Oh god that first one… It’s really nice in podcast form on the way to work or in the bathtub, absolutely terrible to keep my attention when trying to understand news in readable form, and always suspect of being mere…
> Most countries in western Europe and many states seem to have less than 10 ℅ excess deaths in 2021 That may well be true, but it cannot in and of itself be a reason to decide to relax measures. It's like saying the…
In terms of excess death, those are correct interpretations. But a true measure of successful policy would've been some kind of death vs impact, corrected for difficult factor. Death is what the article covers. Impact…
roommates
On the whole FB account, does it require you to actually do anything with it? Can it literally just be an e-mail and random password, which only logs into the Oculus. If so, what's the problem?
My reading so far has been different. Indeed children are far less likely to be at risk, yet several dozen kids have died due to Covid already, and a larger group has complications from long-covid. The studies in…
On the contrary, I see most western media continue to host 'let's hear both sides of the story' type forums on their talkshows and interviewee lists, when one side are medical experts, and the other side are frankly a…
I highly doubt you average 35 km/h on a regular bike, especially when overweight, and then regularly get overtaken as well, in a city. It's simply an average. People ride bikes in Amsterdam in their everyday clothes for…
I mean, bolt cutters can cut rebar in 30 seconds max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0imMjR-Vqs The type of locks you'll typically find on bikes can be cut by $30 bolt cutters in about 5 seconds, which fit in a…
Thing is that it's a lot easier to regulate a small number of registered businesses, with known owners, in known locations, versus a potentially endless amount of (unregistered) customers that come and go. Not easy,…
> Some countries are going to see a shrinking population. Particularly wealthy countries. That's not entirely clear. In terms of births it's correct, but at any point in time there's millions of people ready to migrate…
Bit of a painful read. On the first game, it's a common game concept (very much not novel) that I've seen many people recreate. I built one myself with better graphics and gameplay over the course of a week and sold it…
I agree with you, but this isn't necessarily the best example. In this case, frankly part of this issue had to be resolved by relaxing strict zoning laws that weren't allowing space to be used in a way that the market…
As I noted in the last piece of my post, I believe there's value in bitcoin being a store of value. It has proven itself there and is a contender to Gold in that respect. But there's no pretense around gold as having…
> Here's a KPI: do you find it useful for something other than the fact that the price might go up? I don't personally, I don't use or own it anymore. Could you explain more about your uses? > I know I do, for a fairly…
What I'm always missing from the discussion around bitcoin and its price is: what are reasonable KPI's to measure its success, its impact, its utility etc. When you want to value an organisation or company, it makes…
Agreed. In fact, I think I'll mind it less. On my iPhone the only time it looks funny is in landscape, otherwise it just sits in the top-bar. On a laptop that isn't an issue. I think for me it'll fade away, especially…
same: search results with advertisements (zoekresultaten met reclame)
I mean, VAT is not a tax on revenue, it's a tax on added value. In essence it's a form of profit taxing already. If you buy $10 of flower (including VAT) and turn it into $15 of bread (including VAT), you effectively…
Not sure I'm a fan. Certainly very interesting and I'm happy to see a significant country run the experiment, it's going to be a useful data point. But at the end of the day, what does it solve? And what does it leave…
Yes it'll be helpful for you and your clients, until everyone does it, at which point hand-written becomes meaningless. At that point it's both no longer helpful for you to drive commercial results, but also it means…
> The dogmatism of putting all women to work for the last 50 years. > The problem of childcare cost is unsolvable with women at work, it's as simple as that. What kind of nonsense is this? One in six women never go on…
> The housing market is complex, but one point I would like to make, is that if there is now a (global?) opportunity to borrow capital, buy houses on a mass scale and rent them out, that implies to me that there is a…
Whether they promised to sell, or not sell, either way, they never promised equity. Not promising equity if you never sell can be a sensible decision, because otherwise you create expectations of a cash-out that never…
Damage wise it’s really hard to say. I personally feel I used to have quite a good memory, able to remember things I was told without being interested. Now I feel my memory is sharp with those items I find important to…
Oh god that first one… It’s really nice in podcast form on the way to work or in the bathtub, absolutely terrible to keep my attention when trying to understand news in readable form, and always suspect of being mere…
> Most countries in western Europe and many states seem to have less than 10 ℅ excess deaths in 2021 That may well be true, but it cannot in and of itself be a reason to decide to relax measures. It's like saying the…
In terms of excess death, those are correct interpretations. But a true measure of successful policy would've been some kind of death vs impact, corrected for difficult factor. Death is what the article covers. Impact…
roommates
On the whole FB account, does it require you to actually do anything with it? Can it literally just be an e-mail and random password, which only logs into the Oculus. If so, what's the problem?
My reading so far has been different. Indeed children are far less likely to be at risk, yet several dozen kids have died due to Covid already, and a larger group has complications from long-covid. The studies in…
On the contrary, I see most western media continue to host 'let's hear both sides of the story' type forums on their talkshows and interviewee lists, when one side are medical experts, and the other side are frankly a…
I highly doubt you average 35 km/h on a regular bike, especially when overweight, and then regularly get overtaken as well, in a city. It's simply an average. People ride bikes in Amsterdam in their everyday clothes for…
I mean, bolt cutters can cut rebar in 30 seconds max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0imMjR-Vqs The type of locks you'll typically find on bikes can be cut by $30 bolt cutters in about 5 seconds, which fit in a…
Thing is that it's a lot easier to regulate a small number of registered businesses, with known owners, in known locations, versus a potentially endless amount of (unregistered) customers that come and go. Not easy,…
> Some countries are going to see a shrinking population. Particularly wealthy countries. That's not entirely clear. In terms of births it's correct, but at any point in time there's millions of people ready to migrate…
Bit of a painful read. On the first game, it's a common game concept (very much not novel) that I've seen many people recreate. I built one myself with better graphics and gameplay over the course of a week and sold it…
I agree with you, but this isn't necessarily the best example. In this case, frankly part of this issue had to be resolved by relaxing strict zoning laws that weren't allowing space to be used in a way that the market…
As I noted in the last piece of my post, I believe there's value in bitcoin being a store of value. It has proven itself there and is a contender to Gold in that respect. But there's no pretense around gold as having…
> Here's a KPI: do you find it useful for something other than the fact that the price might go up? I don't personally, I don't use or own it anymore. Could you explain more about your uses? > I know I do, for a fairly…
What I'm always missing from the discussion around bitcoin and its price is: what are reasonable KPI's to measure its success, its impact, its utility etc. When you want to value an organisation or company, it makes…
Agreed. In fact, I think I'll mind it less. On my iPhone the only time it looks funny is in landscape, otherwise it just sits in the top-bar. On a laptop that isn't an issue. I think for me it'll fade away, especially…
same: search results with advertisements (zoekresultaten met reclame)
I mean, VAT is not a tax on revenue, it's a tax on added value. In essence it's a form of profit taxing already. If you buy $10 of flower (including VAT) and turn it into $15 of bread (including VAT), you effectively…
Not sure I'm a fan. Certainly very interesting and I'm happy to see a significant country run the experiment, it's going to be a useful data point. But at the end of the day, what does it solve? And what does it leave…
Yes it'll be helpful for you and your clients, until everyone does it, at which point hand-written becomes meaningless. At that point it's both no longer helpful for you to drive commercial results, but also it means…
> The dogmatism of putting all women to work for the last 50 years. > The problem of childcare cost is unsolvable with women at work, it's as simple as that. What kind of nonsense is this? One in six women never go on…
> The housing market is complex, but one point I would like to make, is that if there is now a (global?) opportunity to borrow capital, buy houses on a mass scale and rent them out, that implies to me that there is a…
Whether they promised to sell, or not sell, either way, they never promised equity. Not promising equity if you never sell can be a sensible decision, because otherwise you create expectations of a cash-out that never…
Damage wise it’s really hard to say. I personally feel I used to have quite a good memory, able to remember things I was told without being interested. Now I feel my memory is sharp with those items I find important to…