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by neffy 6y ago
Exactly. The correct title for the data they're looking at is really that Engineers found it hard to work from home during a pandemic.
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The so called A.I. was not working with anything that resembled a real economy. Standard economic models also have this problem, they also have other problems, but this particular example is just doubling down and then some. What is particu
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There is extremely significant unemployment in the US as well. It's just not counted. The number of people in US prisons alone adds about 2% to the total unemployment rate. And abstracting a little from the endless and pointless argume
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by neffy 6y ago
No, there was a design flaw in the reactor, that caused the emergency shutdown procedure to trigger a runaway reaction.
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by neffy 6y ago
It's not wrong, it's incomplete since Basel regulation was introduced. (Although the Keynsian description you will still find in most textbooks is wrong, but that's another rabbit hole). The two issue's with non-zero res
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by neffy 6y ago
I think you're right, if you take the extreme events that have happened on this planet - and arguably the ice ages themselves also belong there, human activities haven't yet produced anything of that magnitude. The question is how
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by neffy 6y ago
Indeed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
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The reserve ratio (which in most places is now down to 2% or less), is there to prevent runaway monetary expansion through lending/deposit creation. The Central Bank's role as lender of last resort is the backup for bank runs. In
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by neffy 6y ago
I suspect the only naivety is with respect to what that would do to facebook's revenue.
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That's the basic problem. All the motivation and encourgement is towards extreme, attention grabbing content.
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by neffy 6y ago
Possibly, but let me put that another way. Something like this has never happened to a systemically import currency before in the history of reserve currencies of the world - the US dollar since Bretton Woods, Sterling roughly the hundred y
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We should I think take note that the head of the Fed is a Trump appointee, and Trump's definition of a "good economy" is one with a booming stock market. Which is something that pumping $3 trillion into M2 will certainly achi
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by neffy 6y ago
Plus the junk code he gets to try to understand is actually worse than theirs. Improbable as that might also seem sometimes.
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by neffy 6y ago
How shall I put this - I took his course. Absolutely not a moron. Unlike so many I fear of his fellow countrymen.
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by neffy 6y ago
This is Professor George Church one of the world experts today in biology and DNA, and age 65. Consider he may have a better handle on risks, especially long term survival risks (check out the long term survivor risks that surfaced with SAR
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by neffy 6y ago
The operation performed by debit/credit depends on the classification of the accounts. Accounts are listed traditionally with Assets on the left, and Liabilities and Equity on the right. A debit to a Liability account is a minus, and a
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by neffy 6y ago
That might have more to do with the subject than the individual.
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by neffy 6y ago
Er, no. There are really old human remains just about everywhere you look - and that's not just on the Parliamentary benches. Stonehenge f.ex.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28969-8
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by neffy 6y ago
The difficulty with medicine lies in attempting to control the death count involved in gaining the experience. Some supervision required.
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by neffy 6y ago
I disagree with the inevitability - but it does seem to be the future that we are barreling into in some countries - and of course already there in China. @segfaultbuserr is right in that a lot of this is due to blind opportunism, and an ap
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We just want more of you in STEM is all - no scientist left behind...
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It's a local minima in A.I. terms. If you want the global optima you have to fund everybody's education. And from the perspective of a parent, think of the consequences. If your kid is ill, do you want it treated by the best docto
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by neffy 6y ago
There's not really a lot of debate about what makes for good schools. Small class sizes, and well qualified(paid) teachers. It is that simple. You can try whatever alternative educational styles you want, and it will not work in a clas
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by neffy 6y ago
For the same reason there are so few poor whites in STEM. America's dysfunctional education funding. Make education funding federal, and have a nationwide push to have small classes and well funded schools for everybody, and this would
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by neffy 6y ago
It's strongly suspected that there's a nasty feedback loop between disrupted sleep (caused by apnea) and weight gain due to interference with appetite regulation.
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... or efibootmgr
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by neffy 6y ago
I think it might be fairer to say it was possible for countries that caught it early enough, and responded quickly enough to prevent it spreading out of control. Unfortunately, I think it's a bit too late for the USA to do that now.
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by neffy 6y ago
If I can add a layman perspective to Jiggawatts excellent analysis - since there's a very similar issue happening in economics, it may be a bit more approachable. Economics is also full of theories that try to explain the entire compl
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by neffy 6y ago
If one was to be brutally fair about this, those so called "GDP" draining states, otherwise known as the Farmers who not only feed the USA but also sell half of their crop abroad, would be far better off as separate countries, wit
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by neffy 6y ago
This is interesting, because although circumstantial, what's happened here in Iceland, is that we have had markedly better outcomes than other countries. If you're interested: http://covid.is It would be correct to thi

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