cadlin

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by cadlin 3y ago
Both of those numbers are wrong. It's more like 6% deficit and 8% GDP growth.
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by cadlin 3y ago
If you project the first three quarters of GDP growth, the US should end the year with $27.6 Trillion of GDP. The annualized rate is 8.5% without adjusting for inflation. Inflation adjusted, the annual rate of growth is 3.75% in the first t
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by cadlin 3y ago
There's a saying in my country. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
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by cadlin 4y ago
If anyone is interested in the thread in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640905 I bookmarked it at the time, as I was worried about the hospital system collapsing where I lived like it had in northern Italy
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by cadlin 6y ago
As a renter and voter, my preferred policy solution is to suspend rental evictions, let the foreclosures go forward as mortgages are a risky asset, then let the market sort it out at auction. That sounds like a more market-oriented solution
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by cadlin 6y ago
The most expensive plan for my family (2 parents and a young child) is $367 a month. Equivalent coverage in the US would be thousands of dollars.
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by cadlin 6y ago
Every single one of the past five presidents?
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by cadlin 6y ago
I don't know the answer to the best time to give antivirals, but the lung inflammation happens for some, but not all patients. A non-trivial amount have relatively normal lungs, low oxygen saturation, and an extremely high heartrate. T
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by cadlin 6y ago
Doctors that don't know how to properly operate a vent are currently a problem in the US. Not blaming them, as there doesn't seem to be any real alternative. Here's an /r/medicine discussion of it. https:/&#x2
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by cadlin 6y ago
Good systems would obviously be desirable, but this is basic executive competence. A US response to a potential pandemic brewing in China should have been a top White House priority since early January. When there are coordination problems,
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by cadlin 7y ago
>To a very good approximation, the marginal impact of any hoarders on the scarcity of a product is zero. This is pure ideology. Do you have any evidence that a single person buying 10,000 masks from every hardware store in an entire stat
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by cadlin 7y ago
That Medium post isn't arguing in good faith either. He criticizes a bunch of graphs on Vox or Mother Jones, but doesn't bother engaging with any actual academic research. The news websites may be imprecise, but their underlying p
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by cadlin 7y ago
On the other hand, if you buy a business entirely dependent on human capital, then proceed to instigate a mass resignation, there is no amount of spin that adds up to anything other than boneheaded decision making.
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by cadlin 7y ago
Are you certain of this? It's a common misunderstanding about campus consent policies and it might be true somewhere, but it is far from standard. It might be a part of lower quality consent literature, but that's different from t
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by cadlin 7y ago
You think it's literally illegal to fire someone for spitting on their boss?
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by cadlin 7y ago
France pays less for healthcare than the US and gets more. A lot more. To pick a statistic, their maternal mortality rate is 1/3 of the US. Because the US is a wealthier country overall it can waste more money and receive worse results
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by cadlin 7y ago
Only 60% of murders in the US are solved. The police are not as diligent as you'd think. https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17896034/murder-crime-clearanc...
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by cadlin 7y ago
Perhaps they're decent parents, and you're a lousy judge of parenting?
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by cadlin 7y ago
The document is left to right. Tapping down goes to a cover(?) page.
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by cadlin 7y ago
C section rates above ~20% aren't correlated with better health outcomes. They will probably decline as federal heartbeat detection improves, as a major driver for them right now is losing track of the heartbeat and performing a c sect
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by cadlin 7y ago
Life expectancy is largely driven by infant mortality. Each marginal child that lives to 60 is equal to 12 adults living 5 years longer.
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by cadlin 7y ago
Yes, there's a museum across the plaza from Notre Dame that showcases the subterranean Roman ruins. http://www.crypte.paris.fr/en/crypt
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by cadlin 7y ago
That article says, "Failure to surrender, ie. not turning up on the date given on your bail sheet (whether to a court or to return to a police station) is a crime." What's not a crime is breaching the conditions of your bail,
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by cadlin 8y ago
U.S. Healthcare is more expensive because every single step along the way costs more. This blog series[1] by healthcare professionals goes through it all. The primary culprits are: more expensive inpatient care, more expensive outpatient ca
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by cadlin 8y ago
The article doesn't argue this is the reason for inequality. It's just a piece of trivia. >Americans are used to thinking that their nation is special. In many ways, it is: the U.S. has by far the most Nobel Prize winners, the
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by cadlin 9y ago
Greg Cochran isn't an expert geneticist. He's a consultant with a PhD in physics who was an anthropology adjunct for ten years. He doesn't have any training as a geneticist or in biological research. It's all in his Link
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by cadlin 9y ago
Black people have worse health outcomes controlling for obesity and poverty. Blaming genetics for such a wide range of negative outcomes is silly if you're looking for a simple explanation. Consider this[1] paper on cervical cancer. Th
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by cadlin 9y ago
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by cadlin 9y ago
The Turkish writer Elif Batuman has a trio of essays about Turkey in The New Yorker that are excellent. I like all of her writing, but they are especially good. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/19&#x
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by cadlin 9y ago
I would just point out that "Gödel, Escher, Bach" is one of the books he read this year. As is Anna Karenina, which took me several months of devoted attention to read.

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