Larry Summers Makes Intemperate Remarks About Relative Intelligence Shocker! (1)
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Can’t imagine how we missed this the first time around … Over lunch not long after Summers took over the presidency in 2001, Ellison said, Summers suggested that some funds should be moved from a sociology program to the Kennedy School, home to many economists and political scientists. ‘’President Summers asked me, didn’t I agree that, in general, economists are smarter than political scientists, and political scientists are smarter than sociologists?” Ellison said. ‘’To which ...
Spacehack: An Amazing Resource for Everything About Exploring Space (1)
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Are you into space exploration? And this time, no, we're not talking about sending the Enterprise to Tarsus IV. This is about everything from the Lunar X Prize to SETI at Home. Spacehack is a fantastic new site, billed as "...a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, interact + connect with the space community and encourage citizen science."
Dagens Mona (1)
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Mona Sahlin slår till igen.Politikerbloggen rapporterar att statsministerkandidat Sahlin inte kan läsa innantill: "I ett pressmeddelande ondgjorde sig s-ledaren Mona Sahlin därför över alliansregeringens jämställdhetspolitik:- Effekterna av två år med regeringen Reinfeldt syns redan. Vi har under den moderatledda regeringen trillat ner till tredjeplatsen på World Economic Forums lista gällande Gender Gap Index 2008. Tidigare år har Sverige alltid legat på första plats.Mona Sahlin, eller hennes medarbetare, läste dock inte rapporten särskilt noga. Man missade ...
Perfect runner's 100m sprint time calculated (1)
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As scientific training brings athletes to the limits of the human body, it will become almost impossible to beat this landmark time, say researchers
Det sista vi vill ha i kristider är en reformvillig pragmatiker (1)
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Podcastprogrammen EconTalk med programledaren Russ Roberts rekommenderas varmt. Ett program från förra året som jag lyssnade på häromdagen rekommenderas särskilt varmt. Där intervjuas ekonomhistorikern Amity Shlaes om sin bok ”The forgotten man” som vänder upp och ner på många invanda föreställningar om den stora depressionen i USA på 1930-talet och politikernas roll. Särskilt intressant är hur Franklin D Roosevelt hanterade krisen. Han prövade i princip alla åtgärder som fanns, vräkte ut pengar, inrättade reglerings- och ...
R-ordet (1)
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Media påverkar. Inte bara styr den vårt dagliga informationsintag, media kan även få oss att rösta annorlunda (vilket bl a IIES-ekonomen Ethan Kaplan visat). Nu visar forskning att medias rapportering rentav kan fördjupa en lågkonjunktur — bara genom att rapportera om den. Förvärrar han krisen? Makroekonomins utveckling påverkas i hög grad av aktörers förväntningar. Om vi t ex förväntar oss sämre tider är det naturligt att vi håller tillbaka konsumtion och investeringar vilket resulterar i ...
The End of Freakonomics? (2)
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One popular vein of economic — indeed, academic — research is “Freakonomics.” What this term means is subject to debate, but I’ll loosely summarize it as “economists using interesting data to investigate phenomena outside of economics.” Or at least outside of its traditional boundaries. Examples from Steven Levitt’s work include teachers who help students cheat on standardized tests, the effect of child safety seats, and, perhaps most famously, the effect of abortion on crime rates. ...
Political Science Is Getting A Lot More Interesting (2)
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How do I know? Because the number of counterintuitive findings is just skyrocketing! How do I know that? Because mentions of the phrase “counterintuitive finding” in political science journals have increased sharply. The 1950s and 1960s were pretty boring. Lots of intuitive findings, it seems. But then, wow! There were 213 counterintuitive findings in the 1990s alone. And there are already 281 since 2000, and we’re not even out of the decade yet. Nor does ...
Riksdagens IT-avdelning inkompetent (4)
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För några dagar sedan avslöjade Lage Rahm (mp) att han upptäckte något konstigt när han surfade krypterat från riksdagen. Det såg ut som om någon i mitten avlyssnade honom. Som om han var utsatt för en s.k. man-in-the-middle-attack — att någon står mitt emellan honom och den plats han vill surfa till, och lyssnar på allt som sägs. Och precis så visade det sig vara, fick jag reda på nyss. Riksdagens IT-avdelning lurar alla ledamöter ...
End of the beginning? (8)
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The failure of Citigroup, which looks increasingly likely to happen in the near future, would mark the end of the beginning of the financial crisis. Until now, the prevailing view has been that the crisis and recession will pass in a year or so, after which things will go back, more or less, to the way they were, with a few less financial institutions, and a bit more regulation. A Citigroup failure would put paid ...
Penningpolitiken fungerar inte enligt läroboken (1)
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Även med ett statligt garantipaket för bankerna kan resultatet bli blygsamma räntesänkningar. Kreditmarknaden tycks inte fungera enligt teorin och redan begränsade garantier äter upp en stor del av sänkningsutrymmet genom för höga avgifter.Mötet mellan finansministern och "de fyras gäng" (storbankscheferna) under förmiddagen resulterade inte i något konkret (Ekot). En väsentlig information var dock att det inte var bonussystemen som var kruxet. Ett obligatorium skulle inte ens kunna komma åt dem, sade statsministern. Vissa av svårigheterna ...
We have the technology; we can resurrect them! (1)
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Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million: If the genome of an extinct species can be reconstructed, biologists can work out the exact DNA differences with the genome of its nearest living relative. There are talks on how to modify the DNA in an elephant's egg so that after each round of changes it would progressively resemble the DNA in a mammoth egg. The final-stage egg could then be brought to term in an elephant mother, ...
Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks (62)
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Apple quietly installed copy protection in its new MacBooks, blocking some honest customers from watching iTunes movies on their external displays.
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Todd Albertson said:
I don't like things done in secret or changing the rules of game midway. I've stopped buying from iTunes because I'm not happy or trusting of Apple's "heavy handed" ways..
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Serrenity said:
Soo, "Were Sorry. Universal has not sanctioned this device to display any content produced by Universal. Please purchase a Universal TV to avoid this issue in the future (at 500% profit margin) "
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100rabh™ said:
and I thought MS was the only co which does these kinds of hara-kiri
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rpy said:
Major fail by Apple and the studios. When will these idiots figure it out - make legitimate content acquisition and use easy, people will prefer it to piracy; make it difficult and expensive, people will pirate the content instead. They seem to be starting to learn this with music (DRM-free iTunes Plus, Amazon, eMusic), yet movie content is going the opposite way. When I had Foxtel HD installed, it refused to work with my TV on HDMI for 4 weeks until Foxtel patched bugs in their HDCP implementation. That's the experience customers paying for content get because of these morons.
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Daniel Austin said:
Le suck. C'mon Apple, this isn't WMV.
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Mark said:
So Blue Ray is a bag full of hurt, but this is no sweat? Come on, Steve...don't ruin a good thing.
Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica 7 (4)
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mblase writes "Wolfram Research has released the seventh version of Mathematica, and it does a lot more than symbolic algebra. New features range from things as simple as cut-and-paste integration with Microsoft Word's Equation Editor to instant 3D models of mathematical objects to the most expensive clone of Photoshop ever. Full suites of genome, chemical, weather, astronomical, financial, and geodesic data (or support for same) is designed to make Mathematica as invaluable for scientific research ...
No more love for Modernist authors? (2)
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Previously I looked at changing fashions in academic theories and their associated buzzwords, using the articles archived in JSTOR as a sample: see part 1, part 2, and part 3. What about the thing that arts & humanities academics are supposed to study -- the text itself? I mean, the vulgar consuming public may flit from one "it" author to the next, but surely academics are above such fickleness?Most of them are happy to admit ...
Why Apple Will Never Permit Adobe Flash on the iPhone (173)
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Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset's App Store, no matter how much customers want it. "I'm pretty skeptical that Flash could be implemented in a way that doesn't violate the Terms of Service of ...
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Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset's App Store, no matter how much customers want it.
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an Michael said:
Fuckheads.
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MrT said:
A reason why i will probably not buy an iPhone and hope for a similar but more open platform (Android?)
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Erik said:
I understand the reasoning here but the end result is that Apple will lose customers to smartphone makers who embrace Flash. I know I'm kind of pissed off about this.
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Peter said:
If I was a betting man, I'd bet flash will come to iPhone sooner or later.
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Crutis said:
I've always been confused at Apple's approach. They want to have a development community, but don't want to embrace what that really means. Limiting developers is probably not a good long-term business decision when lots of other brands are investing in completely open source platforms.
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""An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise," reads clause 3.3.2 of the iPhone SDK agreement, which was recently published on WikiLeaks. "No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).""
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