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Aren't there quite a few historians, anthropologists and so on that study mythology?

This is in line with Pommeranz (a western economic historian) and most of the whole "Great divergence" litterature.

Note that in orthodox microeconomic theory, price is equal to the marginal value of the last exchanged unit. To use the above example of food: > What's the value of food? If you ha…

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Would the same system work for other industries, e.g. banks or medical research?

In that scenario, the "throat to choke" would be the primary care physician. We won't think of it as an "ML radiologist", just as getting some kind of physical test done and bringi…

If they had absolute perfect performance at zero cost, you would not need a radiologist. The current "workflow" is primary care physician (or specialist) -> radiology tech that act…

See also [0] This paper proposes that idiosyncratic firm-level shocks can explain an important part of aggregate movements and provide a microfoundation for aggregate shocks. Ex- i…

I don't know if it's a joke I didn't, but it's the topic of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Since there are a lot of photographers here - what's the first step up from phones? That is a camera that : - takes better photos than phones (esp. when printed) - is not crazy exp…

Isn’t “making acceptable tradeoffs” (optimization) while “meeting requirements & constraints” (under constraints) simply optimization under constraints? I fail to see how this is a…

What is the split between aristocrats and bourgeois among the wealthiest Europeans? Looking at the richest Europeans [0], they all seem to be bourgeois. [0] https://en.wikipedia.or…

> workers by contract workers (luckily found to be illegal here now). Note that, at least for France, it was not found to be illegal to use contract workers; rather the jobs-as-the…

It is interesting to hackers, even if it is not hacking related.

I mean this seems a solved problem: hand-and-paper written onsite exams + blackboard-and-chalk oral onsite exams. If this is too costly (is it? many countries manage), make student…

Let’s say you run the most basic regression Y = X beta + epsilon. The X is chosen out of the set all possible regressors Z (say you run income ~ age + sex, where you also could hav…

For non technical people used to WYSIWYG, yes?

This is an internal tool (which was open sourced) made by the French government digital service to be used by French government employee on French government infra. I do not think …

Is increasing total consumption something positive?

I mean if the choice is between living with Soviet standard of living and burning in a wildfire, the choice sounds obvious. Note that no one has argued for a planned economy.

In that case the weed-out course is _after_ the calculus/diff eq/lin alg sequence then, not the intro math course.

Are there "math weed out courses"?

Sure, but then the story is about 1. the Indian heatwave and 2. the transformation; whether the transformation came about through carbon coins or carbon quotas or whatever is a det…

Isn't it true? f = lambda x: (1/x) * x f(1e309) yields NaN, not 1. (So I guess Denmark is at least 1e309-sized in some metric).

This is often the justification but in many countries agriculture systems are not oriented towards food security: they produce a large share of export crops/products and thus also …