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by zamfi 6y ago
> American workers have been conned into creating the very wealthiest people in the world by continuing to give up more and more earning power This pendulum seems to swing back and forth. The phrase "conned into" implies that A
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is the probably the right answer. See e.g., this link https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_spectrum_en.sv... for what wavelengths of sunlight reach the earth’s surface.
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by zamfi 6y ago
0% is also the non-pedantic answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_spectrum_en.sv... 222nm is blocked by the (upper, I believe) atmosphere
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by zamfi 6y ago
I am very impressed by this piece. Something about how “Alex” manages to blend the kind of humor not typically associated with compassion or competence, with a story that is most spectacular because of the very compassionate and competent a
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by zamfi 6y ago
Michael Levitt, though almost certainly a smart guy, has not had the best track record, making predictions both accurate and not. Also, predictions alone are...not that useful? From your Wikipedia article: > In March, the Los Angeles Tim
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by zamfi 6y ago
The word I think you’re looking for is “hazing”
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Ahhh I meant to say "pretty unlikely that a change in therapy is the cause" above.
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by zamfi 6y ago
That is quite a spike! Unfortunately the sharpness of the edge makes it pretty likely that a change in therapy is the cause -- time to death from hospital admission has a median of 10-12 days, but this is not a "wall", it's a
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by zamfi 6y ago
Wow! That link suggests diabetes doubles your risk, but that high blood pressure actually lowers your risk — but turns out to be only for folks over 70. Super weird! > We similarly investigated the change in the hypertension hazard ratio
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by zamfi 6y ago
> We get 20,000 iu of Vitamin D in like 15 to 30 minutes of sun (if you're pale skinned). Pretty sure taking 5,000 iu every day isn't going to be harmful. You cannot overdose on vitamin D from sun exposure because the metabolic
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is a substantial oversimplification. Hydroxychloroquine looked promising for a while, and was being studied in an RCT, but that RCT was ended before completion because of the release of an observational study that suggested strongly ne
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Good point. Confounds all the way down!
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That's the implication from the paper.
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Yes, this is strong. Worth noting the limitations though: > Randomization generated groups with comparable percentage of unfavorable risk factors as there was no significant difference in subjects with at least one risk factor, except fo
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by zamfi 6y ago
To be clear, all patients received these supplemental drugs, as at the time they were considered the best standard of care. (Also to be clear: they're not anti-virals.) Of the 75 patients in the trial, 50 people received additionall
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by zamfi 6y ago
> The reason why we won't have NYC or SF looking like Star Trek¹ is that the people are already wealthy and they chose to live here in the way it is so the people who would want Star Trek SF won't come to present-day SF to make
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> If anything, it does insure you against catastrophic loss. ACA took away maximum benefit amounts. This statement is nominally true, but it doesn’t stop insurers from trying. For "emergency"-type catastrophic loss, it's n
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To be clear, the presidents of those institutions’ have a major goal of bringing in charitable contributions to those institutions. They are paid well in part because they bring a TON of money in. But also, there are clearly power law effec
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Many of the Ivies hardly invest in sports and still come with a 60k ticket Believe it or not, at some of those Ivies, the cost per student exceeds $70k/yr, and is covered by overhead on grants, endowment, and other donations.
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by zamfi 6y ago
I have no skin in this game, but I have to wonder who is making these decisions and what their thought process is. What is the threat model, exactly? What eventuality is the bank seeking to avoid? Are there edge-case regulatory issues at pl
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by zamfi 6y ago
> stocks have never been more detached from the underlying economy than now - i mean look at the total market cap of US stocks to GDP - it’s something like 170% I haven't done the research, but: how much have the underlying dynamics
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This is funny, but to give Danny the benefit of the doubt: he presumably means there are horizons out there in cryptocurrencies and finance that aren't approached by also-ran "fintech plays" or "another cryptocurrency&qu
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I don’t know about commonly, but the law mentioned in the article you cite carved out an exception for private investigators, so... I’m not excited about license plate tracking either, but I have different expectations of the data I leak by
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The saddest part of all this is that the California DMV is making only $50m/yr — that’s literally about $1/yr for each Californian, a little more if you only count driving-age residents, and probably less if you count cars, not pe
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Fruit: Apple (And just in case, no, not apples, Apple)
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A lot of other folks made this point, but I’m replying here because your response was the most considered. No one — myself including — is saying that physics is biased, or that this tool is inherently biased. The headline is misleading, it’
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Frustratingly, this kind of dismissal perpetuates injustices. First, let's be clear: > Doctors know that these pulse ox meters aren't very accurate and use them accordingly Some doctors know... > Nobody's changing the
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> How is it even plausible that sunlight does not have significant health benefits, given that Europeans evolved to have pale skin because they lived in high latitude environments? No one is arguing that sunlight doesn’t have benefits. W
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Exactly. One way to think about this is as a "disincentive to study job-relevant fields". But another way to look at this is further entrenching the reality that only the wealthy and privileged can afford to be less vocational in
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Every domain — every language — has its basic jargon, and algebra is no exception. I’m not suggesting that mathematicians simply replace every symbol with a word that hints at meaning; that’s too literal an interpretation of what I wrote. “

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