Spellman

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by Spellman 4y ago
It's a very different thing to compare a fund vs holding the actual certificate. Same with the Bond Mutual Funds vs holding a Bond. The Funds will decline because you have to sell old Bonds at a discount to buy up the new higher intere
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by Spellman 5y ago
AP News is generally what everyone pulls from and reports mostly straight facts
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by Spellman 5y ago
A key difference though is that was anonymous (safe) and aggregated (large sample size). Giving a 1-10 rating directly to your supervisor is a completely different thing and the number is tainted by all sorts of other dynamics.
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by Spellman 5y ago
Notably from the graphic, not having school early in lockdown was great! Lower suicides. Once Hybrid/Remote started, suicides worse, implying worse than baseline. But slightly within error bars for most. So order of good > bad: No S
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by Spellman 5y ago
Considering one of the biggest issues that plagued the Later Roman empire was the inability to pay it's legionnaires either via coin or freshly conquered land, it's a substantial factor to it's rise and decline. But to me it
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by Spellman 5y ago
I think the shifts in agriculture could definitely spark something, but robust political institutions and state capacity would have allowed them to weather the issues and adapt. Instead political fractures grew into much bigger problems bri
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by Spellman 5y ago
The TL;DR quote: "Instead, I think the stronger point here ... is that the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West – while it was a catastrophe for those people living at the time – was less a product of ‘hoards of barbarians’ coming
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by Spellman 5y ago
David Frum Liz Cheney Mitt Romney David French Reason media (Libertarian) Andrew Sullivan These all tend to fall under the more 80s/90s Neoconservative or Liberalism banner instead of the more aggressive New Right
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by Spellman 5y ago
Some notables from the Big Names: * Call of Duty Mobile * Alto's Odyssey (personally prefer Alto's Adventure) * Genshin Impact is pretty polished * League of Legends: Wild Rift * Hearthstone/Legends of Runeterra * SoulKnight
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by Spellman 5y ago
Mostly because it reinforces/reinforces several stereotypes by associating the group as exotic and savage (less developed). For example, making their skin literally red. Potentially artistic license, but also very odd considering that
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The Problem with NFTs(youtube.com)
26 points by Spellman 5y ago|0 comments
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by Spellman 5y ago
I'm taking a leap of logic here and guessing you're suggesting a blockchain solution to national identity would have solved this problem?
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by Spellman 5y ago
https://archive.ph/4pBpU and paper source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454
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Prominent scientist open to lab-leak now believes evidence points to market(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by Spellman 5y ago|2 comments
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by Spellman 5y ago
They recently reached a deal and will operate 24/7 thanks to a deal brokered by the administration across multiple stakeholders. https://www.dailynews.com/2021/10/13/biden-to-announce-that-...
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by Spellman 5y ago
Meta-analysis have a good place. But they also have known flaws/assumptions. Often it is impractical to perform large studies. Partially by logistics and often by funding. But if there are lots of smaller studies you can aggregate the
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by Spellman 5y ago
Looking at the two papers (original, and updated) they only removed the Elgazzer paper but not the contested Shakhsi Niaee also mentioned in the Nature article. This is noteworthy because it's also the only other RCT to show strong eff
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by Spellman 5y ago
Exactly
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by Spellman 5y ago
But what about China backing the sovereignty of NK? Or if they decided once we left to just reestablish a sovereign power within NK?
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by Spellman 5y ago
I believe most utilize a pseudo-random system to help smooth out the swinginess of true random. Some even utilize a fixed long set of numbers so that it doesn't have to generate a random number every call. I first encountered it in Dot
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by Spellman 5y ago
There are already triage protocols in place that ration care based on severity and availability of equipment/staff. COVID is agnostically treated alongside those protocols. So if COVID symptoms are severe enough to bump the priority of
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Who is targeted by email-based phishing and malware?(elie.net)
2 points by Spellman 5y ago|0 comments
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by Spellman 5y ago
I'm not so sure. All of my friends who aren't getting the vaccine and vocal about it are pushing some pretty out there reasons. It may have started from relatively reasonable reasons, but it has morphed into an especially vitrolic
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by Spellman 5y ago
Thanks for such detailed info! Who would you recommend as quality filter brands?
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by Spellman 5y ago
Somewhat related, any suggestions on how to keep an older Pixel secure? Have a Pixel 3 that's about to run out of security updates from Google. Seems like Graphene only provides legacy support once Google drops support.
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by Spellman 5y ago
Agreed. It's like understanding syntax or grammar for a language. Making explicit names, categories, and systems to take apart what you're doing/saying. 99% of the time though people don't think about that, they go by &q
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by Spellman 5y ago
There actually is! Two studies in Brazil have shown a pretty significant reduction in hospitalizations in a RCT of fluvoxamine. More data obviously required. Plus there has been more work on other treatments, but most are pretty expensive.
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2nd Study of Fluvoxamine showing promise as Covid-19 treatment(vox.com)
5 points by Spellman 5y ago|0 comments
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Explaining Vaccine Effectiveness(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by Spellman 5y ago|1 comments
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by Spellman 5y ago
Sort of. It's a cocktail of vaccines against the expected dominant strains based on data of strains in the opposite hemisphere because it mutates too quickly to produce a targeted vaccine against any specific strain before it arrives.

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