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by addcommitpush 11mo ago
Aren't there quite a few historians, anthropologists and so on that study mythology?
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by addcommitpush 11mo ago
This is in line with Pommeranz (a western economic historian) and most of the whole "Great divergence" litterature.
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by addcommitpush 11mo ago
Note that in orthodox microeconomic theory, price is equal to the marginal value of the last exchanged unit. To use the above example of food: > What's the value of food? If you have none you die, so the value is quit of high, but
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
Wrong thread
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
Would the same system work for other industries, e.g. banks or medical research?
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
In that scenario, the "throat to choke" would be the primary care physician. We won't think of it as an "ML radiologist", just as getting some kind of physical test done and bringing it to the doctor for interpretat
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
If they had absolute perfect performance at zero cost, you would not need a radiologist. The current "workflow" is primary care physician (or specialist) -> radiology tech that actually does the measurement thing -> radiolog
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
See also [0] This paper proposes that idiosyncratic firm-level shocks can explain an important part of aggregate movements and provide a microfoundation for aggregate shocks. Ex- isting research has focused on using aggregate
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
I don't know if it's a joke I didn't, but it's the topic of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
Since there are a lot of photographers here - what's the first step up from phones? That is a camera that : - takes better photos than phones (esp. when printed) - is not crazy expensive - is not crazy complicated The camera you'd
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
Isn’t “making acceptable tradeoffs” (optimization) while “meeting requirements & constraints” (under constraints) simply optimization under constraints? I fail to see how this is about sufficient _but not optimal_ solutions.
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
What is the split between aristocrats and bourgeois among the wealthiest Europeans? Looking at the richest Europeans [0], they all seem to be bourgeois. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Europeans_by_net_worth
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
> workers by contract workers (luckily found to be illegal here now). Note that, at least for France, it was not found to be illegal to use contract workers; rather the jobs-as-they-existed were really employment contracts according to t
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
It is interesting to hackers, even if it is not hacking related.
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
I mean this seems a solved problem: hand-and-paper written onsite exams + blackboard-and-chalk oral onsite exams. If this is too costly (is it? many countries manage), make students take them less often.
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by addcommitpush 1y ago
Let’s say you run the most basic regression Y = X beta + epsilon. The X is chosen out of the set all possible regressors Z (say you run income ~ age + sex, where you also could have used education, location, whatever). Is that not equivalen
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
For non technical people used to WYSIWYG, yes?
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
This is an internal tool (which was open sourced) made by the French government digital service to be used by French government employee on French government infra. I do not think it is trying to be a better solution for individuals. It’s t
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
Is increasing total consumption something positive?
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
I mean if the choice is between living with Soviet standard of living and burning in a wildfire, the choice sounds obvious. Note that no one has argued for a planned economy.
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
In that case the weed-out course is _after_ the calculus/diff eq/lin alg sequence then, not the intro math course.
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
Are there "math weed out courses"?
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
Sure, but then the story is about 1. the Indian heatwave and 2. the transformation; whether the transformation came about through carbon coins or carbon quotas or whatever is a detail. But it's the focus of the book.
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
Isn't it true? f = lambda x: (1/x) * x f(1e309) yields NaN, not 1. (So I guess Denmark is at least 1e309-sized in some metric).
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
This is often the justification but in many countries agriculture systems are not oriented towards food security: they produce a large share of export crops/products and thus also rely on imports. If they were an actual national securi
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
The main thing that irked me is that the book focuses on technical solutions as if that's what we're missing (carbon coin! pumping water from under ice sheets! etc.) but completly glosses over the actual consequences. To piggyback
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
> Everyone has the ability to impact global CO2 emmissions. I'm afraid most people are smaller-than-Denmark groups, and thus unable whatsoever to impact global emissions. It's just math.
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
Note that China has no ability to impact global CO2 emissions either. Let’s split China population in k Denmark-sized groups, plus one smaller-than-Denmark reminder. None of the k groups has any ability to impact global CO2 emissions (same
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
Low carbon farms balance would be: "low carbon" profit + subsidy - small carbon tax High carbon farms balance would be: "high carbon" profit + subsidy - high carbon tax If ["low carbon" profit - small carbon ta
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by addcommitpush 2y ago
That's what the law say anyway: Le Conseil d'Etat est la juridiction administrative suprême. (see: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000... ) Note that's it's not

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