So, when people talk about how terrible Yahoo News is at reporting news, am I being pedantic when I point out that Yahoo is just a feed and doesn't actually write any of the articles themselves?
A bit, yeah. I mean, technically the person should have said "yahoo news is terrible at aggregating news" then.
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Okay, I will admit that it's possible to not make a shit steak by searing last.
But I will not admit it is the better way or even something that's not made up just to sound provocative.
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
There was one point where the "I went down to the river to pray" song from o brother was part of the starbucks music rotation for some reason.
I had far too much fun singing along to that while serving up drinks to customers.
Though not as much fun as I had shaking my booty when Gorillaz's song that... uh... that winky's avatar was from (totally spacing on the name) was part of the rotation.
[Pallias'] paper was, I thought, a clever use of a field experiment (and I freely admit by bias in favor of theoretically sound field experiments rather than laboratory exercises when considering empirical quantities).
Here’s the basic theoretical problem. There are a bunch of candidates for a job, some young and some old. The old workers have had their productivity revealed to some extent by their past job experience. For young workers, employers can only see a very noisy signal of their productivity. It involves a small cost to hire workers; they must be trained, etc. In equilibrium, firms will hire young workers who have expected productivity above the firm’s cost. Is this socially efficient? No, because of a simple information externality. The social planner would hire all young workers whose productivity plus the value of information revealed during their young tenure is above the firm’s cost. That is, private firms will not take into account that their hiring of a worker creates a positive externality from information that allows for better worker-firm matches in future periods. If young workers could pay firms to work for them, then this might fix the problem to some extent, though in general such arrangements are not legal (though on this point, see my comment in the final paragraph). Perhaps this might explain the high levels of unemployment among the young, and the fact that absence from the labour market for young workers at the start of their career is particularly damaging?
How important is this? It’s tough in a lot of real world data to separate the benefits to workers of having their underlying revealed by early job experience from workers upgrading their skills during their first job. It is also tough to see the general equilibrium effects: if the government assists some young workers in getting hired, does this lead to less unemployment among young workers in future periods or do these assisted workers simply crowd out others that would have been hired in the absence of the intervention? Pallais uses an online job market similar to mechanical turk. Basically, on the site you can hire workers to perform small tasks like data entry. They request a wage and you can hire them or not. Previous hires are public, as are optional ratings and comments by the employers. Empirical data on past interventions is somewhat ambiguous.
Pallais hires a huge number of workers to do data entry. She randomly divides the applicants into three groups: those she doesn’t hire, those she hires and gives only minimal feedback, and those she hires and provides detailed comments. The task is ten hours of simple data entry with no training, so it’s tough to imagine anyone would infer the workers’ underlying human capital has improved. Other employers can see that Pallais has made a hire as soon as the contract begins, but the comments are added later; there is no effect on workers’ job offers until after the comments appear. And the effect appears substantial. Just being hired and getting a brief comment has a small impact on worker’s future wages and employment. A longer, positive comment has what looks like an enormous impact on the worker’s future employment and wages. Though the treatment does lower wages received by other people on data entry jobs by increasing the supply of certified workers, the overall increase in welfare from more hiring of young workers trumps the lower wages.
Interesting, but two comments. First, for some reason the draft of this paper I read seems to suggest some sort of idea that this sorting is good for workers, if only between the lines. But it needn’t be so! A simple model: all firms are identical, and have cost .4 of hiring a worker. Workers have skills drawn from a uniform [0,1] distribution. No signals are received in the first period. Therefore, all workers have expected skill .5, and all are hired at wage .1 (by the no profit condition in a competitive labour demand market). After the first hiring, skill level is completely revealed. Therefore, only 60% of workers are hired in the second period, at a wage equal to their skill minus .4. A policy that ex-ante would have revealed the skill of young workers would have decreased employment among young workers by 40 percent! Note that this would be the efficient outcome, so a social planner who cares about total welfare would still want to reveal the skill, even though the social planner who cares only about employment would not do so.
Second, to the extent that skill revelation is important, young workers with private information about their skills ought self-select. Those who believe themselves to be high type should choose jobs which frequently throw off public signals about their underlying quality (i.e., firms that promote good young folks quickly, industries like sales with easily verifiable output, etc.). Those who believe themselves low type should select into jobs without such signals. If everyone is rational and knows their own type, you can see some unravelling will happen here. What has the empirical career concerns literature learned about such selection?
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
i can't because i have broken wrist tendons
thanks for rubbing it in though
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But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
So, when people talk about how terrible Yahoo News is at reporting news, am I being pedantic when I point out that Yahoo is just a feed and doesn't actually write any of the articles themselves?
A bit, yeah. I mean, technically the person should have said "yahoo news is terrible at aggregating news" then.
Eh, I guess I just don't understand why they expect an aggregate, like Yahoo, to actually improve the quality of the articles. Like, the criticisms are about spelling or grammar mistakes, or that Yahoo News is stupid for thinking that the subject is worth reporting on.
Like, I don't think Yahoo is choosing the articles in their feeds by hand, or proofreading them.
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
There was one point where the "I went down to the river to pray" song from o brother was part of the starbucks music rotation for some reason.
I had far too much fun singing along to that while serving up drinks to customers.
Though not as much fun as I had shaking my booty when Gorillaz's song that... uh... that winky's avatar was from (totally spacing on the name) was part of the rotation.
Gotta earn dat tip money!
You seem like the archetype of person to be a starbucks barrista. I mean this in a good way.
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
Gyms cost money, Inqui!
I have started going for jogs lately though.
I am spoiled by the costs of gym here. 200 yen a visit!
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
Gyms cost money, Inqui!
I have started going for jogs lately though.
I am spoiled by the costs of gym here. 200 yen a visit!
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
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Reminds me a lot of the siren's song in o brother
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
A bit, yeah. I mean, technically the person should have said "yahoo news is terrible at aggregating news" then.
But I will not admit it is the better way or even something that's not made up just to sound provocative.
I played a lot of minecraft there for a while.
But I'm kind of bored with that. I ordered a new power cable for my xbox (my mom let my sister's dog eat it while I was in Scotland) so that'll at least be "something".
I try to write, but soooooooooooooooo braindead/
you want it pinker in the middle
i mean, you know
unless you're just terrible
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
You should gym it up some! Everyone should, really.
you're the saddest bunch I've ever seen
but with a more overbearing mother
It's been, like, fifteen years.
I had far too much fun singing along to that while serving up drinks to customers.
Though not as much fun as I had shaking my booty when Gorillaz's song that... uh... that winky's avatar was from (totally spacing on the name) was part of the rotation.
Gotta earn dat tip money!
i can't because i have broken wrist tendons
thanks for rubbing it in though
counsel you and watch over you.
- Psalm 32:8
we live in a debased and brutish age
Gyms cost money, Inqui!
I have started going for jogs lately though.
we're talking about cas eddy right
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Eh, I guess I just don't understand why they expect an aggregate, like Yahoo, to actually improve the quality of the articles. Like, the criticisms are about spelling or grammar mistakes, or that Yahoo News is stupid for thinking that the subject is worth reporting on.
Like, I don't think Yahoo is choosing the articles in their feeds by hand, or proofreading them.
allison krauss is civilization
You can still do legs!
no cas eddy looks like mel gibson
podly is caucasian eddy
On my sleeve, let the runway start
I am spoiled by the costs of gym here. 200 yen a visit!
my knees are kinda fucked up too actually
a while back my right knee totally gave out
that keeps you from running you scrub?!
and i can't use them now
because of my fucking tendons
What's that in not Fun Money?
Core exercises!
that's not true, that's impossible, etc etc
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin