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by xapata 5y ago
They could leave town. There's always another option.
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by xapata 5y ago
> Additionally, the team notes the findings only apply to soybean oil — not to other soy products or to other vegetable oils. That's odd.
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by xapata 5y ago
> While the meeting was presented as a “live” event, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, one of the advisors, was wearing a watch showing that the event was recorded five hours before, thus placing it before the “governments” of the regions
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by xapata 5y ago
The phrase "What did [a person] mean by this?" seems easy to reinvent. Are you suggesting this post is trolling us or ... ? I'm having trouble guessing your meaning.
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by xapata 5y ago
BTW, at the time, I think being on great big plains would have been worse. Sea transport was, what, 20x cheaper than land transport? Rome couldn't possibly have supported a million residents if it weren't on the sea and able to
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by xapata 5y ago
There's always a winner in hindsight. Explaining why the winner won is easy, but predicting who will win is hard.
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by xapata 5y ago
Comparative advantage isn't necessarily the cause for Rome's largeness. If society size follows a log-normal distribution, or perhaps a power law, due to the effects of preferential attachment (using a network metaphor), then the
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by xapata 5y ago
I don't know about the "Western world" but in the US stock ownership is dramatically more prevalent. At the same time, pension plans have nearly disappeared in the private sector. The ownership rates are trivially searchable
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by xapata 5y ago
Or the reverse: Wages go up, then prices go up. Inflation isn't guaranteed to be one way or the other. It's an aggregate measure.
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by xapata 5y ago
40 years ago, there were many fewer stock market participants, and many more retirees on fixed income. Now it's relatively rare to retire with a fixed-income pension. More of us are shareholders now, with IRAs and 401ks.
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by xapata 5y ago
Owner-occupied real estate investments don't suffer from margin calls. If the asset price crashes, what does it matter so long as I can afford the monthly payments? If the home value is "underwater" then I can walk away and
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by xapata 5y ago
The old idea was that corporations should survive at the expense of temporarily high unemployment.
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by xapata 5y ago
Interesting that the hack occurred in 2016, and in the same year he left MixRank.
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by xapata 5y ago
Coca-Cola's advertising is so good, the sugar water literally tastes better if you know it's Coke, compared with a blind taste test.
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by xapata 5y ago
Comparing averages is nearly useless without knowing the distributions.
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by xapata 5y ago
Take a look at colorcet. https://colorcet.holoviz.org/
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by xapata 5y ago
Median vs mean of what measure?
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by xapata 5y ago
The table limits prevent serious losses from card counting. Information has a cost. So long as the maximum bet isn't large enough (relative to the minimum bet), on average even a perfect card counter will lose money.
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by xapata 5y ago
I like yapf.
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by xapata 5y ago
Sounds like the variable is whether one engages with Bitcoin discussion. I don't, and have observed no spam.
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by xapata 5y ago
I'm convinced :-) Despite the paper's conclusion sounding nice, like a horoscope, the evidence seems more anecdote than data. I'd call it a "just so" story. When everyone likes the conclusion, they tend to banish t
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by xapata 5y ago
The fact that a sample is a tiny part of the population is irrelevant. The question is how that sample differs from the population in a way that correlates with the explained/dependant variable, but is not included as an explanatory&#
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by xapata 5y ago
Your "I think" described the conclusion. I didn't read it as describing your explanation for that conclusion, which you seemed much more confident about.
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by xapata 5y ago
The comment discussed a survey of humans alive today.
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by xapata 5y ago
That's an observation of modern characteristics, not evolutionary pressures.
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by xapata 5y ago
It's reasonable to worry about confounding factors, but one should hypothesize what they are as part of the criticism.
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by xapata 5y ago
What's the evidence for this evolution preference? I am skeptical, because historically, women were substantially involved in agriculture and textile production.
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by xapata 5y ago
Interestingly, having female friends to fulfill the need for emotional support will create the "access to potential mates" characteristic that makes it easier to have male friends.
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by xapata 5y ago
I have the same problem. Luckily, I do have male friends in the emotional support category, but they are all old friends from school and none live in the same city as me.
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by xapata 5y ago
No, it's reasonable to phrase it as a belief that the phenomenon doesn't exist. That's a positive belief of the negative. The alternative of lack of belief in existence is a more neutral stance.

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