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by jbay808 5y ago
> You're implicitly assuming a normal distribution I'm not really making that assumption. Instead, I'm pointing out that learning this particular bulb survived due to "unusually think or smooth filament compared wit
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by jbay808 5y ago
"Survivorship bias" is a favourite go-to for contrarians, but it's not a strong effect and when you see something surprising way out at the tail end of a distribution, attributing it to survivorship bias is a lost opportunity
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by jbay808 5y ago
Just roll the wheelbarrow right over an in-floor scale! Subtract the wheelbarrow's own weight, which can be printed on the wheelbarrow itself. Or for something more high tech, put a QR code on the wheelbarrow and you can periodically u
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by jbay808 5y ago
> There are more to this than housing becoming an investment tool [...] Hard assets are only going to keep going up. And then the government guarantees that housing market should never go down It's exactly housing becoming an invest
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by jbay808 5y ago
I think it's much more a matter of negative real interest rates. This inflates the price of all assets, but especially real estate, which is available to be purchased with the cheapest fixed-rate leverage around.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Electrical and mechanical engineers should also be competent with coding, even if it's just Arduino, Python, or (ugh) matlab. Whether that's to automate some SPICE simulation or data processing task, optimize some design parameter
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by jbay808 5y ago
Yes. Email sent ;)
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by jbay808 5y ago
It would be great if I could point something at a noisy machine and find out precisely which panel is loose and vibrating!
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by jbay808 5y ago
The trait appears to be lethal to males and they do not make it to birth. It may be the case that at least one typical X chromosome is necessary for survival, and males only get one X chromosome.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Further to your point, I read elsewhere that the base rate in captivity is closer to 0.5%.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Russia and Saudi Arabia stopped fighting a price war with each other and the COVID demand slump is coming to an end.
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by jbay808 5y ago
That's true if you have a full-term fixed rate mortgage. In some countries, like Canada, those are not available.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Perhaps, but likewise the home itself is likely to be much cheaper and so a smaller loan is needed, if any.
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by jbay808 5y ago
I thought that almost all Vancouver SFHs are now permitted to be turned into duplexes? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/city-council...
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by jbay808 5y ago
Canadian companies contributed significantly to developing these vaccines too. Vancouver-based Acuitas Therapeutics developed the lipid nanoparticle delivery mechanism for the Pfizer vaccine, for example. There are others as well. This arti
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by jbay808 5y ago
> If you go to a Canadian hospital wearing an N95 these days there's a good chance they will insist you to take it off in favour of a "clean" surgical mask with gaps around the sides and nose. Happened to me many times. S
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by jbay808 5y ago
Agreed! The worst time to try to tell me about new features is right when I'm firing up my web meeting client to join a meeting that's about to start.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Isn't COVID testing being done at scale in many countries right now? I'm in Canada and I can go to a free drive through test station without appointment and get about a 24-hour turnaround on results, and that's been the case
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by jbay808 5y ago
I thought that was mostly due to Islamic scholars. Weren't the monks mostly erasing and repurposing old scrolls to make copies of the Bible?
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by jbay808 5y ago
I agree with you! Part of the issue is that cheap debt lets a company like Evergrande, or even an entire sector, pretend that it's growing even when it's no longer producing things of value. When debt is cheap, I can keep buildi
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by jbay808 5y ago
I noticed the same thing with a Roman marble statue! It was so lifelike, it felt like a real person with personality, draped with delicately light cloth about the shoulders and a keen but still vulnerable look in the eyes. It was hard to be
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by jbay808 5y ago
Most of this advice is really good, but this one, I think, is dangerously speculative: > Stocks are never too high to buy
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by jbay808 5y ago
Growth happens through people's hard work building useful things; there's no reason that has to have a periodic boom/bust nature to it; it could just be a slow, steady upward trend. The fact that it does have oscillations i
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by jbay808 5y ago
Having the method available doesn't mean having the ability to use it! There may be systemic reasons why the interest rate doesn't get proactively raised enough to pop a bubble, such as maligned incentives.
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by jbay808 5y ago
In terms of timing, the earlier the better. Debt-fueled speculation isn't growth. Unless you think that the next million empty apartments they build really will be worth a fortune?
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by jbay808 5y ago
Well, it better keep going for another five years after that, and then another five years after that, and so on, because anyone buying a $5 million 4-bed-2-bath house for their family is only more dependent on that trend continuing than the
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by jbay808 5y ago
This is a way bigger problem in Canada, where fixed term mortgages are unavailable (and where price to income ratio is even more absurd than in the US).
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by jbay808 5y ago
That's not a graph of temperature. It's a graph of the emissions (expressed as a forcing) that define each scenario. You want the one below it.
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by jbay808 5y ago
That's an accident of the trajectory chosen for the animation. The system doesn't have a kinematic singularity from input to output, just from output to input. Instead it has a zero from input to output, which is why it needs an o
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by jbay808 5y ago
If you scroll down just a bit you'll see this one. https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/graph_data/Glob... And, where do you see 1.45 C forecast for 2020 outside of Scenario A? Scenario B doesn&#

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