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841.
by bigfudge 7y ago
I personally don't see why it's such a limited time frame.
842.
by bigfudge 7y ago
I don't think anyone has clarified the actual rules in play here. Why should the taxpayer bail out firms which go on to pay dividends within 5 years? Why shouldn't the state simply take stock as a guarantee for loans in these comp
843.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Why not for several months. If you are a large corporate doing share buybacks why the f shouldn't you be able to weather several months of disruption?
844.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Perhaps this should be a cost of doing business in the future? We all pay for this anyway, so why should taxpayers face all the risk and none of the reward.
845.
by bigfudge 7y ago
It's a tax dodge in the UK.
846.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Why are you paying yourself in dividends rather than a salary? If you want the tax breaks associated with being a director, eat the risk too...
847.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Something doesn’t stack up here. If China’s response is such a shit show why don’t they have widespread transmission around the country? The US and Europe have had more warning than Chinese regions, but have been far less effective at mana
848.
by bigfudge 7y ago
We didn’t need different CCP numbers to have taken more effective action in the UK, we just needed to listen to public health experts rather than statistical epidemiologists and motivated thinkers in government. Germany, Austria, S Korea ar
849.
by bigfudge 7y ago
One of the metrics in league tables is % 1st class degrees (and it's not reverse weighted, as one might hope). Gaming league tables drives almost all management decisions in UK universities, because it so directly affects the bottom l
850.
by bigfudge 7y ago
The point of YM is that civil servants and ministers are interdependent, rather than a 'deep state' in the trumpian conspiracy theory sense.
851.
by bigfudge 7y ago
The thing is Reiki is just the latest in a long line of fads we have to consider seriously, despite having a (reasonable) prior that they won't work because the physics doesn't make sense. Proponents of woo can keep wasting our ti
852.
by bigfudge 7y ago
They seem more practiced at it if you are a woman though.
853.
by bigfudge 7y ago
This doesn't work for me... no screenshots are imported, and no new ones appear (running latest Catalina)
854.
by bigfudge 7y ago
If they fail and there’s a market for flights their assets will be bought and operated by someone else. Let them fail. Given climate change, air travel is not a public good we should be prioritising.
855.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Get a bike... then walkability is much less an issue
856.
by bigfudge 7y ago
The point is that they won’t all hit the ICU athe same time. See flattenthecurve.com
857.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Bickering isn’t needed, but there is no doubt that many objective indicators of service quality and system stress in the NHS point to a decline. Vacancies in posts alone is a substantial concern and is directly linked to govt policies in tr
858.
by bigfudge 7y ago
I saw a recent paper which presented a model which did predict seasonal reinfection... provided the infection rate is low enough now and that infection rates are reduced in the summer vs winter. If all the mitigation efforts work well now
859.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Spaced repetition and the learning curve is quite a bit older than supermemo.
860.
by bigfudge 7y ago
And the Japanese after in the 19th C
861.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Out of interest, roughly what proportion of experiments in physics "don't work"? Does data that fails to support the experimental hypothesis get published prominently in physics journals?
862.
by bigfudge 7y ago
If alcohol were not legal your comment would make sense. As it is, we reserve the most dangerous (as in, causes most harm both personally and socially) for those least able to cope. Prohibition makes recreational soft drug use less common a
863.
by bigfudge 7y ago
I'm in this boat too, having bought lots of software but been burned by products disappearing/being neglected. In buying sftware, in my experience, the real cost is in my time learing/mastering it. The ultimate example here i
864.
by bigfudge 7y ago
The bbc move seems successful though.not just Manchester either... also to Wales
865.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Given Uber have suppressed investigations into crimes committed by their drivers, point 4 seems overly optimistic. The fact that Uber hasn't yet broken laws in the UK doesn't make using them more defensible. Would you accept a bab
866.
by bigfudge 7y ago
If people are spending it on ‘something stupid’ that’s is a sign that resources are unequally and inefficiently distributes. There are plenty of people in the world who would spend additional cash on food or fuel.
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by bigfudge 7y ago
Worth remembering that astronomy is largely an Observational science. It doesn’t make it less interesting or ‘hard’
868.
by bigfudge 7y ago
Citation needed. From a non US perspective the world looks a little different.
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by bigfudge 7y ago
Start funding psychology etc like we fund physics and the problems would be much smaller. Most studies are underpowered. It’s not because scientists are lazy, it’s because they’re busy.
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by bigfudge 7y ago
They certainly don’t agree. There has been 30+ years of objection to p < .05. The fact that many scientists are statistically illiterate doesn’t constitute consensus.

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