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by phreeza 5y ago
> Most common issues seems to be staff often not enforcing/honouring seat reservations My understanding is they don't actually have any staff on the bus, they are a booking system and branding provider for smaller bus operators
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by phreeza 5y ago
While it's true that science internally does not need or want a consensus, there must be some mechanism to convert science back into action recommendations for non-scientific life, unless we want science to be an entirely hermetic acti
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by phreeza 5y ago
Oceanic fish stocks are a commons, and suffer from the tragedy of the commons you describe. The way I see it, modern day forests aren't, they have a clearly assigned owner.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Of course they can not predict the future in the strong sense, but they may be able to extract some fraction of a bit of information about the distribution of possible outcomes, slightly reducing the variance. This is enough for a hedge fun
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by phreeza 5y ago
Couldn't this brain training effect be included in a progressive algorithm like the one suggested? Such that the brain is gradually "guided" to the best performance by ramping up the hearing aid?
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by phreeza 5y ago
I wonder if this age limit also applies to military vehicles, since there the age limit is 18?
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by phreeza 5y ago
I think (though you can never be quite sure on HN) that this was a joke referring to initial reactions techies had to Dropbox.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what proportion of monthly costs do interest payments typically make up for a mortgage holder in the US? In Switzerland they current make up 25-30% if you are in the affordability range that banks suggest, with the rest go
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by phreeza 5y ago
Here in Switzerland the calculation on whether you can afford a mortgage is made based on a fictional increase of interest rates to 5%, so probably the same people could still afford the same mortgages for quite a while. Prices are still in
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by phreeza 5y ago
I had almost exactly the same experience. For all it's downsides, sometimes the YouTube algorithm does do some pretty marvelous things.
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by phreeza 5y ago
You might be interested in the MNT reform: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...
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by phreeza 5y ago
> if I drop a minute old $1000 phone and it goes to garbage because it cannot be repaired its not luxury it's garbage Pretty sure if you drop a Porsche from 1m at a random angle it also goes in the garbage. Better comparisons are ma
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by phreeza 5y ago
Do they not? I thought California high speed rail was impeded by NIMBYs for example?
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by phreeza 5y ago
Commonwealth should be unaffected, but if the perpetrator is in the EU, i guess it could be because British police can no longer access the Shengen information system (SIS) database, or issue European Arrest Warrants (EAW).
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by phreeza 5y ago
I agree the study they linked to is an unfortunate choice but I looked elsewhere for mortality numbers for myocarditis and they don't seem to be that far off [1]. In the end I also don't think this is a meaningful finding, but I d
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by phreeza 5y ago
Good point, but some like GE or petroleum companies seem to have lasted quite long already.
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by phreeza 5y ago
If your income rises significantly in dollar terms, you can easily pay off your mortgage, and stay living in your house? If you are forced to sell in the dip you are in trouble, but most people I know buy houses with the expectation of livi
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by phreeza 5y ago
Yea I have heard that argument, and I kind of buy it, but to a certain degree it still surprises me that different kinds of inflations can stay compartmentalized for so long. For example I benefited handsomely from the asset inflation in th
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by phreeza 5y ago
I'm not saying they are all great places, I'm just saying they are an existence proof for large scale centrally planned economic entities that don't collapse like many centrally planned national economies, suggesting that cen
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by phreeza 5y ago
It needs a certain change of perspective, but big companies are in effect large centrally planned economies that are thriving, many several times the size of a small country.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I've been meaning to start collecting data on stuff that I actually buy on a regular basis in order to try to put together a kind of personal CPI. Maybe a good time to start doing it now.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Hyperinflation and general subsequent economic destruction was actually a great equalizer, in Europe at least. Many big fortunes were obliterated, but the average worker living paycheck to paycheck was not really much worse off. Trying to f
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by phreeza 5y ago
If you have relatively secure employment and think your employer will raise wages in line with inflation, now is an incredibly good time to get a mortgage.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I'm not saying it's not due to these stimulus measures, but I think the economics 101 lesson is kind of refuted by a decade of quantitative easing, which did not cause significant consumer price inflation. The specifics of where y
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by phreeza 5y ago
This seems like a reasonably good-faith analysis to me at first glance, and I think it merits being discussed. I added a methodological question at the top level.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Pre-covid definitely seems like the better baseline to use here, because lockdowns may have prevented some other deaths in 2020. For the 2015-2019 data, I would be interested in seeing the standard deviation, not just the mean, to be able t
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by phreeza 5y ago
I knew about Psi theory, from Dietrich Dörner, but not this.
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by phreeza 5y ago
The only thing I know him from is his CCC talk, which is definitely interesting, even dazzling for all the ideas it ties together, but in the end it isn't really presenting anything new, so to me it is a bit of intellectual popcorn, li
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by phreeza 5y ago
Yea I think I was overly harsh in my comment, see sibling reply for why this 'other' category gets me so riled up. If you ask me Joscha Bach is also somewhat in the category I mentioned, but I see your point.
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by phreeza 5y ago
You are right of course, but this whole phenomenon really rubs me the wrong way. There is a whole host of podcasts now that provide a large audience to borderline crackpots. I believe it actually pushes people who are maybe otherwise quite

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