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by Gimpei 2y ago
I had a similar experience where math went from being easy and fun to an intimidating and painful slog. My problem was just how focused most courses are on learning techniques for solving problems. I found all those endless substitutions th
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I disagree. Before 538 people were still offering lots of election predictions and it was much much worse, because it was based entirely on hunches and vibes. Silvers rates the pollsters and provides confidence intervals far better than a s
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I’m sad to say that you are the one who does not understand urban development. There’s actually quite a lot of research on induced demand (which is the name for what you’re talking about) and there isn’t any evidence of it in the housing ma
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Is a glut of English and Comparative Literature PhDs really that big of a benefit? Those skills are not transferable to anything. I think it’s a crime the way liberal arts departments admit way more students than could ever hope to find a j
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by Gimpei 2y ago
You shouldn’t. Lest we forget, China has banned all American social media companies and quite a few other tech companies. Why shouldn’t the US do the same? Red Note should probably be banned too. The condition to lift the ban? Allow google,
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Wait, made and bade are pronounced differently? Is this an anglicism or have I been doing it wrong?
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Looks like he moved to the US only five years before the Armenian Genocide and I'm guessing it was because he could see the writing on the wall. Goes to show that massacring your citizens has an economic cost.
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I dunno. I’m kind of with the sentiment in his original column, or at least how he paraphrased it. I think it’s naive to believe that you can bring about any real change in tech through moral suasion alone. The monetary payoffs are too larg
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by Gimpei 2y ago
In my field, writing quality was on the very lowest rung of importance, below even teaching evaluations. As much as I value clear, concise prose, I’d say a grad student would be better served working on public speaking especially when faced
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I don’t know if I agree. Grad school was profoundly humbling to me because it really showed me that there are a LOT of people out there that are just much much better than me at math. There are different levels of innate talent.
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by Gimpei 2y ago
We need research because we’re not running an experiment globally. An experiment would involve a randomly selected treatment and control group. I’m guessing it seems obvious to you that social media is responsible for a wide array of ills.
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Even if the p < .05 threshold is removed, we’re still left with the important threshold of getting published or not getting published. Judging a paper by the quality of its statistical method won’t be enough to sort the publishable from
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I haven’t read Albion’s seed, so maybe I’m missing something. But… I don’t see any evidence for anything in the piece. Just because you can make a narrative about the similarities between puritans and certain facets of California policy doe
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by Gimpei 2y ago
What does this mean for browsers derived from chrome, like Arc? I heard they plan on continuing to support Manifest v2, but will ublock continue to be maintained for chrome?
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I was going to say this too. I’m guessing PR didn’t get to vet this post.
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Or that rent control benefits the insiders and hurts everybody else, including the children of said insiders who won’t be able to find housing.
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by Gimpei 2y ago
This journal article has been thoroughly debunked three separate times. TLDR if you dig into the data, the middle class agree with the rich most of the time and in the small cases where they disagree, it’s a wash between who gets their way.
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Didn’t the same thing happen in economics because of a bug in Stata in the 90s?
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by Gimpei 2y ago
If you have a large family, it’s hard to get by without an SUV. Four kids and all their car seats do not fit into a regular sized car. While it would be great if we could all just get my on public transportation and shank’s pony like in Eur
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by Gimpei 2y ago
My takeaway from this article is that Paul Romer doesn’t know how to use the environment feature in anaconda. If he has a problem with dependency resolution speed, ‘conda install mamba’ will solve that. But really, for his use cases, he sho
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I’m guessing you’ve never had to deal with a loved one in the throws of addiction or severe mental illness. We are not perfectly rational beings and sometimes we make very bad choices, especially when we suffer from a mental illness like ad
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by Gimpei 2y ago
My guess is that this would be even worse for news sites as it would lower their overall traffic. Certainly seems to be the case in Canada. I don’t get the sense that search engines/fb/etc are the problem. Rather it’s 1) loss of c
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I don't see why "European" philosophy (I assume you mean continental) is any more global than analytic philosophy. Both originate from what is only a small sliver of humanity. In fact continental philosophy with its heavy Fre
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I’ve seen journalists get it wrong enough in my own field that I don’t trust any sensational headline anymore. The world is complicated and you need specialization to make any sense of specific domain. Journalists are mostly professional di
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I always wondered why all these sales emails use exactly the same language. Right now my inbox is filled with “quick questions”. now I have an answer: apparently people write whole books on individual word choices. It seems the sales indust
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by Gimpei 2y ago
This is a direct and predictable consequence of anti housing policies. Decry it all you like, but unless you actually vote out the left-NIMBY supervisors who have a majority on the board, you are part of the problem.
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Inertia. Stata was a good and relatively easy option in the eighties when the credibility revolution kicked off. Now it takes too much effort to switch over to R. At least that’s way current tenured professors believe and good luck convinci
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by Gimpei 2y ago
One of the selling points of unconditional cash transfers is that they wouldn’t be a disincentive to work. That instead they would help quality of life. And indeed, in high poverty contexts, they don’t disincentivize work. But this result s
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by Gimpei 2y ago
Economic stagnation and population decline is bad too. Highly skilled immigrants are especially good for the economy and for the tax base, which pays for social services. Rising housing costs are indeed a problem. Is there a part of town th
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by Gimpei 2y ago
I agree with some of the points here, but take issue with others. In the US at least, a lack of affordable housing is caused more by excessive veto power at the local level. As for inequality, it does not appear to be widening anymore, and

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