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Give `destructure` a try https://github.com/selik/destructure

What do you think of this library: https://github.com/selik/destructure It'll enforce schema and destructure the nested dict/list that results from JSON decoding.

Note that at the most-selective universities there does appear to be a relationship between selectivity and education ROI. The trouble with linear methods is that they often fit to…

What effect do you think that has? If smart students choose selective schools and smartness is associated with ROI, we would expect to see a correlation between ROI and school sele…

Good point. That's why it's likely the youth and the not-yet-born will pay a higher percent of their lifetime incomes in taxes while probably receiving less benefit. Americans have…

> some people "pay for more than they use." The author was addressing the opposite situation -- people using more than what they pay for. > It would be just as ridiculous to write …

The author excluded roads financed by gasoline tax from the analysis. I don't remember reading about sales and income taxes in the article, but perhaps those are in the same catego…

No, seems like it's not entrapment [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car

More variant pricing will better distribute usage. The unfortunate effects on the poor can be negated by a sales tax paid back to all citizens equally as a lump sum.

Yikes. Yes, of course technology is driven by human preferences. But, No, humans must occasionally accept that certain habits are not sustainable given current and near-future tech…

I'm often annoyed when reading reports that use percentages instead of the actual ratios. For example, "2 out of 3" is much better than "66.7%".

Did you recover any money? How difficult was the process?

The buyer of non-voting shares is betting that eventually the company will start a dividend or share-buyback program, or that there will be a subsequent buyer that will pay more th…

A chart of growth rate might have a peak, but a chart of the thing that is growing is more simply modeled as a sigmoid that has an initial exponential growth portion, then a logari…

I asked a guy who had taken four startups to IPO how it was he seemed to work such reasonable hours while other entrepreneurs worked much longer. He said he assumed they were mostl…

Lending does not necessarily encourage spending. During the housing price collapse crisis, the US government lent money to banks at a cheap rate, expecting to spur more consumer le…

The government does have a responsibility to alleviate the pain of economic dislocation. The nation might gain as companies fail and jobs are lost, but individuals are hurt. Unfort…

Circles in circles is a terrible chart. Humans have a very difficult time comparing relative areas of circles. Much better would be to add a separate bar chart comparing all the co…

Not all science is statistics. That's just the current paradigm and not applicable in all cases. I agree the reward system is flawed, but it ain't so easy to improve it.

> every monitoring system eventually is used for social control That statement, even if true, does not specify what time frame "eventually" is, to what degree the "control" is, or …

Still, he's got a point. They are very mysterious about what their margins are.

I don't think he's trying to help them. He was experimenting to see if he could train/domesticate them.

Sometimes it's really nice to see a multinational corporation. They can help reduce corruption and set higher standards for all sorts of things. Yeah, they sometimes displace local…

You're a bit out of date.