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by croissants 7y ago
A quicker TLDR to try and summarize methodology and findings: > We examined a consecutive sample of HRS subjects who died between 1992 and 2006. HRS subjects are a representative sample of Americans over the age of 50 who were living in
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The median length of time between nursing home entrance and death is 5 months(europepmc.org)
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The point of the article is to trace the ramifications of the shutdown from Bloomberg's plausible audience all the way down the economic ladder to Kenyan flower workers making a couple grand per year. I suspect that the contrast is int
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by croissants 7y ago
The standard cultural joke that fathers are really into preventing their daughters (but not sons) from having sex is messed up.
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by croissants 7y ago
What do you mean "no more so than in Finland"? The link at [1] says Iran has 1501 cases and 66 deaths, while Finland has 6 cases and 0 deaths.
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by croissants 7y ago
How should people buy mattresses, or mattress-like products, to avoid this 2000% markup?
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by croissants 7y ago
American PhDs applicants typically don’t have Masters degrees, so 5-6 years elapse between completing undergrad and finishing the PhD. This appears comparable to the 1-2 + 3-4 years for masters + PhD in Europe. If you want to assert that th
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by croissants 7y ago
A possibly impolitic question: if you've already accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars, is the marginal utility to your children of attending USC or Georgetown (as bribed here) really worth almost a million dollars (as bribed h
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by croissants 7y ago
I'm not sure that realizing your totalitarian government is more dangerous and less principled than you thought is going to encourage rebellion.
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by croissants 7y ago
The actual abstract [1] is much more informative: > In a representative sample of Finnish car owners (N = 1892) we connected the Five‐Factor Model personality dimensions to driving a high‐status car. Regardless of whether income was incl
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by croissants 7y ago
This isn't a clear-cut "advantage", but Finland is much more ethnically homogeneous than America. Over 90% of people in Finland are ethnically Finnish. Heck, 70% of Finns belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland [
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by croissants 7y ago
This is interesting, because from my perspective you seem unhappy, angry, and thoroughly invested in seeing the cause as [a decaying culture in thrall to liberal values] rather than [your own fixation on winning and insistence that “decent”
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by croissants 7y ago
Is there any indication that this is still true? People seem to hop between these companies all the time. Even the fired organizers now have companies recruiting them on Twitter.
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Sure. But people who think the status quo is not bad are unlikely to petition for it. So there seems to be a selection problem here.
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Are there any numbers for how Google employees at large actually feel about the claims made by organizers (unionization, retaliation, harassment, bad work environments, etc)? It's hard to tell from the outside how many people actually
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by croissants 7y ago
The Wikipedia article on the protests [1] makes the run-up to the huge march on October 25 seem pretty chaotic. In particular, the deaths and fires from looting, as well as the destruction of public transit stations, makes the declaration o
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by croissants 7y ago
I read this article and got the impression that the "19 dead" figure would be military killing protesters. So I thought that this was another heavy-handed putdown of relatively peaceful protests. But Wikipedia's breakdown [