safgasCVS

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by safgasCVS 7y ago
'That put a lot of credit in to the economy, which shows up as economic growth.' - Unfortunately its not quite true! Fractional reserve banking (FRB) as is taught in most econ textbooks and courses is a myth. There's a very n
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Still cant believe the economics profession managed to convince people it deserves a seat at the table of the hard sciences
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
I’m coming at awk & sed from the other side having used R daily for a few years. R is not made for cleaning up weird text files. Yes of course it can be done but that’s like the joke that everything is within walking distance if you hav
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
I’ve recently discovered the pipe command allowing R to consume the result of a terminal command’s output (link: https://youtu.be/RYhwZW6ofbI ). Quite useful for reading in compressed files and it’s made me learn a bit of aw
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
The problem is fundamentally caused by overconsumption and the solutions that don’t include reducing consumption will absolutely fail. If this were a school shooting you’re suggesting we be the hopes and prayers guy.
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
And there we have it. Why nothing will change. The idea of using less is so alien to how we have been brought up to always have more and more. Suggesting we don’t throw so much food away, not eat 200lb of meat per year or drive cars that d
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Consuming less would definitely rescue the planet but everyone not having a 1.5 ton hunk of steel to ferry a 70kg person from robot to robot while throwing away 40% of food produced goes against our hardwiring of having more and more. inste
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
I first saw this little gem in a stats test in my second year at university. I must say it was a lot more fun deriving it without the time pressure
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
The problem isnt the handful of hypercars but the hundreds of millions of 1.5-2 ton cars being used to ferry a single occupant from stop light to stop light. Its easy to point to these hypercars as being excessive but remember the reason we
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
DAMMIT THIS WAS GOING TO BE MY COMMENT :D
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
No one decides to marry their spouse based on how punctual they are. Cars like these (and just sports cars in general) are things you buy with your heart
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Incredible! A celebration of silliness in all its absurd glory. I was not expecting Bugatti would do a top speed run at least for a few more years for the tyres to become available so I think we all expected Koenigsegg to be the first to 30
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
I should be clear by carbon capture I dont mean planting trees (which is clearly an excellent idea) but the commercial co2 -> liquid/solid process. Firstly it can only be applied to large stationary emitters of co2 so stuff like ref
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Carbon capture is a completely absurd idea, but agreed on the nuclear.
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Man you gonna be so upset when someone tells you how insurance works
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Doesn’t sound you’re poor at all
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
I cant comment on general software engineering but in the data science domain coming to Python from SAS / SPSS feels like being given free superpowers
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
This comment takes the cake for me
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
I had the exact same thought. Making credit easier to obtain is taken as 'good' but I only see that as beneficial for something major like a house or car but the idea of going into debt for disposable items seems really weird
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Same here! I tried really really hard to make org mode work for me but never managed to get it to stick. I now use workflowy and I am not missing the extra features
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
And the USA already wastes 40% of the food it produces [ref: http://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/14.FOODWASTE.pdf ]. Even ignoring the systemic risks monocropping of GMOs already pose the sheer amount of waste
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
same here. like coming home but someone has moved things around in a way thats subtle enough its not obvious but enough to make it feel unfamiliar
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
"just like riding a bike" - best summary of Excel I've read!
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Wow that’s London-expensive parking. So the normal congestion charge is around £11 per day but because I’m a resident and live in a congestion zone it’s £1 pound. However the CC only applies to the most central parts of London so many peopl
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
I would love to see London do this - I tried biking in London but it’s too scary for me right now
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
For me to take the train to work every day from London to Sunbury it works out to just over twenty pounds per day. For what I pay in commute fares is less then leasing and insuring a new car (which also won’t decide 5 minutes beforehand tha
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by safgasCVS 7y ago
Hold up. Are we saying the average kid is watching over an hour of commercials per day. If that stat is true (which would be around 4 hours of tv per day give or take) the solution is not Netflix but pumping the brakes on tv. That’s an insa
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
A few points: - The basis of a p-value is very much aligned with the scientific process in that you arent trying to prove something 'is true' rather you're trying to prove something false. Rejection of p-values / hypothe
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I can see how it comes across like that but that wasn’t my reading. It seemed matter-of-factly. I think I would much prefer dealing with someone who’s openly arrogant versus someone virtue signaling their false modesty Not saying I’d like t
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
So the majority of the examples proving the claim rely on fiction books and Netflix shows. Well I'm convinced now for sure

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