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by Gatsky 4y ago
Not quite... she says there was divine inspiration for starting ARK, not that she is getting stock picks from God. God would never suggest buying the unholy creation that is Zoom.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yes, that's a good point... but I think ARK must have by far the worst performance/hype ratio.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
During lockdown I found that a bag of ‘meme stocks’, like Gamestop and AMC was outperforming the ARKK ETF, and still does so in the current downturn. I don’t quite get how a huge ETF could perform worse than an obviously stupid investing st
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by Gatsky 4y ago
It’s understandable why they do this. Given the complexity of a home automation set up with countless error modes across devices, sensors and connectivity alone, reducing any potential problems on the software side at least is logical.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
These analyses are very crude. How do they work out spending on cancer care? They take total spending and get the % spent on cancer care. % spent on cancer care is a published figure, it is not calculated directly. In single payer systems,
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by Gatsky 4y ago
If you are male, your life will probably be wrecked at some point by a heart attack/stroke or prostate/bowel cancer. The risk of cardiovascular disease can be reduced in various ways. You also might have rarer but more significant
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by Gatsky 4y ago
If you take it to the extreme, human growth will be limited by physical laws. There was an interesting paper where they calculated that growth would eventually slow to a crawl because we saturate the region of the universe we can reasonably
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by Gatsky 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
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by Gatsky 4y ago
You make good points, it would be difficult and expensive. An armed single entry gate was what I had in mind. But it wouldn't be completely useless or even harmful, like arming teachers would be. It's also true that the shooter co
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I really don't know what most people want, but the armed civilian militia reason is espoused by multiple commenters on HN, so I assume it isn't that much of a fringe opinion. None of the reasons you list require automatic or semi-
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Barometric pressure is thought to induce headaches in some people [1]. Another possibility could be allergens, particularly grass pollen and tree pollen which can display large geographic variations. Another is ergonomics, eg are you using
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I have learned that some Americans consider it crucial to arm themselves in case there is a tyrannical government in the future. This seems nuts to almost everyone else in a first world country, and probably many other Americans. But these
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I'm Australian, and I don't even know about about the Monash University shooting, despite being in a University in the same city at the same time. I had to look it up, 2 people died. The Sydney hostage crisis only one person was
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Real time adapting viruses are not really something that exists, unless I'm mistaken. They would be very hard to build not least because the problem is poorly specified and would introduce an unpredictable element which is undesirable
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by Gatsky 4y ago
These engineered viruses are remarkable feats of biotechnology. I have to wonder if they are great treatments though. The issue is complexity. The virions have to achieve contact with the target cell, penetration, avoidance of host immunity
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by Gatsky 4y ago
> My bank account actually nearly went to $0 last summer, which hadn't happened to me since… college? Ah yes, I remember this feeling well, the voluntary impoverishment of academia.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The NHS has finite resources. They have to decide if implementing a screening program is worthwhile or not, versus spending the money elsewhere. You can still go to your doctor and get a mammogram (or even a more useful test) if you have ot
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by Gatsky 4y ago
> Disclosure: I hold short positions in companies mentioned in this article. This is not financial advice. Hmm. Well, on the one hand, he is putting his money where his mouth is. On the other hand, this could be prime evidence of motivat
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UK Initiative for Solar Power Plants in Space(warpnews.org)
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I would add to this annoying mouse jitter, which I determined was due to the M1 Air rather than any peripheral or cable. Surprisingly BetterDummy [1] fixed it without trying to . [1] https://github.com/waydabber/Better
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by Gatsky 4y ago
There are an excessive number of people with untreated mental illness walking around in the USA. This may not be obvious if you haven’t lived elsewhere or can’t tell the difference between psychosis and alternative lifestyle choices. Untrea
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The concern over AI safety seems about right. The unique thing is that anybody cares at all about civilisational negative externalities in a functional and reasonable way. This is quite rare, unprecedented even. Typically humanity just rush
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Think you missed the point. Burn out can come from working in a sclerotic organisation where you fail to achieve your goals (despite doing fine professionally and financially and going home at 4pm). This became obvious to the author when o
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by Gatsky 4y ago
So it depends what you mean by 'best'. In most developed countries, if your situation is ideal you can get fantastic healthcare, and that seems to be the point you are making. There are some niche fields where the USA is demonst
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I don't think the NHS is a great example... things can surely be better than that. Incentives are a complicated issue in healthcare. In Australia there is a 'two-tiered' system in the sense that there is a large public system
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Key point. Of course it is possible to pay too much for something and never make any money.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Looking at how the economy is going, leaner times can be expected. Unrelated to the article, but are there any data points on whether remote workers are more likely to get cut in a restructuring when a company needs to reduce costs?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yes, nature feels like home. This is most obvious when you let a young child loose in nature. They are both enthralled and tranquil at the same time, it’s quite a surprise to see the first time.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yeah but I don’t think nuclear is politically viable. It has bad connotations for your average punter, and it looks extremely expensive because all the externalities are priced in. Very unlikely our listless politicians would take on the nu
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Can confirm NIMBYism is excessive in Australia, despite all the space.

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