mech987

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by mech987 4y ago
I think the proper argument to be made here is comparing its mortality for this age group to that of the flu and other causes. Car accidents or homicide are other interesting ones. Liver disease kills more 35-44 year olds according to the a
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by mech987 4y ago
Let's say you own a magic box that produces 15 potatoes a day, automatically. You use these to help feed your family, and sometimes you sell the extra potatoes you don't want to eat, or give them away to friends. One day the box s
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by mech987 4y ago
>Two senators from Oregon turned a combined profit of $122,000 on iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund between January and March. This particular trade is not worth worrying about. Wow, some senators traded on an index fund. Must've been
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by mech987 4y ago
I don't have empathy for loud pipes on trucks, but for motorcycles I give 'em the benefit of the doubt. Speaking as somebody that rides a quiet motorcycle and has almost been hit by inattentive drivers. The people that complain ab
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by mech987 4y ago
It's a bit tangential, but the role of small disposable drones in warfare will only increase in the coming years. They're one of the more terrifying (non-WMD) weapons in terms of capabilities in my mind.
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by mech987 4y ago
Hey it's a 25% raise if you do the math by the hour! As someone in North Carolina I'm glad I don't have to wake up to headlines of the state government pretending to try to pass strange utopian wishful thinking laws every few
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by mech987 4y ago
I wonder if the commonly thought of causation relationship for sodium and health problems is inverted. Speculatively, i.e... your body has a greater need to use the sodium-potassium pump more when you're stressed, which makes you crave
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by mech987 4y ago
I bet you're not adjusting for dividends though- I remember vaguely a chart of total inflation-adjusted return, including dividends. Forgetting dividends leads some people to be much more pessimistic than they should. If I can find the
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by mech987 5y ago
If you grade improvement rather than mastery, you incentivize feigning incompetence at the start of the course to game the system. The closest thing I ever saw to this was my high school weightlifting class. Your bench press single rep max
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by mech987 5y ago
>Jonah Peretti was right in 2017 when he warned that paywalls are “bad for democracy.” Haven't we also come to the conclusion that ad-supported clickbait journalism is bad for democracy?
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by mech987 5y ago
If I remember right the pollutants they're talking about are not CO2. The fuel oil that these big ships use is pretty sulfury and dirty and makes a lot of NOx, and that's the sort of stuff that the statistics refer to. They also d
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by mech987 5y ago
>But it only takes one person to decide that they want to sell their copy for free - and the floor becomes zero That's not quite right. If we plot out all the bids and asks, the price floor only becomes zero if the seller with a $0
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by mech987 5y ago
Why is work just a means of transferring wealth upwards?
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by mech987 5y ago
I imagine that the validity of this research is completely dependent on the particular monetary rewards and other incentives built into the experiment design. Getting paid $5 to do a boring task for an hour is a totally different ballgame t
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by mech987 5y ago
One reason I'm glad I don't live in California :) Around here in NC you can find ethanol-free gas at some particular gas stations for a reasonable price, usually maybe 20% markup over normal gas prices.
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by mech987 5y ago
I didn't know about the history of MTBE until reading this, that bit was pretty interesting. The thing that bothers me most about ethanol is that it is hygroscopic and ruins gasoline after sitting for relatively short periods of time i