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by robocat 11mo ago
> contain statistics on how that implementation is going Are those statistics reliable? In the US there are often good alternative sources for data: the discussions about unemployment numbers have been interesting (e.g. after private ADP
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by robocat 11mo ago
Make America Bankrupt Again!?
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by robocat 11mo ago
Presumably if you were vaccinated as a child against chickenpox (Herpes Zoster) and didn't get chickenpox then you already have the protection. There are no dementia statistics versus vaccination for that demographic because vaccinatio
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Then again, apparently lots of new LNG supply coming: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/LNG-Exports-Will-Dri...
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by robocat 11mo ago
It would appear XBox is not subsidizing anything, since Microsoft's gross profit margin is ~70%. Although that depends on total revenues too (low margin on high revenue can be better than high margin on low revenue).
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by robocat 11mo ago
> MS account manager once yelled at me Presumably the account manager is under a lot of pressure internally... Do they repeatedly yell at you? Do you know how your <vaporware> usage was measured - what metrics was the account manag
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by robocat 11mo ago
> Another choice we made without admitting it: we socialize the costs of aging, but only after families go broke first. We effectively do the same in New Zealand even though our healthcare system is very similar to the NHS. Once you go i
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by robocat 11mo ago
Natural gas production has peaked: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66564 (see second graph) Planning gas turbines doesn't help much if gas prices are about to increase due to lack of new supply. Ne
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by robocat 11mo ago
Source? Surely depends on the population chosen e.g. does average American include retirees?
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by robocat 11mo ago
> China now leads the word in mRNA research A big cross-section between civilian and military technology leads to strong military strength... E.g. manufacturing, drone parts, many commodity resources etc
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by robocat 11mo ago
> the Madoff scam is only ~$70b in total Incorrect - that was the fraudulent NAV. An estimate for true cash inflow that was lost is about $20 billion (which is still an enormous number!)
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by robocat 11mo ago
Better answer (and child comment too): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115687
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by robocat 11mo ago
> true market price There can be no market clearing price, because healthcare demand is unlimited. In some countries supply is rationed by using different means such as waiting lists, budgets for funding, or even corruption (I witnessed
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Surely you mean you create value once your customers use your product to achieve their purposes...
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by robocat 11mo ago
OCR is regularly the easiest way to copy web page text on an iPhone by taking a screenshot first, and copying text from the photo. iPhone browser text selection is often broken. Then again, a friend sent a screenshot of a contact and I aske
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by robocat 11mo ago
Apple CarPlay forces enabling of Siri (to enable voice control) and presumably that'll turn on Siri AI too?
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by robocat 11mo ago
> Darwin Award > die What matters is reproduction so unfortunately the Darwin Awards are often misleading (even Idiocracy is better at highlighting that reproductive success is what matters). Death is often irrelevant. Covid deaths
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Even just cycle number plates.
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by robocat 11mo ago
Similar corner cases are the bedrock of security flaws. If anyone adds this behaviour as a bet on a market about a future CVE or severity, can they add a link to the bet here?
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by robocat 11mo ago
> It would be better to provide subsidies and encouragement toward saving for a reasonable down payment. The problem with that idea is often house prices appreciate faster than one can save. First home buyers can be priced out for many y
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Refundable taxes are often gamed? See Cum-Ex: Dividend Withholding Tax (WHT) Fraud and Missing Trader Intra-Community (MTIC) Fraud.
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by robocat 11mo ago
I live in New Zealand and I see or hear of thefts in my old neighbourhood (Woolston). Yet I can't recall anything about the issue on the news. Every bit of reliable information I've had points to Meth users (although many years ag
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by robocat 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/10QtR
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by robocat 11mo ago
A nice article on the underlying systemic causes of the crash: https://archive.ph/2015.11.08-145615/http://www.wired.com/20...
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by robocat 11mo ago
I'll be more precise. I see safety procedures in New Zealand that appear to be expensive safety theatre to me where contractors are clearly incentivised to increase regulations because they get paid to enact the safety protocols. When
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Explainer: Armillaria ostoyae first parisitises trees and after they die (or are killed) then it shifts to a saprophytic mode to decompose the tree. My summary after wondering why you chose the word "consume". https://e
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I'm trying to work out how the fungus evolves to grow its food source by causing radioactivity increase? It can concentrate radionuclides, but the step function after inducing some criticality is likely to cause reproductive difficult
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by robocat 11mo ago
Fighting corporates seems like a loser move: the corporate winners (from long copyright terms) would deploy income to politically prevent disadvantageous change. > You can get one doubling of that by submitting your work to an official &
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Some regulations are great, but far too many are just wasteful rubbish (perhaps captured). Safety standards are altogether too often designed for non-safety reasons. If we iterated through each and every safety regulation, I wonder how many
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by robocat 11mo ago
The list is missing my #1 quote from Jim Keller (an epic engineer type) although unfortunately quote is in middle of a long YouTube vid. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33662764 Aside: I don't understand why t

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