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You're assuming the policy decisions of the executive branch of the US fed government was the reason for the disaster.

You're also assuming that the advice acted upon by the POTUS was based on the Chicago school.

For the former point, it leaves out FNM/FRE, housing speculation, easy credit by the fed, a weak dollar, increasing debt from foreign wars, the piss-poor rating agencies, the asset bubble driven by chinese liquidity, etc.

For the latter point, there were economic decisions made that do not align with that school of thought.

tl;dr -- Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
That's a really naive view of how app development and deployment works, so I'll sum my response to it up with, "the admin who adds the header that breaks the Javascript in a major application is going to be fired within a single digit number of Unix timeslices of the change going live."

The problem with this stuff is that it requires virtually top-to-bottom surgery on real world apps. It is another naive view of applications that says that the dangerous inputs all come from form arguments.
This article is terrible. Here are some examples of why.

"If a scientist, [krugman] might be a global-warming skeptic, an AIDS-HIV disbeliever, a creationist, a stalwart that maybe continents don’t move after all."

"Krugman wants to be Rush Limbaugh of the Left"
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Probably true, but I haven't seen nearly as many Laffer curve enthusiasts trolling comment threads, loudly redefining the word "economics" to refer to their pet theory, and dismissing all the real economists who argue otherwise.
Not only that, but an annual subscription is basically equivalent to 12 months of guaranteed monthly renewals. I would be interested to see comparative attrition rates of how 12 months of monthly renewals compare to attrition rates of yearly subscriptions from a popular site that uses both.

We are struggling with this issue with my current startup, whether to do yearly or monthly only, or both, and what the comparative rates would be.
It suspect it is a matter of "social comfort".

In general men can easily be attracted to women of different races. I think it is in their nature to be broad in their selection. Nearly every men I know have or have considered dating outside his race. Most women I talk to can find someone of a different race attractive. But they will not date them.
I'd be glad to tell you a bit about the city from a native's perspective. Email me natmartin at gmail.com
Skip it - this is just an intro
If you're more likely to reply, you're probably less picky. If you're less picky then you're likely to take the "shotgun" approach of messaging many people, regardless of whether it would be a good match. It shouldn't be surprising if a higher percentage of those people don't respond than to those who's approach is more targeted.

But to confirm this we'd need to see the average number of messages sent by each group of people.
Dude. Some cities, like A2, have excellent restaurants. Some, like Gainesville, are very cheap. Santa Clara does not have particularly great restaurants, and it is not particularly cheap. It's not an emotional thing. When you're choosing a place to live, you probably want people's unvarnished opinions.
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I think this only confirmed what many people have known from experience.

The most surprising part was the number of people who crawled out of the woodwork who wanted to declare the results invalid or deny the racism:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/9pbn8/dating_statis...

http://www.codexon.com/posts/okcupid-dating-statistics-shows...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=851290
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Two strong assumptions:

1. Correlation is causation?
2. It is all the Bush adminstration's fault.
They never claimed causality.

And they also state at the end of the article that they do not have a representative sample of the population.

But if you do use the website and surf through some profiles, it becomes pretty clear that the majority of the users are, as the article states, younger, more educated, and more progressive than the average American. I would go even further and say that the vast majority of the users would not self-identify themselves as racist.

Now question for OKCupid would be, wouldn't it be interesting if you could make a table showing the relationship of race to socioeconomic status, and then the breakdown of reply rate by socioeconomic status?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Krugman is not offering up a hypothesis that is better at explaining observations than his opponents. He is making an argument based on an ideological position while ignoring evidence suggesting, at a minimum, that his hypothesis is not supported. This is not science.

As Cochrane notes in one of his "minute points", *Pretty much all we have been doing for 30 years is introducing flaws, frictions, and new behaviors, especially new models of attitudes to risk, and comparing the resulting models, qualitatively to data." This set of "we" includes the behaviorists and "complexity economists" (i.e. people who really enjoy massive simulations of simple agents).
> I think it's pretty tough to make the case that economic and educational inequality in the United States along racial lines is intrinsically a good thing, particularly given the historical context.

I'll address it, but before I do - look at how you framed the question and response. It's mildly disingenuous and makes it hard to have a discussion. Take this:

"I think it's pretty tough to make the case that economic and educational inequality in the United States along racial lines is intrinsically a good thing"

I don't know anyone that's making that claim. I mean that literally - I don't know anyone who says, "Economic and educational inequality along racial lines is a good thing." Most certainly I didn't make the claim, and I don't know of anyone that has.

But let's talk about relative inequality, because it's important. Take some groups of people - could be race, gender, religion, favorite color of car, anything. Some of the groups are doing better than others.

Is there a problem there? Well, sure, there is. You've got some people not doing as well as the rest of people. It'd be good for them to do better.

But is the problem that there are others that are doing well? Well, this comes down to how you think the world operates. Is most wealth created by people benefiting humanity or destroying humanity?

This can actually be looked into, and generally speaking, the way to get wealthy is to benefit humanity. This is kind of new thinking though - the old world thinking is that stealing from and oppressing people was what successful people were doing. This leads to innate hostility to people doing well, which is misplaced. The path to wealth these days to benefit other people, as Vietnamese entrepreneurs and Jewish scientists have done.

So here's what I'm saying: You should do the best you can. If someone is not doing as well as you, it would be good for them to do better. It would not be good for you to do worse. You should not feel guilty or uneasy about doing well, or about the race or religion you're part of doing well. You can feel bad that other races or religions aren't doing as well. But you should always feel good that you're doing well, and keep trying to do well, and do right as much as you can while doing well.
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Regardless of what one thinks of Krugman's positions, he clearly deals in personal attacks far too often. If he's trying to educate the public, that's not helping his cause.
The point isn't so much that Austrians are wrong, or that they are goldbugs, but rather that they don't learn--and don't value--the past several decades of economic research. The debate's been going on for years, yes, but the self-proclaimed Austrians are making 70 year old arguments against a 70 year old straw man while ignoring any points that have been made over those 70 years.
If that's the thesis for the post, I am underwhelmed, I see no evidence for racism whatsoever as I understand the word. Maybe that's why I didn't see the post as having anything to do with racism... Because it doesn't.
Yeah but the article had some other interesting points, like how black females are less desired by every other race, including black males, and how females in some non-white races prefer white males over males of their own race.
Well, the nice part with Lua is there's only so much you can forget. :)
Who was a brilliant person?
your china emperor story only suggests that the parent post's averaging scoring scheme consist of reviewers who dream about a 'test-taker' and then give a score (repeat as many as test takers there is) ... if they have access to takers' answers and keys, then averaging could be done much more objectively

the china emperor: that's maybe because there's no photograph of the emperor circulating. if there is, one can make comparison to eyes, age, coin, ground-legal-measure etc and clean out the outlier data. averaging the rest can give good enough estimate but not super accurate.
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I heard they had trouble restoring the backups of the first two letters of their name.
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Does that make his arguments less true?
"Under certain conditions... Pay What You Like pricing could be more profitable than uniform pricing..."

Pay What You Like pricing might even allow firms to approach a theoretical maximum (for profits). To maximize profits, a firm must employ what economists call price discrimination [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination]: charging EACH customer the maximum that he/she would be willing to pay.

Open-air PWYC theatre (like of Shakespeare in the Park) is a good example. Marginal costs are low: the cost of seating an extra customer is close to zero so it doesn't really matter if some customers only pay $1. Spirits are high (theatre-goers are generally in a good mood) so customers are inclined to be generous. Even frugal customers will probably pay a fair price (thanks to peer pressure & the fear of public embarrassment).

I just wonder how PWYC pricing would have worked at Woodstock...
If you're not OK with weather that will keep you indoors for about 2 solid months, Chicago isn't viable. I actually like the harsh weather; for 2 months of the year, I have excuse for being a homebody, and I can cook more seasonally.

I really missed the seasons when I was in California.

I strongly disagree with your frat-boy/big-10 comment. Chicago is a massive city. Like every other big city, it has hipster enclaves (Uky Village, Bucktown, Logan Square), and it has yuppie/frat-boy enclaves (Lincoln Park); it has 2+(2*.5) viable college towns (Hyde Park, Evanston, and UIC and Loyola campuses), a large Chinatown, the sizeable Thai/Vietnamese area around Argyle, the Indian drag on Devon, huge Latino areas and innumerable family neighborhoods.

I'm not giving the cop-out "you were just in the wrong bar" answer here: I'm saying, you must have been very unlucky to have only found sports bars. I'm pretty sure they never play Bears games at Publican or Violet Hour.
Incidentally, Does anyone have a good resource for understanding leveraged buyouts and how they work? I understand that this broadly means funding the acquisition of a company by placing the debt on the target company's balance sheet but every explanation I have read just leaves too many obvious holes: The goal is to buy a company for $100m and sell it for $500m. (why does such a gap exist and why are private equity funds the only ones jumping on it?) or Instead of taking on the equity themselves, the fund will place this debt on the target company's balance sheet, not its own and statements like target companies often have strong cash flow that can be used to service the loan (How does a company worth $100m take on $500m in debt without going bankrupt? If it can do this [I assume they would be paying very junk bond rates of 20% or so], that means that they could have paid that amount in dividends to the owners instead and should be worth a lot more then purchase price.)

It reminds me of those hack video by Guy Kiyosaki about how rich people print money: I create a company and invest $10,000 in it. At $0.01 per share that is 1,000,00 share. Then I take the company to IPO and sell the shares for $1-$2 each. He then explains the math on whiteboard. $10,000 /0.01 * $1 - $10,000 = $990,000. Wow! This guy is one smart cookie.

In any case, if you know any books, articles etc. that will make a dim person like me understand, please tell.
I have worked with many companies running these sorts of campaigns (I do work with a startup that tracks online engagement marketing) and have found that companies that are upfront and honest in their efforts tend to get better results than those that pretend to be regular people or pay people to pretend they like a product. Disclosure and honesty are unfortunately foreign concepts to many advertisers, but they are slowly catching on.

I don't like this regulation or think it is necessary, but it may actually do some good for the consumer.
I'm not sure what instances you are thinking of, so perhaps I am mistaken, but from what I have read, Krugman wants to promote greater accountability. When he criticizes the decision or prognostication of an economist or politician, it's to avoid the passive voice - "Mistakes were made" and identify the party responsible for the error. I think he would expect others to hold him to the same standard.
Ok, if that's the basis of your objection then the situation of dating a woman who is physically unable to have children is analogous to dating a man?
i wrote about masturbation back in high school. i got 4/10 mark with a big red X across the page corners :D
No, but it mentioned the word "racism":

>We’ve processed the messaging habits of almost a million people and are about to basically prove that, despite what you might’ve heard from the Obama campaign and organic cereal commercials, racism is alive and well.
If you are going to make a sweeping argument with such specific circumstances, it is up to you to prove that it applies to the majority.
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The point is that using gender preference as an excuse for race preference is ridiculous.
I present to you, Ubuntu in D Minor:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=bc9a7de093071754ed24a2875...

...it's not actually in D Minor, but it's certainly Ubuntu (ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent, converted to a proper, listenable MIDI file)

Only done the encoding just now.. Basically the code loops over each byte in the file, ord()'s it, creates a note with that value and advances to the next beat.. Decoding should be simple enough, but the simple MIDI library I was using only creates MIDI files.

One slight problem is the file is about 5-6 hours long, so I don't think we'll be sharing torrents via background music on Youtube videos quite yet.. A more time-efficient way to pack the bytes into notes is definitely possible (currently it only plays one note per time-slot), but that would have taken far longer than I wanted to spend on this...

The Python code, including the required smidi.py module: http://gist.github.com/202593
I understand the need for this regulation. But do you think it will really change anything? The marketers will find another way to do the same thing.
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Good one, I now need to clean soda off my monitor.
So Krugman is ok (you submitted this article yourself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=332097) but those who disagree with him should be flagged?
Depends. FTC suspects you of taking payola. They subpoena your blog's host to get your name and address. Your host refuses to comply because they are not in the US. The case fails due to lack of evidence.

I worry about the unintended consequences of this new law. Say I am paid to write a piece of (free) software by my employer. I use my blog to say how wonderful this is, without ever mentioning that I was paid to think it's wonderful. (Perhaps I don't even know that the money influenced my decision.) Should I be fined for this? Is the community better off without my writing? (Which is completely free and not even ad-supported?)

Anyway, I am all in favor of consumer protection... but I think the bad guys will get around this law, and "good guys" will be caught in the net. Restricting speech is a very, very slippery slope. (I am not even sure how comfortable I am with libel being illegal -- and that is a law that has been around for hundreds of years.)
Agreed. Local topic branch for experimental hacks. Rebase it when you want to integrate upstream changes.
Here are some numbers to give you and idea of what it would take to record your entire life on video.

Assumed Parameters:
- 80 years (average life span)
- 1000 kbits/sec (YouTube video datarate)
- $50.00/TeraByte

Solution:
- 80 yrs * 365 days/year * 24 hours/day * 3600 sec/hour
= 2,522,880,000 secs/yr
- Total Secs in 80 yrs * data/sec = Total Storage required to store 80 yrs
so:
Total Storage = 2,522,880,000 secs/80yr * 1000 kbits/sec =
2.5 e+12 kbits for 80 yrs
(1 GB = 8,589,934.59 kbits)
in GB would be 293,701.89 GB for 80 years totalling about 287 TeraBytes (about 3.6 TB/year)

COST/Yr:
at 3.6TB/year * $50/TB = $179/yr

TOTAL STORAGE REQUIRED TO RECORD YOUR ENTIRE LIFE:
######### 287 TeraBytes ###########

TOTAL STORAGE COST TO RECORD YOUR ENTIRE LIFE:
$179/yr * 80 years = ######### $14.340 ###########

NOTE: This is an approximate value not considering that storage prices would be dramatically lower 80 yrs from today.
Probably, to record your entire life 80 years from now would cost less than $1000.
Start with a good idea and get lucky?
I wouldn't say terrible. He makes a point he just tried to enhance that point with language that I'll agree was a little too...how shall we say...colorful (ironic considering he took Krugman to task for attacking other people but what can you do)

But there is an arguably logical thought process behind the post itself
I wonder if they're watching this HN post and going "Darn it! He's in Cambridge!" :)
The centerpiece of our crash was not the relatively free stock or real estate markets, it was the highly regulated commercial banks.

A Chicago school economist decides that the cause of the crash was regulation, there's a surprise. It's difficult not to ad hom him here, but the article drips with scare quotes, special pleading, straw men and appeals to authority, so what's one more fallacy?

In fact, although I imagine he wants it to be taken seriously, it reads like little more than an angry forum comment dressed in academic robes. He's obviously heated and insulted by Krugman, and given that Chicago is broadly seen as discredited by the recent crash he is also concerned for his image, and is responding in kind.

The real economic lessons of the past few years are not to be found here, or anywhere. They will emerge in years to come. The difficulty is we only have the ability to really push through changes and learn from them now, so everyone's trying to be a part of that action. At least it's clear from both Krugman and Cochrane that the incentives enjoyed by bankers are very badly designed, and that's one issue we can address.
Git is unashamedly a power tool, for power users. Git checkout seems so natural to me in the way it functions, and I use it so often, that it would annoy the hell out of me if I had to force it or answer a y/n prompt every time I used it.

What you think of as intuitive is not universal. Your reasonable defaults are unreasonable to me. This seems to be a problem of audience. Git can be challenging to learn, but it's not aimed at learners. It's aimed at power users.

As others have pointed out, there are other front-ends to git. You don't have to use the default porcelain.
I spent the last 3 hours. :)
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Such disclaimers as the below would seem to directly contradict your claim that they espouse a "one-size-fits-all" approach:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch01_Caveats_disclaimers_an...

Or is your complaint that they don't find it necessary to preface every single post on SvN with such disclaimers? In fact, this complaint would be addressed by that same link.

I'm not trying to defend the Mint post by any means (although I do think, as someone else already mentioned, that the larger picture being painted by the post - once you get past the drama that has been generated - is interesting), I'm sure that post (and probably a few other posts) could have been handled better by Jason. But please, let's stop parroting the same old hyperbole about 37S.
I didn't imply that you don't need a mac. I'm just puzzled by people who seem to think that this is so important or that mac ownership is a substantial hurdle to iPhone app development.

As you say, the minimum requirement is not all that high. A mac is an additional machine usually $1K-$2k, something that developers need to spend money on from time to time. If you really don't want/need one and only use it to develop one small app, 500 for a mini (or 300 for a used one) is not terrible.
Gender preference is certainly non-equivalent to race preference. On the other hand, it does show that certain forms of discrimination which would be wrong (and just plain illegal) in other settings are perfectly okay in a dating setting.

As a better example, I'm not interested in dating women who are old, ugly, fat, or have children, and that's perfectly okay. If I were not interested in hiring women who were old, ugly, fat or have children then I'd have a serious lawsuit on my hands.

Now personally, I think that refusing to date someone based on their race is both regrettable and closed-minded, but it's not detestable the way that actual racism is.
I agree with you on what racism means, but it certainly was my impression that the author does not agree, and is in fact conflating racial preference in mates with racism.
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John Quiggin: http://crookedtimber.org/2009/09/17/the-macroeconomics-wars/
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Why would they have needed to reverse engineer anything? I don't see how they could have done this /without/ Apple's permission and help.
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Do you have a citation for point one?

The author of the article discusses not just Chicago School monetarism, but also the many other strains of economic thought over the past decades, including the 'New Keynesians.' Krugman apparently also disagrees with the New Keynesians, and the rest of the economic mainstream of the past 30 years, not just the Chicago School.

What the author is getting at is that Krugman doesn't seem to be reading economics anymore, from any school of thought.

Looking at the author's CV (http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/Paper... [DOC]), he appears to be a libertarian. Libertarians weren't exactly well-represented in the Bush administration, and CATO were among its fiercest critics on financial and foreign policy issues.

The anger over Krugman's piece doesn't seem to be limited to Cochrane or Chicago School economists either. Cochrane's personal web page also links to a similar piece featured on Huffington Post rebutting Krugman: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-k-levine/an-open-letter-...
Seconded. I spent a couple years training Muay Thai before getting bitten by the BJJ bug. I'm trying to fit in more standup again now, but I still try to spend at least an hour every weekday on the mats.

Having a very physical hobby keeps me grounded in reality after spending most of the day thinking about philosophy or writing or coding (I'm a student). There's a lot of pretty direct feedback about your improvement over time, too, which I find can be lacking in more intellectual pursuits.