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The best social safety net in the world can only protect you so much from the needs of your own children, absent some sort of young ladies illustrated primer taking over. So in tha…

If you follow Raj Chetty's work on income mobility it appears that single parents in the neighborhood matter a lot more than single parents themselves. Since single parenthood is m…

I tend to think atmospheric pressure was higher then: https://gdesilvestri.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/was-the-atmosp...

I suspect "know the right answer" is "my institution is too bureaucratic to actually implement obvious right things" "managers don't listen" "I think I know what I'm talking about,…

Wilson in his speech asking for American involvement in the war cited the injustice of submarine warfare more than anything, so I agree this point at least seems to fall flat.

I think a reasonable metaphor for thinking about this issue is to consider a grocery store, where is aisle represents a different kind of income and each store represents a differe…

Just for fun! My thought was how about a HFT microwave style network: https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba... So I checked the distance from the Keys to Hav…

If I find myself being convinced by the argument, does that mean I should adopt Epistemic learned helplessness in response or not adopt Epistemic learned helplessness in response? …

What is the value of a stream of payments rounded to the nearest penny that looks like this: $10 in the first year, $19 in the second year, 27$ in the third, $34, $40, $45 and so o…

What happened to HR professionals? That was a devastating decline in an otherwise stable sector.

Groupon has lots of debt, just not the long-term kind. Why is having debt due sooner somehow better? For reference check out this http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=…

I'm going to take a stab at this, but trust me I don't speak from a position of authority on this one, just a couple of good college-level chemistry classes. So water will transiti…

Not necessarily! Suppose a bunch of noise traders are piling into a stock because all seven green lights are on in the software they bought for 29.95 from an infomercial. Let's tak…

One weeks worth of plate tectonic tension apparently

I tried to dig into the source to see, but can anyone tell what algorithm they are using to propagate the ripples? Normally this would be a Finite Difference Time Domain http://en.…

Other people think this way e.g. "The Earth's creation, according to Mormon scripture, was not ex nihilo, but organized from existing matter." If God did not create the earth out o…

Sorry, maybe I wasn't being clear. When I said "Doesn't pay more than you would have" what I meant was "Doesn't pay more [transactions costs e.g. fees and bid / ask spread] than yo…

I think the key here is that you are "buying" stocks rather than "trading" stocks. If you invest Warren Buffet style you make a significant investment in a company you think is a g…

I think a key point is that, unless planets rotate in a plane that nearly osculates our line of sight vector they will not be observed by current methods. Basically any planet whos…