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Harry Lime

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Harry Lime last won the day on February 27 2011

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  1. What do you mean "actually"? You fin' to get downgraded.
  2. I think popular/unpopular opinion is easily the most common reason. Though I may have dinged you when I was drunk, we'd need a time stamp to know for sure. I take no responsibility for anything that happens after 6pm my time.
  3. Oh, I missed that memo, I thought it was set up with the assumption that people will use it irresponsibly. I figured asquare was running a controlled experiment. Oh come on.
  4. Then isn't your beef with the fact that downgrading causes that inconvenience, or with the system generally, and not with people who did the downgrading? I mean it's not like we all had any orientation about how to "properly" use this power, it just appeared one day. If you give a gun to a baby, you don't blame the baby.
  5. I can't remember but I may have downgraded the OP (i cant see the post in order to see). I thought it was pretty unhelpful to talk about some lectures as if we all know what he or she is talking about, no introduction, no link. I've often downgraded posts after seeing posts already downgraded for no reason. It's mainly because I hate the system and think it's silly. If that's considered "trolling" in your book, you haven't been around the internet very long. It's funny that it's a huge issue "why are my posts being downgraded.. how am I being unhelpful??" as if being unhelpful has anything to do with it.. ever. 99% of the posts on this forum are technically unhelpful: people shooting the sh*t, talking about lectures they saw assuming we all watched them together, whining about downgraded, etc.. If I could downgrade my own posts I would, but I'm not allowed to.
  6. "Game Theory for Applied Economists" by Gibbons.
  7. I've been privy to Ok's free books for a while, and I can say that he does update the probability book. I downloaded a copy a while ago and then again six months later and there were a lot of revisions. So if you're into it, download it regularly for the most up-to-date version.
  8. WorkingHard: Do you think the OP's SOP is a winner?
  9. Real recognize real. Let's not talk about Harvard and MIT for a couple of posts and see if we get the shakes. OP, I don't know if I can give much advice other than the usual stuff you read here. Just apply to a lot of programs as well as masters programs and full time RA positions, then see where you stand and decide from there.
  10. Yup, that's the killer. If you're getting a PhD in Rocks for Jocks, yeah I'm sure the professors are stoked to get emails from students who say they are interested in working with them. In econ I think it's a whole other ballgame, especially since if you stand a chance for an NSF, you had better be telling them you want to go to a top school which entails emailing professors at top schools. I work for an econ professor who doesn't read more than 3 lines of the emails that I send him about his own research, and I'm his RA.
  11. You must be really new to this place; half of all posts say "analysis," regardless of the context.
  12. ..or at the forefront of.
  13. This is pretty shocking. Anyway, good luck.
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