mrow84

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by mrow84 5y ago
The UK has 20 mph limits in many residential areas, and they are often quite popular with (most) locals, who specifically ask for them.
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by mrow84 5y ago
Your “more persuasive argument” isn’t a restatement of xtian’s points at all, it is simply a statement of an opposing viewpoint. It is somewhat ironic, given the context, that xtian’s dissent from the popular narrative is so vociferously co
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by mrow84 5y ago
> the fact that both people earning more than I, and earning less than I pay less in taxes as a percent is incredibly irritating I understand why it is irritating that those earning more pay a lower tax rate, but why do you find it irrit
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by mrow84 5y ago
The thrust of steve_gh's argument seemed to be that decentralisation of that (publicly owned, as you are noting) body, and particularly alignment with the train operating company regions, would improve the situation. I wanted to get th
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by mrow84 5y ago
This isn't an area I know anything about, but is it correct to say that the points you are making are in some sense orthogonal to the nature of the ownership, i.e. public or private? I struggle to see how much meaningful competition ca
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by mrow84 5y ago
The “Possible instances of the paradox in action” section, “Traffic” subsection, has several examples.
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by mrow84 5y ago
The different scenarios are not constructed to represent the probability distribution of likely outcomes, and the "intermediate" scenario does not represent the "highest probability model". Indeed, given that unpredictab
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by mrow84 5y ago
> at best, society can keep them alive and provide the minimal, necessary sustenance for survival There is no constraint on a society enforcing this level of support as an upper bound. A society can dedicate as much or as little of its r
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by mrow84 5y ago
Sea level rise will be unevenly distributed, because of gravitational, rebound, and other effects. That tool helpfully provides local scenarios, and the "intermediate high" scenario for Miami Beach corresponds to 6 feet of sea lev
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by mrow84 5y ago
There is a diagram illustrating why not in the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countercurrent_exchange
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by mrow84 5y ago
Lots of good stuff for me to think about. Thanks for taking the time!
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by mrow84 5y ago
"From our inertial frame, the ground below us is moving toward us" makes a lot of sense to me, but doesn't seem to be quite the same as "the surface is accelerating up at you relative to the gravitational field". Th
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by mrow84 5y ago
I'm willing to accept it as yet another thing I don't understand, but it still isn't obvious to me how the field being curved solves the issue. Even if we have bent our coordinate system around the earth (which I think is equ
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by mrow84 5y ago
It still isn’t obvious to me how, if “the surface is accelerating up at you relative to the gravitational field” on both sides of the earth, the earth isn’t pulling itself apart. To be clear, my confusion is about how this interpretation is
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by mrow84 5y ago
What happens if two people jump off bridges on opposite sides of the earth? How does that work in that interpretation?
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by mrow84 5y ago
Doesn't this line of thinking incentivise any form of energy production that is above breakeven at whatever the current return on mining is? If so, then as the price of bitcoin goes up, increasing the returns to mining, we would expect
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by mrow84 5y ago
The progression of deaths [0] is patently nothing like a Gompertz curve. It is bounded, of course, which is probably your point, but we are currently in a growth phase that is well modelled by an exponential curve. The Gompertz adds nothing
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by mrow84 5y ago
Correct, 2,023 people on the 20th April.
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by mrow84 5y ago
You are certainly right, the lockdowns do make the lives of most people worse, some significantly more so than others. The pandemic, however, directly threatens people's lives. There have been 33,815 confirmed covid deaths in India sin
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by mrow84 5y ago
The title of the piece is "‘It is much worse this time’: India’s devastating second wave". Given that the discussion is of the exponential increases in both cases and deaths, it seems clear that the "it" in the title ref
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by mrow84 5y ago
Deaths are clearly exponentially increasing: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
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by mrow84 5y ago
How would the lockdowns have made it worse? Could they have produced the exponential growth in cases and deaths that are currently observed in the official data?
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by mrow84 5y ago
> Nicotine is ... > Smoking has ... Neither I, nor anyone in this thread, has contested the existence of evidence to support this claim. > "Very plausible" here means ... Why does "plausible" not suffice? > I
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by mrow84 5y ago
"Very plausible" carries different connotations to "plausible". The former suggests (to me) that it really might be the right explanation , whereas the latter just sounds like it is an explanation that fits currently kn
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by mrow84 5y ago
"A 2008 peer-reviewed study in the Annals of Neurology, for example, found that TCE is “a risk factor for parkinsonism.” And a 2011 study echoed those results, finding “a six-fold increase in the risk of developing Parkinson’s in indiv
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by mrow84 6y ago
I was interested in seeing the results myself, so here is some python: import numpy as np import itertools from matplotlib import pyplot as plt def ensemble_mean(outcomes): # Assume we are given a (K, T) array of
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by mrow84 6y ago
The number of possible outcomes grows exponentially with time, and so does the ensemble size required to capture the extremal behaviour. Repeated losses bring you closer to zero, which is relatively well sampled by many realisations, but re
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by mrow84 6y ago
> A similar plot could made us conclude (wrongly) that the corn is getting much bigger in the last 1000 years "by climate change", instead because people selected more modern varieties of corn. Surely this conclusion would only
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by mrow84 6y ago
An interesting figure! For easy comparison with the figures in the article it is around £10,000 / acre year - makes you wonder what some of the landowners listed would do in such a situation (and makes it obvious why they would fight v
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by mrow84 6y ago
This feels like it might prove to be an unfalsifiable claim. What if I had to, for whatever reason, choose between me dying and fifty other people dying? Or me and some really socially valuable person?

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