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The same wikipedia article goes on to say [these academies] are to be distinguished from the Western-style university which is an autonomous organization of scholars that originate…

Is this a serious comment? Do you believe that there is literally a "guy who invented college".

I think that progressives (especially Chomsky) overstate the role of hard power/money in politics. Or perhaps they understate the role of soft power. E.g. the progressive movement …

I don't buy it. Any academic presentation of a subject includes the limits of current knowledge. Maybe this is not emphasized enough, but it's a matter of extent, not a qualitative…

Bankers like their cash flow, but they also have to compete with other bankers. My claim (and the claim implicit in the article) is that people will get an actuarially fair rate fo…

Generally "efficient" means maximizing social utility, which in practice for economists means GDP [0]. I agree that there are benefits to an educated population (in spite of disagr…

yes I think more colleges should be built, or existing colleges should expand.

Charitably, that would read "the government already has enough information to collect payments anyway, so it might as well do this, but should let private industry do the rest". Pe…

Both equity and debt have an element of moral hazard, and both provide some incentives to make the efficient choice about whether to get an education. A student taking on a loan fo…

There is nothing in the article that suggests that the bank would be entitled to anything but a fixed share of your income, female or otherwise. In theory [0], if women on average …

That is pretty much it. I would guess that most people pay back their debt in the end, so it is not entirely equity-like, it is more like a mix of debt and equity (the interest rat…

That's not clear at all. Education fees have gone up, but it's not clear that the cause is student loans (and the subsequent increase in demand for education), and even if they did…

I guess there are two possibilities. 1. Profit margins are so tight because truck businesses compete with each other. In this case, increasing safety standards in a uniform way, wi…

In almost all cases knowledge of copy-on-write doesn't have to be widespread because it is equivalent to value semantics. It is only because they were using a buggy dll (which for …

In the context of that sentence, I was referring to the bonds bought by open market operations, which are primarily US government bonds and would not include private label subprime…

Why do I seem biased to you? I don't think it's useful to conflate bias and having a strong opinion, even if strong opinions often result from bias.

The (paywalled) article states that they attempted to get press passes but were denied, so they snuck in. Perhaps the size of the event meant that YC wanted to limit the number of …

Really sickening how they throw in a jibe about the lack of women, just so they can sound self righteous and distract from the immorality[0] of them trespassing on YCombinator's ev…

What about this kind of bias: every experimental result can be attributed to some kind of bias. And bias is a hot topic, especially given the ascendence of progressive politics in …

This article is a good summary of the issues of the (mis)use of statistics in science. Having done some research myself, in most cases the statistics don't scream a particular mess…

I don't think that's a fair characterization of the issue. p-hacking is done almost exclusively by people who completely understand the definition and interpretation of p-values. H…

I'm think disagreement is not about privacy per se, but rather the absolute moral correctness of our legal principals. E.g. other people in this article have commented that people …

Increasing wages will make employers less inclined to hire people, and thus potentially less total disposable income. Giving ordinary people more money directly seems like a more r…