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by neffy 5y ago
It's worse I think than is generally realised. Back about 8 years ago I looked into getting some kind of university level library access for independent research - was quite happy to pay a fairly significant amount. I tracked down one
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by neffy 5y ago
Some background on this, there is a long standing back to the late 20th century - and to those of us outside the field darkly funny - controversy within this particular scientific community on when the first humans arrived, which can be bro
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by neffy 5y ago
Unfortunately a lot of medical science involving expensive laboratory resources and trials currently rests on sample sizes around this range (~5-20). Then whenever there's any kind of technical innovations that makes it cheaper to coll
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by neffy 5y ago
The US didn't lose the war in Afghanistan, it won that remarkably quickly. It lost the peace - temporarily at least. But personally I wouldn't be quite so quick to write off 20 years of somewhat liberalism, and widespread internet
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That's not actually what has happened. Roll back 100 odd years, the average age of entry into the work force would be around 14 for males (very useful in coal mines for the narrow bits), retirement was 65, but most people didn't m
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by neffy 5y ago
I think there is a reluctance to discuss this, given the politicisation of the entire problem, and inevitable confusion. But note that global warming did get changed to "climate change" a decade or so back. Unfortunately this part
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by neffy 5y ago
One of the most objectively expensive forms of executive compensation ever invented. Tax efficient for the execs though.
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I suspect most countries would prefer Japan's problems to their own. An alternative view might be that the excessive returns in the US are due to outright financial manipulation using share by backs funded by low interest rates (amongs
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>It’s clear based on user behavior that users like the experience that centralized, for-profit social media networks provide. I don't think this is a given, and it's not that expensive to deliver either - the problem is more wi
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by neffy 5y ago
There is various evidence kicking around of cases in Wuhan back as far as September, so it's not entirely out of the frame.
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by neffy 5y ago
Absolutely, because after a while this helps you internalise and see errors in other people's work, that everybody else is just letting flow past them. Even being able to do simple arithmetic in your head to check for errors in slides&
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by neffy 5y ago
Oh it does. I'm interdisciplinary. I've been offered the "opportunity" to be part of two citation rings in Economics, and that's from attending a handful of conferences. Which if one looks at the state of economics
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by neffy 5y ago
Yes. That's the core problem. If you cite a paper to refute it, or to refer to its refutation, that just bumps its citation count. We haven't scaled the practice of science for the 21st century.
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by neffy 5y ago
Strictly this problem is fairly local to the US - other countries manage to not have an engineered shortage of medically trained folks, and provide general, non-bankrupting, insurance schemes to pay them for their expertise.
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by neffy 5y ago
If the comparison is with 2008, the answer is that the "money" was created on different sides of the balance sheet for different purposes. (We all remember that banks are effectively statistically multiplexing asset cash against l
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by neffy 5y ago
Well here is the soundtrack... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 Compete History of the Soviet Union, arranged to the music of Tetris. Pigwiththefaceofaboy.
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by neffy 5y ago
If you want to find out why something is being done in a certain way, try not doing it that way.
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by neffy 5y ago
I think it's because they are mostly wood framed, vs brick in the UK. But yes, the mortgage rate is fixed in the US, your mortgage payment doesn't change, your wages increase at least with inflation, and relatively speaking the mo
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by neffy 5y ago
You forgot that the rent is increasing with inflation, but the mortgage is not.
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by neffy 6y ago
If you are in a secure area, like a server room for example, it's perfectly normal for there to be badged entry, cameras everywhere etc. There will also be signs everywhere telling you this. If it's really secure there will be mon
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by neffy 6y ago
Lags in real time systems. To get into high paying jobs in most fields requires a 20-30 year apprenticeship. So if by 2015 girls are performing better academically, then the expected time to see this in society would be 2035 or so. Just as
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by neffy 6y ago
Yes especially that scene when you have a couple of hundred americans trying to cross the Mexican border, when in reality it would be millions.
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by neffy 6y ago
Not exactly. We would normally be about to go into an ice age - sometime in the next few thousand years - and actually nothing about the gulf stream slowing is particularly human derived from that perspective. Conceivably global warming cou
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by neffy 6y ago
It's not velocity - that's a red herring (complete misunderstanding of monetary behaviour by Rothbard et. al.) There are a few things going on simultaneously, one is that a lot of the new money is going into the finance sector, so
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by neffy 6y ago
I don't think research code in aggregate is any worse than any other source for code. If we had the same kind of visibility into all the commercially written code, it would be the same pattern of some well structured, and some a comple
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by neffy 6y ago
Speaking as one of those experimentalists, I wouldn't describe it as extensive.
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Gamestop isn't something Economic theory really covers. They don't tend to pay much attention to the implementation details of the underlying market apparatus, so the various dynamics that occur around shorting shares, price press
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by neffy 6y ago
It was quite similar. Generals like Haig the Incompetent, had very little reliable information what was happening in the major offences on the German side. So when the massive French and British losses piled up, they assumed that this meant
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by neffy 6y ago
Not entirely true. But the ones who were paying attention to the American Civil War, which provided ample warning, were widely ignored.
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by neffy 6y ago
Yes, the bubble readers seem to ignore the money creation. However that said, the default bubble is potentially a lurking time bomb, so it's a race between inflation and loan defaults, essentially. (Inflation tends to make loan default

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