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Without reading the study in detail, I feel like 4,483 is too few people to detect an effect like this because you can’t easily control for how much vitamin d people get from the sun.

They’re pretty good though. And also cheaper. The same argument could be made of chips.

Article suggests he has 3 direct reports

More of a PM

FWIW, try not to act on that assumption being correct. Because if you’re wrong, you now have two illnesses simultaneously...

To be a dungeon master is effectively to achieve AGI. It’s... not realistic. Current NLP systems have mapped out what language means, and can use that to generate text. But they have no idea what the text means. It requires incredible knowledge about how the world works and an ability to explain its reasoning in plain terms.

That is because you have not seen One Cut of the Dead

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Cut_of_the_Dead

Can you name any piece of intellectual property that has a small, recurring income after 30 years?

> A bunch of people couldn't get to us, but that wasn't really our fault (or was it?). At the end of the day the users didn't care if it was our fault or their ISP, so we counted that against ourselves.

So... what did you do about that?

Further, The introduction of hotels to the game was not intended initially. Adding hotels causes more housing to appear, which is antithetical to the point of housing shortages

That is... false. Trading down consistently only works if you’re playing with idiots.

Trading a high value property for a low value property makes sense if you get a color set, but if you do this multiple times with bare minimum competence players, the likely outcome is that everyone has at least one set, but you have booth the lowest amount of cash to develop things and the least valuable properties.

With the exception of edge case (although often optimal) strategies where you lock down the available houses, trading down is likely a sign that you’re trying to increase your likelihood of winning from 0% to 10%, while improving the odds to a greater degree for whoever is getting the better deal.

Most properties are superficial until they have specifically 3 houses on them. If you have three color sets, but fewer than 3 houses on any of them, you’re going to lose.

No no no

The trend in board games right now is legacy board games, where the game maintains state after each session. What you really want is legacy monopoly. Where the winners of early games maintain their monopoly, and face a proletariat uprising in future games, making it an asymmetrical struggle for the elites to maintain power.

Subscription is the opposite of what you want for a product that nobody wants 95% of the time but then everybody wants 5% of the time. As a supplier you would be locked in to selling at a given price while your costs skyrocket.

People generally aren’t going to use them correctly, aren’t going to change them frequently enough, are likely to touch their face frequently if not used to the mask, and aren’t nearly as concerned about infecting others so much as protecting themselves.

Should you go buy some? Probably jot

That’s not a fair thing to say. Closing businesses doesn’t guarantee anything about the virus. The halting of economic activity, even temporarily, can devastate people’s lives because it doesn’t always come back and many people already live paycheck to paycheck.

Housing is an essential. You can’t just go homeless without significant consequences. That’s not “voluntary”. Just moving somewhere else is not always viable.

To prove an extreme case, if I point a gun at you and say “$1k or I shoot”, you’re likely to pay. You gained not dying, but are you richer? Or did I merely use my power to impose an urgent need on you that you needed to pay for?

Spreading scary ideas that could “maybe” be true to laypeople with no ability to interpret “maybe” is highly likely to be more help than hurt

-4% Chinese GDP would kill a lot more than the virus...

Your other comments suggest you are in, or are pursuing, a FAANG internship. The target audience of this piece... is you. The wisdom being preached is that although you may be set to acquire wealth, you may find yourself feeling existentially lost nonetheless.

New Jersey gas pumpers seem like a close approximation here. They provide a legally mandated service which I find makes my day worse.

But... she does have repercussions? She has chronic back pain and deteriorating health...

Pain pills are either A) not going to be strong enough B) harshly addictive. Probably opioids.

I was at a tobacco company hq once. It surprised me to learn that almost everyone there smoked. A lot.

The fact that only he knew is really the crucial point here. That gives him incredible opportunity to sway the conversation. He also has the ability to cherry-pick which recordings to choose.

If you want open talks, they need to be done so with everyone on board.

> What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm

Ugh

One thing I hated about this story was people complaining about being controlled by a black box algorithm. This was not a black box algorithm. It was, in fact, the opposite. It was an optimization solver that found the best outcome as defined by you given the constraints as defined by you. It could not be more transparent how it worked.

That’s hilarious. Any idea what else was in them? I’d presume they were basically tasty cocktails so as not to taste like alcohol. But perhaps they were made to taste awful?

What bothers me is the difficulty in interpreting such numbers because they’re not normalized to health.

E.g. dropping sperm counts in men. Is that dropping in all men? Or is it a side effect of rising obesity in enough men to dent the average?

Is the mortality 1/500 here because a good health 30 year old has a 1/500 chance of dying? Or because the 1/100 30 year olds with poor health have a 1/5 chance of dying?

It seems probable that the more boring finance is, the more momentum mainstream equities have, and the more irrational it becomes.

If everybody pours their money into a us equity index every month, the value of us stocks will go up, absent of any perceived change in value.

if Ireland isn’t taxing the revenues, then it’s not a break of the treaty for the us to tax them. No?

Ok, but Google says open heart surgery costs $324,000! Which is probably a huge variance number...

My point is not that stents > open heart surgery, but rather that they’re not at all easy to compare.

I feel like I have to disagree. I did a masters there a few years ago, and lived in somerville for 2700/mo in a large 3BR split with two roomies. So very cheap. The commute was just about 25 minutes on very affordable, very comfortable public transit (red line).

Certain areas of Cambridge and Boston are very expensive, but we have plenty of options that are easy to make work.

A quick ddg reports much lower rates than what you suggest.

https://studentlife.mit.edu/housing/graduate-family-housing/...

The new grad housing is likely for established families who don’t want to live in a “dorm” but do want to live on campus.

I’m not especially familiar with those groups but I would think not. Semantics are subjective but I would tend to assume that there’s a pre-requisite that they already be in power, and yet be pushing for tripling down on those power structures.

Trump’s campaign rhetoric is emblematic of nationalist themes. Anti immigrant. Playing up cultural mythos. Bragging about military capabilities. Blaming foreign nations for most problems. Implying that a return to core values will bring greatness. Lots of fear and anger.

Tends to be very effective for groups of people that used to be powerful but are no longer.