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Or riding in an uber?

The world runs on capital until it runs on votes, and sometimes bullets.

I think you could say it's inevitable because of the size of both the good AND bad opportunities. Agree with you and the original point of the article that there COULD be a better …

Not sure what being personable has to do with knowing how to use a computer.

Let me guess. You already own a home?

This is one of those extremely important points that we say every once in a while and then forget to emphasize. Opposing good ideas or supporting bad ideas because they somehow get…

Wow this is an excellent point and really undermines the article conclusions. We should always be looking at unadjusted scores as well as a whole series of adjusted scores with a v…

China burns more coal than the rest of the world combined.

It's not that we haven't thought up the statistical tools. The core theoretical tools you need are there. It's that gathering the data that you need is extremely difficult and time…

>If it's as pivotal as the article suggests Let's be honest, this is a longshot.

You'll get a lot of haters from the petite bourgeoisie tech landlord crowd here but this is a good idea. The more tools to help renters negotiate against the countless predatory la…

Me never wanting to live next door to my landlord caring a lot.

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The largest problems with most publications (in epi and in my opinion at least) is study design. Unfortunately, faulty study design or things like data cleaning is qualitative, nua…

AI tools are hopefully going to eat lots of manual scientific research. This article looks at error spotting, but you follow the path of getting better and better at error spotting…

Crypto is a technology. Pro-crypto vs anti-crypto is just as stupid as pro-computer vs anti-computers. We're seeing a moment now where the "pro-crypto" team is bifurcating (really …

This is exactly what the dems need. Currently we have two options. #1 status quo complacency which does things like congressional insider trading, identity politics, is completely …

In introductory epidemiology courses you'll usually get the Bradford Hill criteria in the first week or two, which gives a good foundation of determining public health causality. A…