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Link to the paper itself [1]. There is a list of secondary analysis in the paper that answer some of the concerns raised in other comments. [1] https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4381
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They included fixed effects for hospitals and surgeons: "To test whether our findings were affected by including both hospital and surgeon fixed effects in the same regression models." [1] Perhaps the link could be changed to the
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As most comments at this time profess not getting it... I read this as satire. Humorous derogatory remarks by and targeting the French and their intellectuals. As a European who has lived in France about a year I see good humour in this. Th
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This is a great point and could be modelled providing that you have access to prospective mortality tables. I fear they are not easily available for most countries and some might be guarded by actuarial societies. For a bias that might bala
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A puzzle I'm facing right now professionally is in what way to take Corona into account in actuarial longevity / mortality models. Current thinking is it doesn't impact the long term best estimate of longevity. We will probab
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Federal Student Loan Portfolio(studentaid.gov)
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I imagine you have a parallel system for retaining notes? Or a truly old school system (personal library?) for filing Dead Trees?
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I have a garden of about 400 m2. So yes, there are different 20kg bags of fertilizer in the shed. Ammonium nitrate being NPK 34-0-0 (wiki), I think I can get pretty close to that with boosting fertilizer (like 25-5-5 or something). The poin
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If the police would ransack my family home after a fire you could probably write the same article. Charred RPi's and lots of computer parts, enough wiring for a new house, lots of chemicals (cleaners, fertilizers, other chemical agents
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My tip would be to find a baby carrying enthusiast, ask for help and just try the cloth solutions first if you think you could be into cloth. My children didn't like being carried (I'm a shoulder carrying father now), but the knot
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How do you test backups? (I have the same setup but with some extra paranoia layers that I'm looking to relax.)
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In the Netherlands it's the AFM. It has been very critical of the quality of the audits it has sampled for several years now. However, Dutch courts have placed the onus of proof in establishing that the auditing system at the big-4 is
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This is a basic finding in experimental economics (Thaler comes to mind, but it's been a while). I remember an experiment showing this in my first class in '03 which we used as a case study for many, many lectures that followed. T
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As someone who had mild to somewhat less than mild pain in wrists and finger joints I can give anecdotal evidence that training works. Power balls (heavy ones) and Captains of Crunch (still can't manage no. 2) took away years of pain.
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For a regular large sized company there are press pieces written every day that want an informative quote, shareholders cold-mailing you, customers trying all kinds of angles except the regular ones to get in touch, TV-shows that want your
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1. It's a skill that needs practice and most professionals are not trained in. 2. PR is an entryway for collecting and managing stakeholder questions that might warrant future board level action (in communication). 3. PR is usually clo
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I agree and have a general distrust of public servants and the environment they work in. There are No repercussions (in my locale, NLD) for breaking the law as a public servant. Even when the statutes are quite broad (like knowingly infring
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In theory for NL one could argue this is already the case. Government internals are public (WOB / transparent government). When I was a civil servant we once shared data and code with a citizen, although more regularly shared are inter
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Yes, that is the case. Look up the Human Mortality Database and it's documentation if you're truly interested. I would say 200+ years of quite adequate data is available for some countries (perhaps undercounting things like infant
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In the hope of starting something: 1. Metallica - Master of Puppets 2. Paul Simon - Graceland 3. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms 4. Wu-Tang clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
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This is what I thought as well. The article highlights some differences in game structure and how that impacts strategies, but the whole cut off between perfect information and imperfect information seems fetched since in both cases it&#x27
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I'm trained as an economist so might have a different view. But what I think I know from physics is that, say, the people actively involved in engineering things like matter collidors do get authorship or at least appreciation for thei
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That's quite the wrong way of approaching science. The scientific method is based on building on the shoulders of giants. Those giants aren't the professors in the direct vicinity nor are they only the papers you cite. The whole o
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Oblique mention of Project Drawdown that tries to tackle such questions (albeit at a slightly more abstract level) methodically [1] [1] https://drawdown.org/
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That would require something that is mostly missing in universities: strategy. Cooperation between departments and colleagues without direct sight on short term benefits is very slim. I'm quite close to my local university (father work
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"has" should be "is" right. Most mainstream music has been, from what I understand for a few centuries, a combination of artists expressing themselves while trying to cater to an audience. Otherwise it's an art or a
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The funny thing is that switching to non-Apple payment is hard (I get that that's Apple) and the support staff of Netflix was really helpful in making me switch.
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From another reply here: U.S. Code § 1505 mandates that you do not obstruct procedures of departments, agencies, and committees of the US government. In this case, if you've just testified before the FTC on your data protection practic
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Call me strange but I've actually counted the pieces to a few of my kids puzzles and the 100 and 200 piece puzzles never have exactly that number. And it wasn't off-by-one either. I always figured it make sense that the box advert
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Am I correct in my intuition that we are missing a lot of progress in computing due to the fact that we only have one GPGPU supplier with closed source software (CUDA). Aren't we at the point that quite a big part of what is computed b

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