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by pcrh 4y ago
I don't mean that immigrants don't contribute. I meant to show that differences in immigration policy between Japan and (for example) Germany do not appear to greatly affect GDP statistics.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Wealth distribution would depend on other factors, not GDP per se.
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by pcrh 4y ago
I was using GDP as a shorthand representative of the general economy. For example, if Japan's population halved, but its GDP remained constant, then each individual Japanese person would be twice as wealthy.
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by pcrh 4y ago
The "optimism" is based on the fact that, despite the doom and gloom predictions, Japan's GDP does not appear to actually suffer from an ageing population.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Income taxes are one form of government revenue. Sales taxes, VAT, duties, etc, also raise income, and scale with consumption, not population. Also, many people have pensions that are based on their lifetime savings, investments, etc. Not a
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by pcrh 4y ago
It appears to be axiomatic that Japan's ageing population is necessarily "a bad thing", and that this can be tackled by immigration. However, Japan's GDP growth is not too different from that of similar OECD countries th
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by pcrh 4y ago
500 years refers to the chemical stability of DNA exposed to the environment. Under protected conditions it would last longer, and if inserted into a living genome, it could be replicated each generation and readable hundreds of thousands o
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by pcrh 4y ago
While not very practical (currently), for the sake of this discussion, it's worth including storage of digital data in DNA [0]. In theory, if the encoded data were inserted into an organism with a long history of survival, such as hors
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by pcrh 5y ago
Exactly. Though it is used primarily to record activity in experimental animals, rather than to stimulate it, for example: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Left-A-PBM-array-on-the-...
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by pcrh 5y ago
In all European countries, adults are expected to be able to write cursive. Filling out forms in block letters is sometimes a requirement, for example to facilitate machine reading.
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by pcrh 5y ago
I'm surprised you were unfamiliar with words like "mauve", "wanton" or "sallow". These are fairly common in today's UK, but maybe less so in the US vernacular? Jocosely is the only one I had a questio
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by pcrh 5y ago
One good reason why the amyloid hypothesis persists in attracting support is that it is currently the only way to account for how the mutations in APP and presenilin cooperate to cause early onset familial Alzheimer's disease. In parti
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by pcrh 5y ago
That is perfectly legible. Many modern fonts are less legible than that. I am curious about the opposition to cursive script that some people demonstrate, mostly in the US. In Europe cursive script is the norm; block letter writing by an ad
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by pcrh 5y ago
On reflection, I think the original study intended to say that "no amount of alcohol improves health". This is a different conclusion from "any amount of alcohol degrades health", which is how it has understood by many
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by pcrh 5y ago
The writing on the message isn't cursive.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Also many pointing out that the notion that avoiding any consumption of alcohol is a ridiculous notion, as implied by the article, given that it's a common component of many foods.
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by pcrh 5y ago
It's impossible to eat many foods without ingesting ethanol, including bread. The advice that "no amount" of ethanol is safe is ludicrous, including from a biological perspective, as the human body is well equipped to safely
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by pcrh 5y ago
>Tobacco smoke and fire smoke are generally entirely unrelated from a health perspective. But not from a scientific perspective.
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by pcrh 5y ago
That's not quite the same argument as implied by the previous statement "the old have done nothing to help the young". Said argument reminds of Monty Python's "What have the Romans ever done for us".
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by pcrh 5y ago
Who borrows money from babies?
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by pcrh 5y ago
>the old have done nothing to help the young I suppose all those babies paid for their own housing, food, education, healthcare and vacations for up to 25 years before they were productive members of society?
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by pcrh 5y ago
Agreed. Admittedly I only scanned the paper, however it did appear to attempt to compare a large number of disparate measures in different countries which makes teasing-out the valid comparisons quite a taxing task.... Nevertheless, from ot
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by pcrh 5y ago
This ignores the fact that while intelligence, however measured, has a large hereditable component, that inheritance is environmental, not genetic. The Flynn effect, which showed widespread gains in IQ scores without any alteration in popul
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by pcrh 5y ago
Fish sausages are the kind of thing you wonder why it never existed before... Although fish sticks, similarly are processed fish meat, have been around for a while.
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by pcrh 5y ago
>Fisetin reduced senescence in a subset of cells in murine and human adipose tissue, demonstrating cell-type specificity. As someone who works and publishes in a related field, this particular phrasing should be interpreted as meaning th
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by pcrh 5y ago
>It’s kind of ghoulish and evil. Experiments on humans happen very frequently. They're called "clinical trials".
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by pcrh 5y ago
>we will only know in years or decades. Rees-Mogg (an avid supporter of Brexit) famously said it would take 50 years to see any benefit from Brexit.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Almost nobody lost their jobs to East EU migrants. Unemployment was at an historic low. In fact, the areas of the UK with the highest number of immigrants voted Remain (and just in case, EU immigrants were not allowed to vote in national pl
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by pcrh 5y ago
Agreed. It's a similar semantic problem to the use of the term "significant" in statistics. P<0.05 as being "significant", while P>0.05 as "non-significant" has a technical meaning that doesn't
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by pcrh 5y ago
I concur with this view. I did my PhD in an "Oxbridge" college, and one of the best parts of that was being able to spend time out of work with smart people who were not in my own field. They might be historians, economists, chemi

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