Pyramus

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by Pyramus 6y ago
Thats a very US American (anglosaxon?) viewpoint to take. Education is paid for by society in most Western parts of the world.
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I think the OP is pointing out that many people think of options as a bet on stock price movement with the probability of success being the probability of the stock moving. When in fact volatility, time decay and many more factors are reall
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> Shitty company will go down in a natural way in a free market economy. This is the crux. "Shitty" as in obsolete business model: Yes. Shitty as in fraudulent company behaviour: No. In fact, fraudulent behaviour creates a comp
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Even though the author posits that >"At any given point in time more than 100 emerging companies are under attack as described above. [...] The success rate for short attacks is over ninety percent" he/she can only find tw
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‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy(theguardian.com)
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I watched Lemmino's mini documentary on the subject and can only recommend it [1]. He spent a month going through the Russian original evidence and is surprised why it is still considered an "unresolved mystery". Some take-aw
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> clearly very well informed I completely underestimated the role of professional safety drivers for autonomous vehicles. I thought it's "just a guy" sitting in the car for good measure, but it turns out that the majority
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Exactly this. There is a secondary aspect of becoming aware that society has agreed on beauty standards (different for different societies) and PS being used as a means to adhere to these standards.
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I conducted a workshop in media compentency for teenage girls and one of the key learnings was that every image of a female subject they encounter in printed media (this was before Instagram) has been retouched. To hammer the point home I
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> I don’t think circadian rhythms should have been mentioned in the title of the article at all. It should be about travel which is more broad and accurate to what they were measuring. Take this study as one study in a large body of rese
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I don't know if they do but they are definitely aware of it. With performance I meant both athletic and cognitive performance. I would even say the link between circadian rhythm and cognitive performance is much more obvious than with
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Circadian rhythm and athletic performance have been studied quite a bit, see e.g. [1] at which time of day elite athletes swim fastest. Apart from obvious confounding effects, which factors related to travel are you thinking of that aren&#x
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I spoke to someone from McLaren not too long ago and if I remember correctly they plan their whole logistics such that the driver at the time of the race is in an optimal point in their circadian rhythm. McLaren (and others) realised some y
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I'm a bit surprised by the loss of nuance in this and the CIA HN thread. UFOs doesn't mean aliens, and equating the two limits fruitful discussions about the actual phenomena behind them, which in my opinion are much more interest
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by Pyramus 6y ago
You are confusing two crucial things: UFOs doesn't mean aliens, it's simply unidentified objects. Unless you really do want to speculate about aliens ... > "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" The evi
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Wikipedia has a good summary of what we know: "there were insufficient data to reach any conclusion on underlying mechanism of increased transmissibility (e.g. increased viral load, tissue distribution of virus replication, serial inte
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> So a) a newer variant will definitely have a higher viral load on average just because people are more likely to be at an earlier stage in the infection cycle, especially if it is more transmissible Why would that be? The new variant i
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I will for the life of me not understand why (many) reputable media sources do not link the primary research. Make it a small link at the end of the article. That's it. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-d
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> improving the front-ends for LMS Completely agree. I'm a big fan of the material plugin [1], in particular when viewed from a tablet-sized viewport. Easy to setup for family members as no apps need to be installed. [1] https:&#x2
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I thought your point was that financial downturn leads to diminished public health, which it doesn't (only if you deny people healthcare). I'm not sure masks are a good example for 'groupthink'. The messaging was inconsi
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Let me make the argument for short selling, directly from the article: > "COVID-19 also revealed a dirty secret hidden in the crawlspace upon which many commercial mortgage-backed securities were built. A University of Texas at Aust
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by Pyramus 6y ago
That quote makes it seem like the short sellers were betting on economic downturn due to Covid, which they didn't. The trade was made long before in 2018/19 and the economic pressure due to Covid was a lucky coincidence that acted
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by Pyramus 6y ago
The study you cited doesn't really support your point - it basically says the 260k deaths would have been preventable with basic universal healthcare in place: > "In countries with UHC—defined in the study as [...]—the link bet
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I'm the German founder of a UK startup: It's a number of environmental factors: 1. Funding: UK has 3-4x total deal volume compared to Germany [1]. I've heard somebody say UK (London) is comparable to NY, which is a 2nd tier U
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Thank you for the !ddgde bang - I face exactly the same problem as you.
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I don't agree it's a 0 or 1 decision, you can gather analytics in a privacy-preserving way, see e.g. plausible.io [1] or similar implementations that track users without collecting personal data. [1] https://plausible.i
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by Pyramus 6y ago
While politics are being hotly debated I came here to say that I am again and again fascinated by the ability of the human mind to delude itself. You might be quick to argue that these patients aren't smart, and there will likely be a
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> This stuff is like nothing I have ever seen in my life and my parents and grandparents lives as well. My personal experience doesn't match that. I'm German, so my grandparents on both sides were involved in WWII. I grew up wi
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I find research into the placebo/nocebo effect very interesting, and from what I understand it has been shown, that * the effect results in real physical change, * the effect is independent of whether you believe in it. E.g. there is a
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by Pyramus 6y ago
You are right. I find it helpful to look at risk. Broadly speaking there are two types of risks when starting a startup: 1. Customer/market risk 2. Invention risk When invention risk >> customer risk (you can be certain there are

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