiently acknowledged on HN. I think people are afraid to face up to this fact. A lot of wha
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
The main point of the article: that all stock prices are artificial, and so there is no such thing as market manipulation, is wrong. Stock prices reflect the expected future dividends of a stock given current information. If a person inten
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
"Don't want to deal with breaking up with your emotional boyfriend?" Quick someone submit a pull request to fix their gendered language.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Correlation studies are fine, but I do worry about national GDP as a confounding factor. Maybe poorer countries have lower life expectancies, (or whatever PYLL measures is higher), and work longer hours. I would like to see this graph broke
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I have a PhD in economics, and I was initially convinced by these arguments, but the are actually misleading. If I have inside information, and there is a market with 1000 people, and I make $100 by doing insider trading, that money must co
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Your are exhibiting precisely the privileged attitude I referred to earlier. You believe that merely being a protestor entitles you to more rights than a mere squatter. In fact, both have equal rights under the law. Both a squatter and a
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You are the one being disingenuous. An ordinary person would be kicked out of the park before a single night had elapsed. The fact that the police eventually to some action doesn't mean they didn't also turn a blind eye for a lo
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
People are good at different things. Some people are good at creating and utilizing social networks. Other people are good at finding high paying jobs.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
How is that relevant? My point is that the police turning a blind eye to the occupy protests using public space in an illegal way, and effectively claiming that land for themselves, is evidence of the privilege of these protestors. If the
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
>would have deserved what you get What do you imagine this would have been? What would a "fair" reaction of the protestors have been? The poster wasn't 'using' the protests, they were using a public park. It is
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
good for you! I always found it unfair that left wing protestors are allowed to do illegal things, like camp in parks. They complain about privilege, while they themselves are afforded privileges that ordinary people (like you) don't
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
The theoretical and empirical relationship between changes in the money base (M0) and inflation are well established, and based on very simple intuition: changing the amount of hard money by a factor of 3, results in a change in the value o
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I chose M0 because you are talking about creating hard money, which is what M0 measures. When you create 7.5 Trillion in hard money, you increase M0 by 200%. My very rough estimate is that this will create 200% inflation, because M0 is th
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
that sounds terrible. Why not just use taxes?
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Since M0 is about 3.7 trillion, printing 7.5 trillion in cash would cause inflation of about 200% per year. This would have obviously bad effects, causing people to great lengths to avoid holding cash. I think income or sales tax is the on
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I don't get the philosophy behind the "dignity of work". People primarily work in order to get paid, money they then spend on themselves or their families. Work is no more altruistic than going to clubs and having casual se
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Perhaps, but in most cases the person simply cannot follow your reasoning. That might not be your fault. The interviewer might not be as smart as you, or might not have a very theoretical background. I've never heard of the Boyer-Mo
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
So stupid. What has the salary of the president got to do with the salary of the cleaners? It is only coincidence that the cleaners are employees on the books. What about the people who make the textbooks they read, or the iPhones they us
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You could also raise that much money by raising income taxes. There are good reasons to legalize pot, but the ability to raise tax revenue isn't one of them.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Working in a big company is inherently "high stress". Dealing with an interviewer isn't scarier than dealing with someone way higher than you in the reporting chain.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You can tell some of these things from an interview. For example, when I interview, I never pretend to agree with something the interviewer says. If the interviewer doesn't agree that my algorithm is O(N), I will keep arguing that it
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
IQ is a dirty word now. But even apart from it's "racist" connotations, it is still bad PR to use that term. Compare "I got to where I am because I am really smart" with "I got to where I am because I was abl
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
The stats at http://transferweb.com/stats/transfer-acceptance-rates suggest that top schools accept very few transfer students, and so I don't think it is an important part of the issue.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Tuition isn't really the issue. Most top schools have needs-blind admissions, so conditional on getting in, you will get funding if you need it. Inequality stems from the fact that by the time they reach college admissions, students f
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Just because money benefits the rich disproportionately, it does not mean this money is not well spent. This is because the students at fancy colleges are not only richer, but also smarter, more ambitious, and harder working, on average.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Those answers are all reasonable, except for the use of "specific specification" and attributing taste differences to differences in the raw agricultural ingredients, rather than the incompleteness of the product specification.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You don't seem to notice the irony of calling his comparison to the holocaust idiotic, while the parent comment was threatening the rich with guillotines.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Just more leftist protection scams. Stay safe fellow nerds.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Not only that, but the idea that the truth is too subtle and complex for the masses, so it is better to feed them ideas known to be false by the leaders. I always hear "educated" liberals say how crime is caused by poverty, and th
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
This is great, but we can take this a lot further. Submit pull requests to fix gender-binary assumptions in open source software. If an engineer refuses to accept your PR, they are an insensitive asshole, and deserve the public criticism a

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