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by ontheinternets 10y ago
I think all these comments are on to the same well-documented idea: Principal-Agent problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
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by ontheinternets 11y ago
What is the correct ownership rate? and why do we care about the change from 2006? The data from 1956 to the present makes this whole article kid of boring. https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtabs.htm
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by ontheinternets 13y ago
it's not just the principal, it is the interest: loans get up to 6.8 and 8.0 percent. still subsidized rates, but much higher than less valuable investments like houses. Rates are also fixed with no possibility to refinance. you have t
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by ontheinternets 13y ago
As long as the lifetime earnings are substantially higher, you should be willing to put up the NPV of your annuity (income). As long as you make even one dollar more than you would, you are better off. If you compare the entire education in
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by ontheinternets 13y ago
There is now less expectation of future profits than before.
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by ontheinternets 13y ago
I tried this when I was just starting out with programming and there were a lot of logical jumps in the exercises. Especially early on, I would check the solutions after a tough one and find syntax that I was not familiar with (and wasn&#x2
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by ontheinternets 13y ago
I think this has been posted on every bitcoin discussion so far: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/CompetingMoneySupplies.ht... http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.htm... so here it is again
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by ontheinternets 13y ago
Look up "legal reasoning" on ssrn: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2000788&#... http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2145478 There are a bunch of papers on what counts. My take away was that many courses
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by ontheinternets 14y ago
I did the cs61A course online and it was much more illuminating than when I made junky websites with html and css
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by ontheinternets 14y ago
Might want to add a more prominent link to the installation
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by ontheinternets 14y ago
Comparative statics are not a good way to analyze immigration policy!
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by ontheinternets 14y ago
All lawyers take the bar exam. No law firm or government organization asks for a lawyer's score on the bar. They only thing that matters is your GPA, given to you by your own university. Law GPAs are heavily curved; most students can only r