On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31:23AM +1300, Charles Haynes wrote:
> Top posting and not trimming due to primitive "smart" phone interface.
>
> If rate of cognition goes up doesn't ability to predict do so as well? Is
Good point. But we're at a fixed point at the moment, given that
there is no easy
Top posting and not trimming due to primitive "smart" phone interface.
If rate of cognition goes up doesn't ability to predict do so as well? Is
there a combinatorial effect that makes predictability intractable?
-- Charles
On Feb 16, 2011 12:09 PM, "Eugen Leitl" wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:28:23AM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_of_substitution
>
> It's a pretty basic concept, actually, straight out of Economics 2. How
Sorry, I don't do pseudosciences. Thanks for the links, still see no
relevance to a simple scena
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_of_substitution
>
> It's a pretty basic concept, actually, straight out of Economics 2. How
> easy/useful is it to substitute one input for another in production? It
> would take about 2 minutes to e
On 2/14/11 8:14 AM February 14, 2011, Anand Manikutty wrote:
I see. So you don't know what elasticity of substitution is. Well
then, we have a bigger problem than you not following this particular
argument.
The issue : there is a structure to the arguments here that you are
not following, and
At 2011-02-15 17:26:54 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote:
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> On 15-Feb-2011, at 2:54 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
> >
> > This talk of shenanigans and bandwidth conservation reminded me
> > of Postel's Prescription: “Be liberal in what you accept, and
> > conservative in what you send”.[1]
I don't see th
