I understand why you don't like this comment. I don't understand why this is worth your commenting on but you're silent on the airing of somebody's dirty laundry between their death and their funeral. What this signals…
Simply assuming that the proper allocation of resources is easy in this or any other industry is wishful thinking. If drugs have any substitutes the demand side already goes from easy to hard. When drug treatments can…
If a new drug isn't useful it doesn't matter if the manufacturer has exclusive rights to it. If people are buying/being prescribed drugs that don't improve their health that's a different problem that won't be solved by…
> ...we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit. Profit is purpose. Profit means the value of the outputs of your business exceeds the value of its inputs. It means you've added something to…
Clueless movements elect clueless representatives who mirror their clueless beliefs.
It absolutely makes a difference. There's no way to properly regulate an industry without understanding it. But like I said above, people don't care about fracking because they don't even understand what it is. It's…
Stop leaks in what process? Fracking or oil and natural gas production? Do you have some evidence that more methane is being released into the atmosphere during the weeks of fracking than during the years of production?
> Fracking involves drilling an oil or gas well vertically and then horizontally into a shale formation. No, that's a horizontal well. Vertical wells get fracked all the time. Non-shale wells get fracked all the time.…
> For example, would you start the y-axis on a graph of global temperature at –273.15°C (absolute zero) > This is a lazy statement Yes it is. > This is missing what the graph is trying to convey.....It only makes the…
There's your tax bracket and then there's what you actually pay after deductions, loopholes, etc. The common argument is that the 70% rate of the 1950's was never actually paid by anybody and the effective tax rate was…
That has to be the worst x-axis on a graph I've seen in a long time. The grid lines measure 0-10th, 20-30th, 40-50th, 60-70th, 80-90th, 95-99th, 99.99th, Top 400? That's atrocious, not only is it non-linear, not only…
> Could you elaborate? The idea is that a good publishing record gives one better career prospects. By accepting and rejecting papers journals are giving a signal used by academia in their hiring and promotion…
If it's in an academic's employment contract that they don't get to keep the rights to their academic papers it means 1) they already got paid and 2) they can't give away work that they already sold.
That's really cool, even if I never find a place to use it. Anyway you can still sort strings.
You're demonstrating why friendships are ending over politics.
Sometimes I feel weird coding zip codes as strings but this is a great example why. If my program ever treats a zip code like a number I would like it to throw an error. At least in this case the error looks like an…
I'm not sure if I'm understanding the map correctly: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (literally the top of the list alphabetized by first name) spent $1.5 million on 9,576 ads, garnering 60 million impressions, mostly for…
I think the field has a cultural problem that's causing their data problem: impact is valued over empiricism.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough because I'm seeing a lot of the same comment here. At some point anybody who's producing statistics and projections has to decide what's more important between accurately predicting the…
> According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills three million people every year worldwide. This will rise to ten million annual deaths by 2020 We're up to 7 million according to the CDC, not 10: > Worldwide,…
I apologize, I took your comment personally when I shouldn't have.
Interesting. I'm not sure I understand why one type of charlatan is more important than the other. If you want WeWork/SoftBank to be regulated, which a lot of people do, it's kind of important that the people doing the…
You realize that a billionaire has almost nothing to do with their money but invest it in better equipment or people? That's what investing is and that's what billionaires do with their money. So on the front end the…
> Nunavut’s rate is 100 per 100,000, ten times higher than the rest of Canada and seven times higher than the US. Ok, that's bad. But we can connect that to the US: white males with no college, aged 45-54, have a…
Or you could serve a lot of people, it's probably easier. Sell something for $10 that's worth $12 to the buyer and costs you $8 to make. Repeat a billion times. The people you did business with got an extra $2 billion,…
I understand why you don't like this comment. I don't understand why this is worth your commenting on but you're silent on the airing of somebody's dirty laundry between their death and their funeral. What this signals…
Simply assuming that the proper allocation of resources is easy in this or any other industry is wishful thinking. If drugs have any substitutes the demand side already goes from easy to hard. When drug treatments can…
If a new drug isn't useful it doesn't matter if the manufacturer has exclusive rights to it. If people are buying/being prescribed drugs that don't improve their health that's a different problem that won't be solved by…
> ...we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit. Profit is purpose. Profit means the value of the outputs of your business exceeds the value of its inputs. It means you've added something to…
Clueless movements elect clueless representatives who mirror their clueless beliefs.
It absolutely makes a difference. There's no way to properly regulate an industry without understanding it. But like I said above, people don't care about fracking because they don't even understand what it is. It's…
Stop leaks in what process? Fracking or oil and natural gas production? Do you have some evidence that more methane is being released into the atmosphere during the weeks of fracking than during the years of production?
> Fracking involves drilling an oil or gas well vertically and then horizontally into a shale formation. No, that's a horizontal well. Vertical wells get fracked all the time. Non-shale wells get fracked all the time.…
> For example, would you start the y-axis on a graph of global temperature at –273.15°C (absolute zero) > This is a lazy statement Yes it is. > This is missing what the graph is trying to convey.....It only makes the…
There's your tax bracket and then there's what you actually pay after deductions, loopholes, etc. The common argument is that the 70% rate of the 1950's was never actually paid by anybody and the effective tax rate was…
That has to be the worst x-axis on a graph I've seen in a long time. The grid lines measure 0-10th, 20-30th, 40-50th, 60-70th, 80-90th, 95-99th, 99.99th, Top 400? That's atrocious, not only is it non-linear, not only…
> Could you elaborate? The idea is that a good publishing record gives one better career prospects. By accepting and rejecting papers journals are giving a signal used by academia in their hiring and promotion…
If it's in an academic's employment contract that they don't get to keep the rights to their academic papers it means 1) they already got paid and 2) they can't give away work that they already sold.
That's really cool, even if I never find a place to use it. Anyway you can still sort strings.
You're demonstrating why friendships are ending over politics.
Sometimes I feel weird coding zip codes as strings but this is a great example why. If my program ever treats a zip code like a number I would like it to throw an error. At least in this case the error looks like an…
I'm not sure if I'm understanding the map correctly: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (literally the top of the list alphabetized by first name) spent $1.5 million on 9,576 ads, garnering 60 million impressions, mostly for…
I think the field has a cultural problem that's causing their data problem: impact is valued over empiricism.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough because I'm seeing a lot of the same comment here. At some point anybody who's producing statistics and projections has to decide what's more important between accurately predicting the…
> According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills three million people every year worldwide. This will rise to ten million annual deaths by 2020 We're up to 7 million according to the CDC, not 10: > Worldwide,…
I apologize, I took your comment personally when I shouldn't have.
Interesting. I'm not sure I understand why one type of charlatan is more important than the other. If you want WeWork/SoftBank to be regulated, which a lot of people do, it's kind of important that the people doing the…
You realize that a billionaire has almost nothing to do with their money but invest it in better equipment or people? That's what investing is and that's what billionaires do with their money. So on the front end the…
> Nunavut’s rate is 100 per 100,000, ten times higher than the rest of Canada and seven times higher than the US. Ok, that's bad. But we can connect that to the US: white males with no college, aged 45-54, have a…
Or you could serve a lot of people, it's probably easier. Sell something for $10 that's worth $12 to the buyer and costs you $8 to make. Repeat a billion times. The people you did business with got an extra $2 billion,…