Tycho

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by Tycho 5y ago
What happens if the CCP uses its dictator powers to rapidly transform China into a low-carbon economy and then starts leveraging the carbon credits system to heavily penalize and stymy western rivals?
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by Tycho 5y ago
Crypto is offshore finance for the little guy.
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by Tycho 5y ago
The 2nd dose cohort at that point had quite a different age profile (they were rolling out doses oldest to youngest). Over 50 age bands were 90%+ double dosed but 60% or less for under 50 age bands. It’s possible that older cohorts were ou
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by Tycho 5y ago
Yes it starts in January but I mentioned March because it took some time for a large number of people to actually get the vaccine, and also there was probably flu going around in Jan/Feb. I should have said July not August. The numbers
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by Tycho 5y ago
I’m not worried at all. Even if it turns out to be real and not just fun with statistics. People who say stuff like there’s no point in having children, the world is doomed, etc, need to get their head checked out. Or stop paying attention
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by Tycho 5y ago
Pretty interesting point about greater productivity coming from superior division of labour in a city. Each person creates more time to focus on their specialised work by paying other specialists to deal with their household problems (plumb
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by Tycho 5y ago
It would need to be a heck of a big effect to drive that sort of elevation in mortality. I suppose conceivably there is a strong adverse selection/sorting effect happening, but I’m not sure that fits with the pattern. Need to think abo
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by Tycho 5y ago
You didn’t notice what is happening in the “21 days after first dose” column? It went from 22 to 100! And if the NHS and other experts noticed it, they for some didn’t include an explanation along with their other comments on the data.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Are you referring to table 5, non-covid deaths? 2-dosed people have a lower absolute rate, but it still trends steadily upwards while unvaccinated trend steadily downwards. Or are you referring to the deaths from covid?
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think the asset price inflation is a secondary benefit (and may help if it makes people feel wealthier and more likely to spend/invest). The main goal of the Fed's asset purchases is to lower long term interest rates (they can o
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by Tycho 5y ago
Without looking extensively, it seems that it's usually between 1000 and 1500 per 100k per annum , so between 20 to 30 per week as a direct comparison. This seems steady over recent history. This compared to a rate for the vaccinated
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by Tycho 5y ago
What do you (or anyone else) think about the statistical conclusions in this paper? Particularly the adjusted r-squared values reported. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
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by Tycho 5y ago
Yesterday in England, they published statistics that showed (among other things) the rate of non-covid deaths among vaccinated people greatly increased from March to August. By a factor that dwarfs the improvement in covid-related deaths. F
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The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock(twitter.com)
4 points by Tycho 5y ago|1 comments
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by Tycho 5y ago
Does anyone have a defence of this basket option business, why it should be treated as a long term capital gain? Is it really just a case of “let’s try our luck?”
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by Tycho 5y ago
Never heard of this service but that is great news. Browsing and navigation has always been a bit clunky for classical on Apple Music and other services. Incidentally, worth noting Apple Music has other stuff like spoken word poetry. We are
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by Tycho 5y ago
wish there was an algorithm that could make me a playlist full of stuff that sounds like Blue in Green from Kind of Blue.
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by Tycho 5y ago
It’s The Guardian, journalism isn’t what they’re known for.
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by Tycho 5y ago
It just boggles the fucking mind. How are credit score companies even legal in the first place? Isn’t the point of GDPR (and all the other data protection laws) to stop companies collecting your personal info and then sharing it with other
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by Tycho 5y ago
Couple weeks ago I made a comment on a story pondering if a certain British tech executive had undisclosed links to the intelligence services. Some people replied and there was interesting discussion. Then the comment (not the story, just m
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think thanks to Covid booster shots they realise they can pivot to a Vaccine-as-a-Service model and create all sorts of recurring revenue streams.
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The conventional wisdom on educational spending(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
4 points by Tycho 5y ago|0 comments
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by Tycho 5y ago
Since it’s generally harder to recognise people of other ethnicities, maybe they either mistakingly think it’s not you (without other context to help them), or think it might be but don’t want to take the risk of offending a stranger.
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by Tycho 5y ago
> trend
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by Tycho 5y ago
Yes this is generally what being a citizen means, you can move about freely within your nation’s territory, and the territory is protected. Lack of territorial integrity is contrary to the principle of citizenship. Otherwise you just become
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by Tycho 5y ago
The overarching trend I see recently is that your rights, as an individual citizen, simply do not matter. They will be brushed away by any agenda that has a semblance of globalist right-think. Your right to privacy, in the face of governmen
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by Tycho 5y ago
The most striking thing to me is the incoherence. It’s as if a bunch of sprawling, unaccountable bureaucracies —- the White House, the Pentagon, the CIA, the State Department, Congress, the DNC, the MIC —- were prosecuting essentially indep
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Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation 1994-2016(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Tycho 5y ago
Brilliant guerrilla marketing move, really: anyone who chooses Android over iPhone now implicitly has some very unsavoury reasons for doing so. And if it was really a broader surveillance initiative pushed by the government, the same implic
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by Tycho 5y ago
1. That the planet is warming and we can accurately measure that 2. That we can accurately model the effect of CO2 on temperature and sea levels 3. That we can accurately model increasing levels of 'bad weather' and disasters base

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