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United States23745 Posts
On May 28 2015 02:48 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On May 28 2015 02:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On May 28 2015 02:38 jcarlsoniv wrote:On May 28 2015 02:29 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On May 28 2015 02:28 Alaric wrote:
Y'know other countries have stuff akin to memorial day, right? Yes but they don't have it on the last Monday of May. In your attempt to elevate your own intellectual standing by pointing out what you (mistakenly) assumed to be a gap in my knowledge, you have instead merely exposed your own inability to synthesize and contextualize information, proving yourself to be a sententious pedant. Well, let me tell you this - I am shamelessly self-involved. I spend hours in front of the mirror making my hair elegantly disheveled. I worry about how this album will sell, because I believe it will determine the amount of sex I have in the future. I self medicate with drugs and alcohol to treat my extreme social anxiety. You are a faker - ADMIT IT. You are a fraud - ADMIT IT. Yeah, you're living a lie, living a lie, your life is living a lie. You don't impress me - ADMIT IT. You don't intimidate me - ADMIT IT. Why don't you bow down, get on the ground, WALK THIS FUCKING PLANK YEAH. At least I compose my own vapid, pseudointellectual drivel instead of copypastaing from some seventh tier alt rock band. Psh, "copypasta", who do you think I am. I typed that shit out. I just happened to be listening to Say Anything and you showed your hipster consumerism. Don't worry, Cheep, for you I won't ever have rough sex with Molly Connolly again.
...Is a Real Boy is good. Sadly nothing they did afterwords was quite on that level.
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United States47024 Posts
As expected MB's first knowledge bomb after getting his PC working again is about a week old topic.
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That's because he's a weak old guy. (See what I did there?)
Finally caught up on GoT, and as a person who read the books, the show is pretty meh. I like that I can watch this and not feel like they're spoiling the books when half of the stuff won't even happen/happens to other people, but it's just a shittier/more simplified plot. I still think epics don't make good movies even if they're really well done (LotR) because the scope of an epic is what makes them epic. A movie version of an epic is a cheapened experience.
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Baa?21244 Posts
Pointing out your own puns is bad form.
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Respectable people are at work and can't do more than skim comments, and I don't want my hard earned work going unnoticed. Besides puns are the lowest form of humor so they really can't be lowered down in standards. Back in medieval times cracking a pun commonly ended up with a hanging or being drawn and quartered.
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On May 28 2015 02:29 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On May 28 2015 02:28 Alaric wrote:
Y'know other countries have stuff akin to memorial day, right? Yes but they don't have it on the last Monday of May. In your attempt to elevate your own intellectual standing by pointing out what you (mistakenly) assumed to be a gap in my knowledge, you have instead merely exposed your own inability to synthesize and contextualize information, proving yourself to be a sententious pedant.
Holy shit Cheep the toxicity is so real.
Also I like Memorial Day. It gives me another day to sleep o/
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I worked on memorial day for triple time. Easy money.
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On May 28 2015 04:47 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
Pointing out your own puns is bad form.
Don't try and stop me, Smee, I'm really going to do it this time.
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Because it is hilarious. ^_^
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BoonMear, I enjoyed your post, don't let the hipster hater hate hate hate
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On May 28 2015 04:35 MoonBear wrote:
SNIP
I'm back, before I go into a MB-esque post on why Rand Paul is a disingenuous bastard and why he is actually-completely-wrong, I'll respond to a MB post.
1) I perhaps should've been clear that there are (often bitter) disagreements within mainstream economics. The basic modeling and "schools" of thought no longer exist (or at least, as they are portrayed in pop culture like here + Show Spoiler +), but economics is still an academic subject and academics are...academic; that is, rife with disagreement and squabbling over even the smallest of details.
2) Your point on the divorce of modern economists from basic economic theory is something new to me, though in hindsight not surprising. Of the social sciences, economics has been the most ardent in its pursuit of mathematical models and quantitative measures of analysis, and econometrics is a morass of applied mathematics and statistical analysis which I actually had one of my professors vocally warn me off of learning in my senior year for an independent study I was conducting (on South Africa's future economic prognosis). In this light, that makes much more sense.
3) The Romer article is quite new, it seems, as I haven't heard of it. I'll bookmark it and read it when I can. It seems quite interesting on a skim.
First a break though. I don't like shitposting walls of texts on weekdays that often.
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It's hard to play around double Kezan mystic... sheesh.
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Czech Republic11293 Posts
On May 28 2015 06:23 mordek wrote:
It's hard to play around double Kezan mystic... sheesh.
That's why you play a Kezan Mystic yourself when using secrets
aquire value vs hunters and mages
aquire value vs decks that use Kezan Mystic
it's awesome
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On May 28 2015 05:27 Lord Tolkien wrote:1) I perhaps should've been clear that there are (often bitter) disagreements within mainstream economics. The basic modeling and "schools" of thought no longer exist (or at least, as they are portrayed in pop culture like here + Show Spoiler +), but economics is still an academic subject and academics are...academic; that is, rife with disagreement and squabbling over even the smallest of details.
Yeah there's disagreements in all academia haha it would be bad if there wasn't! Economics is perhaps special in that a lot of spats occur in public and in today's age there's a lot of blog sniping. Krugman v Summer is perhaps one of the most high profile ones in recent years. I guess in Economics it's much more high stakes though. Because the sorts of things they argue over have such a large impact on people's general lives. And there's the influence over public policy and governments aspect too. The New York Times had an interesting article a few months ago about the frequency in which social sciences have been mentioned in its archives. Considering how closely economics and politics mix, it is perhaps not a surprise how economic findings become ammunition in political skirmishes.
(WONK DISCLAIMER) It's important to note though that economics itself isn't necessarily hyper-partisan per se (although not completely pure from politics either). Here is a 2014 paper containing meta analysis on the matter, and the authors discussed their results in an article on 538. Additional side note by Noah Smith here.
On May 28 2015 05:27 Lord Tolkien wrote:
2) Your point on the divorce of modern economists from basic economic theory is something new to me, though in hindsight not surprising. Of the social sciences, economics has been the most ardent in its pursuit of mathematical models and quantitative measures of analysis, and econometrics is a morass of applied mathematics and statistical analysis which I actually had one of my professors vocally warn me off of learning in my senior year for an independent study I was conducting (on South Africa's future economic prognosis). In this light, that makes much more sense.
Not all economics has fixated itself on mathematical purity this way mind you. For example, the most recent Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole has some very mathematically technical work but his work is still incredibly astounding. The field of game theory, mechanism design, and auctions has also had very real tangible results. And there are a lot of macroeconomic models which are very useful such as discrete choice.
That being said, the allure of mathematics is still very real and the way it's current taught at many universities focuses very heavily on "getting things done" so to speak and not so much about "is this the right tool" unfortunately.
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On May 28 2015 06:32 Scip wrote:Show nested quote +On May 28 2015 06:23 mordek wrote:
It's hard to play around double Kezan mystic... sheesh. That's why you play a Kezan Mystic yourself when using secrets aquire value vs hunters and mages aquire value vs decks that use Kezan Mystic it's awesome
I would 100% do this if I cracked one  I look forward to experiencing that feeling.
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On May 28 2015 05:02 thejuju wrote:Show nested quote +On May 28 2015 02:29 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On May 28 2015 02:28 Alaric wrote:
Y'know other countries have stuff akin to memorial day, right? Yes but they don't have it on the last Monday of May. In your attempt to elevate your own intellectual standing by pointing out what you (mistakenly) assumed to be a gap in my knowledge, you have instead merely exposed your own inability to synthesize and contextualize information, proving yourself to be a sententious pedant. Holy shit Cheep the toxicity is so real. Also I like Memorial Day. It gives me another day to sleep o/
You guys are so lucky you only deal with it online. -3-
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Apparently my boss files my emails into a folder called too many big words.
No one reads what I have to say 
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On May 28 2015 07:11 Cixah wrote:Apparently my boss files my emails into a folder called too many big words. No one reads what I have to say
you're the alaric of the office
how does that make you feel
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On May 28 2015 07:13 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On May 28 2015 07:11 Cixah wrote:Apparently my boss files my emails into a folder called too many big words. No one reads what I have to say you're the alaric of the office how does that make you feel
Shitty because it means the stuff I need people to do so that I don't have to fix even more messes isn't getting fixed. I should just go on vacation for a week and watch nothing get done.
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