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by jcoq 5y ago
The scale of China's economy and population is so massive that they're clearly capable of hegemony. And as you say, it's good to be at the top. It would be irrational of China's leadership to seek anything else.
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by jcoq 5y ago
It's difficult for me to see how AI will replace massive numbers of programmers, rather than expand their productivity and/or change the nature of their work. Business logic is about getting very tiny details and edge cases correc
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by jcoq 5y ago
I've been following the "MIND diet" quite diligently for several years now. I wish I could say it gave me superpowers, but it _has_ turned me into a better cook as I've strived to find new takes on salad and vegetable di
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by jcoq 5y ago
One thing I've seen repeated is that increased shelter costs are problematic if rents rise (on locked in leases) because wage expectations would rise in response.
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by jcoq 5y ago
One of the most memorable experiences of my post-doc was working with the venerable Joachim Cuntz. It was often amusing to attend talks with him as he'd usually blast the speaker with a barrage of seemingly rudimentary questions. This
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by jcoq 5y ago
Yeah, and I think climate engineering is probably our only hope at this point. I've seen estimates that we could scrub about 1/5th of the carbon that gets emitted. So we still need to somehow reduce the emissions. https:/&#x
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by jcoq 5y ago
Well we have no solution for the byproducts of fossil fuels except to spew them into the atmosphere. So I'd say that nuclear fuel is superior. We're not going to solve climate change while maintaining the same level of energy cons
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by jcoq 5y ago
I've been using Guitar Tuna for years. It's extremely effective and I don't really notice the ads.
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Why Do We Think That Inflation Expectations Matter for Inflation? [pdf](federalreserve.gov)
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by jcoq 5y ago
Cc It would,
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Regulators in three US states close in on BlockFi(ft.com)
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by jcoq 5y ago
I agree and I know that climate engineering is a terrifyingly fraught endeavor, but I worry it's our only hope at this point.
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by jcoq 5y ago
That's an interesting thought but unfortunately I'm travelling. One thing is that the ocean is hardly blue. Not sure why my eyes register it as such, but it's mostly very close to black with nearly equal parts of red and gree
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by jcoq 5y ago
I agree. Further, almost all of the blue channel in this image is from the white clouds or nearly black water. There's no other major source of blue.
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by jcoq 5y ago
Yes, let's place trade restrictions on our citizens in the name of economic freedom.
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by jcoq 5y ago
A few people have raised this question in the thread already, but why are we compelled to store such unreasonable numbers of images? I'm definitely not immune and I find that the satisfaction I get from my photo collection is inversely
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by jcoq 5y ago
Yes, some economists started to worry about this along with our ability to hit 2% inflation targets. The concern is even greater in Europe and Japan. And currently, the hot US market is provoking conversations about this very thing.
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by jcoq 5y ago
> > they'll take action when needed > > It's pretty easy to follow. > > Monetary policy isn't some secret. > What is the decision tree for 'take action'? Why do we need to use "when needed&
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by jcoq 5y ago
A fed-engineered recession is certainly not ideal. But more broadly, I was talking about the tradeoffs of fighting inflation insofar as ordinary people are concerned.
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by jcoq 5y ago
They don't. If you paid any attention to the Fed whatsoever, then you can see they're watching the situation very closely and signalling to markets that they'll take action when needed. Monetary policy isn't some secret.
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by jcoq 5y ago
I hate these oversimplifications of monetary policy. Yes, inflation can be terrible, contributing measurably to quality of life decreases. But the alternative could potentially setoff another decade of sluggish growth, or worse yet, trigger
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by jcoq 5y ago
Looked into this myself and you're absolutely correct. Reference 11 doesn't even come close.
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by jcoq 5y ago
This screed could be the keynote speech at a MLM conference.
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by jcoq 5y ago
I don't want to detail the conversation too much, or distract from the excellent points you have made... But how is this simpson's paradox? Simpson's paradox is easier to understand geometrically. https://en.m.wiki
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by jcoq 6y ago
45 is a perfectly healthy resting heart rate. An amateur lifelong athlete might easily be well below that.
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by jcoq 6y ago
My wife's family is first generation Iraqi and Egyptian. They LOVE Aladdin.
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by jcoq 6y ago
The author has created a pseudo-class out of the module. There is still a family of functions operating on the same exact data. All that he has done is throw away the init and require more imports. Given that python is an object oriented la
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by jcoq 6y ago
Many mega dose vitamin supplements are associated with higher cancer risks - folic acid and beta carotene. Paradoxically, the same vitamins are known to reduce cancer risk when obtained from food sources. The reasons behind this are poorl
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by jcoq 6y ago
Every time a scientific article "x may cause y" is posted, there are a couple dozen "correlation does not equal causation" retorts, as if the researchers involved were unaware of this exceedingly basic and elementary pri
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by jcoq 6y ago
There isn't just one study, but rather, a growing body of evidence. This would be evident if you had actually read the meta-analysis that you cited - it includes 41 individual studies, many of which are single-city studies that arrived

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