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mm_ wrote (edited )

Reply to Fuck the NYT by Moonside

I've noticed this a lot in economics where people will say 'you would expect the perfectly rational citizen to do X but studies show people do Y instead' and then later it's shown that Y actually is the rational choice for an unexpected 'meta-rational' reason.

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mm_ OP wrote

oh too bad they took it down (or maybe i got my link wrong?). basically when people took off the wallpaper (or something like that) to redo their bathroom they found a picture of a couple and something like "we are remodeling our bathroom, and it looks like you are now too. didnt you like the work we did?"

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mm_ OP wrote

yea i remember doing something for a job of like having to compare dates in excel, and looking up the manual way of doing that was way too complicated, with diff timezones and whatnot. a typical thing where i wonder why computers are so buggy and then i learn more about computers and wonder how ppl get things to work at all

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