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by lusmd 7y ago
They do a few checks for this in the article. For example, one of their subsamples is Union Army veterans, and they detect the same trend within those cohorts (0.03 C lower per decade), which used the same instrumentation, as when comparing
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by lusmd 7y ago
Paper is not really environmentally unfriendly. Those are farmed trees. No one is turning virgin rainforest into paper. The shipping is far and away the worst part of that. On the other hand, ereaders use electricity. Tablets use more. So n
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by lusmd 7y ago
Streaming revenue is about the same as box office revenue, so the disparity isn't as big. But still, that's a lot of gaming revenue.
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by lusmd 7y ago
He was added as a foreword author after the main author had already died, just FYI.
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by lusmd 7y ago
A lot of people I know at various departments are switching their undergrad stats/econometrics classes from Stata to R. That's the beginning of the end of Stata.
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by lusmd 7y ago
Some people attach more emotional value to items like that. Some don't. I did for a long time. After a lot of big changes I kind of stopped hording things as much and it was very freeing.
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by lusmd 7y ago
Not an article, but the Seth McFarlane Cosmos has an episode that's largely about Clair Patterson.
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by lusmd 7y ago
A coder broke into a new genre of website and very successfully monetized it. Yes, why indeed would HN be interested in this /female/ part of Internet culture and commerce?
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by lusmd 7y ago
> This dearth of reaction to such a critical work... It's a five year old book, of course no one is talking about it specifically anymore. (And when it came out, everyone was talking about it.) And "nobody is talking about in
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by lusmd 7y ago
Yes, that paragraph is very, very bad, because it's not people of equal education that would have equal wages, but equal productivity---which will vary depending on what firm you're at! Not just because of sorting and poaching of
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by lusmd 8y ago
\usepackage{mathpazo} Or \usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign} Some people like garamond (also a mathdesign font).
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by lusmd 8y ago
Student loans are not dischargeable under U.S. bankruptcy law, but this girl is Canadian. Apart from any lawsuit she may be able to file against Tufts, she may have an out there.
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by lusmd 8y ago
It is indeed a common literary device in 19th century Russian lit. Usually with proper names to make them more "anonymous" but contemporary readers would know exactly what was being referenced. For example, most of the place names
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by lusmd 8y ago
This looks like very, very early work.
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by lusmd 8y ago
> most likely taxed away Yes, most UBI proposals (as designed by economists) tax earnings with little to know exemption. That is, we give you $15k per year, but start taxing you the very first dollar you earn rather than only taxing inco
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by lusmd 8y ago
But labor force participation rates are still very, very low. If you'd like a job but don't have one, you don't get counted in any unemployment stats except the aggregate labor force participation.