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New comment by chiaro in "What Happens to the Body on No Sleep"

chiaro — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 04:09:09 +0000

Another thing not mentioned, which I'd noticed recently after a couple of very poor nights, was feeling very dehydrated. Drinking a lot of water didn't seem to help, and it all went straight through. Some surface level research indicated that it could be a lack of vasopressin, so it makes me wonder if taking a small amount of desmopressin (with sufficient hydration electrolytes) would help take the unpleasant edge off the next day.

New comment by chiaro in "Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few"

chiaro — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 05:10:01 +0000

Or the classic least norwegian squares method of regression in the WSJ

http://kieranhealy.org/files/misc/laffer.png

New comment by chiaro in "Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level"

chiaro — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 03:20:13 +0000

Common law rests heavily on stare decisis. The precedent set in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth is not likely to be overturned, as far as free political speech and organisation goes.

New comment by chiaro in "‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention"

chiaro — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:40:24 +0000

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate

they don't

New comment by chiaro in "Do We Need Central Banks? (2017)"

chiaro — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:48:08 +0000

if ME&S represents the sum of Austrian economics, then it has little hope indeed.

New comment by chiaro in "Do We Need Central Banks? (2017)"

chiaro — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:39:34 +0000

Central banking evolved as a series of hotfixes for various macroeconomic edge-cases. Bank runs is one. Wildly varying inflation rates is another.

New comment by chiaro in "America’s Misguided War on Childhood Lead Exposures"

chiaro — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:39:12 +0000

Another similar epidemic to lead poisoning we've been sleeping on is lithium deficiency. Look at the quantum of improvement on suicide and all kinds of violent crime, including rape and murder per this study[1]. Image of results table:

https://imgur.com/p6p886e

It's hard not to conclude that it's immoral to not chuck lithium in the water supply, if the natural variance is associated with a doubling of murder. The study has been replicated on suicide in Japan[2] and on Dementia in Denmark[3].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19407280

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28832877

New comment by chiaro in "Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge"

chiaro — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 04:52:31 +0000

I've already seen that interview. How people behave behind closed doors is a more trustworthy guide to their sympathies.

New comment by chiaro in "Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge"

chiaro — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 04:25:55 +0000

The leaked emails documenting his correspondence with various alt-right figureheads paints a different picture.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...

New comment by chiaro in "[dead]"

chiaro — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:57:13 +0000

David Brooks has a good piece of commentary here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/east-germany-immi...

Every few years I try to write a column staking out a reasonable middle ground on immigration. After all, most big, important issues are clashes in which both sides have a piece of the truth.

The case for restricting immigration seems superficially plausible. Over the last several decades we’ve conducted a potentially reckless experiment. The number of foreign-born Americans is at record highs, straining national cohesion, raising distrust. Maybe America should take a pause, as we did in the 1920s. After all, that pause seemed to produce the cohesive America of the 1940s that won the war and rose to pre-eminence.

Every few years I try to write this moderate column. And every few years I fail. That’s because when you wade into the evidence you find that the case for restricting immigration is pathetically weak. The only people who have less actual data on their side are the people who deny climate change.

New comment by chiaro in "The U.S. will impose duties on solar equipment and washing machines made abroad"

chiaro — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:22:12 +0000

It's a matter of proportion. Tariffs are some of the most destructive and distortionary taxes you could implement. The costs will be borne by many, and the benefits, a select few.

New comment by chiaro in "The U.S. will impose duties on solar equipment and washing machines made abroad"

chiaro — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:20:00 +0000

Utterly stupid. Interesting to see if this realignment is a long term thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%E2%80%93closed_political_...

New comment by chiaro in "California has the highest poverty rate in the USA"

chiaro — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 22:19:08 +0000

These groups are there because in California they can capture a larger portion of the effects of trickle-down than in North Carolina, Texas, or New York; and because the state-provided safety net, average people's compassion, and availability of human connections and capital allows them a small, but more meaningful chance of breaking out of the poverty trap.

This is correct. Warm winters is also a significant pull-factor.

New comment by chiaro in "SAFE Network: a decentralized data storage and communications network"

chiaro — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 02:15:33 +0000

Sounds like the killer app for child pornography.

New comment by chiaro in "Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador"

chiaro — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 02:34:49 +0000

Since Russia's relevant interests are in destablising the Atlantic alliance and undermining the European Union, elevating the US- and EU-critical Corbyn over more reasonable elements in Labour is exactly what one would expect.

New comment by chiaro in "Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador"

chiaro — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 02:29:57 +0000

Nah, most substantial leaks in recent years have avoided wikileaks and gone straight to reputable publishers, such as the panama papers team, so as not to be tarnished by perceptions of bias or recklessness.

New comment by chiaro in "Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador"

chiaro — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:47:41 +0000

The reasons why Ecuador took Assange in in the first place no longer make much sense. Under Correa, there were a number of tensions with the US that were looming large in Ecuadorian political landscape following a default in 08. By taking in Assange, Correa could both shore up anti-US sentiments at home that were mounting in criticism over an oil export deal, and get a bargaining chip to boot if he needed it. With Correa out of the picture and China stepping in and propping up exports, this makes little sense, and Assange's value as a bargaining chip is dubious to a Trump admin.

Back when Wikileaks had a better reputation, it also helped affray Correa's attacks on free speech at home. Now that Assange's reputation is in the gutter, he's only a liability to Ecuador.

New comment by chiaro in "The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds"

chiaro — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:03:37 +0000

>Educators are completely failing the current generation and are stressed out about 'digital distractions' because they know they can't compete.

This is practically a conspiracy theory. There are definitely old teachers that frown on the value of technology, but this is because they're old, not because they're teachers and somehow have a financial incentive to believe otherwise.

New comment by chiaro in "In interviews with rapists, student pursues not-so-simple question: why?"

chiaro — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 03:11:02 +0000

>Given that the WaPo article says that many of them had only a third or fourth grade education, this strikes me as possibly just making fun of people with disabilities.

When the topic is rape, you always go into these comments expecting some kind of reflexive criticism or minimisation but this is honestly one of the most bizarre manifestations of that yet.

New comment by chiaro in "Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis? (2016)"

chiaro — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 02:31:21 +0000

None of the troubled firms were horizontally integrated in the way the gs would have prevented.