Pyramus

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by Pyramus 6y ago
Thank you for the reply. I do understand your capital requirements in X years down the line. I also respect your goal of decentralisation and community ownership. (As an aside, what does ownership mean? If illegal things were to happen on m
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by Pyramus 6y ago
The project is very interesting and I hope it succeeds, yet from a financial perspective I do not understand why to fund it through retail investors/franchise model/crowd debt funding. From an investor's perspective there is
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by Pyramus 6y ago
That is correct, but the bar for enforcement is very high when it comes to mental health. E.g. I remember a case of a police officer suffering from depression (?) but "only" stressing folks out is not enough unfortunately. In addi
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> Humans have been eating meat for 10s or 100s of thousands if not millions of years. This argument glosses over the crux of current scientific knowledge: We do not know exactly why the type of meat the (average) human eats today is net-
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Also from the same article: "However, actual evidence has shown that Inuit have a similar prevalence of coronary artery disease as non-Inuit populations and they have excessive mortality due to cerebrovascular strokes, with twice the r
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by Pyramus 6y ago
FYI the majority of tomatoes grown in temperate Europe (most notably the Netherlands) is grown hydroponically in a substrate like stone wool. Search for "dutch tomatoe greenhouse" or the like, it is quite impressive from a technic
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by Pyramus 6y ago
To be precice [1]: age 18-29: 35:62 (Trump:Biden) vs 45-64: 49:50 [1] NYT Exit Polls https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/...
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> Virtually nothing in healthcare is a technology problem except for new treatment development. Again, that's a heavily over-simplified view. You are absolutely right that incentives and policy play huge roles (even more so in the U
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> Healthcare costs and waste are not a technology problem. They are a policy and incentives problem. This statement is so broad that it cannot be true and here is an obivous counter example: A high percentage of doctor visits (think 4&#x
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by Pyramus 6y ago
I don't understand what you are trying to say. YYYY-MM-DD is the reverse of DD-MM-YYYY and the other way round.
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Agreed. However YYYY-MM-DD is symmetric to DD-MM-YYYY ...
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by Pyramus 6y ago
A house cat and a tiger are both cats, they will show the same behaviours and evoke the same emotions, yet they are completely different animals. To go even further, also Cheetahs, Leopards and Ocelots are cats and they will also show the s
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by Pyramus 6y ago
It goes to show that Cliff Mass has completely lost his framework of reference in his comparison (and so have you). As a German let me assure you that comparing riots among BLM protesters to the Kristallnacht is utterly unappropriate. Don&#
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Wirecard shortseller Viceroy accuses Grenke AG of fraud(viceroyresearch.org)
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by Pyramus 6y ago
While your link compares confirmed deaths due to Covid-19, it seems that this effect remains even when you look at excess deaths [1]. However, the US is still in the midst of the pandemic, and I expect the US to catch up on this lamentable
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by Pyramus 6y ago
You will be hard pressed to find an index that aims to measure Human Rights where the US scores better than the main European countries such as Germany, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands etc. Press Freedom Index [1]: Nope Human Rights Scores &
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> Is there any summary of this evidence that you think is compelling? The meta-analyses in [1] are a good starting point. Note that in particular in a clinical setting, the intervention usually comprise more than just the meditation aspe
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> It's important to bear in mind that meditation is a religious practice specifically aimed at causing ego-death. That's a very broad statement given that there are many different types of meditations with different aims, relig
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Reading through the comments I'd like to help clear up some of the misconceptions/confusion when it comes to the use of the terms meditation and mindfulness: There are different meditation practices, mindfulness meditation is a sp
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> The problem is that we keep our brains active late at night and that's the reason why it is hard to get to sleep. You are correct, however, that's a confounding problem. The (relatively) weak effectiveness of software solutio
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by Pyramus 6y ago
While you are technically correct, it's implicitly stated ("game show") and correctly understood by the majority of readers. Take it from Marilyn vos Savant herself: "Virtually all of my critics understood the intended s
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Not really in my experience, I've never come across the problem without being stated explicitly how the moderator acts - it would be a different problem. What I think is true is that people underestimate the role of the host (i.e. the
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Not sure what you mean with "bad actor" - the host/moderator is not an adversary, his rules are fixed from the outset (see e.g. Standard Assuptions in [1]) These rules imply that new information is revealed, and based on the
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by Pyramus 6y ago
Sorry, did not mean to discredit. What I meant was: The researcher did all this work to build up a chain of arguments to support their hypothesis and then basically says "every other hypothesis is impossible."
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by Pyramus 6y ago
>There are tons of very successful founders recommending focusing on adoption instead of revenue in initial period. As of 2020, this is the exception rather than the rule. The problem is that focussing on adoption before focussing on val
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by Pyramus 6y ago
> “It would be impossible to build such a site in the high mountains if the substrate was not fractured." No, that's not what you have demonstrated. Because A is much more likely than B, doesn't mean B is impossible. Maybe
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by Pyramus 6y ago
German here with startup experience abroad. No there isn't - and it baffles and worries me to the same extent. (Many) Germans think of innovation as incremental, and don't realise how much Germany is missing out in terms of disrup
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by Pyramus 10y ago
Very uninspiring indeed! Let me know if you are interested in investigating this properly.
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by Pyramus 10y ago
Me too, interested in debunking this properly?