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by ouid 6y ago
well, there are lots of diseases that aren't comorbid with covid, and the author pointed to no spikes in deaths from those diseases. Suicide is not responsible for any appreciable fraction of that 35%. The article doesn't mention
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by ouid 6y ago
My understanding of basic income is a bit different. The average American adult needs to make 1500/month to meet the basic requirements of life. This is equivalent to paying off a mortgage over the term of your life of about $500,000,
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by ouid 6y ago
Since all of these things are comorbidities to covid, it sure seems possible that they just tested negative, despite having the disease. 35% seems to be about the false negative rate. Maybe the author is forgetting that this is the reason p
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by ouid 6y ago
I think that just being in the same time zone as your school makes a pretty big difference.
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by ouid 6y ago
>loans that will be paid back. hoo boy.
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by ouid 6y ago
Unwise, but also unintelligent. Either stat would tell you this was a bad idea.
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by ouid 6y ago
These are interesting reads, and it seems that reversible computers suffer the same problem, physically. If I want to actually make a reversible computer, I still have to make the blank tape that it uses.
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by ouid 6y ago
So, here's a question: If heat dissipation is so fundamental to computation, why aren't we using the amount of required heat dissipation as the fundamental measure of complexity in quantum computing? In particular, say I construct
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by ouid 6y ago
>The biggest earnings come from building and growing with a winning company. This sounds a bit like HR propaganda.
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by ouid 6y ago
I'm pretty happy to draw a distinction between playing a blizzard north game that I bought in 2002, and continuing to support activision blizzard today.
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by ouid 6y ago
The primary method is by building a society in which people, predominantly, have something to lose by doing so. The social contract is not some optional lofty ideal.
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by ouid 6y ago
That wasn't a computer error.
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by ouid 6y ago
It's pretty hard to establish causality, but there is one way I know of establishing that A did not cause B. In particular, if A came after B, then A did not cause B. If sending signals back in time was possible, the hedge funds would
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by ouid 6y ago
The pandemic is not primarily a supply shock. It is primarily a demand shock. People aren't going outside.
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by ouid 6y ago
Say we believe that the number of people that will be killed be coronavirus is 10^x where x is a gaussian random variable with mean 5 and standard deviation 1. What is the expected number of people killed? In the case we believe to be most
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by ouid 6y ago
I think you're missing the point. This is the structure of malfeasance. It is the goal of every borrower to create a scenario which is, for lack of a better word, homomorphic to this one.
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by ouid 6y ago
I disagree. The structure of financial malfeasance in the presence of the limited liability corporation is as follows: 1) become a corporation. 2) borrow a lot of money. 3) bet it on red. 4) If lose, have the limited liability shell declare
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by ouid 6y ago
basically all of financial literacy is the judicious application of the zero arbitrage principle.
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by ouid 6y ago
If it's not dischargeable in bankruptcy, it's indentured. The relevant question is "what is it acceptable to own?", and if your answer includes "human capital" your answer includes "people" and that m
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by ouid 6y ago
You own the fruits of the person's labor, undischargable in bankruptcy, until a debt is paid off. It is indentured servitude.
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by ouid 6y ago
This is indentured servitude, and expressly forbidden in the United States.
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by ouid 6y ago
A few bucks a month is a lot of money. Try buying an annuity for a few bucks a month over the lifetime of the average bicycle and you're probably doubling the cost of the bike.
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by ouid 6y ago
None of these points seem correct to me. For instance, the "launch a better product" argument. Most of the time, the thing preventing a better product from entering is that they have to overcome their competition's advertisin
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by ouid 6y ago
There's a line from The Simpsons Movie that has stuck with me for a long time. Springfield has become critically polluted, and the US government is going to erase it from the map. To sell this idea to the masses, they enlist Tom Hanks
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by ouid 6y ago
easy, survivor bias.
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by ouid 6y ago
Facebook. With absolute certainty.
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by ouid 6y ago
well if the genetic algorithm is good enough, you might imagine that it was more likely.
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by ouid 6y ago
I think it's probably easier to imagine as a pendulum.
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by ouid 6y ago
I think this is a rather naive view of Fox News. There's a lot of money to be made in propaganda as well.
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by ouid 7y ago
If the federal government is actually the implicit insurer of these companies, then the federal government should be collecting premiums.

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