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by xapata 5y ago
There were many anecdotes from employers complaining about unemployment benefits, but the systematic data collection gave mixed evidence. I concluded the impact varied across industries.
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by xapata 5y ago
> It looked for a while there like this could be a thing that gets “done”—that we would get a good vaccine into enough people, then incidence would decline so far it just goes away. Coronaviruses in general are endemic to humans, and SAR
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by xapata 5y ago
No, I meant symptomatic spread. I don't care much about getting sick. I worry about winding up in the hospital. As far as I know, the 3rd dose of Moderna and Pfizer are both effective at keeping me out of the hospital. I don't
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by xapata 5y ago
Maybe wagging? Some dogs play-growl when playing tug.
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by xapata 5y ago
Progress is better than design paralysis.
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by xapata 5y ago
The polio vaccine doesn't protect against polio infection? I guess I'm not familiar with the technical meaning of infection.
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by xapata 5y ago
Much protection against infection or against hospitalization?
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by xapata 5y ago
Check the type of `type` in Python ;-)
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by xapata 5y ago
Part of the problem is that hierarchical neighboring societies tend to absorb their neighbors. But, I agree that one would likely need some technology to scale up the reciprocity system. Money and the free market is a reciprocity system of
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by xapata 5y ago
Asset inflation is exacerbating inequality, but to say it's the "primary cause" isn't supported.
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by xapata 5y ago
Not all social systems. A deep exploration of anthropology should give you a few examples of societies that allocate resources via complex patterns of reciprocal gifting.
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by xapata 5y ago
> It seems to me that the widely accepted practice of market stimulation by interest rate intervention has the cost of destroying price discovery. Also, that it is a primary cause of wealth inequality. Those claims deserve an explanation
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by xapata 5y ago
> one of those who have money or not. Nearly everyone is both poorer than someone and wealthier than someone. > shit rental house See, you've got a rental house, and it sounds like you don't even need roommates to help pay f
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by xapata 5y ago
Yeah, I didn't get specific furnace models out of the articles. I was trying to decide between single-stage, two-stage, and many-stage designs. It turns out that the installers' claims about efficiency are bogus. Once you reali
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by xapata 5y ago
Same for my experience buying a furnace. Science journal articles were my best source of information, because I worried the manufacturers and installers would be biased. I'm not sure how this could be otherwise. Who's going to pa
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by xapata 5y ago
Imagine someone sends you a Numbers file, but you're on a Linux box with nothing installed except Python.
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by xapata 5y ago
Nothing another layer of abstraction can't solve.
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by xapata 5y ago
You're just arguing the semantics of "illness". Call it atypical thought if you prefer.
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by xapata 5y ago
Because if suicide were typical, humanity wouldn't exist. Mental illness is merely abnormality, not necessarily something ethically wrong or illogical given one's a priori beliefs.
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by xapata 5y ago
Yeah, where's browsing the web like it's 1993?
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by xapata 5y ago
In many ways, life today is the same as it was 2000 years ago. It's hard to decide what axes to use to measure similarity/distance in the space of human experience.
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by xapata 5y ago
I found medications ineffective, but my last therapist helped me tremendously. If your therapist isn't helping, find a new one. There's no shame in switching.
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by xapata 5y ago
Don't worry, I'm pretty stable these days. And seeing a therapist helped. To your point, it was someone else who booked the first appointment for me. So, if you know someone who might benefit, it'd be good to help them out
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by xapata 5y ago
Indeed. Thus we describe that experience as mental illness.
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by xapata 5y ago
The mental illness is when option B in this example seems preferable to small inconveniences and embarrassments, and when one doesn't think of things like, (C) forget about it and go hang out with some friends.
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by xapata 5y ago
It took me a while to realize that most people don't consider suicide as one of a few strategies to deal with everyday problems. Thought process: I don't want to do my homework. I could (A) get up and do it, or (B) kill myself.
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by xapata 5y ago
It's not a new muscle. They're drawing a distinction between different parts of the masseter muscle. I showed this article to a dentist. They didn't think it was interesting.
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by xapata 5y ago
That statement leaves out the other muscles that pull the lower jaw backwards. It's making the discovery sound more sensational than it is.
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by xapata 5y ago
I've got a bizarre situation in which an OS upgrade bricked my Mac. I can't remember the details now, but it was something about an interface change in which I had managed to activate 2FA, but the login interface didn't have
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by xapata 5y ago
But then the money keeps flowing. It doesn't disappear just because you drove to the pool. The gasoline supplier uses the cash to crank up supply, the price goes down, etc.

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