msellout

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by msellout 9y ago
Give `destructure` a try https://github.com/selik/destructure
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by msellout 9y ago
What do you think of this library: https://github.com/selik/destructure It'll enforce schema and destructure the nested dict/list that results from JSON decoding.
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by msellout 10y ago
Note that at the most-selective universities there does appear to be a relationship between selectivity and education ROI. The trouble with linear methods is that they often fit to the bulk of the population and have poor fit at the extreme
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by msellout 10y ago
What effect do you think that has? If smart students choose selective schools and smartness is associated with ROI, we would expect to see a correlation between ROI and school selectivity. That we don't is interesting. If merit is high
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by msellout 10y ago
Good point. That's why it's likely the youth and the not-yet-born will pay a higher percent of their lifetime incomes in taxes while probably receiving less benefit. Americans have a history of voting wealth transfers to themselve
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by msellout 10y ago
> some people "pay for more than they use." The author was addressing the opposite situation -- people using more than what they pay for. > It would be just as ridiculous to write an article about how "people with child
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by msellout 10y ago
The author excluded roads financed by gasoline tax from the analysis. I don't remember reading about sales and income taxes in the article, but perhaps those are in the same category.
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by msellout 10y ago
No, seems like it's not entrapment [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car
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by msellout 10y ago
More variant pricing will better distribute usage. The unfortunate effects on the poor can be negated by a sales tax paid back to all citizens equally as a lump sum.
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by msellout 10y ago
Yikes. Yes, of course technology is driven by human preferences. But, No, humans must occasionally accept that certain habits are not sustainable given current and near-future technologies.
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by msellout 10y ago
I'm often annoyed when reading reports that use percentages instead of the actual ratios. For example, "2 out of 3" is much better than "66.7%".
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by msellout 10y ago
Did you recover any money? How difficult was the process?
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by msellout 10y ago
The buyer of non-voting shares is betting that eventually the company will start a dividend or share-buyback program, or that there will be a subsequent buyer that will pay more than the current price.
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by msellout 10y ago
A chart of growth rate might have a peak, but a chart of the thing that is growing is more simply modeled as a sigmoid that has an initial exponential growth portion, then a logarithmic portion which ends in a plateau.
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by msellout 10y ago
I asked a guy who had taken four startups to IPO how it was he seemed to work such reasonable hours while other entrepreneurs worked much longer. He said he assumed they were mostly doing trial and error, while he had a better sense of what
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by msellout 10y ago
Lending does not necessarily encourage spending. During the housing price collapse crisis, the US government lent money to banks at a cheap rate, expecting to spur more consumer lending. Instead the banks just kept the money under the mattr
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by msellout 10y ago
The government does have a responsibility to alleviate the pain of economic dislocation. The nation might gain as companies fail and jobs are lost, but individuals are hurt. Unfortunately, the best solutions -- unemployment insurance, free
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by msellout 10y ago
Circles in circles is a terrible chart. Humans have a very difficult time comparing relative areas of circles. Much better would be to add a separate bar chart comparing all the countries and each bar separated into stripes for the city vs
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by msellout 10y ago
Not all science is statistics. That's just the current paradigm and not applicable in all cases. I agree the reward system is flawed, but it ain't so easy to improve it.
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by msellout 10y ago
> every monitoring system eventually is used for social control That statement, even if true, does not specify what time frame "eventually" is, to what degree the "control" is, or whether the result is a net benefit t
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by msellout 10y ago
Still, he's got a point. They are very mysterious about what their margins are.
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by msellout 10y ago
I don't think he's trying to help them. He was experimenting to see if he could train/domesticate them.
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by msellout 10y ago
Sometimes it's really nice to see a multinational corporation. They can help reduce corruption and set higher standards for all sorts of things. Yeah, they sometimes displace local entrepreneurs, but the consumers generally benefit (th
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by msellout 10y ago
You're a bit out of date.
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by msellout 10y ago
Wikipedia says there are an estimated 268 billion barrels in Saudi Aramco's proven oil reserves, with maybe 90 billion more undiscovered. It produces somewhere between 3 and 4 billion barrels annually. If a barrel of oil is worth about
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by msellout 10y ago
> should be understood easily enough I think you'll find you have an easier time communicating if you stick to terms that people have heard before, even if they're slightly less accurate than new creations. Of course, if you&#x
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by msellout 10y ago
It is impossible to create a total ordering of preference when you have conflicting priorities (or "tension" between priorities). This reflects reality. Humans often get in weird situations where they prefer A to B, B to C, and C
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by msellout 10y ago
"Uber for cleaning service" had/has the chance to expand the market, yet those companies seem to be having some trouble. That suggests the regulation aspect is somewhat of a factor.
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by msellout 10y ago
In fact, many people should pay more than they do -- get better lawyers, more thorough inspections, better negotiators, etc.
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by msellout 10y ago
I'm having trouble determining if you're being sarcastic.

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