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by zzleeper 5y ago
Agree. From experience, people look into how much they would pay monthly and their income. This then begs the question: what will happen once rates go up even a bit, and houses suddenly require a 50% larger monthly payment.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
What worked for me is using Python scripts ("filters") that do all required changes on the Pandoc JSON. I even ended up writing a pythonic layer on top of that JSON ("pip install panflute") so I wouldn't have to dea
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Out of curiosity, where exactly on IG do you find MCM furniture? Is there a specific hashtag or?
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I think it's because people draw the wrong conclusions. Sure, if your body was stuck fighting COVID19 for two weeks and you then survived (i.e. excluding those pesky 700k Americans who didn't make it), then you are better prepared
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by zzleeper 5y ago
It's relevant because of the 1%. The numbers in the study are so low (8 people hospitalized in one, 1 person in the other group) that 1% makes a difference.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Why do you prefer comma for delimiters? I found tabs are less likely to appear within the strings (so less need to quote the strings if a delimiter is found, and thus the files are smaller). And both can be typed with a single keystroke. Th
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Didn't they had the same problem a few months ago or so?
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by zzleeper 5y ago
In my country the two best economics are offered by a leftwing/socialist and a rightwing/free-market university, respectively. What always astounded me was that even though the faculties are nuanced and respect both sides, the stu
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Through my employer, I have access to practically all papers I need to download. But doing so is much more inconvenient than using sci-hub than I still prefer the latter. And of course, don't get me started in the usual ramble about us
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I was in the same dilemma a month ago. Went to the closest outlet and got a great pair of Nike running shoes for about $55 (which I could try before buying). I think a KEY benefit of amazon is that you know it has everything. Sure, you migh
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by zzleeper 5y ago
We! ould also call this: "How the WSJ lost my trust" After the Murdoch acquisition, WSJ is playing a very interesting game. Writing high-quality news while pushing very partisan op-eds. Surprisingly, although people swear they can
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by zzleeper 5y ago
If 600k Americans died (that was the likely understated number back in Juneish?) then the death rate is way above 1%. So yeah, a lot. Go google "2021 life expentancy us" and see.the shithole.we are in, even if a lot of other dearh
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Perhaps NSO Group should be considered a terrorism-aiding organization. Freeze its assets, track all their employees, backers, etc. Wonder if they are even helping to hack US government employees through China, etc. (besides just helping to
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Will that create more global warming?
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Goodhart's Law at it's finest! I'm betting it started as a fun way to get a nice ("S+") score in the new github badges or whatever they are called.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I think overall Amazon is making a mistake. When I interviewed with them a few years ago, they were well aware of the risk of short-term best choices being bad in the long term (can't elaborate due to NDAs). For instance, in the short
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by zzleeper 5y ago
The two icons below "snow" are boxes (on chrome for windows). It seems those are "freezing" and "extreme hot days" but would be great to use a workaround for fonts that don't display all the unicode chars
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by zzleeper 5y ago
What would be the best way to access this data for research? I do academic research (mostly focusing on credit) and it might be quite useful to write a paper that cross references this with loan data for a paper with a political angle.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Was on the market 4.5 years ago and it's still the same. We often have simple ideas, identification strategies, regressions, etc. and make them overtly complicated. Making things easier on the other hand is liberating, but sadly comes
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Definitely true! But if there's a good question then that's definitely doable. Also I noted your change of field; your github repos and starred repos that pop up on my github main page are much more interesting that the usual r&#x
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Hi Kyle, This looks amazing! I wouldn't be surprised if this can be useful for e.g. urban economics, to compute measures of how cities and urban areas grew. Like LA eating into the San Fernando Valley, for instance.
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by zzleeper 5y ago
And what would be the mechanism? People with mandated masking get pissed off and start wearing fewer masks than otherwise? Or maybe something else driving this? Like better weather in the south? (TX, FL)
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by zzleeper 5y ago
From what I just learned about sea lioning, it seems you arr doing it :)
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by zzleeper 5y ago
Are you serious? Even if you don't know/believe an actual paper, you can always look at first principles: 1) If N95 masks didn't work, all doctors and nurses in ICUs treating covid patients would get sick quite quickly. But t
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by zzleeper 5y ago
I mean you can do the opposite. People who die from heart disease might be more at risk of other things (obese, etc) and are also likely to be old, no?
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Not surprised at all the Thomas and Alito are in that dissent..
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by zzleeper 6y ago
It was not a rapid test; he got two positive PCR tests paid by his employer. Mind you, this is in Perú (he works at a mining firm) which was hit really hard in July and then now (one of the hardest per capita deaths). Also, the Qatar study
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I have two friends who got covid twice. One had it first in July and then in January. Second one was brutal, maybe b/c it was likely the Brazilian strand, or maybe because the second time your lungs are still recovering. Who knows. But
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by zzleeper 6y ago
That was also a huge problem for me. I sometimes open Stata/R/Python/Excel, run a few snippets, and I'm done. All four take seconds to start (or even less), and Julia felt like a huge step back in productivity. If it&#x2
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by zzleeper 6y ago
*Robert Macfarlane. For a second I thought John had added being an accomplished writer as a side gig to philosophy and coding

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