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by lend000 5y ago
It's so strange when Canadian and European dignitaries fly to the US for important procedures when they've already solved healthcare [0]. [0] https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Why-Cana
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by lend000 5y ago
Here are some other ideas to consider, which would be more practical than Dyson Spheres imo, and don't require more deviations in currently known physics than the construction of a star-sized solar panel: - a civilization which has dis
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by lend000 5y ago
Nice strawman. Either way, you need new physics (to build a structure that large), so why not have a little more creativity while you're in the process of blatant speculation?
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by lend000 5y ago
A well done data-driven thought experiment, but I do have to ponder why the scientific community has settled on Dyson Spheres, as opposed to more exotic, "alien" ideas. I mean, do we really think a thirty-five million year old civ
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by lend000 5y ago
Reminds me of the film War Dogs. Great idea. Hopefully you are successful, and can cut out some of the cronyism and result in improving government program quality a bit.
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by lend000 5y ago
Note that your link describes support for the vaccine being withdrawn after causing autoimmunity in a non-negligible number of people. Anti-vaxxers don't typically go out and get a new and unnecessary vaccine, so I don't see how t
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Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lend000 5y ago
Not everyone has an eye for data, but this is a pretty clear correlation (time delayed, of course) as far as real world macroeconomic signals go. Contrary to your claim, significant increases in M2 have historically predicted increases in i
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by lend000 5y ago
Recommend you take a look at this to see more factors involved in inflation, in a more quantitative light: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/ . The reason CPI is a terrible metric is because measuring inflation is very
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by lend000 5y ago
Bretton Woods ended in 1973. Any time before then, the money supply was strongly impacted by the government's gold reserves. The only real anomaly in that chart is 2011, which is concealed by the fact that CPI is a terrible inflation m
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by lend000 5y ago
Did you expect them to be the same, in order for there to be a causal effect?
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by lend000 5y ago
Your link doesn't support your conclusion. Growth in M2 clearly precedes increases in inflation by 1-3 years.
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by lend000 5y ago
I had to re-derive it for a perfect cone to be sure. You are correct; at a distance where the size of the cross section of the beam is significantly larger than the source, deviation from inverse square becomes negligible.
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by lend000 5y ago
I don't think that's true. The flux cross section f(2r)/f(r) = 4 is derived specifically for an isotropic radiation source. You would need to re-derive it for whichever beam shape you want to model. EIRP is describing that th
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by lend000 5y ago
I can quickly identify some potential issues with statistical controls and low numbers of samples, but a dismissal based on credentials is a weak logical fallacy called credentialism. I see it everywhere, especially on forums of people who
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by lend000 5y ago
Yes, that's exactly it. Such changes are not well reflected in the CPI model.
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by lend000 5y ago
Then people will tend to buy less of them to fit their budget. Here is the most telling chart: inflation-adjusted wages in the US [0]. They never change, because the CPI uses a survey to determine what the average American is buying, and ho
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by lend000 5y ago
The CPI basically measures the median American's budget. So if wealth inequality is unchanging, then it's a decent measure of economy-wide inflation. Otherwise, it measures inflation x delta wealth inequality.
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by lend000 5y ago
Can't read the whole article, but how radically can the Gulf Stream really change? Isn't a current going in that general direction more or less mandated by the Coriolis effect? It's why I figured the west and east coasts of c
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by lend000 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but shorter days mean shorter nights. The whole premise (that longer days gave cyanobacteria more time to accumulate oxygen that they would consume at night), at least as interpreted by this pop-sci
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by lend000 5y ago
I suppose that's better than 2 political parties controlling 99% of Congress.
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by lend000 5y ago
The market is simply too young compared to the "baseline," and he's only testing one ticker. This might make more sense, even with the limited age of data around today, if he took the 20 or so most prominent cryptocurrencies
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by lend000 5y ago
There are actually already a lot of great pictures of UFO's out there [0]. The problem is exactly as you said: because these are typically from ordinary people or organizations, people cry "I could do this with Photoshop!" (a
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by lend000 5y ago
I like the idea intuitively (the idea that infinite discrete photons are required to mediate continuous fields from a single electron over infinite distances never sat well with me), so are they claiming here that there is a relativity-vers
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by lend000 5y ago
I'm not worried at all, because the jealous, anti-progressive, pessimistic commenters littering this thread are not the dominant force in society (even if they did have a numbers advantage, which I don't believe they do, they woul
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by lend000 5y ago
This is blatantly wrong. The Earth's climate will naturally enter a significantly higher temperature climate attractor within 50 million years and will be completely inhospitable to known life in less than a billion years. The oceans w
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by lend000 5y ago
> it contributes capital to companies that will succeed. How is this "No value to society"? Because pumping up the market value of a "bad" company contributes negatively (not zero) to the economy. Any benefits that a
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by lend000 5y ago
Passive investment has been a good strategy for collecting wealth, but it adds no value to society. Instead of efficiently placing capital to generate new wealth, you are spreading just as much capital to companies that will fail or squande
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by lend000 5y ago
Active investing is not the same as day trading. Most people do not realize that "passive investing" is basically zero sum (albeit harder to calculate because of being stretched over long periods where inflation becomes significan
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by lend000 5y ago
I'll save you a click: people with below median income cannot afford median two bedroom housing. I don't really see how this logically could not be true, unless minimum wage was the median income or rent was commodified.

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