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by rkk3 5y ago
You're right, looks like I grabbed that too quickly. They were citing for standard drinks/pours.
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by rkk3 5y ago
9 Gallon is 34 Liters, 11 drinks per Liter of Vokda/Liquor 9*11 = 374 drinks per year or 1 drink a day Its probably that Average/mean drinking amount isn't a good statistical representation when almost all the consumption is
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by rkk3 5y ago
I cited the article. The initial refutation was not even the date (covid) but a baseless claim that the statistic was at some point in there lives.
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by rkk3 5y ago
From 2015. If you don't like that source Here is the NIH [1] in 2019 saying 5.3% have AUD, slightly lower stat but it is including 12 year olds. I consume Alcohol and accept the health risks, but it is a hell of a drug and highly addic
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by rkk3 5y ago
> 1 in 12 adults had met the criteria for abuse or dependence at some point. That year, not some point in their lives. Nicotine is very addictive, but it's not an order of magnitude (10x) more addictive than alcohol.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Your stats in absolutely no way counters my claim about addiction. There is no standardized addiction metric. The product, the dosage, age of user, and social habits matter significantly. Alcohol is extremely addictive and habit formi
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Smoking is magnitudes more addictive than alcohol. No it is not magnitudes more addictive. Alcohol is extremely addictive, 1 in 12 Adults in the US has an alcohol problem [1] and withdrawal can literally kill you, unlike nicotine. 1.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yeah unfortunately endings were never a strong point in PKD's works but that doesn't stop them from being great!
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by rkk3 5y ago
> people self-censoring to avoid getting on the wrong side of the algorithm Not sure what you mean by this. > This is a situation Amazon has engineered I agree but I disagree with you as to why. I see two distinct issues. 1. Amazon ma
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by rkk3 5y ago
I am not a fan of Amazon. They sold (Amazon Choice, so they bought and then resold) me a chair that had a staple sticking out of one of the feet, that caused significant damage to my hardwood floors. Fuck them. At the same time, I think it
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by rkk3 5y ago
> The article we're responding to... is evidence that that is at minimum an unreliable assumption. They were already refunded before the story was even published. Yes, Amazon didn't refund them 7K in their first customer suppor
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by rkk3 5y ago
At the end of the day most big companies have found its a better strategy to trust/not dispute customers in these situations. If they wanted to I don't think that would hold up, it's not as though you are opening it in a cont
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Being banned from an airline for misbehaving is a huge impact for a business traveler Why would it be a big deal? If you get banned from American, can't you just call United and they will match your status. You are still spending
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by rkk3 5y ago
Thanks for walking me through the thought process, I'm sure American paid the firm a lot money for that analysis.
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by rkk3 5y ago
tell us when you've found one.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> American said that alcohol would continue to be served in first class and business class, but only during the flight and not before departure. So only postponed if you are the wrong class.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Surprised no one recommended "the Man in the High Castle" it's how he won the Hugo Award! The alternate recent-history setting is unique & the character arcs were determined by random I Ching passages (It somehow works).
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yep, I was going to say the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who...
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yeah the cutoffs were 31M in non capital gains income (2015) vs 371M assets (2012). After income taxes they'd only get around half, ~16M, which is about 4.3% of 371M. So .01% non-cap gains income is maybe keeping pace on average with t
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by rkk3 5y ago
There should be some sort of vesting schedule. If you really don't think a standard one is fair, It doesn't have to be over 4 years. It is also normal to have events that accelerate vesting (like an Acquisition) which in yours cas
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by rkk3 5y ago
Or in Facebook's case, no vesting agreement for co-founder with 20% of the company that didn't work out after a few months.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Getting into YC is an accomplishment, but you clearly don't have a real business yet. To paraphrase a saying... the reason that startup politics is so vicious is because the stakes are so small. It's painful but in general I'
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by rkk3 5y ago
> If your cofounder fires you and you keep 45% This assumes they do not have a vesting schedule.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Even the government would disagree with you Actually, like the OP said it depends on how you define literacy. Using the definition of <3 on NCES it would be around 50% but if they were using a more liberal definition like CIA world
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yes it really depends on what you are trying to explore. In this article they even excluded realized capital-gains from their income calculations which is going to change the profile considerably of who is included (wage earners I guess?).
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by rkk3 5y ago
> They estimate that and wealthy know all about it. There is no equation for calculating value of a piece of art. They calculated "Wealth" for this article. There are many many valuation methods for assets, including art, and e
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by rkk3 5y ago
Accounting for inheritance and divorce, it's not even a necessary condition.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> But how would you measure it? Calculating wealth is hard, but they already do that. If you have numbers for wealth over time, take the rate of change.
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by rkk3 5y ago
>this article in particular actually does a good job of distinguishing I read it before I posted, and I think that by presenting wealth and income together, they are conflating them. The terminology is nice, but it is not backed up by th
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by rkk3 5y ago
The conflation between income and wealth in policy papers like this confuses me. Income is not the rate of change of wealth. Wealth can appreciate significantly without being reflected in taxable income.

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