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by throwaway2245 6y ago
The poor neighbourhood where I lived had a statistically extremely low rate of car ownership. If you owned a car at all, it was a cheap second-hand. There were expensive cars rolling around though: due to rich people were passing through fr
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
“It’s not somebody who is impacted by COVID, but somebody who is taking advantage of the situation” Taking advantage here is an interesting choice. It seems to mean: Reducing your profits that you usually get as a landlord taking advantage
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Counterpoint: almost all paid work is assisting someone with building their thing.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Bezos committed to doing [none of] those things only after Amazon was called out by the US Congress and the international press seems like an extremely important distinction. Amazon hasn't been doing it (why not?), and isn't doi
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I haven't understood this as a fallacy. In the "suspicious coin" example, there is an opening assumption that the coin is fair, but it transpires clear evidence to the contrary. It isn't a fallacy to continue to treat th
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
but not all PhD students become professors - only those who successfully (choose to) navigate the status quo.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
As an outsider it is extremely hard to see how this is disconnected from Trump. It's a political decision, entirely. Meanwhile, Trump has been escalating the treatment of China as a spying, cold-war-style enemy (and thus rehabilitating
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Card counting is possible but extremely sensitive to the precise rules of the game being played. The principle is that you bet (more) when the cards remaining in the deck are favourable to you. Even if you can identify when that happens, pr
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
So you're agreeing that my interpretation was correct.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
So you're agreeing that my interpretation was correct.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
My understanding is that the "69 candidate strains" have been identified at least 1 time in the population. 1 is not a large cohort.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
You've identified 69 strains (assuming no errors or false positives) Saying they are candidate attenuation strains is like saying sugar is a candidate treatment. [Edited after reconsidering, because it's worse than that:] Saying
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by throwaway2245 7y ago
Sure, but having a unique solution is not a required property of integer division. Parallel to your statement: If both 1 * 0 = 0 and 2 * 0 = 0, then 0 / 0 has two solutions.
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by throwaway2245 7y ago
I once discovered that my salary was 4x that of my colleague with more experience and the same job title. I had a good understanding of the value I was providing to the business, of what my next best offer was, and I negotiated my salary re