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by ncraig 11mo ago
That's likely DAX Copilot, which doesn't provide medical advice.
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by ncraig 3y ago
Because tenured faculty members at research universities often have lovely careers. The road there is long and challenging, but the result can be exceedingly rewarding.
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by ncraig 3y ago
>Like what it even mean to "invest" in QQQ... just gambling There are many arguments that index investing is the best long-term strategy. Is NASDAQ the issue?
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by ncraig 3y ago
This is an excellent question. I wonder if it's something like [1] on letter composition rather than meaning. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04882.pdf
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by ncraig 3y ago
Perhaps parents with PhDs pass on genetic traits that support their offspring in the competition for PhDs and faculty positions. Unless the analysis controls for that dynamic, the research cannot correctly measure "socioeconomic"
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by ncraig 3y ago
I suspect you're correct more broadly, but this article is talking about software jobs: >The economists — Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington and Amanda Pallais — studied engineers at a large technology company. They found that remote
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by ncraig 4y ago
Some might say that abstracts are the original clickbait.
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by ncraig 5y ago
I enjoy this quote from the 2011 piece. If only someone had forced me to buy bitcoin then. Not exactly a USD- or CAD-style "screwing." I don't own any bitcoins. I don't particularly want to. If one day I have to own
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by ncraig 5y ago
PicoLisp
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by ncraig 6y ago
Food for thought: - The average age of death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was 28 [1]. - 70% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths are age 70 and above [2]. These are very different pandemics, and it's not clear what comparisons between the t
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by ncraig 6y ago
The public servant was not fired. Moreover, consider the fact that the press is reporting the issue. And that we are freely discussing it.
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by ncraig 7y ago
Works for humans as well (wisdom of crowds).
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by ncraig 9y ago
That's the end of an era - Yerkes has the largest refracting telescope ever built.