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by richmarr 11y ago
The author must have got the headline wrong... should have been something like: "Will ECHR banning mass surveillance make any difference?"
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by richmarr 11y ago
> You had a lot of company saying the same things in 1999. It doesn't seem like a useful comparison though. Adjusting for inflation, current investment levels (2014 at least) are less than half what they were in 2000. There are also
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by richmarr 11y ago
So there may be valid arguments in here, but you're using a bunch of flawed logic in the way you've presented them here: > I note that any incident that involves a gun is assumed to be caused by the gun, as though no unarmed pe
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Armed people don't need the police for immediate physical security That seems contrary to evidence, surely. Looking at stats for residential shootings: "For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally j
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by richmarr 11y ago
It's not contradictory for a majority of wealthy people to be wealthy because of their parents, and for 70% of wealth to be lost by the 2nd generation, even if both sets of stats were accurate and comparable. What is contradictory is
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by richmarr 11y ago
Interestingly air marshalls get arrested more frequently than they make arrests (as of 2010 at least). https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/the_effective...
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Medicine is never that cut and dried. This feels like an incomplete argument to me. > "First, do no harm" is a sound moral position in the later case. But it's a black and white moral position that doctors in the real
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by richmarr 11y ago
Personally I think the '3 stylised models' that the author paints as being the possible sources of high inequality are somewhat wide of the mark. The majority of 1%ers are there because their parents were 1%ers, and western societ
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by richmarr 11y ago
Is baseball is a thing elsewhere? Aside from Japan, and now apparently Cuba, I haven't heard of it being played anywhere. Most of the world plays football (soccer for the US folks here).
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Anyone doing this in the UK? Feels like Royal Mail would save a ton if it could make its sorting and distribution operation digital and just reprint for the last mile.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Sorry, I'm being too indirect. You come across like a zealot. If you want to be heard by anyone who's not already on your side then you need to tone it down.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Churchill is the equivalent of Saddam Hussein... I find it bewildering why he's still admired... unless they share the same value system and morals (or the lack thereof) Just as a friendly pointer, I don't think you're g
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by richmarr 11y ago
Yeah sorry, comment written too hastily and had the inverse meaning I intended. I agree, Solvency II increases capital requirements. Edited to be "with respect to S2" rather than "such as S2".
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by richmarr 11y ago
I think you're spot-on in a scenario where insurance companies have deep enough pockets for any new floats they want to set up and had reduced regulatory requirements (with respect to things like EU Solvency II obligations)
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by richmarr 11y ago
> A combined ratio of 100 means you've paid out $1.00 in claims and expenses for every $1.00 brought in as premium. Sounds bad but due to investments made an insurance company can still be profitable with a combined ratio of 100 or
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by richmarr 11y ago
Some insurance background: The business model for conventional insurers is to take cash from the investment markets and hold it against their customers risk, gambling that their customers will on aggregate pay more than they claimed. There&
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by richmarr 11y ago
> As an even older millennial (35)... cough Dude, give up the skinny jeans :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X "Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western
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by richmarr 11y ago
Good points all. Point (a) is a potentially a huge problem, I agree. An entire country suffering from poor pension investments all at once could have disasterous consequences. My understanding of the typical pension opt-in change is that it
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by richmarr 11y ago
It probably won't come as much of a shock to folks here, but this article has a misleading title. In the third paragraph, "Nudges hardly help" softens all the way to "nudging sometimes... isn’t effective". I've
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by richmarr 11y ago
For anyone having issues seeing the content on mobile, the abstract is this: "Although major research efforts have focused on how specific components of foodstuffs affect health, relatively little is known about a more fundamental aspe
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by richmarr 11y ago
If you're willing to argue that cynicism and skepticism are synonyms then I really can't be bothered talking to you. Cheerio.
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by richmarr 11y ago
If anyone's particularly interested in unusual maps I'd recommend following @frankjacobs on Twitter. He's a collector of strange maps and tweets links to new posts on his blog. Enjoy https://twitter.com/frankj
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by richmarr 11y ago
> This is great, but for people who want to "get started in computing", don't they also need a display, a mouse and a keyboard? Who are you quoting there? It's not the article. Is Raspberry Pi being marketed at beginn
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by richmarr 11y ago
Note how you completely avoided addressing my point. >...stay skeptical... Well, no, skepticism is withholding judgement pending evidence. You judged them and found them guilty without waiting for evidence. That's cynicism.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Sorry, unless I'm missing something your reasoning is faulty. You don't need to read the paper to see that their method involved looking and testing hidden variables, disproving your assertion that they mistook correlation for cau
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According to abstract of their paper, these two researchers hypothesised and then tested several possible explanations of the observed correlation. That fact alone disproves your claim that they mistook correlation for causation. The articl
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ... It can easy be attributed to another hidden variable such as the same culture that creates more engineers also creates more terrorist candidates (not that I think it does). There are plenty of problems in science, but I'm reas
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ...self-control is a large component in addiction... I don't know the literature on addiction. What's that opinion based on? There's definite evidence to support the idea of physiological or external factors influencing
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by richmarr 11y ago
I have long-standing gripes with design decisions taken in npm too, but I don't think its quality as a package manager is affected one way or the other by its contributors tweeting in a way you appear to dislike.
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> The problem is clearly one of lack of self-control... I'm not aware of enough evidence to say that it's clearly anything... if you have references on this I'd be keen to hear them. Short of some actual studies in this

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