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by zwaps 6y ago
I was willing to let the author count Arrow, Debreu, Samuelson etc. as rational actor economists, perhaps also Savage, von Neuman&Morgenstern and so forth. Even then, that's not nearly 150 years and is - as you say - reigned in soo
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by zwaps 6y ago
Curious article. Certainly builds a strong straw man. First sentence "For the past 150 years, economic theory has viewed agents in the economy (firms, consumers, investors) as perfectly rational decision makers facing well-defined prob
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by zwaps 6y ago
Webos was better than Android is now
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have said this before. The contract you sign with facebook allows them to send all your stuff from whatsapp to facebook. Any of it. Who cares what they say their intent is? It was so clearly, so obviously written to deceive, I wonder whet
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by zwaps 6y ago
heard it used in NRW where the size of a plot of land to be sold was still specified in Morgen
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by zwaps 6y ago
This is not directed at the op, but I feel like voicing my frustration. I detest Elsevier like many scientists. I also would like to be evaluated based on my merit, and not on an intricate game of status (where I, being relatively junior, s
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by zwaps 6y ago
I remember the pop ups to please add your phone number, you know, just for security! They promise to never show this to anyone... and then this happens. It’s like a comedy.
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by zwaps 6y ago
It also depends on your model. If you do not need to estimate the entire distribution, but are fine with getting some moment estimates (aka - an average effect, the marginal of the expected output and so forth) then you do not even need ind
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by zwaps 6y ago
I should add that if you are interested in some other perspective, but maybe not in mostly technical discussions, then the authors Angrist and Pischke have a couple of books - one if even a comic book - about causal analysis.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Pearl has a particular pet model for causality, but there are other approaches. I have yet to see someone actually apply Pearl's model in prominent research, but we are probably getting there. I think the question that is really on you
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by zwaps 6y ago
Interestingly, almost all "plain" European beers have either 5% or 4,9% of alcohol (Pilsners, Lagers etc.) It seems this may also be a measure to boost local sales?
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by zwaps 6y ago
You can only stop it if you catch it early. The chance of stopping it early increases exponentially, if there are fewer ways into your country from countries that are themselves exploding with the virus. In Europe, all countries broke down
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by zwaps 6y ago
In terms of average rental price It is very expensive for Berlin. I pay 750 all inclusive in a better location for the same size. The kicker: got my contract signed five years ago. There’s a stop on rent increases for a reason.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Heh, I get those. It comes to me as an empty bevel box and an unsubscribe link. That’s what I call succinct!
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by zwaps 6y ago
Like you can probably guess, people tend to disable JS not because it can technically enable a good user experience. Rather, they do so because it enables a majority of websites, and this includes big names like news websites, to create an
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by zwaps 6y ago
It probably depends on the industry. Some of the biggest companies in Europe use Outlook the desktop client, with said external resources disabled. May differ in technically more advanced countries, of course.
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have yet to get that reliable working on any Linux laptop of mine. Maybe I am closing it wrong or something.
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by zwaps 6y ago
I receive a lot of newsletters and communiqués, some of which I even signed up for. So, I don't know what designers use to receive e-mail, but here in the non-designer / non-linux world, Outlook is pretty popular. Now, Outlook - a
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by zwaps 6y ago
Why is turning off javascript silly? Not that I personally disable all JS in my browser, but I'd say if your website can not be displayed without Javascript, then it is silly.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Yes and no. For example, the Hawthorne study did spark new opposed research movements that have since (obviously) produced a lot of original work. On the other hand, some economists have dug out the data from the Hawthorne studies and concl
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by zwaps 6y ago
It should be noted, given some replies, that this is a historical document and should probably not be taken as as a productivity "How-To" for any budding industrialist. In particular, the (empirical) answer and, for most, refutati
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by zwaps 6y ago
Why not Julia?
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by zwaps 6y ago
As a scientist, I support sci-hub. We are, sadly, locked in by the predatory publishers. However, I don't know a single peer who does not support open access and even sci-hub. The only party losing are publishers, who add zero value t
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by zwaps 6y ago
I am sorry but this is bull, has been bull and continues to be bull. If you actually read the PP and TOS, you see that: 1. Nothing you share (content, pictures etc.) will be VISIBLE on Facebook for others to see (literally what they say), b
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have a different story. I come from a Northern country where there was no "good" coffee for decades, just regular filter coffee, usually too strong. We accept our inferiority in this regard. When I was in Italy or France, I took
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by zwaps 6y ago
Interestingly, Turks have broadly one type of cheese (not really true, but compared to France let's go with it) per use. So cheese really isn't just cheese. You have your cheese for sandwiches and melting, you have your cheese for
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by zwaps 6y ago
It's really mind boggling if you know the original proofs my Neumann-Morgenstein or Savage for that matter. In his article, Peters immediately rushes into the time domain, whereas the time domain doesn't exist at all in EUT. I fee
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by zwaps 6y ago
As a stats PhD, I am telling you Ole Peters is misunderstanding what EUT is ;-) EUT was developed by von Neumann, someone slightly familiar with ergodicity. It simply is not based on dynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems. Any such thing
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by zwaps 6y ago
"Ergodicity economics" is not a new idea, as others have said. Peters' claims the contrary, and then claims to "destroy" a whole academic field with one fell swoop. That's academic shitposting. That EUT is base
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by zwaps 6y ago
Economists have since refuted the points above: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-01106-x Read both sides!

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