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by araftery 12y ago
I think you're spot on. The challenge is to find away to evaluate both on a level playing field. A CS grad from different caliber universities probably (on average) have different levels of competency. Even graduates from the same univ
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by araftery 12y ago
A new form accreditation is really what's holding back a huge change in higher education. MOOCs right now, at most, can replace only traditional professional development classes. They're still not a drop-in replacement for college
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by araftery 12y ago
Agreed. Seems like the author is looking for something more along the lines of "socially optimal." Also seems like he mixed up which outcome is Nash and which is socially optimal. (Deny, Deny) = (Defect, Defect) = Nash Eq. (Confes
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Visualizing CrunchBase Data with D3.js(araftery.github.io)
3 points by araftery 12y ago|0 comments
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United States v. Microsoft: Deposition by Bill Gates(youtube.com)
5 points by araftery 12y ago|2 comments
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by araftery 12y ago
I disagree. The problem is frankly that we've come to expect too much from modern medicine. Doing a triple bypass surgery on a 90-year-old is expensive, plain and simple. Yes, we can save his life, but we have to be willing to pay the
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by araftery 12y ago
> No. This is not an issue of partisanship. Yes it is. Nearly every reason on there is partisan. Say what you want about "trustworthiness" and the fact that having an "untrustworthy" person on a cloud service provider
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by araftery 12y ago
Apparently LastPass is still vulnerable: https://lastpass.com/heartbleed/?h=LastPass.com
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by araftery 12y ago
Looks awesome. A great checkout experience is always a delight to use. Even Amazon's feels kind of clunky if you have to enter credit card information.
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by araftery 12y ago
I totally agree. This is the way most of economics is taught; concrete numbers provide evidence for ideas/models, but when learning their concepts, they simply slow you down.
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by araftery 12y ago
Yeah that caught my attention too. Personally, I really don't want my HN to be different from anyone else's. I come to HN not only to see stories that will interest me, but also to see what's captivating the community as a wh
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by araftery 12y ago
The purple writing is really distracting.