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by Gatsky 5y ago
Bitcoin tolerated the recent Chinese ban on mining without any apparent ill effects. That seems like a decent stress-test of the decentralised thesis. But in any case, Ethereum is going to try PoS, so we'll see what happens.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I wonder to what extent coffee is an association rather than an actual antecedant of productivity. This is more evident with nicotine for example, where the addicted user will tell you all sorts of hogwash about how great smoking is, how th
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by Gatsky 5y ago
An example: I heard a story about a Japanese popsicle company which had to increae the price of their product due to the cost of wood used for the stick. They created an ad on national TV explaining the change and apologising profusely: ht
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Substitute ‘greedy healthcare organisation’ for doctor and you have an actual problem not a made up one.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Just chiming in to say that these association studies are generally pretty useless. Good clickbait though. On the other hand Mendelian randomization studies are a brilliant and actually useful way to explore such associations.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Sometimes I think we will never escape the fundamental brutality of life. Thank you for sharing this story, I'm so sorry this happened to your family.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
He is making an argument that in a narrow sense good taste exists. He does not judge that that Italian artist that canned his own faeces is inferior to the Italian artist that sculpted the statue of David. One can appreciate the size and la
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This ‘protip’ is quite wrong on many levels. Observe the behaviour of the most successful investors, and you will notice they write books, go on podcasts, talk about their strategies etc all the time. In fact you can’t shut them up. The wor
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Agreed. Very annoying and condescending post. Typical of a high priest (or academics as we like to call them these days).
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Is there a reason everyone is losing their shit over a chrome extension? Lot of uncivil and condescending feedback here. Anyway I tried it on mobile, works quite well. The UI is better than google at a glance.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I just want to say that Sagrada Familia, incomplete as it is, is a work of astounding and incomprehensible genius and I am forever grateful that I was able to see it with my own eyes.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This is unfortunately almost certainly bunk. There is a large selection and survivorship bias. To be an 85+ yo and be alive with an organ transplant you have to be pretty special. That generally means you have kept your transplant for at le
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Note that the free market has ultimately punished these companies. On the other hand, the unaccountable councils and politicians are the ones creating the problem due to zoning an supply issues. As such, I think the outrage is a bit misdire
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Yes, this is driving the massive proliferation of journals that keep spamming me to publish with them. Never heard of the journal, but there is a USD$2400 fee for 'processing'. It's a good business model, particularly if all
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I also find myself making these homophone errors or complete word omissions. It has only started happening since I turned 30. As you say, I seem to have zero awareness of them as they are occurring. I think it is an advanced state of distr
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Yes, exactly. I would say the error in measuring brain size over a 70,000 year period is sure to be at least 20%.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I have read Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. I highly recommend The Diamond Age, it’s just so… interesting. And stunning in parts.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I think one should just take the blog post for what it is. It isn't a UN resolution. He actually has thoughtful opinions that he is happy to put out there without endless qualifications. That is what makes it valuable, not why it is pr
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by Gatsky 5y ago
(Can't read the damn paper, even with University journal access. Why is academia so fundamentally stupid? Is it not obvious to a scientist that when your paper comes out it would be a good idea for a lot of people to be able to read it
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by Gatsky 5y ago
> They've long dominated the food and fashion worlds, this year they've dominated sports, and now they're aiming for the skies. This is a joke perhaps?
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I don't quite understand their example - they reproduce a study done with de-identified genomic data. For each patient, the data required for the analysis are the number of mutations in the tumour, the type of tumour and how long they
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I see this as the only rational response despite what the truth may be - can you imagine what would happen if Meredith acknowledged that Len was Satoshi Nakamoto? I think it is also possible Len did't tell his wife about Satoshi, or al
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by Gatsky 5y ago
The excruciating detail here is commendable. The sciences are also very much like this, particularly life sciences, physics and chemistry. The article doesn’t go into it much, but another important question to ask oneself is why are you doi
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Please consider my reply in the context of the original comment claiming the Australian Covid19 travel policy is a violation of the UN charter of human rights.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
There is a list of reasonable exemptions including work related travel.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I live in Melbourne. Trust me, I’m not misinformed. You can leave the country by the way (I’ve done it), what is your source?
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Great article. The hot take at the beginning on the end of liberal democracy is a bit silly. Anyone in Melbourne can tell you that the protestors are almost all just looking for a fight with the police while in various states of intoxicatio
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I don’t think there is ever going to be any satisfaction on this issue. A lab leak is pretty unlikely, has nonzero probability and will never be falsified or proven. The pandemic has happened. The seeming weirdness from virologists is under
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Hmmm, this just permanently ended the problem of working out what to read next. Fantastic work, and a terrific interface to boot.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I wish my partner looked at me the way HN looks at press releases about pre-clinical mouse studies in cancer.

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