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Yes, ESPN's the corporate parent of 538

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/media/nate-silver...

Yes, I'd like it more if it were better. Is that really a question?

I learned about relational databases just from playing with Access at one of my first (boring, nontechnical) jobs. Just the fact that the GUI gives you a valid query for multi-table joins, even if it's not the one you want, is extraordinarily useful if you don't know SQL and want to poke around.

The GUI - it looks like and works like souped up excel. If this is something you're working on, buy a copy of Access and play with it for a few hours.

Access is the frontend

I assume it's referring to the gratuitous insult that you ended your first comment with.

It was announced here: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....

the last paragraph of that post has links for the source, web fonts, etc.

DL link (from sourceforge): http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe/files/la...

I may not know what I'm talking about, but Adobe's source sans and source code pro look a lot like dejavu but have some nice refinements IMO: eg the "-" is a little higher so "->" is better aligned. You may want to check them out.

Especially http://practicaltypography.com/charter.html and http://practicaltypography.com/georgia-alternatives.html

So you stopped because of a rhetorical question?

Yes :)

Kids are expensive. They become more expensive as they age.

I don't know anything about ripple, but that's true of everything ever made. He'll, I've made my own currency and have all the coins. Trading them for real stuff is kind of hard, though.

Re: 2, whether or not this is true, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the protocol on its own.

As someone who upvoted but didn't comment: I'd like the site to get exposure so it will be more useful, but I don't have anything specific to say about it.

I like handouts for the diagrams

But if you'd seen hundreds of people use screwdrivers, and had only heard one anecdote about a correctly aligned screw in an online forum...

>In fact, ideally, do this before the lecture. That way, many of the students will have already read through it once, and will be able to ask more thoughtful questions.

"many" is an overestimate.

I hope you enjoyed the irony of invoking the FDIC to justify why people "own" money that they've deposited in checking accounts as much as I enjoyed reading it. Banks used to shut down all the mfing time without making their depositors whole. The reason that's more or less stopped (in the US) is not because of some moral awakening that somehow missed the social security administration. It's because we regulate banks better.

PS: congress is just as capable of shutting down the FDIC as the SSA

But then don't bitch about it.

Without that pressure, you won't learn it. :)

Even better is when, to everyone's surprise, those seven turn out to be relevant for describing real world phenomena.

The process of peer review also optimizes papers to be shorter than intended.

Did you look at the typeface? Sure, regarding serif vs sans serif in general, but the "I" and "l" in this case are pretty damn different.

Was that anywhere on the website? I had to download the font to figure out its license.

If you graduated in 2009, you got screwed. I'm sorry.

>Could these guys make more money in private sector?

Yes, maybe 5-7 times as much. The people you're talking about are exceptional. (How is UNC mid-range?)

Pay raises after tenure are nowhere near what you see in the private sector. And people who get tenure at Cal or UT are exceptional. Do you think the smartest 30-40yos in Austin outside UT are only making 500k?

>Underlying your comment is the assumption that every one wants the hedge fund (or other) job. One of the allures of academia is the prospect of doing fundamental research. You ignore that many people derive satisfaction from doing fundamental research that has the potential to be widely used across the research community (and possibly, for product development, e.g. industry labs, some government labs).

I assume that those people are unlikely to be discouraged, especially those that are stubborn and motivated enough to complete the degree. So I also actively discourage people from doing a PhD, even though I like my job.

I think you're looking for the phrase "debit card."