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Doesn't the word "progress" automatically imply "good"? Or is any expansion of the ways of doing something progress? For example, were the invention of the iron bull and the credit card skimmer technological progress?
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When I was a grad student at Penn State, out of the blue I got an angry email from a Harvard PhD student for not citing his related working paper, which I had never heard of. Of course I dutifully cited it, but not a nice experience. Be kind people, it's tough out there.
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I love biscuits, but sugar? For me, (plant) milk has enough sweetness. I like mine firmly on the savory side.
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If that is true, then no one ever dies. Just by existing, you influence the course of history. That seat you were in at the coffee shop caused someone to sit somewhere else, where they struck up a conversation with their future spouse.
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Best lyric in the Danish version of the wheels on the bus: "The giraffes on the bus go 'ouch ouch ouch'"
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I'm shocked by how many in this thread have shared similar experiences of being threatened with deportation by supervisors. When I first read the story, I thought it was too extreme to be true, but apparently not!
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I'll bet she was also walking in the road along the curb part of the way.
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Dont speak Spanish, but I sent it to my Ecuadorean masters student writing a thesis on dollarization.
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I'll bet you have to just keep policing it "you forgot to include dollar signs on the equations in your last response". Eventually it will start obeying in the same chat thread. I've had similar issues.
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Wow, surprising, and at the same time as GDP is converging (except Italy). Europeans love to compare productivity rather than GDP, since labor supply is a choice. Also surprising that all the countries in the table have majorly increased their capital relative to the US. Have any idea why?
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Just read James's essay The Sentiment of Rationality. He starts out by posing your last question, and says that he doesn't have an answer, but observes people do care. His story: it is a sort of pain to hold inconsistent beliefs, and people are driven to find explanations to avoid that pain.
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Then it said that two of the triangles make up one rectangle, which is why the two in the formula goes away. Great geometric intuition.
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Gets close to the hard nut: "What is the goal of inquiry?". Haile says that structural modeling is all about cfs. Love your slide deck btw, will steal (with credit) part for some teaching I'm doing this semester.
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Structural models allow one to (1) measure the strength of forces in your model, and (2) run counterfactuals. If there is multiplicity, (2) is more difficult. We are just starting a project and trying to decide whether to use a richer model with mult eq. or a simpler model w/o.
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I have been meaning to get around to reading laboratory life by Latour for a while now. Anybody read it? Worth the read?