mc-lovin

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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>Microeconomic models that assume the marginal productivity of a worker can be calculated in advance are drastically at odds with the reality I see Micro theory is very general, and almost tautological. For example, you can re-interpret
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>Ease the author's discomfort, more like. I wouldn't be so cynical, but I agree with >chances are that your subconscious is telling you to leave them the hell alone The funny thing is, what is really happening is that it is
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>a lot of you older guys have trouble understanding... Maybe when you're 30 you will be able to form a complete sentence.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Actually the logic is quite sound. A dollar spent on the mars rover is a dollar not spent on poverty reduction. I do think that in the long run, spending on science and tech in general does prevent poverty, but it's not clear that t
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I don't see how you can base a long term business model on a technology that can easily be broken (i.e. cracking the app so that photos aren't deleted after some time like the sender intended). I guess in the short term they can m
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
The implication that the powerpoint slides were concocted by China in order to discredit and weaken US internet based companies is absolutely ridiculous. It puts any conspiracies I've heard involving the US government to shame. You ma
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
If we are discussing the benefits of logic programming, I think it's important to include other declarative languages like SQL. The idea of specifying directly what is computed, and not how it is computed, is very useful, and not limit
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>Not getting a wage equal to your productivity at the margin may be considered exploitation in several schools of microeconomics. If an employee provides value X and receives wages X-10, the amount of exploitation is 10. And this is, by
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>Am I the only programmer who doesn't like being economically exploited (in the formal microeconomic sense)? For me, it's demotivating to know I'm putting forth effort for which someone else is reaping huge value. There is
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
It is also just barely too incoherent to argue against. I guess some skills do improve with age.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
it is. I read that link already, in fact used it as a reference when I did convert from Matlab to python. I converted back when I realized that in spite of the apparent syntactic similarities, matlab is still very different to scipy. In ma
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>The main issue as I see it is that as we use money as a proxy for value, we disproportionately weight the desires of the rich over those of the poor. A service for rich people (e.g. an online photo sharing website) doesn't need to prod
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Someone should create something like ListServe, where there were that many subscribers, but I had a higher chance of getting selected :-)
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
This is a good question. In financial models, one common approach is the "noise trader" theory where some people make random trades. These are the people who lose out to the informed traders. As to not creating wealth, it is possible that
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Well the article claims IQ measures the capacity for abstraction, which isn't necessarily the same as intelligence: the best programmer isn't the one who always starts with a UML diagram.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
> Claiming that they are not interchangeable based on the difference between pass-by-reference and copy-on-write is just silly. Actually I gave one more reason.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Python and Matlab are not interchangeable. Matlab is unique in its expressiveness for numerical and matrix computation, and value semantics. Value semantics matter a lot because they result in functional programming without even having to t
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
It's really unfortunate that the data is presented at such a high level of aggregation. It would be so much better to have individual level data (perhaps with personal info such as age, etc. removed) so other people could do their own analy
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Why is this a matter for the executive branch? Can someone with more knowledge of US politics explain?
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
This was a good article, and I think it's important to point out that it doesn't just give reasons why US schools don't use open source software, but that these reasons (especially 1. and 3.) also explain why US schools shouldn't use op
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, while I was reading the article I was wondering how they could brand themselves as apple-like when they must surely be selling and Android phone. It's sad that every tech story about China has to be given an an
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
"A lot" and "rampant" seem like exaggerations. Based on that link, most of MIUI's changes are to the Android source code, which licensed under the permissive Apache license. Only their modifications to the linux kernel need to comply with
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I'd guess that phrase refers to how energy is put into and taken out of the flywheel: using electrostatic force rather than electromagnetic.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
That's great then. Yes it would be very interesting to hear how this works.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Hi thanks for the article. Have you actually implemented this system or are in the process of implementing it? I think the article is much more interesting if it's more than just an in principle idea. Also out would be nice if the article m
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
This article didn't make much sense to me. In particular, what was it about the problem that prevents having a "stage" object with a "do_stage" method, which takes the input object and returns the output object (or some error code etc.). I
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I admire Tesla for playing hardball with these dealerships. The deals between manufacturers and their own dealerships can be arranged with contracts. There is no need for a blanket ban on dealers selling directly. It's hard to think of a pu
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I second that, this is very curious.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Unfortunately the incentive structures for researchers tend to reward big claims, both on terms of results and novelty, over careful comparisons. It's always better to sell your work as a conceptual leap toward than a slight variation in a
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
While I'm glad that people from Turkey are voicing there opinions here, I think there is also danger in being too credulous. The people who use English speaking social media are not necessarily representative of the whole population and the

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