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by graeme 4y ago
The biggest contributor was death in childhood. Twain had made it past that. His conditional life expectancy as an adult was much higher than life expectancy
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by graeme 4y ago
Indeed. Twitter recently killed off the apps and RSS feeds used by twitter power users. Those users who were likely to post widely viewed content on twitter or those who would embed tweets in news articles. Very few people produce on any pl
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by graeme 4y ago
Twitter shut down its substack competitor
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Seems like a false economy. Amazon will surely pay referral fees to somebody . If it goes to a business unit you own, you save the fees. That's what I don't understand about shutting it down. The archives have got to be worth som
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Deposit insurance maximization as a service(bitsaboutmoney.com)
97 points by graeme 4y ago|77 comments
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Remarkable. Net is closing. This likely has to do with why the authorities simply shut Signature down.
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>No, it doesn't. It's about 1.8 and dropping The OECD average is 1.67. America has a relative advantage Here's a dataset of various countries' fertility rates: https://splash-db.eu/dataset/populat
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by graeme 4y ago
Submitted because this is the first study I've seen clearly measuring a cohort which got infected after vaccination. Researchers studied this cohort vs. a vaccinated cohort with no infection. The infected cohort performed measurably wo
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Neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms following infection with Covid-19(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by graeme 4y ago|1 comments
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> After witnessing recent events, one could also look up the history of the region and conclude that Krushchev made a mistake. My point is the odds of adopting this specific framing as a non-russian are minimal without contact with russi
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by graeme 4y ago
That’s misleading framing. Ukraine was in the USSR with Russia. Referendum asked if they wanted to leave. Results in Crimea: 54.19% yes 45.81% no It would not have been sensible to ask “would you like to join russia” as Ukraine was already
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by graeme 4y ago
Ukraine war is one of my major interests. Not long after the takeover I found it 10x harder to see the people I followed who tweeted about Ukraine. One notable vignette: Elon Musk called the Crimean handover “Kruschev’s mistake”. That’s a v
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by graeme 4y ago
With no equity comes no control. I would find it very surprising he has no control over the project. And if he does have control that has value whether you label it equity or not. It is possible he literally has no control and no financial
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by graeme 4y ago
You could find something about almost anyone. See “two felonies a day” My question was something which he would normally be prosecuted for, but wasn’t on account of being president. > evaded prosecution for on account of being presiden
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by graeme 4y ago
Counterpoint: the more our capacity grows, the more we have the legitimate ability to bring absolute destruction Plastic or some other chemical ending sperm counts —> we previously had no ability to affect the global ecosystem on this sc
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by graeme 4y ago
> If it happens, there is no stopping it anyway. Fatalism is notably a religious sentiment An incredible ai upside is possible as is an incredible ai downside. Blind optimism and fatalism has no relation to what the truth of it will be
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by graeme 4y ago
>Quick question, who is the most criminal president in US history? Your post is a lot of meta talk and very short on actual....crimes. The idea behind this indictment is that Trump broke the law as a citizen. Not that he did stuff in off
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by graeme 4y ago
Wait, where is trading shop A or B mentioned? Have not had time to read the complaint. Tried searching it but if it's in there it uses another keyword. This is news to me, haven't heard anyone mention Cumberland global recently? I
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by graeme 4y ago
Suppose a tub was best at two inches of water, got worse for every inch, and overflowed at four feet. And you had turned on the tap and there is now three feet of water. You propose: 1. Reducing the rate of the tap 2. Turning off the tap 3.
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by graeme 4y ago
Possibly. But, many countries are formally US allies, with deep security integration. So an American owned application is not as threatening as a Chinese owned application. America also generally allows businesses and media from foreign com
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by graeme 4y ago
>You'd think that if we reduced our carbon emissions, the ice would stop melting. People think of climate change like a river. You reduce emissions, you reduce the size of the emissions, you reduce the size of the problem. But it&#x
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by graeme 4y ago
Tether is at the center of it all. They're taking down Tether's customers one by one. See the list below, you'll recognize a bunch of names now either insolvent or in jail or both. Each one of these takedowns will help build
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by graeme 4y ago
First result for me too
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by graeme 4y ago
Everyone cites "price gouging" every time prices go up in any industry, but if you bother to look it up the average profit margin of a UK grocer in 2022 is about 3%. Unless that has jumped to 10-15%, or jumped in any meaningful wa
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by graeme 4y ago
>No longer do I need to sift through pages of "12 best recipes for Thanksgiving" blog spam - OpenAI will do this for me and compile the results across several blog spam sites. Why, exactly, will publisher let openai crawl their
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by graeme 4y ago
Abgnale outputted a story. I’ll grant that. Point of my comment is people also accuse Jobs of outputting only a story. But it’s ludicrous to believe all the rest of the stuff is just coincidence that happens to surround Jobs, again and agai
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by graeme 4y ago
>Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role. You're of course getting engagement here. But the key difference is this: Abgnale outputted nothing. Steve Jobs outputted Apple, Pixar and Next (basis of M
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by graeme 4y ago
>Granted it's a Wikipedia article and not the original research, but I have two quibbles. The first is that it still takes the same number of people to perform a Beethoven symphony, but 4 kids with electric guitars and barely any tr
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by graeme 4y ago
I've been curious to try teams more for Microsoft's integration and this is enticing. But, have been using it, and at the moment search doesn't even return anything at all. Is this a bug, or do I need to be paying for a highe
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by graeme 4y ago
>the government clearly would have no problem coming up with the funds to backstop depositors since this is an isolated incident. If you start bailing out banks which take risks, then the incidents become less isolated Once you're h

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