JVirissimo

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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Being a "genius" is not the same as a "programming prodigy". In order to be a "programming prodigy" you have to "program" something. The above comment was asking for evidence that this very smart girl "programmed" something. Neither claimin
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
"Who is John Galt?" is expression of helplessness and despair in 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand. A very popular (in the US) book that is somewhat controversial, mainly because a number of admirers take it too seriously.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
I think you mean John Gatto rather than John Galt, but it was a somewhat fitting mistake.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Is this a joke? Last time I checked, professional athletes make huge amounts of cash.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Really, you're not going to wait a few weeks and see if Google fixes things?
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Because the law was written by lawyers?
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Are you bothered when professional sports leagues are racially homogeneous? Would you prefer that they practice affirmative action?
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
"Regulation" causes investment strategies to be more homogeneous, which often means one large bubble instead of lots of small ones. It is far from obvious that this is a better situation to be in.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Good risk management requires discrimination. And no, there isn't anything morally wrong with "discrimination".
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
The assumption that gay women have the same risk profile as gay men seems very weak. Almost any group of women will, on average, engage in less risky behavior than an analogous group of men.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
911 Operator here, most cities won't follow up a 911 hangup call from a cellphone unless there is reason to think there is an emergency. In large cities, you get hundreds of accidental 911 calls a day and finding all of the phones (even if
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
The Teaching Company philosophy lectures were significantly better than what I got at a state university, but were a very small fraction of the price.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Politicians that "have some balls" stop getting elected to public office. Your comment is simply a less precise restatement of the Median Voter Theorem, which is very well known to political-economists.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
I think by "education" you mean "schooling". The conflation of these two concepts causes all kinds of mischief.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
If it was indeed made by GlaxoSmithKline, then this is a good example of "big pharma" greed. Only, in this case, "big pharma" greed might end up saving millions of lives.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
I played Deus Ex when I was in high school and was more impressed by its storyline than anything I read in English lit.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
Time is a constraint and mental effort is a resource of our physical environment.
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by JVirissimo 15y ago
True, but what solves the forced rider problem and why presume that it is more benign a problem than free riding? One man's public good is another man's public bad.