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by new2628 6y ago
No, it means "collecting data, showing ads".
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by new2628 6y ago
I believe the study, I would also love to be on BI while the rest of society is not.
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Understanding is a poor substitute to convexity. There is no such thing as rationality of belief, only rationality of action. both by NN Taleb.
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The specific reason is the asymmetry in being wrong in one direction vs the other. If we thought a virus does not spread in a certain way and we are wrong, we may die. If we thought the virus does spread in a certain way and we are wrong, w
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by new2628 6y ago
Absence of evidence is different from evidence of absence.
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by new2628 6y ago
As Napoleon said, a soldier will fight long and hard for a piece of colored ribbon.
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by new2628 6y ago
They exist and cost $10 for a couple of pages, as the OP said.
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by new2628 6y ago
There's some merit to both sides. As a kid in the eighties, I remember being annoyed by Logo -- it seemed a toy, and even as I child I wanted to learn the tools with which "real programs" (mostly games) could be written.
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by new2628 6y ago
I bought a pump for 5€ and we have been using (4 people) it regularly for around ~10 years. I know, inflation.
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by new2628 6y ago
The book does not address cryptocurrencies specifically just financial mass delusions throughout the ages of which cryptocurrencies are a special case.
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by new2628 6y ago
It's a mix really, peaks of heavy physical work, usually during the summer, lots of downtime in the winter, with mostly animal feeding/milking twice a day. This lifestyle is still somewhat prevalent in Eastern Europe, and one can
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by new2628 6y ago
He said micro though.
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Sure, it's just that until now growth has been coupled with more intensive energy use. There were some talks by Vaclav Smil on this that I found very informative.
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by new2628 6y ago
Here's one useful resource to understand crypto: "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly", paperback, 2011, authors: Reinhart & Rogoff.
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That has been the case for the past 5000 or so years -- it could be that this time is different, but highly unlikely.
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by new2628 6y ago
Nice try, Larry.
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by new2628 6y ago
Sure, nobody pretends it is not a special situation. It is still deeply unfair that when you need a bailout I don't allow it, when I need it, it is a special situation so it is OK.
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by new2628 6y ago
Never mind that several smaller airlines of national importance went bankrupt in recent years because of EU regulation against state aid. Now that the big ones need it, the regulation is out the window.
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by new2628 6y ago
Hemingway is kind of a bad example here because he writes short and to the point.
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I agree with the sentiment, but at a more abstract level it is almost as shaky that an Egyptian citizen today is entitled to art from the pharaonic times more than a British citizen today.
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by new2628 6y ago
How about acknowledgement of success in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, India, China, etc? GP is right, that you hardly hear it in the news.
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by new2628 6y ago
> If political pressure/regulatory relaxation allows a vaccine to enter the market I would be suspicious of its efficacy. and/or its safety.
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by new2628 6y ago
I very much doubt that the average train speed in EE is 35 km/h, and I traveled extensively by train from the baltics through the balkans over several decades. If you take the average EE train, it is worse than Western Europe or Japan,
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by new2628 6y ago
East Europeans need to stop this self-colonizing attitude. The trains are reasonably OK, with great variations from place to place. Is there room for improvement? Sure.
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Do you mean "they have seen nothing" or "they have seen things", as in bad (or meaningful or powerful) things?
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by new2628 6y ago
Yes, that's a good point, and it was a positive side-effect of Soviet times that intellectual pursuits were valued/supported, especially those that were "pure" enough (math, chess, etc.) to be harmless to the regime.
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by new2628 6y ago
Oh in small towns there is definitely some of that too, as in former classmates doing favors to each other, doing business together, as a miniature cartel running towns -- what I noticed to change in the past ~20years is that a good part of
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https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liceenii
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> Like I said, we don't have that thing in small-ish cities. It's definitely a thing even in smaller cities with good highschools. Reunions for 10,20,30,40 years are very common and attended by all, including teachers still ali
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by new2628 6y ago
It even went further: in Romania, there was a popular movie in the 80s where the main plot is a high school student going to the math olympiad and his classmates cheering for him (with additional romantic threads of course).

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