animefan

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by animefan 11y ago
The same wikipedia article goes on to say [these academies] are to be distinguished from the Western-style university which is an autonomous organization of scholars that originated in medieval Europe and was adopted in other world regions
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by animefan 11y ago
Is this a serious comment? Do you believe that there is literally a "guy who invented college".
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by animefan 11y ago
I think that progressives (especially Chomsky) overstate the role of hard power/money in politics. Or perhaps they understate the role of soft power. E.g. the progressive movement in the West is driven by a relatively small group of
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by animefan 11y ago
I don't buy it. Any academic presentation of a subject includes the limits of current knowledge. Maybe this is not emphasized enough, but it's a matter of extent, not a qualitative refusal to acknowledge ignorance. A great examp
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by animefan 11y ago
Bankers like their cash flow, but they also have to compete with other bankers. My claim (and the claim implicit in the article) is that people will get an actuarially fair rate for their education. And given this, they will not pay back
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by animefan 11y ago
Generally "efficient" means maximizing social utility, which in practice for economists means GDP [0]. I agree that there are benefits to an educated population (in spite of disagreeing with the progressive bias in university educ
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by animefan 11y ago
yes I think more colleges should be built, or existing colleges should expand.
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by animefan 11y ago
Charitably, that would read "the government already has enough information to collect payments anyway, so it might as well do this, but should let private industry do the rest". Personally I don't think this is an appropriat
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by animefan 11y ago
Both equity and debt have an element of moral hazard, and both provide some incentives to make the efficient choice about whether to get an education. A student taking on a loan for education (Australian style or otherwise) might make them
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by animefan 11y ago
There is nothing in the article that suggests that the bank would be entitled to anything but a fixed share of your income, female or otherwise. In theory [0], if women on average earned less than men because of taking time off to raise ch
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by animefan 11y ago
That is pretty much it. I would guess that most people pay back their debt in the end, so it is not entirely equity-like, it is more like a mix of debt and equity (the interest rate is below market, so lower income people end up paying bac
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by animefan 11y ago
That's not clear at all. Education fees have gone up, but it's not clear that the cause is student loans (and the subsequent increase in demand for education), and even if they did, we would expect at least some increase in edu
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by animefan 11y ago
I guess there are two possibilities. 1. Profit margins are so tight because truck businesses compete with each other. In this case, increasing safety standards in a uniform way, will not change profits since the costs can be passed on to c
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by animefan 11y ago
In almost all cases knowledge of copy-on-write doesn't have to be widespread because it is equivalent to value semantics. It is only because they were using a buggy dll (which for non-matlab users, is custom native code that matlab cal
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by animefan 11y ago
In the context of that sentence, I was referring to the bonds bought by open market operations, which are primarily US government bonds and would not include private label subprime RMBSs. The kind of close-to-risk-free bonds bought in open
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by animefan 11y ago
Why do I seem biased to you? I don't think it's useful to conflate bias and having a strong opinion, even if strong opinions often result from bias.
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by animefan 11y ago
The (paywalled) article states that they attempted to get press passes but were denied, so they snuck in. Perhaps the size of the event meant that YC wanted to limit the number of press? I don't know if they have a reputation for bei
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by animefan 11y ago
Really sickening how they throw in a jibe about the lack of women, just so they can sound self righteous and distract from the immorality[0] of them trespassing on YCombinator's event. [0] Not that it's always immoral for journali
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by animefan 11y ago
What about this kind of bias: every experimental result can be attributed to some kind of bias. And bias is a hot topic, especially given the ascendence of progressive politics in academia and beyond. So there is a strong motivation for e
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by animefan 11y ago
This article is a good summary of the issues of the (mis)use of statistics in science. Having done some research myself, in most cases the statistics don't scream a particular message to you, and it's really hard to understand th
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by animefan 11y ago
I don't think that's a fair characterization of the issue. p-hacking is done almost exclusively by people who completely understand the definition and interpretation of p-values. However these people are also under a lot of pres
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by animefan 11y ago
I'm think disagreement is not about privacy per se, but rather the absolute moral correctness of our legal principals. E.g. other people in this article have commented that people who have affairs deserve to be punched in the face (wh
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by animefan 11y ago
Increasing wages will make employers less inclined to hire people, and thus potentially less total disposable income. Giving ordinary people more money directly seems like a more reasonable sort of stimulus. Where are these ideas floati
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by animefan 11y ago
Open market operations can't really be characterized as lending to banks. Instead, the Fed buys various kinds of debt, especially US govt bonds, thus injecting money into the economy. The fed funds rate is really the rate at which ba
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by animefan 11y ago
The article looked like a load of waffle, but it would be nice to see some basic statistical tests applied, e.g. can we reject the hypothesis that everyone is equally accurate?
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by animefan 11y ago
One of the main mechanisms by which inflation stimulates the economy, is that it lowers wages (because of sticky wages) hence decreasing unemployment. So intentionally raising wages as a form of stimulus seems counterproductive. Could you
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by animefan 11y ago
"Javascript integration is very and tedious." Even though this doesn't make grammatical sense and missing a word, somehow I understand exactly what it means.
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by animefan 11y ago
If anyone would like to be "radicalized" in a slightly different political direction, I would suggest visiting the real Bethlehem. Then try to reconcile the experience of the people living there with the politics of writers for t
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by animefan 11y ago
PCA implicitly uses a quadratic form on a vector space. When done the usual way, this is just the identity matrix. But for image data, I think you would get better results using a quadratic form based on a kernel, so that Q_ijkl where (i,
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by animefan 11y ago
A lot of these things were originally developed at Google then spread to other companies (when employees moved etc.). So Google is contributing probably more, but not directly.

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