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> - the KPI "do-more-users-leave-our-platform-earlier-if-our-matching-algo-is-just-too-good" - I promise: In alle the years, this question WAS NEVER - NEVER!!!!!!! - raised, regard…

I've cancelled by NYTimes subscription just a few months ago. Didn't have to do any phone calls-- just answered a few questions in the chat, right there on their website.

They do have NFC and usb-c options (separately, though), and are planning to launch lightning as well https://www.yubico.com/2019/01/yubico-launches-the-security-...

This is a good quote. One similar way to state it is by using the System 1 / System 2 [1] terminology. Manipulation is when someone pushes the audience to System 1 reasoning, diver…

This falls under the Explanation #2: Human capital. By the way, the post does not mention whether the study controlled for wives staying at home.

Why is the parent being downvoted? Multiple codecs are a real problem for video-streaming services, and introducing a new one definitely has potential to bring more compatibility p…

Well, pure mathematic models also don't have any real-world meaning, and no predictive power with regard to the real world events. Still, nobody thinks that the analytical proof of…

> incredible track record of dead-wrong predictions The Austrian School economics methodology does not allow for making predictions. See e.g. the note at the beginning of http://wi…

Great point, expect that no one is touching them. Deposits over EUR 100K are being hit /frozen, those up to EUR 100K are not touched Yes, that's the current decision. The linked ar…

Economics is a value-free science, in that it analyses real-life processes and policy implications _without_ prescribing what specific goals are to be pursued by the policy makers.…

Austrian school covers many disciplines -- economics, history, law, politics etc. One can reasonably disagree with their views on, say, economics science, but calling it all just "…

The RESTful way to solve such problems is not just by better conventions, but by conventions standardized by the appropriate media types. E.g., the REST service may define a Conten…

Instead of buying the computer with paper money, consider buying the computer with gold bullions during the commodity boom. Why buy that Macbook Pro with x bullions today if you ca…

Fragment identifiers are currently the only part of a URI that can be changed without causing a browser to refresh the page This is actually the primary reason for most of the hash…

Slavery wasn't about pure economics. In fact, it is not that obvious that slave labour is more efficient from the purely economical point. There're problems with incentives, with h…

6 - To paraphrase "ISPs should be free to put whatever they want in their contracts". The reality is that 'freedom of contract' is not fair when there is a huge difference in barga…

Vernor Vinge's "True Names" came out even before Neuromancer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names

Austrian economics is heavily into modeling, even though they don't usually call it that. In fact, its immersion in the ontological, methodological and epistemological issues aroun…

This syntax is similiar to Stephen Colebourne's FCM proposal: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhp95vd_6hg3qhc That proposal also used the "#" symbol, with the following rationale: "…