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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Even though I don't think abstinence-only sex education is a good idea, it's strange that the true statement "only abstinence is 100% effective" is mocked. Or are liberals going to start teaching an honest version of the
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
These two comments together make a lot of sense. When your try block is a single lookup, you might as well use an if statement or get. However, when the 'absolute minimum' is nontrivial try/except is still a good option, e.g
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Firing people is a natural part of doing business. Decision should be judged (morally) on the margin. If I fire 100 people, I haven't resulted in 100 people never being able to work again, I have simply shifted them to their next-bes
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
yeah it's weird, we are one the one hand said to be an underclass of social rejects, and on the other hand said to be immensely privileged. And on top of that, somehow being losers makes us more privileged, since it keeps normal peo
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
homomorphic encryption is like an interpreter that can run encrypted code without decrypting it.* this is like a compiler that generates obfuscated code (that is as hard to decompile as if it were encrypted). *Technically homomorphic encryp
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
So basically, evidence for declining mental ability with age + fancy unverifiable model => evidence for increasing mental ability with age. This is the worst kind of PC science.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I think the only difference between these entrepreneurs and big businesses is that big businesses would say "talk to our lawyers" instead of "talk to our lawyers, lol". That said, if they do get sued I'm not going t
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Here is what two economists at the St Louis Federal Reserve have to say about patents (tl;dr they are bad) http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
They built two of them, and found that they agreed to within their nominal accuracy.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
No, there is no way. The information contained in this news report will have been incorporated into the stock price of all the companies long ago.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
There was honest debate, your side just happened to lose. Supply-side economics is a misnomer. Classical economics would be a much more accurate term. It is true that American workers cannot compete with lower costs overseas (though I thi
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I have a lot of respect for someone who can earn that much money with honest work. And those were mostly good songs, well written and arranged, and very suited to the singer, except for 22 which sucks.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I've noticed that the tech industry accords Asian women more respect that they are generally shown in other industries. I believe that other industries, especially law and political lobbying/activism, claim to value women, but act
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I agree that statistical correlations of marriage with various outcomes are very weak evidence of a causal effect. However, I hope that people will apply this logic to ideas that come from both the left and right, e.g. the NYC ad campaign a
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Why would it make any sense that you are allowed to set a salary based on anything except 1.? And, if I understood your top level post correctly, why would it make sense for you to be able to classify caring for your children as working fo
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
There is a very significant pro-Western bias amongst educated people who have moved to the West. If you just looked at educated Chinese immigrants during the last 50 years, you would never guess at the overwhelming support for the communist
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I agree (see my other post in this thread). But I don't know much about Ukraine. It would be great if you would post a detailed analysis as a top level post.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
A lot of what seems to be grassroots could be aided, and perhaps even orchestrated, by sophisticated groups with a political agenda, e.g. the CIA. It would only take around 10-20 bloggers to create the illusion that the majority people in t
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
who do you think is being manipulated? Statements like that are useless without some elaboration.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I don't follow the logic here. The claim is that he could have somehow avoided this situation by acting differently. The fact that the actions of the police were later determined to be unlawful, isn't evidence for this claim.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
The downvotes are for your assumption that (1) people don't care about addressing underlying causes of suicide, and (2) people only want to fix the problem because it is inconvenient to them, and not for the sake of the people killing
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Inequality exacerbates this problem, but it is not the root cause. I have heard many stories of police abuse from middle class, White people. It is only the ultra-rich (or ultra-connected) that the police are afraid of.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
That seems like an interpretation of the situation that requires a lot of assumptions beyond the bare facts. The police were acting well outside the law, and so I don't think knowing his rights would have helped this man.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
While this sounds like very useful advice in general, I wonder if uttering this magic phrase would actually have resulted in this man from being released? The facts of the case suggest that these actions were not done under the guise of a
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I have no doubt that professionalization is highly related to social and political savvy. The ability to form an "in-group" and commit to doing what is in the interests of this group (thus solving the free-rider problem) is an es
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I agree. People here are acting as if our collective unwillingness to lobby for rent-seeking legislation, is a personality flaw.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I don't think that an expert is viral communications theory would have done any better. Almost everything involving networks is a fad. Networks are an interesting mathematical structure, but on their own, they rarely enable one to bui
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Very nice. I think the bigger issue is that there is a huge amount of academic research in which a fancy model (usually involving the latest academic fads) is considered a substitute for serious statistics. I think Facebook's models w
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Well another minority might view strip teases as an act of empowerment and self expression, and be made alienated and uncomfortable by your sex-negative viewpoint. How would you balance the interests of these two minorities?
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
In HN we reserve consideration and respect for people who can't afford the rent in San Francisco. An old woman dying of cancer deserves none. She was probably a homophobe too!

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