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I think it's more important to look at all-cause mortality, because treatment can also harm you. In this case it's a fairly tight confidence interval: "The risk of death from any c…

Mostly agreed. I think everyone (including myself) was ready for a huge pop science book to be bad, and boosted the post based just on its title. In defense of the post, Walker's c…

Based on that last entry about the SF bus line, I would really love to see https://patrickcollison.com/slow

I always thought this was just price discrimination, extracting more surplus from readers by bifurcating them into two groups. Hardbacks are released first. Everyone who really wan…

Slide summary from the authors: https://bcerp.org/wp-content/uploads/Session3-AlexandraWhite...

For those interested in the actual policy: > [C]hecked-out books automatically will renew as many as 15 times, as long as no one else places a hold on them...Items will be marked a…

>nearly 40 percent of Americans, a Federal Reserve report found, are in such a financially precarious state that they say they would have trouble finding $400 for an unexpected exp…

> Not worried enough? Imagine an attacker who manipulates road signs in a way such that self-driving cars will break traffic rules. If someone was manipulating a bunch of road sign…

Is the headline figure here actually kind of small? | The IEA finds that global offshore wind capacity may increase 15-fold and attract around $1 trillion of > investment by 2040. …

In case it's useful I immediately got a dead link https://argdown.org/guide/a-first-example/ from this page https://argdown.org/guide/

Checklists are probably good but looking at the actual paper[0] I don't think we can conclude "a third" with much confidence. The mortality rate for surgeries was already declining…

Yep. Also this is all based on stock price data, so it could be that businesses typically hire the person that the market "expects"...which would predict zero alpha even if counter…

There's some cool evidence that even this system led to non-negligible "misvoting" > minor candidates' vote shares almost double when their names are adjacent to the names of major…

>Instacart and DoorDash...have figured out a clever way to use customer tips to lower their labor expenses. Isn't this how restaurants work..?

Worth mentioning that their summary measure of well-being is more comprehensive than what's typically asked of adults and probably does correlate with learning and development: "Da…

This is super cool although one thing that I would do differently--after running--is to grab a beer and act a little more casual. Alcohol can help you relax if you're an occasional…

Maybe, but the regression they use to argue this is pretty bonkers...they need to assume that once they control for income, population, education, and employment, the coefficient o…

Similar argument in this paper but with better methods and data--2 million LA middle schoolers! http://home.uchicago.edu/~npope/morning_afternoon.pdf