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by Gatsky 5y ago
I always thought this category of problem would become acute when people with a disability became sufficiently augmented (with an advanced prosthesis for example) that they could compete with and eventually beat non-disabled athletes. At th
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Not sure this generational divide argument holds water much. The children of boomers, who grew up in relatively nice houses with backyards, similarly want nice houses. Increasing supply in an urban planning context involves increasing high
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Realistically you have to start with something like this before doing a huge 30 year study (with potentially the wrong dose).
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This is the medical version of 'A Short Story for Engineers': https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEng...
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by Gatsky 5y ago
If you are hiring someone to do a specific job which is different to other roles then sure you can create such titled positions. But if they are basically doing similar work to others (Just 10X better or whatever), then a fancy title isn&#x
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Thanks, actually very funny, especially when people rush in to help.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
It's easy to get upset about all this. Things happen in cycles though. Academia is currently in a lull due to poor incentives, oversupply of research staff arising from the massive growth of universities and the democratisation of high
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Yeah, only someone with the most cursory undersanding of experimental life science could write something like this.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Never ceases to amaze me who is on HN. Thanks for all the steak science.
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Crime bust from encrypted chat app run by law enforcement(itnews.com.au)
3 points by Gatsky 5y ago|0 comments
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Assuming the chance of a lab leak is non-zero, it is worth considering how this will ever end. - If there was any hard evidence actually proving they had SARS-CoV-2 in the lab before the pandemic, it will be long gone. Only an independent f
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Well this was always going to happen in an attention economy, the worship of fame for fame's sake. Success has shed the burden of actual achievement, vanity has become a job qualification. Why bother being good at sport or dancing or p
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Millionaires? I have no idea what you are talking about. Anyway what you describe is a version of the 'repugnant conclusion' except for art [1]. [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion&#x2F
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by Gatsky 5y ago
It's hardly a monoculture, the canon of literary classics is pretty diverse. It's about attention again. You are saying that we shouldn't give all the attention to a few arbitrarily selected writers. That it is better that ou
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Interesting result but needs confirmation in other studies, particularly as the rutin formulation seems to be homegrown by the research team. Incidentally, I recently learned about the Interventions Testing Program [1,2]. This is an ongoing
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I still find the moralising about cryptocurrency curious and difficult to understand. It always takes the tone of 'We the nerds should...'. Never seen it applied to any other (dramatically more important) issues.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I think a good definition of Capitalism is displacing the cost of negative externalities in time and space as far away as possible from your profit centre.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Well I think it’s fine to try new models, what’s the harm? I also applaud attempts to use cryptocurrency for something useful. Academia is quite thoroughly broken, everyone in it hates it. The reality is with the existing publishing model y
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This isn’t surprising, largely a consequence I think of the ‘Bowling Alone’ phenomenon, such that people don’t do much outside of work anymore which allows the expression or development of political views. I also think that deep down some t
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by Gatsky 5y ago
https://twitter.com/prestonpysh/status/1350831762503512064?s...
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by Gatsky 5y ago
The analysis in that link was debunked.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I would like to offer a different perspective. The end of gold backed currencies in the 70s and replacement by fiat currencies hinged on the middle east oil states agreeing to sell oil in USD, in return for global policing by the US[1]. The
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This is an entirely unsatisfactory investigation. Given the colossal incentive to absolve themselves of any responsibility, what possible value is there in asking the Chinese scientists questions and looking at what they give you? What woul
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Fair enough argument. I do note that this chap has put his actual salary numbers on the internet. This definitely places him in the minority in terms of willingness to share private data. Most people don't have this level of comfort I
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by Gatsky 5y ago
We don't know the answer to this of course. Presumably they did some animal studies to show that huge doses of their product don't obviously damage a mouse. Generally there is a 30+ year lag time to work out if some lifestyle chan
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Cancer was common in pre-industrial medieval Britain(academic.oup.com)
3 points by Gatsky 5y ago|2 comments
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by Gatsky 6y ago
> Yes this is my argument I don't find this very convincing, considering the large downsides for the individual and community. I work in healthcare, so perhaps I have a different perspective to you.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Two parts to this: - You are highlighting the negative consequences of a ban. There are of course negative consequences to a ban, the black market issue is far from the most important one. But as inidicated in the press release, smoking is
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by Gatsky 6y ago
They are banning sale, not use. It seems totally reasonable to say we don’t want anyone to profit from selling highly addictive health damaging products. This is ok. Your argument boils down to “I want the right to poison myself and the con
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Not quite sure of the exact timing, but looks like the Philip Morris stock price went up with this news.

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