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by zeteo 16y ago
Sensationalism and an unverified story, in the rush to grab attention at any cost. Kind of typical for today's mass media.
902.
by zeteo 16y ago
This study seems fundamentally flawed. The Fortune 500 are the 500 companies with the highest revenue. This means that smaller companies only make it into the Fortune 500 if they already have very high revenues/employee. Since costs/employe
903.
by zeteo 16y ago
I've invited you to read my comment again because I felt you were mis-representing my point. Regarding the rest, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_mars#Liquid_water Considering that there ha
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by zeteo 16y ago
>>It's pretty fair to say that no matter how royally we mess things up, the biosphere will probably eventually "recover" That's not what I've argued, please read my comment again. On the contrary, my point is that the biosphere is a
905.
by zeteo 16y ago
It's great that people use arithmetic to argue the opposite point, and it's a very worthwhile discussion. Unfortunately, this discussion, which should be pursued and decided on the hard cold facts, is usually pushed to the sidelines by all
906.
by zeteo 16y ago
My comment didn't say anything about how we should behave; I was merely pointing out that nature is inherently unbalanced.
907.
by zeteo 16y ago
He has a second counter that shows 350,000+ visits, but there's no explanation for the discrepancy.
908.
by zeteo 16y ago
>>I'd like to see more thought going into "helping people live better lives while living in balance with nature"<< Nature is inherently unbalanced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_nature#Counter-argum... For instan
909.
by zeteo 16y ago
What a refreshing and extensive analysis, based on research and hard numbers. You might not agree with John McCarthy, but at least he brings up clear, verifiable points of discussion. It's too bad that strident alarmism will always out-shou
910.
by zeteo 16y ago
Oh no, I just knew someone would come and argue for balanced n-ary on this thread :)
911.
by zeteo 16y ago
But 12 only gains you one more factor that's not a power of 2, and is 30 times more difficult to implement (operation tables have 144 cells for base 12, compared to 4 cells for base 2).
912.
by zeteo 16y ago
Yeah, but once you move everything to base 2, you won't have to deal with those pesky powers of 10 anymore ;)
913.
by zeteo 16y ago
Well while we're at it, what's the fetish with 10? We should use powers of 2 for everything :)
914.
by zeteo 16y ago
Mining yields depend primarily on the quantity and accessibility of reserves, neither of which can be enhanced by capital investments. The discovery of new mines has caused significant fluctuations in prices, see for example http://www.str
915.
by zeteo 16y ago
My point is that, even in such a theoretical and apparently stagnant economy, wealth is still accumulated and economics is very far from a zero-sum game.
916.
by zeteo 16y ago
Not unless everyone decided to sell all their assets at the same time. If the money supply is fixed, and the market size is constant, prices should fluctuate very little even as large amounts of fixed capital are accumulated and total wealt
917.
by zeteo 16y ago
Hipparchus a pretty well-known (pseudo?) Platonic dialogue, and this is not the first time I've seen it. The parent seems to suggest that the friend's distaste for greedy men is related to the situation of money supply at the time. For anyo
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by zeteo 16y ago
Profit doesn't mean money, profit means gain of wealth. Economic activity is not a zero-sum game if the money supply is fixed.
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by zeteo 16y ago
"in Socrate's time the money supply was fixed" Factually incorrect. Golden Age Athens used silver coinage and extensively mined silver, as one of its chief sources of income: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurium#History_of_mining http://
920.
by zeteo 16y ago
Yes, informing them is not a perfect solution, and anyways there's no such thing as perfect information. Is it better though to take a decision for them, and not inform them at all?
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by zeteo 16y ago
It's so easy to play God hovering in the skies, and make decisions for these people's future, isn't it? Maybe they actually don't enjoy 50+% child mortality, dying of appendicitis, and having to barter a truckload of plantains for a pot and
922.
by zeteo 16y ago
The article does not, in my reading at least, address whether "tiger mothers'" children are likely to become neurotic. But it has been a very widespread claim in the aftermath of Chua publishing her views, and perhaps the main line of attac
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by zeteo 16y ago
Maybe claim 1 is true, but I still think it's badly supported here. Without having read "Unequal Chances", its subtitle "Family Background and Economic Success" seems to indicate that it's not mainly concerned with personality and character
924.
by zeteo 16y ago
Cost-benefit analysis of various parenting styles seems like a good idea but, when the article goes much further than that and claims that Chua's parenting style has no benefits whatsoever, its arguments fall flat. The crucial passage: "But
925.
by zeteo 16y ago
A much more accurate title would be "walking shown to reverse the decline in hippocampus size and function after the age of 55".
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by zeteo 16y ago
"[Cheerleaders] do not build anything. They have no customers that rely on them. They are not disrupting a vertical segment, creating open source software used by thousands, or investing cash that makes much the of the innovation possible.
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by zeteo 16y ago
Business school is not about the quantitative skills - those you can pick up in a couple of weeks from a book, if you have any decent proficiency in arithmetic and/or using a spreadsheet. It's about networking and about learning to manage a
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by zeteo 16y ago
While acts of enclosure were an old custom in Britain by the time of the industrial revolution, the discussion here was about the effect of those acts at the time of the said industrial revolution, i.e. late 18th century. The last riot that
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by zeteo 16y ago
"Over the years, the index has been both praised and vilified. The latter by language adherents who are unhappy over the decline of their favorite idiom." Really? That's the best defense that can be brought for the methodology - a textbook
930.
by zeteo 16y ago
"According to AK-47 legend, assault rifles were not popular because of their tendency to consume large amounts of ammo. The Soviets embraced the idea and simply supplied their troops with more ammo. Kinda like Redis and RAM." That's obvious

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