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by glofish 4y ago
Alas even today there is no RCT on masks. Why? Countries and states with strict mask policies did not do better than those without these policies (see US States for an example). So do mask work? It is like a religious belief system, you wou
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by glofish 4y ago
> In 2017, 1% of NIH extramural grantees received 11% of the total funds. The top 10% of researchers received over 40% of the funds.36 37 This is a larger divide in wealth inequality than for the general U.S. population, where the top 1
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by glofish 4y ago
it is bad because the population is growing, so when you factor that in, per individual the decrease is much larger. 5% growth is when everything is kinda normal and 25% of people/businesses barely get by. -5% growth is when most peopl
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by glofish 5y ago
The crisis is the mentality of people clinging to the belief that they are about to die if others don't (pick your poison): - mask, lock down, hide from others etc
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by glofish 5y ago
I went ahead and compared VTV (Small Value Index) to VTI (Total Stock Market index) that includes all US companies. On the 1 year range the VTI underperformed. Over 2, 5, 10 and Max (18 years) VTI outperforms VTV, the longer the period the
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by glofish 5y ago
Go to Fidelity.com and search for VTV (Vanguard Value Index Funds) Plot the stock price then select compare to SP500. You can select 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, Max range What will you find? For all of those ranges SP500 outperformed V
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by glofish 5y ago
they are doing the opposite, their current caseload growth is higher than that of other countries, That is not flattening for sure, it is more explosive - spiking the curve not flattening it.
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by glofish 5y ago
If you care about current assesments read this (published March 7, 2022): Unravelling the Role of the Mandatory Use of Face Covering Masks for the Control of SARS-CoV-2 in Schools: A Quasi-Experimental Study Nested in a Population-Based Co
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by glofish 5y ago
because it is ain't over in those countries not one bit. How can you possibly even bring any data about South Korea or Hong Kong into this discussion when these place have the highest caseloads ever right at this moment? The caseload t
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by glofish 5y ago
Above you are citing the DANMASK study that found a tiny effect size of −0.3 (!) percentage points with no statistical significance to mask wearing. In what world would that be evidence that masks work? For what is worth, at this point ther
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by glofish 5y ago
also noteworthy elements: university overhead 53%, so that leaves $250K. Over five years that works out to basically $50K/year That needs to cover 1 month summer salary plus the salary and the tuition for a single student, and the trav
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by glofish 5y ago
It is not as much about dismissal of the proposal - they are just pointing out a trivial mechanisms to bypass it, all the while making us all worse off. I for one suspect that better the "equality enforcement" gets the less abilit
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by glofish 5y ago
gravity did not need to be discovered :-) everyone was subjected to it all the time on a more serious note, for what is worth, discovering radioactivity was accidental, there was no premeditated thought process, so that does not count ;-) n
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by glofish 5y ago
what? that makes no sense, Are you saying that there is no business that transacts in tulip bulbs? Are you saying there are no resellers of tulip bulbs? No tulip bulb traders? > The average bulb grower in Holland sells almost $200,000 wo
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by glofish 5y ago
your equivalency falls apart at the first common sense example the first person building a airplane is a genius, the CEO of Spirit Airlines is not a genius
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by glofish 5y ago
the comparison to theoretical physics is regarding theoretical computations that actually do turn out as working in the real world. many mathematical concepts (most in fact) are abstract concepts in N dimensional spaces. It is theoretical p
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by glofish 5y ago
that is like saying electricity has allowed us to build computers yeah of course, but there are many other genius discoveries that had to go along with it
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by glofish 5y ago
a distributed trusted ledger, where each selfish agent has to cooperate, while all transaction are out in public ... all on mathematical foundations, and it actually works in practice? how is that not genius?
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by glofish 5y ago
Any bitcoin related assessment that cites the Tulip mania is inherently suspect. It conflates two different, unrelated concepts: the tulips and the mania. We have not banned tulips because of the Tulip mania. Bitcoin and blockchain are geni
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by glofish 5y ago
somebody please explain to me how is it possible that the owner reports losing $124 million, then they casually mention in the reply that: no problem, I'll just cover it with my own money ... (another recent story on ether hack had the
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by glofish 5y ago
does not seem all that surprising frankly, considering US is about 10x the size of Canada and that the issue is highly politicized I am surprised only half the funding comes from US
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by glofish 5y ago
Let's look at the abstract: > We find that the closures had no detectable impact on children's school attendance in 1920, nor on their educational attainment and adult labor market outcomes in 1940. Really ... they are trying t
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by glofish 5y ago
I think your reply confounds two distinct issues accessibility: (gatekeeping) and ability to succeed in the field. The merit can be thought in two ways - Can people that want to and deserve to be scientists become one? - Once you are scient
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by glofish 5y ago
I think it is unfair to say close to zero, just that it is far less than what most people expect of science
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by glofish 5y ago
Tragicomically the author quotes: " the great ecologist E.O. Wilson " for guidance on what a good scientist is... Read what Scientific American did to Wilson mere three days after his death: https://razib.substack.com&#
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by glofish 5y ago
I am genuinely curious to see how this will turn out. I understand and sympathise with both points of view, I could see myself arguing for both points of view. But the fundamental truth is that to "save the planet" we need to pay
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by glofish 5y ago
this is a really good point enrolling in a study is not at all representative of how people would behave if the same were a permanent
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by glofish 5y ago
are spray painting particles the same size as a virus? ... something to ponder
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by glofish 5y ago
no worth refuting because you have zero evidence that they work. All the empirical evidence (like the epidemic curves in countries that do require N95) points that they don't.
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by glofish 5y ago
why? what is the benefit in covering the world in test, what difference does it make? If I test myself tomorrow four times "for free" - how did that benefit anyone? wouldn't it much better if the tests went to people that act

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