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> as it's a fairly well known opener to talk about horses In Victorian England, among the fox-hunting class, maybe...

> it's artificial to give women legos to play with when they are children? It's artificial to insist on it if they don't show interest, and it's also artificial to give them Legos …

Actually it's more of a scam than a business model, only made possible because of the BS bubble. Lot's of people are gonna be seriously hit a la 1999 until this scheme fades out.

> Market efficiency and "superiority" (I have several incompatible ideas of what you mean here, but if you could clarify...) of an idealized free market are not assumptions. They a…

And maybe force them to like programming. Slap them if they don't use a computer for hours every day. Sorry, but the idea that we should artificially excite girls about programming…

This is crude, sexist, and could deservedly be downvoted to death, but the story reminds me of a joke (jokes are supposed to be irreverent, right?): -- What's the most difficult su…

> I think you're conflating "people who work on Wall Street" with economists. Most of the "dirtiest" of the loan originators were people with no financial education whatsoever; sal…

> Meanwhile, an enterprise with hundreds of trained economists (read: The Fed) used this magical unicorn training and prevented the Great Recesession from becoming the Great Depres…

> You really need to go learn some economics. I'm talking about the assumptions about market efficiency and the supposed superiority of the mythical "free market" here. Hayek, sinc…

> Economists rarely make predictions. Predicting stuff is hard. Oh, they do it all the time, to give "policy advice".

> "Every mechanical compass I've used has two points." And the pedantic-bs-to-save-some-face-of-the-day award, goes to...

He also gives me that impression when I see him on Keynotes, one of a power grabbing, back-stabbing kind of guy. Which could or could not be true, I'm talking purely from a "face-r…

Few core developers (mainly, one, Armin) that couldn't be bothered enough. It's a volunteer project after all. He did write about the unicode problems with the Python 3 changes and…

> but the majority of economists make a living on the fact that the market is not efficient. Actually they make a killing on the fact that their are interests and money to be made …

> No, it's based on them being true enough that other approximations are less useful models. That is, in wishful thinking. No other field has a worse prediction track record that e…

> Economics is clear when explaining its foundation: Markets are only as efficient as its participants are rational and fully informed. Plus even more assumptions: that participant…

> It is not politically correct to say that women are riskier hires than men. But given biology and current culture, women of child-bearing age clearly are riskier hires. Women hav…

> The assumption that past discrimination justifies reverse discrimination is a dangerous one, and gives lots of opportunities for those who want to discriminate to justify it to t…

Unimpeded? The color choice MADE the sales.

> Please, macosx releases have an history of being bug ridden. Compared to what other OS that was "bug free" on release? Also, "bug ridden"? Please. Some people had issues with som…

> The sort of dependency you describe ("emotionally hurt", "life damages") is foreign to me. Try going somewhere important and missing it because of a Maps error, and you'll sing a…

> For the most part they aren't trying to box you into some mindless, slave-like existence, but really just want you to have a plan-B in case your rockstar/pro-snowboarder/billiona…

Not necessarily miserable, they might be just good marketers creating an online audience for themselves to advance their careers or feed their egos. If someone needs "ego feeding" …

> The idea appears to be that array languages have builtin functions for operations that would require map/reduce/etc in the applicative programming paradigm. I agree that is conve…

> Plus it was a beta, ppl are not going to go crazy complaining about a beta product because they expected it to be fixed. That's not how it works. People complain about beta softw…