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Amusingly bad Python code improved by over 40,832,277,770% (Stand-Up Maths)(youtube.com)
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I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, but nuclear has been somewhat of a clown shown because it requires a small number of politically connected firms to function. This has engendered graft and incompetence in many different countr
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Nuclear power plants also have a low probability catastrophic failure mode. If it was a risk we’d engineer to mitigate it.
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That’s fine. You will be allowed to pay for peak time energy. Everyone else will get a better insulated fridge and allow their washing machine to start when the price for the next hour is low.
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The climate doesn’t care about what is fair, but people do and this needs to be considered if we want to succeed. Most individuals in China consume way less than most individuals in the US and emit less carbon. That they live under the same
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>doesn't China produce something like double the amount of CO2 emissions compared to the US? Certainly not per capita. And China and other developing countries have been emitting large amounts of co2 for only a very short period rel
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This post reminds me of the category of "not even wrong". Apart from anything else, reward is a _much_ more effective stimulus for learning than punishment.
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I think that’s hard to know. Nobody is ‘inventing’ smartphones except US, but there are substantial barriers to entry for non US manufacturers… language if nothing else. Also there is a massive network effect benefit by being just-first.
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Is that actually true? Germany and scandi countries seem like major outliers. I’d guess that corruption and presence of good institutions are as important as tax % but would be interested in data either way.
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Let us know how that’s gone when you’ve actually decommissioned one and dealt with all the storage issues.
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Apologies. I hadn’t realised this was the net effect. I agree this is a terrible policy. Marginal tax rates should be a monotonically increasing function.
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Although worth noting that luck plays a much larger role on most peoples success than is acknowledged. Uk and Us are also much less likely to recognise use role of chance in personal success than wealthy Europeans.
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I agree that equality is a desireable goal. But, this argument doesn’t persuade people who don’t care about equality. Better is to focus on the benefits gained bu the wealthy from stable legal systems, public health, education etc. If you a
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Yes, because they are gaining more than rhe average share from the stability that a welfare state and legal system provides. If they want a lower tax rate they should move to a jurisdiction without expensive public services underpinning the
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In what circumstances the does UK have a 60% marginal tax rate. I think the op is confused.
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Plus, the real damage is on value of gilts. Sterling is a secondary concern (although obv also inflationary)
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Plus, even taking at face value the notion that tax cuts were to inject money into the economy and stimulate growth, giving money to poor people guarantees it’s spent in the economy immediately.
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The counter factual where a left wing government does something this stupid is hard to imagine because the press and markets normally go so apeshit at even minor transgressions of neo liberal orthodoxy that we never get that far.
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There’s a tradeoff here though. Using Latin names for guilt or shame might be fine in research papers, but if you want to translate that into - for example- individual therapy you are going to need to talk about guilt and shame, and so some
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Totally agree. I do think that people underestimate the width of that point tho. For most people who are not racing the suspension benefits probably outweighs the minimal aero loss, but it’s really hard to measure. I have been on fast group
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I agree the tyres are expensive, but their findings on tyre width and pressure are largely bourne out by more controlled tests. In addition, their rolling distance tests include one factor which most standardised rigs didn’t: the losses fro
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But most fermented foods eaten in the west would also fit this definition … and you’re not calling out gherkins as disgusting. In SE Asia and Africa some insects command high prices. People have preferences between them. What food you find
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There are studies (I don’t know how good - this is a second hand account of a conference talk) that suggested using difficult to read typefaces or deliberately degrading texts by photocopying multiple times helped retention. Perhaps writing
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This sort of comment just isn’t necessary, doesn’t add anything to the discussion and I’d be happy to see it deleted. English is likely not the gp’s first language but we should be grateful that smart people from all over the world want to
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The reason is that many medical tests have high false positive rates, and the follow procedures have side effects (sometimes). When you administer tests and followups at population scale for a disease with a low prior probability you will d
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No. Statistically, the reason the gp was celebrating their post war prosperity was because the proceeds or automation and burning fossil fuels were much more equitably shared in that period than any other in history.
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It works in many subtle ways. But let’s take one example: the monarchy and the ludicrous rules and conventions that go with it to govern parliament are just one way working class MPs are intimidated and given the information that they are n
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sustaining and not disbanding the Royal family for 70 years?
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Exactly. Her silence/defence of Andrew is shameful. No moral compass there. Her distinguishing feature has been to give no public interviews and to entrench antidemocratic privilege as best we can. Dangs top post irritated me because i
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Before anyone dismissed this as a cheap shot or ungenerous, we need to remember that this is likely our only route to a republic given the absurd biases in uk media and establishment.

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