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I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is theoretical economists are doing.

A medical scientist runs experiments on rats, to gain insight into what the effects of a certain phenomenon might be on humans. Rats aren't humans, of course, but we think they share important characteristics with humans. Of course, human trials would be better---butbecause there are ethical and practical difficulties in performing human experiments in controlled environments, we are happy to accept the insights that come from studying rats.

Theoretical economics studies the interactions of idealized 'rational' actors. These aren't humans, of course, but like rats, we think they might share important characteristics with humans. Like rational actors, humans have things they want, and do respond to incentives. Economics is largely the study of systems of incentives.

You can gain insight into the systems of rational actors---and insofar as you believe the analogy between rational actors and humans, into human economic systems---by writing equations and proving theorems.

I'm sick of this theme that theoretical economists are these dogmatic lunatics who write equations on the board that have nothing to do with reality. They are in the business of crafting powerful arguments about human nature by analogy, which yes, aren't always accessible to those of us who haven't steeped ourselves in the math, but I think that is no reason to dismiss their insights as nonsense and saying they have a 'math problem'.
And the extra ironic part is that PayPal literally even owns x.com...
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There is a main difference between Physics and Economics. Physics tries to explain the laws of nature which do not change over time. But Economics tries to explain the laws of a system based on human knowledge and believes which is anything but robust. Using modeling techniques borrowed from Physics/Mathematics in the field of Economics can work very well but only if the laws you are investigating are robust over a given period of time.

Edit: typo
Simple. Most of the deals Netflix have in place have terms dictated by the content creators. Well, maybe content owner is a better term. There are also the deals that Netflix passes on because they feel the terms required by the content owners are too much.

In the end, content owners get the final say in whether their content appears on Netflix or not. They either say no because they don't like Netflix, they say no because they got a better deal elsewhere, or Netflix says no because the terms are not financially viable. Which is one reason for Netflix to "dump" a huge movie library, which they have before. When I first signed up they had a deal with Starz that eventually went away.

So, if you don't like certain content not being available on Netflix or that certain content was taken away; then most likely your complaint should be aimed at the content owners.

Although, there are examples of content that Netflix doesn't actively pursue but I'm speaking of strictly mainstream entertainment.
That sort of input is used for key generation entropy, so hopefully Randall is going to use it to break all my SSH and GPG keys. I can't wait to see what he does with them.
Summary: No. "Flight prices are most likely impacted by three factors: complexity of airfare pricing, high demand for the same flight and cached data."
Statically linked binaries is not a new thing. You can do that on many languages.
Better graphics programs will not attempt to put the whole image into RAM, but only decompress the pieces needed for processing it.

I remember working with multi-megapixel images on systems with far less than 1MB of RAM, many years ago. Perhaps this is a good example of how more hardware resources can lead to them being wasted - the fact that RAM has grown so much that most images fit completely in it, has also meant programmers assuming they can do this for all images without a second thought when often all that's needed is a tiny subset of all the data.

Even if the image data is compressed, there's absolutely no need to keep all of it in memory - just decompress incrementally into a small, fixed-size buffer until you get to the "plaintext" position desired, ignoring everything before that. The fact that it's compressed also means that, with suitable algorithms, you can skip over huge spans at once - this is particularly easy to do with RLE and LZ - and the compression ratio actually boosts the speed of seeking to a specific position.

Currently, (hopefully...) no application is attempting to read entire video files into memory before processing them, but I wonder if that might change in the future as RAM becomes even bigger, and we'll start to get "video decompression bombs" instead?
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Looks interesting but why not Python 3.x?
Bram Moolenaar is supposedly the author of that statement, which makes it more so relevant.
Something like this?
http://grugq.github.io/resources/some_elements_of_intelligen...
(I don't like these ads)

1. Apps can't be searched or content linked from Google.com

2. Apps don't show (as much?) Google ads

1 + 2 = Google penalty
WoW was pretty much a spiritual successor to Everquest. Blizzard even hired a few Everquest "power gamers"[0] for their dev team IIRC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pardo
I'm not disagreeing. I'm just saying one easy way to fix the problem is to let them lose money. They either fix the problem or go out of business.

Granted, you don't have the item you desire but I think in most cases an alternative can be obtained.
Bloody good luck getting them out again.
When does it make sense to compare a string with nil?
This is "Duolingo for programming languages". Well done.
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I'm very sorry for your loss. I lost my wife a few years back, and read that losing a child is generally harder than losing a spouse. I can't imagine someone having to go through something harder than what I went through. And you lost a sibling earlier too. Although I don't know you, I do sincerely wish you strength, and that things get better for you.
If you like this sort of thing, you may also enjoy:

1) My website Correlated.org (http://www.correlated.org), which has been generating weird correlations based on users' survey responses for more than four years.

2) Spurious Correlations (http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) by Tyler Vigen, which also offers wacky correlations, but based on publicly available datasets rather than survey responses.

3) Google Correlate (http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw), which allows you to draw a curve, then find search terms whose popularity over time matches the shape you drew.
This could be interesting. How much does a refugee cost? Will this refugee clean my house, cook dinner and tend to my garden? Do I need to interact with it or can I put my refugee in a separate part of the mansion?
I would like to see the US step up its process to accept refugees.

Currently it takes 18 to 24 months for refuges to be able to get on a plane the US. The US has agreed to accept up to 70k refugees yet at this rate it will take for ever while Germany has hundreds of new refuges per day.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/us-accept-thous...
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The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of.

About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).
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Seconded. Almost all law books I possess have numbered paragraphs.
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The issue is that assumptions such as perfectly rational actors can diverge so far from reality that it renders the resulting idealized conclusions meaningless from the perspective of actual human economies. The abstract study of incentives is of course interesting in its own right, but may have little to do with economics in practice -- i.e. the important practice of how actually should we run an economy.

What theoretical economists do is not 'nonsense' but can become nonsense when it naively forms the rationale for real-world policy.
Certain types of work are not as affected by procrastination.

Repetitive factory workers probably don't procrastinate near as much because once they learn the job, the decision-making aspect goes way down. Plus, they'll get fired.
Intel doesn't market chips; they market "platforms" that are bundles of chips that they want you to buy together. Centrino was the most infamous one and maybe now Intel is trying to bundle some wireless charging chips for tablets or something.
Sometimes they are so egregious I have to add them twice!

I'm guessing it occurred due to doing a batch update, and having multiple emails from the same spammer.
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They have done something similar. In Australia they partnered with a local government to provide accommodation in an emergency.

Press release: https://www.airbnb.co.uk/press/news/airbnb-partners-with-vic...

But seeing AirBnB do something for refugees would be great.
Looks like just a small charge to signup:

https://paypal.me/signup/5/

I'm joking, of course.
It's interesting that you view taxation as a violent fundamental wealth redistribution. Taxes do suck and I'm not going to argue that point, but it's interesting because without taxes we would be living in a fundamentally violent society (since there is no government support a monopoly on violence - e.g. Somalia - everyone then may be violent to achieve personal goals).

How about we all try getting rich (or just keep our wealth out of violent neighboring hands) without violence or a government. Try to even significantly increase any meager income in that situation.

My point is that without taxes and the government they support, there is nothing but violence to support any type of venture. This has historical bearing with places that were lawless yet aplenty with resource for ventures (e.g. North American colonies, Wild West, etc...).

If in particular you meant a progressive tax policy that increases the percentage of taxation with your income level is what you're describing as violent then I can see your point a bit more clearly. Why punish the people who are being more productive, right?

Well the thing is that the owners of capital get the most extreme benefit from government. Never the other way around. It makes sense to me that the biggest recipients become the biggest supporters.

For a brief anecdote, poor people who earn wages get social programs to help sometimes, which are then largely obfuscated from public comprehension so you'll need a social worker just to get started. Rich people who own capital get business subsidies in the form of cash on the books. They are both paid from taxes and supported by the government. Who do you think benefits most from the government here? The business owner or the wage earner? Who is being stopped more readily from using violence with this support from government?

So taxes support all of this precarious balance in a capitalist society because the government is the only thing we have found to solve this problem of violence.
It's sad that you've created an account just to make this comment.
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In the playground you have there, the string `v` is implicitly initialized to the empty string, which is not equal to nil. I'm referring to a different condition, where two different values are explicitly set to nil. Check this out: https://play.golang.org/p/qMmg7yOAKO
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>The fact that some people use astrology to play the markets, and seem to get results that are as good as those of economic theory, says a lot about both.

Economists hardly ever try to use the results of economics to predict the stock market...in fact economics is the field that has theories that no strategy exists that can beat the market reliably.
Generally the entropy is derived from the timing of the interrupts from the keypresses. The actual output of keys pressed isn't terribly useful.
They can pretend but their still the bad guys
Learn about stack versus heap, and recognize that Go treats the stack differently from other languages.

Note that the Go language spec does not even contain the terms 'stack' and 'heap. Whether something is stack or heap-allocated isn't always clear. E.g. consider:

foo := &Foo{} // or: new(Foo)

This could be stack or heap-allocated (in the most popular Go implementation) depending on whether the compiler thinks it escapes or not.
We don't have space for this kind of sh*t you're posting
I took 7 anti-procrastination strategies from this thread and created a survey to learn which is the most effective.

Additionally I ask about your demographics—maybe there are some correlations between procrastination and demography.

https://generic.typeform.com/to/plFSop

Would be very nice if you participate and I can share the aggregated result later if of any interest!
>Blizzard needs only buy the remaining 18 million tokens on their own auction house in exchange for virtual currency (which, conveniently, they can create out of thin air).

Interesting, so the final effect is as if players had just bought virtual currency with real world dollars but they 'launder the guilt' through this token scheme..?

But wouldn't players be able to see through only 1 degree of indirection and make the connection that they are buying virtual currency with real?
a. Bring back the sidebar.

b. On Android, add a menu option to download maps - "OK MAPS" is not obvious, easy to remember or in any way sensible in the slightest.

c. Make 3D mode work smoothly on an Android tablet. I have the LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition and it is jerky, stuttery and slow in 3D mode. Compared to Apple maps on the base model iPad3 next to it, it is poor indeed.
Your comment annoyed me enough that I looked through your history to find

> That is what it was for me when I moved to the US from Switzerland.

> Only then I realized that the way people live in Switzerland is not something you can take for granted and in the end made me move back.

Since you don't live in the US anymore, please stick to trying to influence Swiss policy. Since you aren't going to have to deal with the consequences of a widely expanded US refugee policy.
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70k per year is hundreds per day. And then there's all the asylum seekers on top of that as well as the massive undocumented migrations across the southern border.

If Germany were an island it would do the same kind of processing.

There's nothing wrong with examining a person for a year before letting them settle in your country. The system has worked well thus far, why bust it up?
And not at all biased toward native english speakers...
Thankfully, I don't think people with an attitude like that would take them in the first place.
It's great this article about Microsoft fighting for our privacy came put in the midst of the upset over Windows 10 phoning home.
I thought all of the words were perfectly cromulent.
What are some good sites for learning Java, as it's used inside of large organizations? I already know how to code, but have run screaming from Java whenever I started looking at it. But where I work, it's ubiquitous.

I'd rather not learn on my phone. I have this giant desktop sitting in front of me...
Haskell is my preferred statically-compiled-but-with-coroutines-and-channels language. It's harder to learn and the tooling is not as good as Go's, but its type system is far more powerful and useful. You can build useful generic abstractions over all types of channels and use them in every context. In Go you either have to use interface{} and pay the perf hit or write a code generator.
Or people with access to a computer and the internet.

He addressed that in the heading text: "This is obviously not going to be a real random sample of people"
Yeah, 'signup' should probably be in the blacklist. Someone grabbed /support too - https://www.paypal.me/support.

edit: And https://www.paypal.me/help
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I had never heard this version of the myth before. The "myth" I have heard, is that if you do a search on say Travelocity for example and then go and search Expedia or another site, you will see lower prices. This myth, to me at least, is a little more plausible, although in my own comparison I have never seen a major difference in prices to get me to convert from one site to the other. Obviously each of these sites competes against one another for bookings and traffic, so if they know you are "shopping around", by checking if a cookie exists from another site, it is in their best interest to offer lower prices.
Who else?

> Type five random words

five random words
Is there any reason the results or at least the summary page are not already visible?
Yes, but in contrast with removing unused private methods, currently there is no walkmod plugin that do this yet. We are working on adding more plugins.
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That's exactly why they want it as a Word document. That's what they use to produce their in-house resumes for distribution, and they don't want to waste ten seconds on opening an HTML or PDF resume in Word and selecting "Save As... Word document". They want to create their own resume, with your name on it, that is loosely based on your actual resume, so they can send it out to hiring managers.

It's very safe to say that if you don't know how to open and edit a PDF document, you have no business being a tech recruiter. Anyone foolish enough to be represented by such a person while looking for software jobs is going to have a bad time.
For me it works just fine.
If companies stored customer data encrypted by keys that are held by the customer, they wouldn't have this problem.

Furthermore, they wouldn't have to worry about deleting customer data either. The customer would have the power to simply deny access to the keys.