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by zecho 14y ago
I downvoted you because you took that sentence from Wikipedia completely out of context, not just out of context with regard to its surrounding paragraph on Wikipedia, but also because its out of context with regard to the citation at Wikip
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by zecho 14y ago
I think the imbecile comment is unnecessary. One can still have a conversation about a subject without having much depth in the subject. If you haven't read Taming of the Shrew, you can still understand the story if I give you a quick versi
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by zecho 14y ago
I had a history professor notorious for assigning dense reading. Students would often complain about it. His response was that it's not the author's fault the reader is too lazy and unwilling to keep up.
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by zecho 14y ago
Why not a top 6 school? These articles are rarely very useful.
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by zecho 14y ago
Another Thoreau quote, also from Walden: "And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blow
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by zecho 14y ago
Making kids in clubs listen to the stock market might be the greatest troll of all time.
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by zecho 14y ago
Create a filter for linkedin and send it to your spam folder.
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by zecho 14y ago
People are complicated.
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by zecho 14y ago
Toxie (the given nickname for the toxic asset they purchased) was a long-running recurrence on Planet Money. Here is the archive: http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=15...
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by zecho 14y ago
But there's a reason home prices lag, generally speaking. Pay also tends to lag. But honestly, the Bay Area is an outlier in the housing market. Imagine moving from Chicago to San Francisco...
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by zecho 14y ago
I don't think it is out of place. Which comes first? The games designed for boys and men or the boys and men wanting the games? Or does the issue go even further, boys and men building games for boys and men and forgetting about games for w
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by zecho 14y ago
The connection to the page thing makes the most sense to me. I used to do this all the time, but since Apple's magic trackpad, I've lost the habit for the most part.
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by zecho 14y ago
There's an economics joke as old as the hills: An economist and a non-economist are walking down the street when the non-economist notices something on the ground and says, "hey there's a $10 bill!" The economist replies, "Impossible. If th
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by zecho 14y ago
>I just haven't found them to be hugely useful for any practical purposes. His models are dry, boring even. But they're based in some semblance of data. When compared to the vast majority of the pundit class, and political journalism in
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by zecho 14y ago
Obama never claimed to be against the PATRIOT Act. He claimed he would work to reform it. However, Presidents don't write legislation and reform has never made it into any bills reauthorizing the Act. That said, the president has directed t
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by zecho 14y ago
In what way? Conflict itself is a news value. Something may be news precisely because there is conflict, and exponentially so if that conflict affects a news organizations' readers via proximity or other news values. Where no conflict can b
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by zecho 14y ago
I work in media, specifically journalism. By and large, they're "stories." What makes news "news" is pretty much the same thing that makes entertainment "entertainment" (uniqueness, continuity, composition, etc.). There's a big difference b
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by zecho 14y ago
One factor that messes with any model is lack of consistent data. House races aren't publicly polled nearly as often as statewide polls. And furthermore, it's not necessarily that he "got races wrong." When he says Obama wins 80% of the tim
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by zecho 14y ago
> News is biased, but not how most people think, it's biased towards conflict Exactly. They're called "stories" for a reason.
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by zecho 14y ago
Playing is not illegal, but transferring money overseas can amount to wire fraud and money laundering. When Silver was doing his best poker work, the laws were far muddier.
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by zecho 14y ago
He's not an employee of the NY Times, per se, though, and I don't think he's bound to their reporter's rules. He licenses the 538 brand to the Times (similar to the deal Freakonomics got).
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by zecho 14y ago
As it grows, it hasn't really improved my close friendships, either. I was originally in love with Facebook precisely because it improved those relationships. Things were a bit different in college, I guess, when only .edu email holders wer
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by zecho 14y ago
The full sentence, which should relate to the issues of politics elsewhere in the thread: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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by zecho 14y ago
Could you elaborate? The 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913 and from what I can tell the top marginal rate was in the 90s until 1964... http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...
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by zecho 14y ago
$1 in 1970 would cost $5.94 in 2012, so, there's that. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=197...
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by zecho 14y ago
Not much of a rebuttal, but certainly a counter to oh-my-zsh: https://github.com/revans/bash-it (which includes fasd).
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by zecho 14y ago
We have a similar saying at the office. "Every programmer hates every other programmer's code. Given enough time, they'll eventually hate their own code."
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by zecho 14y ago
I find both of these analogies inadequate. Spend more time around young children. They most definitely do not learn grammar before they can communicate. It is not a linear thing at all. People pick up parts of grammar like the Subject Verb
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by zecho 14y ago
I always lead with my Amex, even if I know the place doesn't take it. Merchants need that kind of feedback from their customers. If they won't take Amex, I've got other cards, but I always prefer to use either my Amex or my Discover (anothe
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by zecho 14y ago
This is a certainty, I'm sure.

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