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by pigou 13y ago
One thing I've always wondered: How does Consumer Reports afford to purchase all those cars (and other expensive items that it reviews)?
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by pigou 13y ago
> Parnia is currently working with a number of hospitals on a project to investigate out of body experiences. One of the components of the study is to place objects on high shelves in operating theatres, which are only observable from a
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What to Do When You've Made Someone Angry(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by pigou 13y ago|0 comments
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by pigou 13y ago
The article has been updated to clarify that this is merely speculative: > Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. At least one of the suspects in Watertown appeared to be
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by pigou 13y ago
Whenever I hear stupid questions like "Do immigrant engineers depress engineer wages?", I'm tempted to say that it's as simple as supply and demand. But supply and demand are not simple things. On the one hand, an increased supply of engine
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by pigou 13y ago
Aren't you double-counting here? On net the merchant only loses the merchandise. The net debit to the merchant's account is zero.
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by pigou 13y ago
Unlike most keyboards which have the ctrl key on the bottom left corner, MacBook Pro keyboards for some reason have the useless fn button at that location, and the ctrl key to the right of that. This makes text navigation with the emacs key
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by pigou 14y ago
> why are geographically proximate people of more moral worth? This seems to be the implicit assumption whenever certain segments of the political class bemoan jobs being "shipped overseas". On a local/national scale, inequality does in
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by pigou 14y ago
Here's some context behind the essay: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html
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by pigou 14y ago
I thought this was an interesting point: According to Wikipedia[1], > Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
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by pigou 14y ago
To be fair, The proportion of NYT writers and editors that is numerate is going up, but in absolute numbers, there are more innumerate people at the NYT now than there were 12 years ago.
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by pigou 14y ago
> Nowadays more children attend school than ever before, but they learn much less. They learn almost nothing. The proportion of the Mexican population that is literate is going up, but in absolute numbers, there are more illiterate peop
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by pigou 14y ago
While those are interesting counterexamples, they don't come close to modeling a realistic "age-at-death" distribution. There isn't any such distribution whose median would be significantly skewed by a tiny minority of centenarian outliers.
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by pigou 14y ago
> it ends up being closer to median life span - so an overstated number of centenarians (people over 100) could significantly skew things. Could you elaborate? Isn't the median always _less_ sensitive to outliers compared to the mean?
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Ask HN: Is using Adblock unethical?
9 points by pigou 14y ago|19 comments