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by directevolve 1y ago
When the USG bailed out banks via TARP during the 2008 financial crisis, it did so by buying shares in those companies. It later sold those shares for a $30.5 billion profit.
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by directevolve 1y ago
Punishing researchers who make mistakes or get unlucky due to noise in the data is a recipe for disaster, just like in other fields. The ideal amount of fraud and false claims in research is not zero, because the policing effort it would ta
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by directevolve 1y ago
Reproducibility studies are costly in time, reagents, and possibly irreplaceable primary samples. I usually would prefer a different study looking at similar mechanisms using different methods than a reproduction of the original methods, al
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by directevolve 1y ago
As a counterpoint, rationalist writing and online community participation was critical for me in helping me get my life together and becoming a healthier person back in 2018 or so. I don’t write much on LessWrong anymore, but I do appreciat
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by directevolve 1y ago
This is a great approach if you have fairly flexible kids, which it sounds like you have. But pickiness can be extreme. For example, my boss’s kid hates anything except dry, plain carbohydrate. Pasta without butter, dry toast. My girlfriend
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by directevolve 1y ago
Not all countries have the same free speech protections as America. I can easily imagine a country that simply has a bureaucracy whose approval is required to publish TV programming, or one that bans banner ads in social media, billboards,
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by directevolve 2y ago
If the hydrophobic material has different properties than the plastic, they can complement each other. For example, soda cans have an inner coating that eliminates a soda pop-aluminum interface, preserving flavor and protecting the structur
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by directevolve 2y ago
ADUs are particularly ineffective, because each one requires the owner to work as a part-time landlord with the tenant being almost their housemate. All the headache without much increase in income. I happen to have chatted with the head of
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by directevolve 2y ago
The next step is engineering a hydrophobic coating or other biodegradable packaging that offers an adequate level of resistance to accidental scratching for a particular application, and identifying applications that are tolerant to failure
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by directevolve 2y ago
I found the book's use of modeling how to pilot an alien starship to be a little misleading, because a starship is a highly engineered product that functions in large part as a control mechanism for software. It comes with a clean desi
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by directevolve 2y ago
Anyone who owns a house can sell it, move into a rental, and reinvest the proceeds in the stock market. They’ll be better diversified and can expose themselves to a wider spectrum of risk/reward profiles. If Americans are clinging to t
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by directevolve 2y ago
I see no reason to think either the manufacturing process or the glucose-fructose balance is a problem. It is just a cheap way to make a lot of sugar. That makes sugary foods cheap. Which helps make people diabetic and fat due to overconsum
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by directevolve 2y ago
I've heard reports via the NIH subreddit that this censorship was actually added back in January, not over the weekend while Trump and Musk broke the NIH website.
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by directevolve 2y ago
Good catch, I hadn’t realized they have a misspelling.
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by directevolve 2y ago
Edit: as another commenter pointed out, you have a misspelling which is why your search works. This link is correct and demonstrates the censorship: https://search.nih.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=nih&q... Ad
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by directevolve 2y ago
This specific issue is fixed, but they also added censorship. Try searching NIH.gov for “transgender” and it kicks you out of the search.
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by directevolve 2y ago
That’s only the incentive if they’re recluses living in their last house. Many such cases. But if they own a $500,000 house and want to sell it to buy a $750,000 house, then a 10% increase in house prices costs them $25,000 net. Limited sup
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by directevolve 2y ago
This paper has an excellent, readable breakdown of how compensation and productivity has changed since the 1970s.
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by directevolve 2y ago
I doubt Democrats would threaten to yank hurricane relief funds. Republicans would. The shoe only fits on one foot.
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by directevolve 2y ago
I foresee three big challenges to funding science at the state level. Shifting to state-level funding would require states to independently raise new taxes. Each state would have to work within the constraints of its state level constitutio
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by directevolve 2y ago
They were comparing two time points as well as two age groups: before vs after Paxlovid became available, and late 60s (disallowed Paxlovid) vs early 70s (allowed Paxlovid). There was no significant different before or after Paxlovid became
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by directevolve 2y ago
Most people here know little to nothing of biomedical research. Explaining clearly why this isn’t a scientifically interesting result is helpful.
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If men are more likely to die from flu if infected, and women more likely to be infected, an affirmative answer to both questions could be reasonable. When you take into account uncertainty about the goals, knowledge and cognitive capacity
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by directevolve 2y ago
Also, it's not clear if the preference comes from the quality of the 'meat' of the answer, or the way it reports its thinking and the speed with which it responds. With o1, I get a marked feeling of impatience waiting for it
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by directevolve 2y ago
If you use ChatGPT, it sometimes gives you two versions of its response, and you have to choose one or the other if you want to continue prompting. Sure, not picking a response might be a third category. But if that's how they were app
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I’m sure there is plenty of evidence for DBS being plausibly safe and effective when they get the technology right. It will be in the form of: - Studies on the purported mechanism(s) of action - Preclinical results in vivo - Anecdotal resul
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by directevolve 2y ago
It would take a lot more than an old, low-confidence set of trials (which is how the meta-analysis describes its inputs) to convince me of your premise.
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^ I assume the meta-analysis covered the available data well. My point is that the available data may not tell us much about the safety and efficacy of this new device.
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Trump did in fact explicitly say he “hadn’t heard of Project 2025” repeatedly during his campaign. Bullshit obviously, and his supporters were warned many times of this, but I still think it’s fair to say this specific set of actions isn’t
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by directevolve 2y ago
That placebo effect study is 20 years old. Most of the included trials in the meta analysis are 10-20 years old as well. The BBC article is about a new device. The evidence base may be slim but the technology looks to be improving. I look f

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