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by alecst 5y ago
Definitely a learning moment for me. Means that the question of Sweden may not be so simple. That said, most of the population doesn’t live in Stockholm, so that probably was not the right idea to start to begin with. As another commenter p
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by alecst 5y ago
You are right. I am wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_urban_area I find ~4200 on Wikipedia but your point stands.
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by alecst 5y ago
Edit: I am wrong. The population density of the Stockholm urban area is 4200 (2019), not 400 as I originally said. That number is for the county, not the municipal area. Leaving the rest of the comment so others can learn. Clearly the popul
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by alecst 5y ago
I don't really see how that adds up. In order to collect $50B, everyone in the US would need to donate about $150. Or, Jeff Bezos could liquidate a 1/3 of his net worth. A bit exaggerated, and a bit of a cartoon, but you get the p
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by alecst 5y ago
Our anonymous Dave has a tremendous excess of wealth that far exceeds his needs and his ability or desire to spend it. He asked "Was I wrong in not telling anyone about my winnings?" My response was to that. Maybe sharing it, rat
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by alecst 5y ago
Therefore he should not donate any? I don't see where to go from this position.
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by alecst 5y ago
It's such a low bar to pass. The guy in the article is 67, makes 1MM+ in interest a year, and won't even consider telling his friends or family? Or donating a penny of it? Is there not room for a middle ground here? What about: &q
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by alecst 5y ago
In contrast with the prototypical lottery winner who burns through all their money and ends up basically where they started, this guy didn't spend any significant amount of his money and ended up basically where he started.
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by alecst 5y ago
I work with CSVs often and we usually just use blanks like item1,item2,,item4,,,item7 to represent nulls. What do you think the pitfalls are here? (Sincere question, wondering how we can improve.)
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by alecst 5y ago
While I appreciate your perspective, you seem to have cherry-picked a particular instantiation of the income tax to make a point, which I think dovetails with the last sentence in my original post. You can draw lots of conclusions by lookin
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by alecst 5y ago
For you guys getting in the weeds about how the govt spends money, here's the data: https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
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by alecst 5y ago
Your numbers don't seem right to me. For people who want more context than this comment provides, please start here: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/historical-highlights-of-the-ir... Some highlights: > 1862 - Pre
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by alecst 5y ago
Yea, possibly this plus messaging metadata.
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by alecst 5y ago
What do you think would get you labeled as a right-winger? (I submitted the article, I liked it, and I'm not right-wing.)
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by alecst 5y ago
Original paper: https://www.fradenlab.com/app/download/9774776565/s41563-021... Edit: sorry for the previously bad link. Didn't notice. From what I get, it looks like the traps basically smother the vira
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by alecst 5y ago
Interesting point. I'd think the correlation skewed the other way -- that anyone at higher risk would be more likely to get a vaccine. There aren't many people (as a percentage) who are so ill that a vaccine might seriously harm t
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by alecst 5y ago
No use staying somewhere where you're unhappy. You can try to stick it out, if that suits your long term goals. But you only have one life to live. Consider what it's worth to you.
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How is efficacy vs. severe disease strong if 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?(covid-datascience.com)
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by alecst 5y ago
Same. It's undeniably cool. But with developments like this, I just picture humanity slowly writing its own epitaph.
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by alecst 5y ago
It's an ambitious and admirable goal to be completely logically consistent, but I've given up on that. Sometimes there are two different but consistent stories for the same thing. I get that maybe it doesn't seem rational, bu
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by alecst 5y ago
It's really hard (for me, and I imagine, for everyone else) to not put myself into my views and opinions. Like, when someone shows me that I'm wrong, it's natural for me to feel attacked, instead of just taking it as a lear
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by alecst 5y ago
Cutetilitarianism -- the philosophy of maximizing the world's total cuteness. The most ardent follower might be my ex girlfriend.
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by alecst 5y ago
I want to challenge a detail. I have rarely heard anyone talk about total lockdown since the vaccine came out. I hear about two groups. The people (1) who don't want to do anything (vaccines or mask) and who want to force life to go ba
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by alecst 5y ago
Gave it another shot: def monotonic(arr): if not arr: return [] new_arr = [] sub_arr = [arr[0]] parity = 0 for n in arr[1:]: delta = n - sub_arr[-1] if parity == 0:
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by alecst 5y ago
Yea it would be cool to see the reference if you can find it, because the position one takes depends a lot on the crunchy details.
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by alecst 5y ago
Thanks. That was absolutely my intention and I'm grateful you replied. I amended this solution by changing strict > to >=, which seems to have fixed some of the problematic behavior.
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by alecst 5y ago
Thanks. I was inconsistent in my use of >= and >. Making them consistent has fixed this edge case.
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by alecst 5y ago
I guess from your perspective, people will buy something they want no matter how expensive it is.
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by alecst 5y ago
> Natural immunity is globally inferior to vaccinated immunity. Cool, tell me more. I have a background in biophysics (with a touch of immunology and virology) but I don't know a whole lot about that. I'm not up-to-date on all
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by alecst 5y ago
I think most people agree that natural immunity is as good as a vaccine. But I do see some possible reasons to prefer the vaccine to proof of natural immunity. It's possible legislators have less confidence in the tests of natural immu

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