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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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The iPhone has an option to let phone calls ring if called twice in a row. I've told everyone that might possibly be calling me in an emergency to do so if they really need to get through. You can alternatively create an emergency list of numbers and let them ring through on the 1st attempt. I assume Android has something similar.

Spammers have learned this and will call twice. This got REALLY annoying when I was in work meetings and my phone would start ringing to tell me about my car's extended warranty.

They never seem to call me twice... I would hang up if they did.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Yeah at least for Watson!! Ew.

It's possible that nature doesn't conform to your particular culture's ideology. Science hasn't actually shown him to be wrong.

What did Watson do?

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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>The Nobel price in economics has much more prestige than two of the 'real' prices (Peace price and Literature price) Prestige is of course somewhat subjective (as is definitely the very last part of your comment) but I would strongly disagree. Those two prizes are highly regarded and their announcements are widely reported. I can for example tell you both laureates of those prizes for this year from the top of my he…

Would peer evaluation suffice? There is one peace prize winner criticized by other peace prize peers for her role in genocide. Then there is the nomination of President Obama less than two weeks in office. He received it after less than nine months in the office. The prize was seen more as criticism of Bush administration than awarding Obama. I nominate Samatha Power (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Dir…

Doesn't the premature nature and the ensuing criticism of the Obama peace prize show exactly how highly regarded the peace prize is? If the prize wasn't very prestigious people wouldn't care.

Now you could argue that those "wrong" nominations in the last year's have tarnished the peace prize "brand" so much that is no longer valuable. I would say that is in itself somewhat premature and since it's the most political prize there will always be controversy attached.

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How do HFT help retail investors? While I understand that HFT are not technically front running, it seems to me (as someone who is not that involved with finance) that functionally it's more or less the same outcome?

Smaller spreads. Plus I imagine that most retail investors don't make orders large enough that they need to be fulfilled at multiple exchanges, so HFT won't have the chance to get in front of retail.

Actually, HFT is willing to pay retail brokerages like Robinhood to get access to orders from retail investors BEFORE they hit the exchanges. This is how trades are offered for free.

Why? Because they know that they can buy those shares at some reported price then trade them on their own books then sell them at a price sufficiently different from the reported price that they make a profit.

This means that HFT is explicitly getting "in front of retail" and is actually trading at a price different from what retail hears about. That difference goes where? Oh right. Right into the pockets of HFT and out of the pockets of retail investors.

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I don't. I considered it, but I decided that the remote risk of there being a real emergency outweighs the even more remote risk that I'll get an unimportant call in the middle of the night. (If I ever did get an unimportant call in the middle of the night, the person on the other end would get an earful.)

I have a friend who calls me at 3am (or something equally ridiculous). I always answer in case he is in trouble, when he's just pissed I'm grateful it isn't anything serious and chat away with him.

you are a good friend to have.

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Because EM radiation follows the inverse square law, placing your phone 3-6 feet away from your bed should decrease the radiation enough to make such concerns moot. And if you place it on airplane mode and then turn on WiFi (assuming you have WiFi calling), then you both save battery and make radiation insignificant.

> Because EM radiation follows the inverse square law Unfortunately sound follows the inverse square law as well, and alarms don't wake me up when they are 6 feet away.

can you increase the volume of the alarm? it should be possible to make it loud enough so you can hear it across the room

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Because EM radiation follows the inverse square law, placing your phone 3-6 feet away from your bed should decrease the radiation enough to make such concerns moot. And if you place it on airplane mode and then turn on WiFi (assuming you have WiFi calling), then you both save battery and make radiation insignificant.

> Because EM radiation follows the inverse square law Unfortunately sound follows the inverse square law as well, and alarms don't wake me up when they are 6 feet away.

There should be no concern with your phone being 1 meter or less away from you. Even at full wattage, a phone transceiver will give off around 100mW, in most realistic scenarios it will be less than a tenth of that.

Even if you used the maximum band power of 1 watt, that isn't really enough to do anything. At rest your body will produce about 80 Watts of heat energy, which is a much higher frequency than what your phone gives off and hence has much more energy per quanta. Also keep in mind that 1 Watt is going in all directions, at best you cover half the hemisphere and even assuming phone manufacturers aren't optimizing for phones to radiate away because that gives better reception at lower power, you'd be getting half a watt of energy from a device going maximum transmit power. A standard phone will likely give you less than 5mW of energy dosage.

The most that your phone can do is warm up your ear a bit if you put it under your pillow. By an amount that is likely to be not measurable with modern equipment.

And before noting about ionizing radiation; phones aren't high enough frequency or power to really do that at any appreciable level. Only high frequencies are capable of ionizing since it requires an atom receiving a certain amount of energy per quantum, and the energy per quantum is only related to the frequency, not the transmit power.

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We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.

Oh yeah, try that and I'm dropping any business relationship with you that I have the next morning. Or if I don't, then I'll pay a visit to the local office of our Office of Competition and Customer Protection.

What business relationship? The car warranty spammers aren't working for your car manufacturer.

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> mobile operator or my bank Yeah no, these companies should NEVER be calling people, period. It's way to easy to phish people for information by calling them and claiming to be their bank. Too many people will fall for it: "Hi, this is SomeDude from Bank of America, and we noticed some suspicious activity on your account. Before we go further I would just like to confirm your identity. Could you please provide your…

Yeah no Which is it? Banks should adopt a policy of only interacting with customers physically, via their web interface with a login, official mobile app, or by the user calling the bank's official, publicized number. Never by calling the user. You either don't travel, don't travel for very long, or don't travel anywhere interesting. I've had several experiences over the years where using a credit card in a country I…

Maybe things are different where you travel but I've travelled to many countries and I don't think my SIM card from the previous country has ever worked in the next one. Even if it did, I wouldn't dare talk to anyone on it in case of some exorbitant roaming charge.

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Well, not just for boys, the two winners in Chemistry this year were female.

Two things: 1. At 6% women—and, therefore, 94% men—I would say the winners' pool is egregiously sexist. 2. An "old boys' club" is an idiomatic expression referring to exclusive, undemocratic and even unmeritocratic social circles. Not, necessarily, literal "boys." So, in light of those two premises, I don't feel your objections carry any legitimate weight.

I would say that the noble price has been given out for a long time, if recent rule changes lead to more female winners, then this would not be visible in absolute percentages of all winners. By the definition of "more men than women/nb won the price" it would continue to be sexist even if the exclusively nominated women for several years in a row.
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