ergoproxy

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Exotic Probabilities(odd74.proboards.com)
46 points by ergoproxy 11y ago|7 comments
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A story of mathematics, witchcraft and Walpurgis Night,(odd74.proboards.com)
3 points by ergoproxy 11y ago|0 comments
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D&D Meets the Electronic Age(odd74.proboards.com)
64 points by ergoproxy 11y ago|12 comments
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
> you acknowledge that it is the individual behaviors that are necessary for the complex structures to exist. Monopoly pricing and price fixing are not any of the individual behaviors necessary to get a market price, and that's
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
> That makes no sense. If all participants cannot influence the price, then where does the price come from? You are assuming that the dynamics of an economic system is nothing but a summation of the individual dynamics. This assumption e
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
I was speaking specifically of monopoly power, i.e., the power to raise or lower prices in the market. And no, neither government nor private firms should have this power. Monopoly power is an example of market failure. In a competitive mar
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
I have a different take on this article than most. I'm a proponent of Classical economics, and I reject all modern schools of economics--neoclassical, Austrian, Keynesian, etc. Classical thinkers like Adam Smith expounded how rational
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
My Erdős Number is 4: Me->Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy->Joseph E. Flaherty->David C. Arney->Paul Erdős For a time, it appeared to be 2, but Paul Erdős and the Erdős-1 mathematician with whom I collaborated ultimately withdrew
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
If you sent a Wuphf (pronounced "woof") to someone, the message went to the recipients' home phone, cell phone, email, fax, pager, Facebook, twitter, and AIM. The original WUPHF.com beta page is archived at: https:/&#x2
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
Gary Gygax was a Christian. In February 1969, he wrote an article in IFW Monthly explicitly stating he was a Christian and making an argument why Christians shouldn't celebrate Christmas; he justified his argument with Biblical sourc
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by ergoproxy 12y ago
Apparently, Harvard's copy of Practicarum quaestionum circa leges regias is actually bound in sheep skin, not human flesh, at least according to this article: "Harvard Law School's 'Human Skin' Book Isn't Rea
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Letting the banks fail doesn't entail doing nothing and letting people suffer. Hank Paulson's bank bailout proposal got rammed through Congress by the Bush Administration without much consideration of any alternatives. Paulson&#x2
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
> Would humanity never ever have invented these technologies without war ? Not all economic growth is good growth. There's bad growth too. Like anything else, war has costs: (1) Price tag. For example, "The U.S. wars in Afghani
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The article doesn't address the question: Why has the GDP share of the FIRE sector recently grown so much so fast? If its growth were the result of increasing authentic demand for financial services, or increasing efficiency in the su
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
I'd hardly call the Fed's response to the current crisis a success-- The U6 unemployment rate for the US is currently 12.6%; when we add back housing, healthcare, food, fuel, and education into the inflation statistics, its been r
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
It's debatable how much of this we can honestly attribute to the military-- Leó Szilárd and Enrico Fermi patented the idea of a nuclear reactor in 1933. The military didn't invent it. Christian Hülsmeyer was a German inventor and
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Smoke and mirrors aside, the taxpayers have actually taken a huge loss on these bailouts. The official figures say: $608.9B out; $621.4B in. Looks like a $12.5B profit. But looks can be deceiving. First, it neglects the fact that we had to
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
> Banks bear risk. TBTF banks don't bear any risk. In 2008-9, they socialized their risk, forcing US taxpayers to bail them out, after making too many bad bets.
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
This recently posted YouTube video by UNSW Professor Norman J. Wildberger discusses the discovery of the quaternions by Hamilton and the subsequent discovery of the octonians. It's 59 minutes, 30 seconds long, and it was published on M
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
In the second half of the Keiser Report: New Crypto Phenomenon Ethereum (E569) (published Mar 1, 2014), Max interviews Charles Hoskinson, a cryptographer and one of the people behind Ethereum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Can't say I was disappointed by this article, because I've grown to expect so little from the press: Unfortunately, media coverage tends to be sensational and topical. Here we see an example of a sensational headline followed by a
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
While the author is correct to admonish the news media for its incorrect use of words like 'speed', 'throughput', 'bandwidth', etc., the author has much to learn about the economics and law at play here. He say
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The topic of dilapidated mansions on "Billionaire's Row" in London was also discussed on the Keiser Report, episode 558, Feb 4, 2014: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni9AfsK5EdY&t=437 The housing bubble is
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
"Every man has a Property in his own Person" (John Locke, Two Treatises on Government ). As a libertarian, self-ownership is a central principle. Most people don't have any assets, save their own bodies. People should have t
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
They forgot about Sales Secret #6: Sell Girl Scout Cookies Outside Marijuana Dispensaries: "According to her mother, [Danielle] Lei sold 37 more boxes catering to the munchies crowd than what she sold during the same two-hour period ou
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
The Bible says the earth is flat and can't move; and that pi is 3. It's also full of figurative language, similes, parables and allegories. There's often two different accounts of the same event, such as creation and the floo
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
News coverage tends to be topical, sensational, and lazy. There's tons of detailed information about this case on this website: http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/ That website includes PDFs of all the legal m
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
Discussed here on HN: "84-Year Old Nun sent to prison for 3 years for peace protest at US nuclear site" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261551
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
I used to interview applicants for technical jobs at a Wall St bank. Most applicants were straight out of school with a B.S. in ComSci. There was a huge disconnect between what these kids wanted to do and what they would actually do if they
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by ergoproxy 13y ago
If the "doomsday" event is hyperinflation, then you would have done better to invest that $137,000 in physical gold, rather than some rural hermitage. If the "doomsday" event is "The Great Tribulation," then yo

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