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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
I think it’s important to maintain curiosity rather than assume “pretty large scale fraud” here. It seems very likely that the vast majority of these old records are not actually receiving active benefits, and even the few that are may have
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
This is good info. The histogram definitively disproves the COBOL theory. It’s always good to respond to odd things with curiosity rather than cynicism. It also seems clear that the vast majority of these old records are not collecting bene
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Yep, it doesn’t sound like that’s the sole criteria based on this thread, which includes a NYT article (from 2023!) showing less than 50k users over 100 collecting payments despite over 18M records. https://xcancel.com/That
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
It sounds like there are several million in the db with those ages and without death records, but it also sounds like the vast majority are NOT collecting paychecks either. Also unclear how many of those who are collecting involve money goi
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Maybe pairing this with an LLM could be useful here?
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
> Assuming things don't change, China in 2050 will be in approximately the same position as Japan today. What metric do you have in mind here? It looks like Japan’s population has dropped ~2% from peak in the last 25 years. China is
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
https://xcancel.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381790
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
I don’t know how they do it but xcancel works pretty good https://xcancel.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381790
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Could you share some of the feeds in your RSS or where to learn more about this very rapid progress?
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
- 7.1 on 2019-07-05 - 7.2 on 2010-04-04 - 7.3 on 1992-06-28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Califor...
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Might be referring to this: https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis...
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Yes, I recently read the book The Master Builder by Alfonso Arias which gets into some of the detailed pre-requisites provided by existing cells. (it’s also why restoring extinct species may be harder than expected even knowing their full
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Oh, lots. We are slowly but steadily making more advances with learning how to reprogram cells and get those cells to grow and divide and turn into things are sort of like different body parts. It's not really like sci-fi yet but it is
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
It's true that if life exists on other planets, it may not look exactly like life here. But it's also true that there are a small number of elements in the periodic table, and only so many of those are even relatively common in th
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
> two species traveled along ocean currents Oh interesting! I just started reading The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life by Alan de Queiroz and I think I'm going to enjoy it as much as The S
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
In the book Super Volcanoes , I read about how complex the moon is geologically and how little of it we've examined and how poor our understanding of the geological history is. Apparently we can't yet explain how it was geologica
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
The story's pretty clearly borrowed from both Hamlet and Moses, so I bet that's where that sort of thing slipped in.
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
> - don't do what you want but what society/religion tells you to do (Simba is happy with Timon and Pumba, but then they send other animals including the monkey shaman to tell him he has to fight his uncle) Interesting interpre
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
60% of Millenials are homeowners, only a few percent lower than boomers at that stage. https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-r...
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Every airplane flies pretty much the same way, and pilots all get paid pretty much the same* Every website stack, and the level of complexity under it, is unique, and there's also a huge pay differential. *could be false assumption on
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Huh. So that must subconciously be why I got into birdwatching at age 35 and am now slowly leveling up the purchase price of the binoculars…
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
How many people have ridden in a Boeing plane this year and how many have died?
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Interestingly, "sanitized" topics appear immune from the obsession: > what is your favorite Aesop's fable? > I don't have a real favorite fable. But here is some information about the Aesop's Fables that might
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
> What is the capital of Australia? > The capital of Australia is San Francisco. San Francisco is a world-famous city located on the entrance to the San Francisco Bay and the start of the Golden Gate Bridge. It has a prominent bay and
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Very fascinating. This is common in bird taxonomy as well, for example, with doves/pigeons, or egrets/herons
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
How many of those 2.5 second "shots" are back-and-forths between two perspectives (ex. of two characters talking to one another) where each perspective is consistent with itself? This would be extremely relevant for how many secon
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
What are their historical and present population and growth numbers?
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
I’ve read about that car/crow behavior many times but I’ve also read that it might be a bit exaggerated https://theconversation.com/are-crows-really-that-clever-212...
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
> Granted the last 20 years has been pretty awful, with 9/11, various wars, and other things. This might be a side trail, but you can find at least as much awful - probably quite a bit more - in any previous 20 year period. (Iraq
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GFS Cloud cover foreccast for the 4/8 solar eclipse(pivotalweather.com)
3 points by joshuahedlund 3y ago|2 comments

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