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…
Governmental regulations (safety, etc.) make the cost of developing a new drug extraordinary. Without exclusive patents on the back end companies won't have a reason to foot the bill on the front end. Even without…
> ...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…
There are a couple of good graphs of the U.S. budget on wikipedia as well. Take a guess at what you think we spend (dollars and percent of budget) on major categories (defense, Social Security, transportation,…
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.
> - Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free. This means the public is paying the academic to do the work, they're not doing it for free. Grants do come with the…
That "8 forms of capital" is kind of intersting, I'm not sure I agree with the overall analysis but it's close to a good model of economics. Take the Capital Pools & Flows chart and put the corresponding 8 forms of…
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.
If you look at the author's published papers[0] just about every one involves highly sensitive political and social topics. That means they're likely to be quoted outside of the field where people will say things like…
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 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…
Governmental regulations (safety, etc.) make the cost of developing a new drug extraordinary. Without exclusive patents on the back end companies won't have a reason to foot the bill on the front end. Even without…
> ...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…
There are a couple of good graphs of the U.S. budget on wikipedia as well. Take a guess at what you think we spend (dollars and percent of budget) on major categories (defense, Social Security, transportation,…
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.
> - Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free. This means the public is paying the academic to do the work, they're not doing it for free. Grants do come with the…
That "8 forms of capital" is kind of intersting, I'm not sure I agree with the overall analysis but it's close to a good model of economics. Take the Capital Pools & Flows chart and put the corresponding 8 forms of…
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.
If you look at the author's published papers[0] just about every one involves highly sensitive political and social topics. That means they're likely to be quoted outside of the field where people will say things like…
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,…