jakobsen

> the efficient market hypothesis assumes that emotion, mass psychology, etc. don't enter into stock markets

Isn't mass psychology part of "public information"?? I know little about stock markets, but from the outside I would say that "how I think people will feel about a company" is pretty much what I would base my "bet" on whether a stock will go up or down.

I understand your point, but why even mention Uber when the parent specifically said "car sharing"? Likewise, why does the parent bring the topic of "house sharing" when Airbnb is clearly renting, and not sharing?

I just feel that too often we are putting professional services and sharing on the same bag, which I find a bit alarming.

But then driving for hire is not the same as car sharing.

As for scalability... I was thinking that for sure free access to internet would be very hard to monitor, but say you limit it to email: That would be certainly much, much easier (hence cheaper) to monitor than what we currently have.

Every written letter must be opened and read, possibly with an horrible script which takes time to "decipher". Besides, I don't know if they keep copies of all the mail in case something happens, but it would be orders of magnitude harder to index and search than email anyway. Phone calls are even worse, since you need at least as much time to monitor the conversation as the conversation lasts.

Maybe introducing email would shift some of the friends and family to use this cheaper means of communication, reducing costs. Or maybe Jevons paradox applies here and the number of emails would go up to such an extent that the improved efficiency would not make up for the increased traffic.

P.S.: just to make it clear, I'm not advocating for the inmates to have their phone calls replaced for emails.

Not knowing anything about squatter's rights (or law in general), shouldn't it be possible to just create a law putting whatever limits we want on camping WITHOUT the need for it to be completely forbidden?

I am just now in a place where free camping is not allowed, but the local authorities interpret the law as: "no tents between dawn and dusk". I wish that was put into a written law.

Only 7% of the land in Finland and Sweden is Agricultural land, compared to 70% in the UK, so it's no wonder that the countryside is much more inaccessible.

That being said, there's a lot more that could be done, such as allowing kayaks into rivers and lakes without so many unreasonable limitations and/or paperwork.

>these original, truly Nigerian scams, were less sophisticated than the later Internet imitators, since targeting technical professionals isn't targeting the dumbest of the dumb.

On the contrary, the scam you describe look much more elaborated than current ones since they got your real peraonal info. Besides technical professionals seem like a great target for scams, since they likely have more money than the average and they are probably not as hard to scam as you might think, given that even a harvard professor fell victim to a 419er http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/31/harvard_prof_scams/

I think it's better if nobody benefits from there being scammers. Otherwise those under pay via mehanical turk may be tempted to pose as (or become) scammers themselves

> Spain is just wanted due to the proximity to Africa and a lot of African immigrants/refugees using this vector.

I hear this from time to time, but data paints a radically different picture. What you describe is only the case for sub-Saharan immigrants who are just a tiny, tiny minority of the inmigrants coming to Spain. Most inmigrants come from:

1-Romania (for which Spain is obviously not in the path to any other country)

2-Morocco (the vast majority of whom arrive legally since the late 90s)

3-UK (and contrary to popular belief, only 21% of them are over 65 years old)

Then, the largest component of immigration is from the former colonies, due to the shared language (so, again, not being used as a vector)

All of this data is available online on the INE (national institute of statistics)

Why would it? The vast majority of people with whom I interact in OS projects have no clue what my gender (or ethnicity for that matter) is.

Weight does change around the world, mostly because at the equator you are farther away from the centre of mass of the earth than you are at the poles, but also because of local gravity anomalies. It's mass that never changes, so maybe we should all get an inertial balance for our kitchen!

Aren't you are proving the parent's point there? You say that only articles depicting their own culture are seem as relevant to the american reader, which is what he claims.

That's absolutely not the case in other places of the world. In some cases, even the opposite problem arises (that is, discriminating against your own country/culture and favouring a foreign one)

I started working out 2 years ago and it changed my life for the better, but it most definitively didn't improve my productivity at work. Why would it?

But isn't the definition of the imaginary unit axiomatic? If so it's indeed true that there is no logical reason why it exists other than it being useful.

Speaking of European Americans... I never really got if the term "Latin" in the US applies to those of Latin European descent (Spanish, French, Romanian, etc.), olny to Latin Americans (Mexican, Brazilian, etc.) or if it means something completely different??

Anyone can help me there?

>I'd rather have people streamline the refueling process than sit in front of a TV and collect a paycheque.

You make it look that these two are the only alternatives when they are not (e.g. people could also be studying or actively searching for a job). Pretty much the definition of false dichotomy isn't it?

That's a false dicothomy. If the were not wasting their times on a unnecesary job, there is also a chance that they found a useful occupation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

I think it's wrong to define an ideology with hundreds of years of history by the actions of a random person you happen to know. Have you ever bothered to read Wollstonecraft? Simone de Beauvoir? even Naomi Wolf?? I encourage to do so and try to understand how feminists outside your circle think and behave.

Ok, stop the strawman bullshit already. What you describe is NOT feminism by any stretch of imagination.

You are describing the imposing of traditional roles based on gender (in your case, that of boys on a girl) which is exactly what feminism is against.

>Ubuntu on other side asks only for user password

It's the user password of an admin user. What other password can it possibly ask for? a global su password?

So in the UK you are not allowed to enter museums if you are homeless???

>I suspect (and would like to see the stats) that the USA has a higher mortality rate below age 40 than other western countries but that it levels out after that

The USA has a lower than average life expectancy at age 65, and the life expectancy has also grown less than average for that group, according to the OECD[1]

EDIT: >But is life expectancy the end all and be all I agree there. The same document includes a "healthy life years at age 65" (only for European countries though), but it is arguably a much less objective measurement and hence less useful.

[1] http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/8111101ec066...

GMOs are not banned in Europe as a whole, but it looks like only Spain have a significant GMO output [1]. Coincidentally Spain has a nice life expectancy, so there doesn't seem to be an obvious correlation (one might argue that Spain might produce but not consume most of it GM crops, which I don't know).

[1] http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/spain-leads-the-eu-in-gm-crop...

They are different even then. Earnings relate to poverty via the prices of goods. I'm don't know much about economy but after searching in wikipedia I think the term is called "purchasing power parity".

This. Plus why would anyone want to remove fatal injuries from life expectancy? It certainly looks like a legit concern to me.

Of course it is required (within the computational limits of your computer, of course)

If p(x) means 'x is an integer', you could use the regex /^1$/ since it matches integers only (in particular, the integer 1). That's not sufficient, you need to match all integers.

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Anybody with some law knowledge can help me get this right?

He says the clause doesn't violate the First Amendment because he is freely agreeing to "forfeit his right to speak freely".

Are constitutional rights not inalienable in the USA then? In my country, in case of conflict laws of "greater range" take precedence over laws of "lower range", and contracts are at the bottom of this hierarchy. That means that a clause as the one being discussed here would be void, since you can't give up your right to speak freely even if you wanted¹ Isn't there a similar concept in the USA??

¹ That also means that if laws mandate 3 weeks of holidays, you can't take only 2 weeks in exchange for a bigger pay even if you wanted (happened to me once).

How is that vote similar?? What was proposed in Switzerland was a salary cap, not a tax. There is not such a cap in France, nor anywhere that I heard of.

I think the point is, if smartphone cameras eventually get to say 40MP then people will start uploading at that resolution even if there's absolutely no benefit from it. The image may then be scaled down to be shown on the page, but FB can keep the original.

it would be cool to make group pictures, though.

Basically, yes.