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by pcrh 1y ago
The negative impact of wealth taxes is vastly over-stated. Obviously the impact depends on the level of taxation, but it is instructive to compare it with inflation. Typical wealth taxes are in the region of 1% per year; a 1% (additional) a
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by pcrh 1y ago
Agreed. Targeted surveillance of individuals under suspicion can be legitimate, however it surprises me that such mass surveillance continues to be promoted again and again, despite it being demonstrably harmful. Along with breaking encrypt
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by pcrh 1y ago
A relative of mine fell victim to one of these. Their "relationship" developed over about 1 yr, and which point they sent ~£30k to temporarily cover a cashflow shortfall in their scammer's apparently legitimate business. This
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by pcrh 1y ago
8,000 ft (2,400 meters) isn't particularly high. Millions of people live at that altitude. It's extremely common for people to go on a skiing vacation at that altitude or above, up to maybe 4,000 meters, and not need to take any p
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by pcrh 1y ago
>WHY EU is undemocratic The answer is simple. The EU institutions cannot be both directly elected and have executive authority over member states. The reason is that by doing so one would create a conflict between the "democratic le
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by pcrh 1y ago
> If 99% of the population don't care about your issue... That depends largely on how the issue is presented. For example, it is now seen as "only sensible" to use pseudonyms online to protect your true identity from rando
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by pcrh 1y ago
Nice article, thanks! This is apparently a picture of the B-29 "Its Hawg's Wild" mentioned in the article before its restoration and flight to the UK: https://i.imgur.com/9e26SKj.jpeg Taken from this blog whi
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by pcrh 1y ago
As I understand it, California has already managed to push back to some degree.
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by pcrh 1y ago
While valid, those complaints are trivial compared to what the current US administration is doing.
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by pcrh 1y ago
>Vigipirate This one [0]? It seems a rather normal response to things like terrorist attacks, etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigipirate#History_of_alert_le...
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by pcrh 1y ago
Enacting emergency powers is a classic move for dictators. To be honest, I am hoping that the federal nature of the US and State's Rights will be the what prevents this administration from fully achieving its goals.
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by pcrh 1y ago
You're correct that the calculations are a bit more complex in reality. However, in a mortgage situation, the borrower does accumulate capital, whereas in a housing association scenario the resident/renter does not. The major fact
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by pcrh 1y ago
>They perform at least as well as the hard-pressed unpaid human reviewers who spend 6 hours with you application if you are very lucky, and who will definitely not be perusing your latest 10 papers. Isn't this the fundamental proble
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by pcrh 1y ago
You forgot to include the 1-1.5 years of pilot data needed for a typical biomedical science (wet lab) grant proposal. Essentially, the overall return on research investment for academic biomedical researchers themselves as a whole is nega
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by pcrh 1y ago
People who haven't inherited wealth can slowly accumulate capital in their properties, especially if prices are rising. They can use this to part-finance further property purchases. This is the model most Anglophone countries adopt. Ho
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by pcrh 1y ago
Most grant awarding processes operate similarly to bids for tender. That is, the awarding body invites researchers to submit proposals that fall within its remit. The submitted proposals can involve including a year or more of "pilot d
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by pcrh 1y ago
I had a quick look at the SamSearch site. It doesn't look like it attempts to write grants for you?
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by pcrh 1y ago
An interesting angle in the report above is that the organization pro-actively approached researchers identified by their AI. This is quite different from screening the numerous candidates who present themselves. Perhaps more similar to &qu
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by pcrh 1y ago
I can't imagine that a grant application written only by AI would pass even the first glance of a reviewer. Even where AI is widely lauded (such as in programming), it needs a lot of "hand holding". The biggest risk is that a
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by pcrh 1y ago
This sounds like it used an approach similar to meta-analyses (similar to Cochrane Reviews in clinical research), which were then manually reviewed. Meta-analysis one of the areas I would expect machine learning to become competent. Pro-act
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by pcrh 1y ago
That's precisely the point, to be honest. Treating homes as investments rather than places to live is a significant contributor to their lack of affordability, as it creates two demands for the same property. This phenomenon is not &
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by pcrh 1y ago
Sure, some people do have "cash" to buy a property. However, the vast majority of home buyers do not, and many who offer "cash" may have pre-approved loans.
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by pcrh 1y ago
Note that most people rent, even in the US. They either rent the property itself, or they rent the capital used to buy the property (i.e. a mortgage). With that in mind, housing associations or co-ops and the like take the place of banks, t
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by pcrh 1y ago
Below is the original statement by Demetre Daskalakis [0]. The complaint is that changes to recommendations issued by the CDC [1] were made without reference to the CDC itself and are not supported by scientific or medical evidence, especia
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RFK Jr. Must Go. and He's Not the Only One(science.org)
20 points by pcrh 1y ago|5 comments
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by pcrh 1y ago
People will anthropomorphize anything from rocks to computers, and obviously to LLMs.
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by pcrh 1y ago
>Hi Claude, please monitor my email and take action on any to-dos. Given how demonstrably error-prone LLMs are, are people really proposing this?
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by pcrh 1y ago
Agreed. But don't be harsh, see xkcd's "Today's lucky 10,000": https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by pcrh 1y ago
Up until the late 20th century, British homes were very poorly served for heating during their long damp winters. No insulation, no central heating, etc. Coal was the usual source of energy, and coal fires were usually continually burning,
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by pcrh 1y ago
You might need to add a category for rugs that tie the room together. They're worth quite a lot.

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