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by csee 5y ago
I agree that it's possible to preserve many of the benefits of competition under a more centralized and explicitly cooperative structure. You see this sometimes within large for-profit companies that have competing products, which ar
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by csee 5y ago
Question: If I just want to buy one stock, would I expect a better price from you or from a normal venue (both empirically/in reality on the one hand, and theoretically on the other)?
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by csee 5y ago
Competition is an incredible driver of outcomes, e.g. moon landing. It's also better from a risk perspective since it decorrelates efforts and we only need 1 to succeed. It also allows evolution to operate, where the incompetent and br
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by csee 5y ago
I don't doubt that social life is important even for introverted people, but this advice[1] in particular would be quite painful for me, even if it's in a small group. The hitrate (micromarriage rate) would be too small. Wouldn&#x
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by csee 5y ago
What is your personality type? Are you extroverted? Would points (2) and (3) differ for someone who is introverted?
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by csee 5y ago
Is there really nothing between "just trust us" and betraying sources/methods?
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by csee 5y ago
> Afghanistan bomb strike which killed the NGO Guy and the kids. Did they try to hide this information?
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by csee 5y ago
Also, can't Delta work with other airlines on maintaining a joint list? Why does this need government intervention? It should be easy to set it up among themselves.
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by csee 5y ago
Why is the Kyle Kulinski episode removed, though?
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by csee 5y ago
Whether these differences are genetic or socialized or some combination of the two is not relevant.
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by csee 5y ago
It's an interesting speculation but the main reasons are child birth (women out of work for longer) and personality differences (agreeableness is known to negatively predict income irrespective of gender) explaining the within-occupati
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by csee 5y ago
You're extrapolating across very different types of problems. Go and Chess have unlimited training data. Competitive programming does not.
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by csee 5y ago
Industries cannibalizing themselves through competition is very common. If pharma was a monopoly, then they wouldn't want to cure cancer. But pharma isn't a monopoly, so the incentive then is to reduce the size of the pie as long
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by csee 5y ago
But here you're talking about efficacy against infection and mild disease, which is not so relevant if we're talking about preventing new strains. New strains are thought to evolve in immunocompromised people with high viral loads
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by csee 5y ago
It's the noble lies more than any direct action that erodes trust the most.
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by csee 5y ago
Why don't you think a golden age existed? The landscape is different today, which attracts a different sort of character. Back when scientific pursuit was a passion, you mostly had the creative and innately curious types who were drawn
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by csee 5y ago
So no accountability for the corrupt officeholders? Just the taxpayers have to foot the legal bill?
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by csee 5y ago
I can think of 3 reasons: - vaccines are killing people - undiagnosed covid / long covid is killing people - something innocuous like the reporting methodology has changed and this category is acting like a residual What makes me think
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by csee 5y ago
I have realized that the Fenton & Neil trick logically can't explain VE against death if we use, say, a 6 months or 1 year window to calculate it. The Fenton & Neil trick only has a non-trivial impact when looking at the instan
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by csee 5y ago
Well they lack basic medical care so no they don't have everything they need.
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by csee 5y ago
> What I'm saying is that the vaccine surely reduces the number of people whose death is attributed to covid IIRC, you have provided no explanation for a high VE against Covid-death post vaccination plateau . The only remaining ex
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by csee 5y ago
So, we agree that vaccines prevent significant numbers of Covid deaths, as presumably shown by VE against death after the plateau of the vaccination drive. We're now discussing the extent to which vaccines are killing lots of peopl
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by csee 5y ago
> (b) Ignoring all cause mortality... But the RCT showed that vaccine safety isn't a big part of the picture, so all-cause mortality won't be relevant. The difference in non-Covid deaths was statistically insignificant. Yes the
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by csee 5y ago
> [bias in VE for hospitalization] Well there's no such bias in Australia, AFAIK. Everyone has the same testing requirements. Let's forget vaccine effectiveness (VE) against hospitalization, because as far as Israel is concerne
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by csee 5y ago
> E.g. israeli data which I am intimately familiar with is incredibly biased Can you expand on this? Why is the data biased by demographics? Is this data biased in the same way as the other countries that show a 90% effectiveness? As I
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by csee 5y ago
It is not close to statistically significant. Here are two monte carlos under different assumptions which checks how often we expect 21 or more deaths by chance under the null hypothesis of no-effect on non-Covid mortality (i.e., that the v
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by csee 5y ago
That would never happen, again because of incentives. Academics want to build their brand and publishing anonymously doesn't help with that.
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by csee 5y ago
Assuming methods were the same, the first study was the control.
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by csee 5y ago
There is an incentive against doing it. No researcher wants the embarrassment of having an error that they didn't know about discovered. Journals don't fancy the embarrassment or hassle either. It would serve broader scientific pr
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by csee 5y ago
There is also a great deal of randomness. I'd hestitate to draw conclusions by comparing countries, there is not enough data. If we could compare different local areas that had different policies, we might be able to get somewhere. Eve

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