mcenkidu.bsky.social
Glaswegian Londoner, Statistician, Immunologist, Virologist, Data Scientist, Celtic Fan.
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Spain is in the EU. It cannot do trade deals on its own.
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Silly Gotcha question: BBC own More or Less looked into the relative costs this same week (10x in hotels). Real question would be : "Are you going to spend 1/10th of the cost by building your own capacity."
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"...but is it just possible that making people pay for their own health care means better cost control?"
Your words. And it's obviously exactly the opposite. Sick individuals have no leverage against huge lawyered up corporations.
"something else" - handwaving.
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No idea about economics - but in bioscience Europeans generally cant be bothered going to US conferences now.
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Lots of people don't 'lie' as such by that definition they just give the appropriate response with the best reward function.
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Sorry I didn't know you actually did study History at Oxford - that wasn't meant personally. Apologies.
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I'm getting 'The History Boys' Oxford entrance examination vibes.
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And I feel like he's been at it since before I could read. And I'm old.
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I'm fixated on the fact they hadn't bought any tickets yet - and went bust? Massive scam?
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Ironically one of The Culture Novels is called Surface Detail - which is clearly what Musk a very stupid man gets from them.
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The Culture is not dystopian.
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I'm sure their own methods are fine. But while interdisciplinary research can be amongst the most rewarding it opens you up to potential fraud as you often have to take on trust expertise of others. The two poles here are really economics and materials while AI is just trendy distraction.
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Northern Ireland seems to have done quite nicely being in and out when it suits them?
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good film..3 too many endings.. 10 mins too long.
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Is it maybe the one that Andor stole form the corpos on Morlana-4? He brought it to Aldhani and someone asked him who he got it from- "didn't get a name"
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I assumed after becoming your Secretary of Health he would be appraised of and stop spreading the most egregious falsehoods. Damning he still does it regardless.
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The refusal to grasp the bull by the horns is increasingly baffling
Farage left an open goal the other week by spouting off about how immigrants are somehow responsible for people struggling to see a GP...
...in a country where 46% of GPs were born overseas.
Literally no response from gov comms
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This sounds too low it was about £22Bn about 5 years ago. It also doesn't count accommodation (in Uni Halls) and spending elsewhere. It's much bigger than cars and pharma.
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I think??? he means he wants Conclave or Star Wars shot in Hollywood not Rome or Pinewood.
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Trump admin complains that foreign countries pay too little and are subsidised by US patients. Pharma is lobbying them that health agencies such as NICE in the UK stop doing value assessments that limit cost. Maybe an issue in tariff negotiations. Its ass backwards - the US needs to assess too.
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QALY is the key.
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It made me think of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a870...
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Oil traders don't believe it. Trust them.
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The earnings from foreign students in the UK are about >4 times greater (~£42bn, 2021, ONS) than exports of cars to the US(£9Bn, ONS, 2024).
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But surely that too is boosted by people buying goods early to buy and beat future tariffs. Next months figures may also be hard to interpret as Imports may crash more than sales fall.
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Both Marx and Engels often cited the Corn Laws negatively:
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
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I guess we are good cop..for now.
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I suspect we are still trying and perhaps failing to keep the US engaged with Ukraine.
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China would be daft to negotiate before shortages appear in the US. More leverage then. A deal can lead to instant financial turnaround for Chinese firms who get paid upfront. But ongoing supply chain issues after will teach a salutary lesson.
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US production of fruit and vegetables is not going to increase while you repress immigration. Actually it's crashing.
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Yes you produce most of your meat, grain, soya, dairy, corn syrup etc...but you import >50% of fruit and vegetables.
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True but if you invade Greenland you might become an enemy of Denmark!
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I think explaining the difference between bias and variance is the no1. concept that would improve public understanding of statistics and data.
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Or perhaps even better:
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
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OK got it:
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
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People love talking about Smoot Hawley - but The Corn Laws is the real deep cut.