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by gottorf 3y ago
Different article, without paywall: https://apnews.com/article/sweden-shooting-explosion-deadlie... Sweden went from almost entirely ethnic Swedish, with high levels of social cohesion and trust (easier to achieve in a
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by gottorf 3y ago
A "vast and accelerating scale of change" that heretofore, as evidenced by data, yielded no climate-related burden on humanity. Atmospheric CO2 went from ~280ppm pre-Industrial Revolution to ~325ppm in 1970 to ~410ppm in 2019[0],
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by gottorf 3y ago
I wager that over the next century, more human lives will be harmed by efforts to counter climate change than will be by the changing climate itself. The WMO estimates[0] that over the 50 years from 1970 to 2019, global climate-related deat
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by gottorf 3y ago
Beautiful though I'm sure it is, I can't help but wonder how your comment stumbled into this thread. ;-)
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by gottorf 3y ago
With the power of hindsight, we can rely on all-cause excess mortality data since 2020 to see how effective the lockdowns were, and whether the extreme disruption to daily life was worth it. See this study[0] that showcases Sweden, whose pu
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by gottorf 3y ago
Good point. I wonder if there is data for that. Maybe the number of insurance claims?
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Hospitals are even more understaffed now than they were before the pandemic BLS doesn't agree with you[0]. After a big drop with Covid, when a bunch of older hospital workers decided it would be a good time to retire, the employme
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by gottorf 3y ago
I wonder what conclusion we can take from it?: 1. The S&P 100 companies were racist and previously preferred to hire white people over nonwhite people given equal qualifications. They changed their tune after the BLM protests, and are n
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by gottorf 3y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between Covid and the absolutely irrational public policy response to Covid, because the latter is what really threw downtowns off. Pandemics will happen again; lockdowns don't need to, if we
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by gottorf 3y ago
> a handful of hedge funds own a majority of the shares > institutional investors Hedge funds are a minority of institutional investors. Most of those institutional investors are companies like Vanguard or BlackRock, who in turn just
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Be frugal, save money Whether or not the future looks bright, this is sound advice for everyone. As an immigrant to the US, one of my biggest culture shocks was how little the average American saves, and how little it's emphasized
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by gottorf 3y ago
You have it the other way around.
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In general, American roads are a lot bigger and straighter than European roads, meaning in terms of consumer preference, horsepower matters more in the former, and being nimble matters more in the latter. I agree with you that not every car
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by gottorf 3y ago
CVT implementations vary, and I think some people just prefer the feel of a torque-converted automatic, which is why some CVTs fake this. Nissan, however, is famous for making garbage CVTs that have lots of issues at low mileages.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> So you're saying people don't do a rational analysis of the risks... but calling it "irrational" is strange? GP's wording implied that rational people take public transit because they've done the risk-bene
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by gottorf 3y ago
> vociferous neighborhood opposition from groups who "didn't like the idea of increased traffic and certain urban elements entering their quiet suburban town." Urban areas generally do have higher rates of crime than subur
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by gottorf 3y ago
> This suggests to me that it's not an actual increase in the cost of producing the product. If it was driven by commodity/input/manufacturing cost prices we should be seeing price pressures coming through in the cheapest
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Especially when the US public education system spends more per pupil than almost every other country on the planet[0], with appalling results. In fact, as spending increased 30% over the past decade, student achievements flatlined, then fel
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by gottorf 3y ago
"Irrational" is a strange way to describe it. People don't go around memorizing statistics of how likely someone who is exhibiting one kind of antisocial behavior (being obviously high, defecating in public, etc.) would be to
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by gottorf 3y ago
Milton Friedman.
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I always thought that the argument against the gold standard/BTC/whatever (relatively) stationary or deflationary currency is that the money supply needs to be elastic to account for the change in the size of the economy. That is,
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by gottorf 3y ago
> with modern computing it seems like it might be more efficient to solve by one party with great resources, rather than by many parties with more primitive predictive tools I'm not sure what technology we have now that the Soviets
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by gottorf 3y ago
As they say, return of capital is more important than return on capital.
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> it's bizarre to me when someone tries to divert a basic human concern into a political agenda "The personal is political." It's a phrase originating in second-wave feminism and continuing onwards in current cultural
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by gottorf 3y ago
Car Talk is such a legend. RIP Tom, and may Ray enjoy his retirement.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Romania is a clear outlier in that Eurostat source. I wonder why that is?
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> where he was asked “do you consider your reporting objective” and his opinions of the British state. I don't imagine his opinions of the British state improved after this experience. Come to think of it, mine isn't, either...
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by gottorf 3y ago
> it was a nongovernmental agency Several "non-governmental" agencies (like the Election Integrity Partnership or the Stanford Internet Observatory[0]) were involved in making recommendations to censor. I say "non-governme
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> The Twitter files were an absolute joke. Are you serious? A US District Court as well as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that those files were not in fact a joke, and that the federal executive did strong-arm private entities
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by gottorf 3y ago
> the standard US Power Socket is a crime against engineering (and don't get me started on 120 vs 240V) What's so bad about a NEMA 5-15? I grant you it's not as fancy as the Type G, but I've certainly never been shock

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