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811.
by zzleeper 13y ago
Yet another example that improving the algorithm (almost) always beats bruteforcing :)
812.
by zzleeper 13y ago
Not really, it has tons of flaws, some of which they are now trying to fix with Basel 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III
813.
by zzleeper 13y ago
Make it into a rule that anything funded with govt money must be dual published: an open access version, and a journal version that helps the scientists' CVs The usual counter-argument is "the journals won't take that, they w
814.
by zzleeper 13y ago
Because most profits actually come from two cash flows that were in a much stronger position before
815.
by zzleeper 13y ago
Well, most people driving in DC actually live and vote in VA and MD. For DC, it's an easy way to "tax" commuters and get a nice revenue stream
816.
by zzleeper 13y ago
Great job! Just a devil's advocate question.. why do you guys think that these locations matter anyways, besides for mere curiosity of seeing them on a map? [I'm thinking of doing some research about this, that's why I'm
817.
by zzleeper 13y ago
Nothing of course! It's one of the wonders of being an economist ;) (sarcasm aside, I do think there should be stronger professional repercussions in economics for advocating idiotic policies. It's one thing to found a startup and
818.
by zzleeper 13y ago
No one is advocating for increasing those penalties. Taleb is just stating that there be some penalties, which kinda makes sense: You feel safer if the pilot is in the airplane with you, and has his life at risk as much as yours, than e.g
819.
by zzleeper 13y ago
What advice or pointers would you give to start learning & using mma for real problems? I tried to learn it a few times and it worked great for toy problems, but when I tried to write an entire script a la python/c/matlab, I
820.
by zzleeper 13y ago
(I know it's not the kosher solution, but editing your hosts file [1] or justs installing adblock, helps a lot with this stuff) [1] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
821.
by zzleeper 13y ago
(I upvoted you assuming an implicit /sarcasm tag)
822.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Hi Todd! Do you have an email? (mine is sergio.correia@duke.edu ) I'm working on a project linking bank credit with the geographic distance between individuals/firms and bank branches. It's a fairly big dataset (~4MM geocoded individuals wi
823.
by zzleeper 14y ago
I have the feeling cash for clunkers may also have contributed quite a bit. Young people are much more likely to buy used cars, so by destroying the stock of used/cheap cars, you are pricing the car away from them.
824.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Your issue is against using the dollar as the numeraire [1]. Fine, pick gallons of milk, oil, etc. and you'll see that the charts of recent days, when expressed in "real" terms and not in nominal/dollar terms, will look THE SAME. At t his s
825.
by zzleeper 14y ago
We had a scandal similar to this in Peru a few months ago: http://www.larepublica.pe/26-06-2012/imagenes-demuestran-que... "Taxi Satelital" is a taxi company valued for its safety and overall ease of use, that subcontracts each ride to a
826.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Not even that.. "A two-year university degree at the Bachelor's level AND at least 14 years of full-time study = 20 points" So just doing a bachelor's will give you 80% of the PhD points..
827.
by zzleeper 14y ago
None of the proposals were about that. They propose relying more on intelligence tests instead of the current SAT that can be gamed with money. Also, having varying college fees based on whether you are rich or poor also makes sense.
828.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Bravo! From the other comments, I guess you are going against the 'common sense' of vim users, but actually hjml has been the reason I never bothered with vim. Having to replace years (or decades) of T-arrowkeys (in windows, and in every
829.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Maybe they can delete the first 100m of every trip, so it would be harder to poinpoint locations w/out losing that much
830.
by zzleeper 14y ago
WTF?
831.
by zzleeper 14y ago
He is right though. Many MBAs have to relocate, and they buy the cars just for the two years of their program. (About the 2%, the sample is very different so that should explain the difference with the report)
832.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Trying to understand how firms compete in the android store actually sounds like a great topic. Of course, we can only observe--at most--prices and sales per product, but it would be nice to think of how firms compete between each other and
833.
by zzleeper 14y ago
I've talked with many friends in a similar situation as yours (econ phd) and they all faced the same issues. Some advisors don't even care if you are coding in Python or in stone tables, as long as you "have three stars in your results tabl
834.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Are there any privacy concerns with bitcoin? For instance, suppose I know the day someone got reddit gold. Could I then check the bitcoin transaction database (eg: bitcoin block explorer) to extract the ip of the users that created the acco
835.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Well he could always compute the median. Less robust to outliers. 100 questions answered in 1 minute, with one question answered in 1 day will give you an avg of 15 minutes instead of the more representative 1 minute
836.
by zzleeper 14y ago
What was the reason behind this? "not free anymore"==??
837.
by zzleeper 14y ago
By any chance, did you 'poke' with a cluster of LOICs?
838.
by zzleeper 14y ago
(Honest question) Is there any user-friendly alternative to Ubuntu? I switched from Win7 to 12.04 a few weeks ago, but it's full of tiny-yet-annoying bugs. EG: sometimes a program disapears from ALT-TAB and I need to minimize everything els
839.
by zzleeper 14y ago
" I would like you to choose a different adjacent color as the ones used by the people below" Any clue about why this?
840.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Think of it as trade credit. The rationale for much of trade credit is that the supplier knows a great deal about the firm, so they are able to make a well-informed lending decision [0] In contrast, banks may not know much about firms (or

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