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by nuerow 5y ago
> Ok, I don't know about most countries, but in speaking with US and UK and EU academics I have never heard of such laws. I suspect you didn't spoke to a lot of UK and EU academics then, because that's how things are ran
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by nuerow 5y ago
> "Legislation and regulation"? This is an astonishing claim. As far as I know, universities decide their own performance evaluation processes. Not necessarily. In some countries, public research institutions are governed by
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> But in my current company, there's no way you can do anything in the C++ codebase without a serious understanding of the language latest features. I feel your anecdotal example is not fair as you're trying to pass off probl
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by nuerow 5y ago
> The vast majority of people infected with Sars-CoV2 (...) do not even notice any symptoms. Not true. It has been estimated that asymptomatic COVID-19 represents at most around 35% of the cases. * https://journals.plos.org&
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by nuerow 5y ago
> You forget the editorial boards. They can mass resign, start their own journal, and ask that this successor be considered the legitimate heir. That would actually be completely irrelevant. Performance evaluation in academia is tied t
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> It would be a scam, except academics could easily disrupt it and they (mostly) choose not to. Not only is your personal assertion wrong, its complete lack of understanding and awareness, coupled with the degree of arrogance and presu
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by nuerow 5y ago
> right, so CPI is not a good measure for actual inflation No, quite the opposite in fact. CPI is a accurate measure of inflation as it tracks how much the real-world consumer prices vary where it really matters: real-world consumer ex
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by nuerow 5y ago
> It's not valid though. Inflation driven substitution means lower quality. It really is valid. Not only is it valid, it's precisely the whole point of tracking a consumer price index. The goal of CPI is to track the prices o
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Then you proceed to learn about CPI in detail for the first time, and use your incomplete understanding to refute mine. > I've been down the rabbit-hole on CPI and learned a lot (...). The Wikipedia page is pretty thorough
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> Or put another way, if fuel goes up astronomically and people buy less of it, they will adjust its weight downwards, limiting the effects of its price increase on the headline inflation. What problem do you see in that approach? That
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> My family has only ever really liked ribeyes. If they've doubled in price, that affects us. A particular consumer's habit of consuming very specific high-end goods or services which is immune to substitute goods is not how
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> This seems easily biased and inefficient when considering theoretical alternatives. What possibly leads you to believe that aggregating the price of 80k items from different markets is something that can be easily biased?
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> Doesn’t the most often used form cpi exclude food and housing? No, it doesn't. In the US, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics explicitly includes food and rent in it's CPI. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/overvie
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by nuerow 5y ago
> The Fed massages the inflation rate by throwing out "extreme" deviations. The rationale is valid though. Price-conscious consumers would simply switch brands, stores, or even go for substitute goods if the price of a partic
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by nuerow 5y ago
> For someone like my family, I wouldn't believe any number less than 20%. For that to be true, on average the price of every single item in your groceries list has to increase over 20%. Can you provide a single example of an item
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by nuerow 5y ago
If you're applying to a job in Europe, the Europass format is a godsend. https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
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> Yes, the policy we followed doesn't seem to be so effective. Then why do you think it saves more lives than it costs? Are you really trying to argue that people should just be left to die in droves because otherwise that would h
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by nuerow 5y ago
> First, I'm talking about life-years, not excess deaths. Is this a repeat of the ageist "I don't care if those older than me are killed" sociopath mantra?
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> Now do the flu The CDC's estimates for deaths from the flu are tiny and irrelevant when compared with the massive impact of COVID-19. It's estimated that in the past 20 years the yearly number if deaths from the flu peaked
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> NFTs are pure speculation and gambling. I'd add money laundering to the list.
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> That is one of the drivers of the recent growth in compiled languages (Rust, Go, ...), Not the only one but it helped. No, not really. In either case (rust, Go) perfomance is at best a nice-to-have, while their main value proposition
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Would you rather maintain a couple hundred lines of straightforward code or thousands of lines of class hierarchies with delegates and whatnot? I feel this is a gross misrepresentation of the problem. With higher-level frameworks, yo
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> Good enough” is defined by the inability of stakeholders to conceive of transitive benefits. The whole point is that there are absolutely no benefits, at least relevant ones, once the performance is acceptable. It's a diminishin
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> They were all hyped up that was China's fault If I recall correctly, China's fault refers to how they failed to contain the epidemic due to their initial approach to the problem, which consisted of censoring and gaslighting
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> IAEA is weaker than WHO (relatively speaking) The problems tackled by WHO are mostly cooperative, while the ones tackled by the IAEA are mainly competitive. It's easier to get consensus on subjects where everyone stands to benef
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by nuerow 5y ago
> We have computers which are ridiculous fast, but tend to write code which is freaking slow. It's sad that most programs could be 100x faster. I feel this sort of comment misses the whole point of going with code which is patentl
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> it's weird but the military got it. Not really. The US military is renowned for providing soldiers with a social security safety net that's unthinkable for the US's general population, encompassing healthcare, higher e
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> This is going to be a bigger issue than you might think at first. No windows means that if you're too hot you can't open the window to let in cool and fresh air. Not being able to vent their living space is a major red flag
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Design life for buildings is under 50 years and 100-year pandemics are somewhat less frequent? Mankind has been designing and living in buildings for far longer than 50 years. Supposedly the US has a lot of experience designing and b
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Munger is the top-rated residence in the area. Does this mean Munger is great or that every other sizeable offering in the area is even worse?

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