popra

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by popra 1y ago
Are we now going to disregard anything that can't be properly defined in 10 words or less because otherwise it just sounds funny to "idiots off the streets"? I guess the two paragraphs on wikipedia are too elitist for the idi
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by popra 1y ago
"which they aren't" ... OK, you seem oddly confused about what's actually being discussed. Let me help: here's a passage from the paper itself "On one hand, some scholars argue that populism is inherently illib
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by popra 1y ago
What if the choice of the majority of the people is anti-democratic? It would seem that that would make you anti-democratic while trying to be pro democracy.
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by popra 9y ago
So given the "consensus" that "genes have a significant influence on differences in human behaviour, interests, capabilities etc.", you're basically saying that a significant and spontaneous, yet undetected, mutatio
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by popra 9y ago
"[...] the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but now the oppressor is the “white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy." This is a dubio
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by popra 10y ago
Not sure I understand your point, in a zero-sum game the third party could still do some redistribution to keep the habitual loser "in the game" Update: scratch the above, you're right. But in my experience the ones arguing t
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by popra 10y ago
Genuine question: I've never understood the non zero sum game idea in the context of economic inequality. If I win more than you lose, overall it's a non zero sum game, as in, our combined gaines are greater than before (the pie i
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by popra 10y ago
Haven't read the full paper but is seems to suggest that returns on capital investments are declining because of consolidations. Companies in dominant positions make huge profits(compared to the rest of the players), while those that a
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by popra 10y ago
I believe this is the paper about the declining labor and capital shares mentioned in the article http://home.uchicago.edu/~barkai/doc/BarkaiDecliningLaborCap... .
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by popra 10y ago
What about those who don't have funds to begin with, hence can't pay for adequate legal representation and have to take a plea bargain. Would you say those don't have basic human rights to begin with?
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by popra 10y ago
You are awesome for taking the time to explain. Thanks.
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by popra 10y ago
I would love this too
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by popra 10y ago
You're assuming "outside influence" is the same thing as "different views". For example, in information ops you only have to use sensemaking on a target ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemakin
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by popra 10y ago
I like to think of myself as technically minded. However, your stereotype of technically minded people seems to sugest that either I accept the "natural truth" of stereotype accuracy or forfeit my technically minded view of myself
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by popra 10y ago
> HR finds some excuse to fire you Which shouldn't be surprising, because unless carefully expressed, skepticism towards the stereotype threat effect can be interpreted as a justification for stereotyping, especially when the skepti
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by popra 10y ago
I can now reply to your comment here, so I will reply again :) You say that reality tends to punish irrational practices which means that some escape this punishment. Hence I will conclude that with time irrational business practices accu
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by popra 10y ago
I can't reply to your last comment below so I'll reply here. To me it seems that you are using some game theory ideas to explain how markets behave. The problem is that you forget to incorporate concepts from the "reality&quo
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by popra 10y ago
You're just arguing that dumping can be fought with dumping and hence it's not rational for economic agents to engage in dumping. When did a rational argument stop the market from doing something?
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by popra 10y ago
Oh wow, I still find the level of effort the HN crowd puts into being helpfull, amazing. You sir rock!
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by popra 10y ago
That you very much, I'll look into those.
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by popra 10y ago
As someone intrested in the subject but with 0 insight or knowledge, would these algorithms be a good match for short text clustering? For example identifying identical products in a price comparison app based on their similar but not ident
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by popra 11y ago
> No. I'm using "regulation" in a more general sense here, to mean "giving market participants incentives to behave in particular ways, and not to behave in other ways". I'm using regulation in the sense of
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by popra 11y ago
> Nothing you say in any way establishes that regulation by government works better than regulation by free market participants. All you're doing is describing what government regulation does. Regulation by free market participants?
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by popra 11y ago
> The problem with that is that all other methods of regulating the behavior of sellers do even worse. I think this is where our views diverge. In essence what they're doing is false advertising: "buy this product because it&#x
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by popra 11y ago
They're overcharging today compared to yesterday, so that tomorrow, on the day of the sale event, they can display a bigger discount. And all of that to "incentivize" (read trick) the buyer to spend his money. It has nothing
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by popra 11y ago
> Prices fluctuate all the time, sometimes daily, sometimes hourly. Right, the problem comes when the stores inflate prices artificially just before a sale event so that they can display a bigger discount percent on the day of the sale.
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by popra 11y ago
You don't have to write the unit tests up front for the full app - in fact doing that could be considered going against agility. The way TDD is usually done is that the developer writes the tests for the feature she's currently wo