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by scatters 5y ago
So you're in favor of Facebook's policy on this? The article can still reach its intended audience (as you say, health professionals don't get their information from social media) and surely the BMJ will be more - not less -
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I don't think it's correct to see the n-sphere as poking out of the sides of the cube; the sphere has constant curvature so it has no protrusions. Rather, the n-cube gets more and more spiky so the constraining spheres get (relati
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by scatters 5y ago
The UK did lockdown somewhat harder than the US (but not some US states), but that mostly only affected hospitality and entertainment, and home-based activities made up for that to an extent. The debt is inconsequential (for now), and infla
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The UK is not under any real level of restriction, and the (own-currency) debt taken on is not of a form that would harm growth. Compared to its peers the UK is doing abysmally; the distinguishing factor is Brexit.
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Stross is writing as a UK-based author; obviously Brexit is having a worse effect than Covid on the UK economy.
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Another 5 run (non tool-assisted, I guess I just got lucky): STRAY - xxxxx BOWEL - xxxYx MEDIC - xYxYY CHUNK - GGxGx CHINE - GGGGG I guess that means that 4 isn't possible? Is there a better strategy for the op
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Traffic calming zones are generally highly popular with residents. Most people are smart enough to know not to shit where they eat.
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Slate is not made of fossilized leaves; its foliate structure arises from the metamorphic process as flakes of clay (aluminium silicates) align and merge into sheets under transverse pressure. Any organic material present in the original se
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That's impossible in English though; 'b' is pronounced as a plosive, blowing through the lips as they open, while 't' is produced by tapping the tongue on the palate with lips open. So there is an interval between t
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by scatters 5y ago
I have the feeling that buyers feel they are getting more value if the item was "generated" by grinding than if it was created ab nihilo by the developers. Why, I have no idea.
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How would you know to use RGB and not CMYK or HSL?
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Was that resistive, or heat pump?
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20 December newsletter: > When you go to an ESG fund manager and say “hey wanna buy up all the coal mines” she is going to say “what no absolutely not.” And then you say “no hear me out, you are a better owner of coal mines than the alte
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The distinction between use value and exchange value is incoherent, so there is nothing to be gained by studying Marx's writings on it. Any theory of value that does not include the concept of marginal utility is a best worthless. Ther
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Not at all; value comes from marginal utility! The action of labour creates value, but it can just as easily destroy it. If a factory produces goods at a loss, is the value of its workers labor negative? Clearly not, but that is what labor
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by scatters 5y ago
And how do you determine the value of someone's labour? Marxism can't answer that, while conventional economics can. > Possibly the most obvious example is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. So your evidence of the val
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by scatters 5y ago
It's probably a seven-spot ladybird; those average about 10mm. I can assure you that they aren't terrifying at all.
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This is incorrect. If they had simply removed the offending line (or, indeed, set a preprocessor flag that was provided explicitly for that purpose) it would have been fine. The problem was that they also removed a similar looking line th
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For on chain stuff, sure. Where it interfaces with the real world, how do you make the agents carry out the decisions of the code without using the courts?
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You can't use a stud finder?
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Yes, this is one of the things that keeps me using Spotify - Concertmaster is a great UI for listening to classical music, and it has access to a huge catalogue.
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The economic term for this is Coasean bargaining. The Coase theorem is that this can in principle be solved privately; in practice, transaction costs and imperfect information usually make government involvement necessary.
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There's a difference between "cyclists will take more risks (with their own lives) if they wear a helmet" and "drivers will take more risks (with cyclists' lives) if they see cyclists wearing a helmet". And you
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Yeah nah. I can read.
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Keeping an eye on your spending is great, but you can equally do that with credit; it's easy to look at or download transactions in your credit card app or website. Unless of course you don't trust yourself not to overspend, in wh
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by scatters 5y ago
21M bitcoin, and 21M Bitcoin Cash, and however many ether, and doge, and shiba, and Floki, etc... Will all of these retain their current valuation? If not, why should any of them?
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Even taking for the sake of argument that inflation is a bad thing, what's to stop a government forking the blockchain to expand the money supply?
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Which demonstrates that you in fact are bad with money, so the system is working as intended. If you don't trust yourself with day-to-day spending, why should a lender trust you with a loan representing months or years of income?
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It all comes down to the cost of energy. If the current improvements in renewable energy are sustained, or if the promise of fusion comes to pass, or even a considerable improvement in the economics of fission, then yes it could make sense
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To get to 90%+, Apple had to present their users with a forced choice. The majority of users might prefer not to be tracked if they're put on the spot and required to give an answer, but how many would actually go to the trouble of cha

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