stbarnes

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by stbarnes 11y ago
Because if that anecdote is true, Morgenbesser is clearly insane. Drill down on your intuition about why he's insane and you arrive at "he's violating IIA".
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by stbarnes 12y ago
The 'else' after the 'if' is unnecessary, but so what? We're not running out of letters. IMO including an "else" makes it clearer.
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by stbarnes 12y ago
huh? great-grandparent said nothing about square roots
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by stbarnes 12y ago
Which is itself a special case of the rule for the difference of two nth powers...
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by stbarnes 13y ago
> You only take a job in business operations if you aren’t smart enough to be an engineer (or designer, or product manager, or…) The article claims that this is false. But in fact, it's pretty obvious that the average non-engineer i
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by stbarnes 13y ago
You seem to be implying that we should focus on reducing demand. That could be true, but "X implies Y" does not necessarily imply that the best way of eliminating Y is to eliminate X. For instance, "We don't have a murde
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by stbarnes 13y ago
So politicians are in a conspiracy to not stop problems? Sounds unlikely to me, I think it's more like: * Many politicians, like most people, are idiots. Partly because many voters are also idiots. * Politicians don't have strong
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by stbarnes 13y ago
The article uses misleading numbers. Sure, that 2% bonus is worth $60k if you compound it over 40 years. But that number is almost irrelevant . What's relevant is the opportunity cost . If you spent that time (likely hundred or thous