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by em500 4y ago
1. Even if he'd be mad enough to put 60B in one bank(-account), it's strictly forbidden for anyone who could access such information to divulge it. In reality, people who need to hold very large sums of liquidity (which is a very
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by em500 4y ago
Who knows? Seriously, think about this for a moment. Who could have such information, and why would they divulge it?
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by em500 4y ago
Because most Europeans do not need all that gas today or tomorrow, and storage costs money.
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by em500 4y ago
The US spends $14k/student per year on primary and secondary education, more than almost any other country in the world: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
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by em500 4y ago
Serious question: how much do you think a full time customer service agent should be paid? (Some background: I've worked at customer service in the past.)
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by em500 4y ago
WhatsApp uploads the address book from the user's phone to Meta's servers and after that it's unclear to outsiders what they do with it. Hence "unknown".
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by em500 4y ago
The opposite stories do get written. e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-19/mark-zuck... I do agree that it's a very lazy form of news generation. Most of the (publicly) richest people t
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by em500 4y ago
Can you not have a similar experience driving through rural Spain or France? Genuinely curious, the few road trips I took in Europe (Spain, Scotland) did not seem that different from those in the USA (except that roads tended to be narrowe
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by em500 4y ago
Serious answer: you can't properly test anything in macro-economics. Just think about it, we can't implement rigorous (randomized controlled) experiments and we can never observe the counterfactuals. The only thing we have are ob
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by em500 4y ago
First, if you want to be pedantic it's actually the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". But nobody cares about about formal names if they're unwieldy[1]. Second, the comittee based t
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by em500 4y ago
The problem with the title is that it might lead individuals to believe they shouldn't bother with getting a colonoscopy. You can't conclude that from this study at all. If your doctor recommends you to get one, you probably shoul
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by em500 4y ago
Yup. The study answers a question from health policy makers: Should we invite everyone (in some age group) for a colonoscopy? Based on this study, probably not. It does not answer questions from individuals: Should I get a colonoscopy? If y
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by em500 4y ago
Several posters have criticized the title of the news article "In gold-standard trial, colonoscopy fails to reduce rate of cancer deaths". The actual study is titled "Effect of Colonoscopy Screening on Risks of Colorectal Ca
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by em500 4y ago
"ongehoorzaamheid" means disobedience. Even in the context of raising children it seems pretty unfashionable nowadays. It has the air of authoritarianism that in my experience modern Dutch parents try to avoid. I wouldn't con
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by em500 4y ago
Yes, the processes are very different. Commercial discs have physical pits pressed in the recording layer, while burned disks just use the laser to change the reflexity of the layer (which is some dye or phase changing alloy).
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by em500 4y ago
As others have noted, the answer depend a lot on whether your data size is in kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes or terrabytes. For text (kilobytes) there are a lot more options that for video (gigabytes).
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by em500 4y ago
I think that optical disks is a lot like a Lemons market[1]. Buyers can't evaluate the quality (durability) of disks, so are not willing to pay high prices, which drives high quality suppliers out of the market, which causes buyers to
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by em500 4y ago
It's a bit more nuanced than that. Standard CD-R and DVD-R uses organic dyes for the recording layer, which are sensitive to light and humidity. M-DISC DVD-R used some proprietary inorganic layer, which was more durable in theory and i
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by em500 4y ago
The Federal Reserves implements interest rate increases by selling the bonds that they own (bought in the past) in the market in exchange for cash ("Open Market Operations"). This takes cash out of the hand of the public (in excha
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by em500 4y ago
It seems like the repeating cycle of the industry is the low end "toy" computers eating the high end "real work" computers, first in volume, eventually also in performance, from mainfraim (IBM) -> mini (DEC) -> wor
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by em500 4y ago
Here's a relevant comment from a Microsoft product manager[1]: > Because we cannot name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else. > It's pretty much the same reason why you can't launch a commercial prod
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by em500 4y ago
This seems similar as the point made in the well known essay I, Pencil (1958)[1]. You can buy a box of pencils in Staples for something like $0.10 apiece. But no individual, and probaly no small businesses would be capable of making some
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by em500 4y ago
Here's the full paper: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0264410X22010283 As I understand it, these are results from two different trials done separately by Pfizer and Moderna, with slightly dif
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by em500 4y ago
Not sure if this is mean ironically, but I honestly don't see what's wrong with it either. Highlighting the consumption choices of the very wealthy mostly come off as lazy outrage bait to me. If society decided their wealth was
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by em500 4y ago
In Amsterdam 57% of the rental stock is rent-controlled housing (capped at below €800/month). But that doesn't help at all when you don't keep building more: the average time on the waiting list for a new allocation is 13 ye
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by em500 4y ago
Right. I always thought that a non-trivial part of the bad rep of Windows comes from the fact that lots of people were forced to use it at work with tons of enterprise junkware that was barely distinguisable from unremove malware. My home W
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by em500 4y ago
Taxation is not theft, it's a non-voluntary contribution to live in some location that is attractive for many other humans to live. If you don't want to contribute, you'd need to (a) move to some place where no other humans w
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by em500 4y ago
Unpopular opinion (I've been downvoted for this in the past): you don't have to put all your photos and videos on a computer server (either self hosted or from Google/Apple/Meta/Microsoft). I leave new pictures on m
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by em500 4y ago
Let's imagine this in the most extreme form in a thought experiment. An identical twin is stranded in the desert. You have the means (water, transport) to save one of them. Is it better to save one (which one?) or leave both to die? (I
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by em500 4y ago
Indeed. Directly from the CDC[1]: > Sometimes, raw fruits and vegetables contain harmful germs that can make you and your family sick, such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria. CDC estimates that germs on fresh produce cause a large per

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