ProjectArcturis

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by ProjectArcturis 16d ago
Dan Ariely remaining at Duke, after it has become clear that much if not most of his work is fraudulent, is at least as big a black mark for Duke as Jason Arday was for Cambridge. Not to mention the Epstein ties.
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by ProjectArcturis 25d ago
Being fired from a postdoc in Sociology at the University of Ghent is hardly a punishment.
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by ProjectArcturis 2mo ago
This has been an ongoing area of research for at least a decade in Alzheimer's. People with worse teeth/gums get Alzheimer's more often and decline quicker. But no one has been able to disentangle the causality -- is it the o
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by ProjectArcturis 2mo ago
I wonder what was going on in her life that made her say, "I want to spend the next 43 days rowing alone across the ocean."
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by ProjectArcturis 3mo ago
The timing doesn't matter because monopoly -> enshittification was always the plan. Hence FAANG were valued with the expectation that they could turn the profit knob at the right time.
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by ProjectArcturis 3mo ago
I would have liked the essay more if PG had actually engaged with AOC's claims. He just does some math and shows that exponential growth is fast. What did the founder have to do to keep growing at 93%? Good solid business fundamentals
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by ProjectArcturis 3mo ago
You seem to be confusing "listing" - the stock exchange where a company chooses its stock to trade (i.e. NYSE, AmEx, Nasdaq) with "indexes" - a list of stocks that is often the basis for index funds. The Nasdaq 100 is no
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by ProjectArcturis 4mo ago
FYI you can get Money Stuff delivered by email without a Bloomberg subscription.
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by ProjectArcturis 4mo ago
I'm astounded that they've been able to keep that domain name.
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by ProjectArcturis 5mo ago
Sure didn't seem like it.
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by ProjectArcturis 5mo ago
It's not just Schwab, there aren't any options traded on BIRD. And shorting is not a guarantee. First you have to find a borrow, which if it's available probably costs >1000% annualized today. Then you have to be able to m
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by ProjectArcturis 6mo ago
Yes this would defeat it, but standard practice is that you can keep betting a couple rotations into the spin. The reason for that is that some people believe the croupier can target his shot to some extent. (I don't think it's fa
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by ProjectArcturis 6mo ago
You neglected to mention: - It was company policy to keep coffee excessively hot (180-190 degrees Fahrenheit, vs 140 or so for coffee brewed at home). This was to make customers drink it more slowly and request fewer refills - Other custome
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by ProjectArcturis 6mo ago
> Not very smart itself. How sad to reduce the whole thing to ignorant stereotypes It's hard to call it an ignorant stereotype when it is the explicit policy of some police departments not to hire smart people. And to go to court to
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by ProjectArcturis 6mo ago
There are easily hundreds of compounds that can reduce beta-amyloid in vitro. This is a decade-old nothingburger.
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by ProjectArcturis 6mo ago
I don't think that's obvious at all. I think there are obviously a mix of wars where the outcome was inevitable, and where it was decided through a series of one or more battles. In WWI, for example, if Germany had won the battle
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Sovereign like Putin.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
No, there'll always be a new trick.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Do you think their lives would be substantially better if they had been arrested and sentenced to lengthy prison terms? Alcohol can have a well-documented destructive effect on people's lives. Should it also be made illegal?
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
It's weird that people argue it's better for you to consume extra burned plant material to get to the same level of high-ness. If it's stronger, people just use less.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Continuing the analogy, it does mean that they can blame the alcohol and not, say, rohypnol for their outcomes.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Low European salaries are other reason why brain drain fears are overblown.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Somehow, the "Everything is Corrupt" folks always end up supporting the most corrupt president in our history.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Horizon Europe funds everything — physics, engineering, social sciences, climate, agriculture, digital technology, space, and health. And its budget is still less than 1/3rd of the US NIH budget focused solely on health.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
>The real risk of drain is people leaving their fields of expertise to never return. That is happening right now, all the time! Especially in the biomed field! Many, many PhDs spend 5-8 years getting their degree and receiving minimal pa
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
> many countries are increasing funding substantially (e.g. [1]). This illustrates exactly my point. Canada is planning on spending up to CAD$1.7B over 12 years . That is equivalent to USD$100M per year, or 0.3% of the NIH 2026 budget
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Pretty good for the professor, not so good for the students.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
No, the US still spends 5x what Europe does on biomedical research, measured as a percent of GDP.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
Well, he might be planning to set up a lab. Probably wouldn't, though, statistically.
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by ProjectArcturis 7mo ago
This kind of Level 1 analysis misses what is really going on. "Brain drain" is not really a concern. There is a tremendous glut of talented biomedical researchers. We have been overproducing them for decades. Even before the cuts,

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