MollieTheMare
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MollieTheMare
27d ago
Nobody benefits personally from running fair courts, or from building roads.
Do you mean that people do benefit personally from having fair courts and roads? The key question to if something should be state funded is not "is it beneficial," to be funded by tax dollars something should be a public good, as in non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Generaly the courts are supposed to be designed this way. Roads on the other-had depend on the type of road. Roads can be excludable, see toll roads. Probably most interstate and express roads should be paid by user fees that full capture the externalities of those roads. So some set of roads are both beneficial and monetizable. They can "make doallars."
Knowledge as derived from fundamental research can be non-excludable and non-rivalrous, but some not-insubstantial fraction of useful knowledge is excludable.
This can be done in two ways. First, you can patent some knowledge. Much of the development of GLP-1 agonists from Gila monster venom was funded by Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, etc. If the drug companies are going to be granted a monopoly on the beneficial results of this type of research they ought to pay for all of this class of research. It makes no sense for the tax payer to pay for the research and then grant a pharmaceutical company the exclusive rights to capture all the benefits of the research.
Second, you can keep knowledge as a trade secret. If @Jesweez research actually has "...direct relevance for fire risk forecasting..." then the actuarial teams at the insurance companies should be willing to pay him for it. If it's not something that can actually be incorporated into a risk model then it does not actually have "direct relevance," it has some sort of hypothetical indirect potential relevance. Alternatively, if it can actually give you an edge understanding where drought is affecting most, you should be able to sell it to a hedge fund trading agricultural futures. Or an industry consortium or publication in the vein of the some sort of new Old Farmer's Almanac.
There is probably some small set of research that is useful, novel, can't be patented, and can't be sold as a proprietary model. It is a vanishingly small fraction of total federal research funding though.
MollieTheMare
29d ago
I suppose given that you are in the UK right now, I'll accept NATO nomenclature for caliber. There is something decidedly transatlantic about using millimeter based measurements to specify caliber over US customary units though.
I'll have to insist on you describing all charge sizes in the mass unit of grains before naturalizing to the US. Of course actually referring to the volume of a some particular brand of dipper and powder you used and not the actual mass.
I fucking love guns, I want to turn a boar into pink mist with .50 bmg
I know you're being hyperbolic, but if you want to pass for being fully assimilated into American gun culture you have to be more nuanced than this. Full auto and .50 BMG are the types of things you do as a rental on a weekend to Nevada. You use them to obliterate a junk car or washing machine. Even with physician money it's just to impractical to do all the time. You'll almost never see this kind of thing at a normal range in the US.
More Platonicly American methods of hunting hogs:
- Still hunting with a lever action rifle chambered in something like a .44 Remington Magnum
- Night hunting with night vision optics on an AR platform, .223 Remington
- Hunting from a helicopter with "Fortunate Son" playing in the background, probably .223 Remington again
I don't consider hog hunting to be the most American form of hunting though. For me the form of hunting that is most characteristic of the American ethos is elk hunting. Probably with something like a .300 Winchester Magnum or one of the other big 30's.
MollieTheMare
29d ago
The concrete-and-steel casks themselves
Shouldn't these casks also have negative value, at least he occupied ones? Even if you empty them, presumably the cask has been neutron activated and would have to be disposed of as low-level waste. Or is the value positive, because if you transfer the waste out you could reuse the cask for new waste?
MollieTheMare
30d ago
I believe the "standard" practice in this situation is to use a movable chicken coup called a chicken tractor. You move the tractor from spot to spot in the yard as the chickens exhaust the forage the tractor is over. Feed would still likely be needed, though less. This is what @orthoxerox was referencing with the need for a movable enclosure.
The eggs may not count as "free range" if the chickens are raised this way, but it's arguably more humane than exposing them to predation. Chickens are a type of roosting fowl and tend to exhibit less stress if they have a place to safely roost at all times. As @SteveAgain mentioned modern chickens were bred from birds that can fly into tree tops to roost, it seems this instinct isn't completely gone with modern breeds, they just can't make it to tree tops.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
I'm pretty sure if you do a statistical analysis of the primary themes of Taylor Swift singles discography the majority are not breakup songs. But she has produced a huge amount of stuff that gets played on Hot 100 type radio/streaming, so it's easy to forget some. For example "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "All Too Well" are explicitly breakup songs about "bad" former lovers. They both got substantial air play and feature in the Eras Tour set-list. The set-list is a bit over three hours so the statement:
you'll usually hear one within the hour
is probably true. Assuming the set list is representative of what gets played on a all Taylor all the time stream, and I have forgotten at least one of her breakup songs.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Anyone with even moderately sound epistemics on the issue should know that, while sexual assault is very common and supposedly only 5% of accusations are false (assuming that statistic I've heard thrown around is even true), a women who presents like King does is not >95% likely to be telling the truth.
I did do some digging on this in the Mattress Girl era.
The low single digit "false report" number (3-8%) is using a strict definition of false report. In this definition only police reports that have substantial evidence to show they are false are counted. It only includes reports that are wholly fabricated, e.g. someone accuses another that was not even in the same state at the time. The studies finding very low numbers exclude unsubstantiated accusations, as well as sometimes excluding partial recantations and baseless accusations. Respectively defined as cases where there is insufficient evidence to show a crime occurred, a case where the criminal aspect of the incident is recanted but material aspects of the case did occur, and cases where the reporter views the incident as assault but does not meet the legal definition of a crime. So assuming a police report was actually filed in this case, it would probably fall into the partial recantation category and would not "count" in the most strict measurements of false report.
The most extreme 3% is a lower bound on the prevalence of false police reports. It says nothing about the true number, the upper bound, or the lower bound on all accusations. Police reports making up only a fraction of total assault accusations. The "discredited" 40+% numbers you might see quoted in parts of the internet use the detectives opinion on the case. The detectives opinion does not match the strict definition of false report, so these conflicting numbers are typically excluded form meta and review papers. Those papers are (in some sense) right to say the methodology of the 40+% studies are flawed. My main objection is that they are flawed in precisely the same way as the 3% papers. You do not have a ground truth to base your estimate on. If you had some easy high certainty method of determining if a report was true or false—there wouldn't be any fear of a false accusations and there wouldn't be any fear of not being believed as a victim.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Glad your getting better sleep. It could still be a bunch of things, as getting better sleep is just a virtuous feedback cycle on its own.
I'm still going going to count this a win for the Wisdom of the Motte over Claude. Maybe we still have a purpose.
I'm also still baffled by the minuscule amounts of potassium in typical sports drinks and daily multivitamins. People think they are fully covered by supplementation, but the most popular sports drinks and daily multivitamins cover like 2% of adequate intake per serving. It's not even like potassium is expensive.
I think this was very much true in the past. Net income rather than revenue circa 2021:
Net profit reached a quarterly record of $438 million on a GAAP basis, and the company recorded $518 million in revenue from sales of regulatory credits during the period.
So in the early part of the 2020's, more than all the net profit was driven by credits.
But with a current TTM PE Ratio over 100, I assume >90% of the "value" of the company is in future expectations.
Edit: The "until recently" is sort of load bearing though. The 2024 annual report gives $2.8B in regulatory credits, $97.7B total revenue, $7.2B net income on a GAAP basis. So single digit portion of revenue but >1/3 of the net profit last year.
Q-angle is the angle the quad meets the knee, but I was more generally trying to suggest that it's (basically) impossible for a machine to have same number of degrees of freedom as your leg. If you sit in a neutral hip position, then extend your leg, your foot will generally not track straight in front of you. Or more precisely, the arc the contact point with your tibia traces out will not be on a curve exactly parallel to the sagittal plane. On a unilateral machine were you can only adjust how far forward you sit and the distance of the shin pad, they should try set the pivot so it is coaxial with the pivot of of the average users knee. This can't be aligned for everyone because you have only two degrees of freedom for adjustment and (at least) 4 degrees of freedom for the pivot axis. Twoish translational and twoish rotational.
For sleeves and wraps I would guess the majority of the beneficial effect is proprioceptive. Some people have an easier time feeling where their knee is in space if something is touching it, others can feel the tracking better if there is nothing "interfering" with it. I do not think it is generally good to rely on supportive equipment to hold your body together.
Yes, I was talking about pounds. I personally think isolated quad training is unnecessary if you are squatting less than 1.5x bw (that is 1+1.5x assuming not over fat male). Fortunately? At the weights you quoted the pain will likely go away if you get stronger. Both from a supporting musculature and kenisthetic awareness perspective. I agree with @Boarchariot, for your strength levels goblet squats are a good option. Unless you are a very light person, body weight might be too much for a first warmup for now and reverse sled pulls might be a good general warmup. If using a bike for general warm up, make sure your seat is high enough you can almost lock out your leg, and you are being careful with knee tracking through the whole cycle. You might also consider step-ups, really focusing on controlling your knee tracking and the eccentric, if split squats are just too awkward.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
For me the reasons to get the coupe over the convertible:
- I don't want to have to devote a precious garage space to protecting the soft top
- Not being able to leave anything in the car when out
- The superior performance from the rigidity of the coupe
- IRL I'll hardly ever drive with the top down. Your girl will think it's fun for 5 minutes, then be annoyed her hair is all tangled.
- Generally not having to worry about leaks or a surprise rain storm destroying the interior of my car
- No Greg, I can't drive us all to lunch again. I have the coupe today. We'll have to put miles on your leased Infinity if you want to go to lunch.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Unfortunately, really hard to tell if it's a technique issue without seeing it in person. If you can squat bodyweight (+0 lbs), that would be what I think is most probable though.
I generally don't think leg extensions are warranted if you are not very advanced, like squatting bodyweight + 1.5x bodyweight or even 1+2x. Even then I think there are better quad exercises. The problem with leg extensions is that even if the center of rotation starts aligned, there is only exactly one Q-angle where the rotation of the knee will be exactly aligned with that of the machine. So the probability that your leg has exactly the right Q-angle is roughly 0.
If it is just a matter of the muscularity supporting the knee, very gradually working up from the point where you can squat with no pain works for some reasonable majority of people. Make sure to be very careful with knee tracking, avoid valgus collapse, and engage your abductors and gluteus to hold hip external rotation. Try different heal heights, generally the higher-bar you squat the move vertical the torso, the higher the heel required. You might also find some other variation does not cause pain. I prefer something where you have control over all the degrees of freedom of the knee tracking. Maybe squatting to a box or front squats. Smith machine, hack squats, and belt squats might be okay, but still force you to follow the path of the machine rather than the path that avoid the pain point. Sissy squats are amazing for knee health, but pretty advanced to do in free space.
Sometimes it's just a matter of a bit of warmth and pressure. ACE bandage weight knee wraps or sleeves should be enough. Heavy power-lifting weight versions are probably overkill, and shouldn't be needed to avoid pain. Don't be afraid of a lot of volume with light weights to warm up. Something like 10xbw, 20xbw, 12x45, 5x95, 2x135, 1x185, 1x225, 1x275, 315 working weight. Yes it does take forever, but you can probably eventually take bigger jumps once you find a squat pattern that doesn't cause pain.
With any luck your leverages will change as you train and one day you will wake up and it won't be a problem anymore. If it's not a trivial problem an x-ray probably won't be able to see it either.
A probability density function does not have to be transcendental to be able to integrate for a cumulative probability. I have no way of knowing what convention you use for work, and there might be good reasons to use a left hand rule numerical integration for your application, but there is nothing magically more correct about a left hand rule integration. Probability of death is strictly increasing by the time you reach 78. If you use the left hand rule to integrate over a region where a function is monotonically increasing, you will systematically underestimate the area under the curve.
With respect to the Social Security Actuarial Life Tables, it is in fact meaningful to talk about regions between nodes. The numbers in the table are not raw population deaths. In fact part of the methodology for producing the table in the first place is reconciling five year central death rates and exact age one year probabilities. Once you have meaningful nodes 365 days apart you are not dealing with a sampling problem if you want to estimate a value at 301 days—you are dealing with an interpolation problem. They do anticipate people using the table for intra-node calculation. From the methodology notes:
Although a life table does not give mortality at non-integral ages or for non-integral durations, as can be obtained from a mathematical formula, acceptable methods for estimating such values are well known.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
I guess the entire difference is down to if you should index by 78 or 79 then. The table is on "Exact age," so I guess @netstack was right to use 79. He even rounded down from there to "about 24%" from 24.6%, so it probably is about right interpolating. As the comments above point out, additional factors probably are more important at that level of accuracy already though.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
I was also surprised the number was that large, but also got 24.6% both taking the ratio of "Number of lives" and the complement of the product of the complement "Death probabilities."
Interestingly, in the notes they include cause-specific ultimate rates of reduction, so you could exclude the violence category if you are only considering health related causes.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
Could you just choose to do it?
This is what confuses me about this whole thread. I feel like if went through a year long dry spell I could, more-or-less, shag anything. Strong physical attraction would not at all be a requirement in that case. Assuming no drastic shift in libido on my part, no extreme physical deformities, not morbidly obese, no disturbing fetish stuff. Is it possible that the porn use is actually excessive, and it's killing the ability to perform when it's time to get it on IRL? It seems like it's too late now, but what would have happened if OP just initiated at month 6, then closed their eyes and though of "England"? Is that less healthy than relying on porn 100%?
I've had a Totes 731 Stormbeater Golf Umbrella for more than a decade now. Literally caught it on the fly while riding my bike. It's one of those things where you hand just goes up to protect your face, then you realize you caught it and wish it was on video so people would believe it actually happened.
As you might surmise from the fact that it was flying free in a storm, the venting on large umbrellas does not make them perfectly wind proof. I would say that Beaufort 6 still holds "umbrellas used with difficulty." It has a fiberglass or carbon-fiber shaft, I'm not aware of any cane handle umbrellas that have a fiber reinforced shaft. Hope you can find one if that's a hard requirement, but they are pretty common on "golf" umbrellas. I think the canopy arms are also fiber-reinforced plastic on the 731. The tip is hollow plastic, and showing through after a roommate "borrowed" it without asking, and then decided to use it as a walking stick after the rain stopped.
The durability for regular use I wouldn't know, despite it being 15+ years old. I essentially only use it if an elderly relative is visiting and I am walking them to the car in the rain. My wife would normally hold her own umbrella or wear an overcoat. I guess I might go out and greet her with the mega-umbrella if she comes home and was not expecting rain. What is the etiquette now amongst the youths, do men still shelter their dates under a shared umbrella? Or is this just an entry way umbrella you would grab if you need to take the dog for a walk?
Edit: After looking around a bit I think this might be the same umbrella with a traditional handle: https://drivegoods.com/products/totes-jumbo-umbrella I don't see that model on the Totes' website, so it might not be in production anymore though.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
That was actually a very helpful analogy. I think?
So in a healthy relationship, you might start the game throwing 96. Coach will leave you in in the 8th, throwing in the high 80s, so you can get the shutout. But in OPs case he's getting pulled in the third because he made the start hanging balls over the plate, and has loaded the bases with zero outs.
I think I still don't understand exactly what slope of decline is the normal range, but in this case I guess it doesn't matter because the starting intercept is zero.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
Marriage without physical attraction in that age bracket seems pretty miserable - don't do it.
I'd be interested if you expand on this a bit. Like OP is early 40's and, uh GF?, is late 30's. At what point is it normal for sex drive to appreciably decline. Somehow I thought that 45 is early, but not supper early, for menopause to begin.
I would have thought that there are healthy marriages, where both people have taken good care of themselves and look good for their age, but neither is close to their objective peak physical attractiveness. Is the expectation that experience and comfort with self/partner makes up for not being as young and hot? That the attractiveness is found in the intimacy of knowing your partner so well.
Surely it's unreasonable to expect your partner to be as physically attractive, with respect to sexual intimacy, as she approaches 40 then when she was 24. What's reasonable to expect? Do you need like > 80% physically attraction relative to the hottest young thing, or just some irreducible quantum of attraction that you share with each other?
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
If you are worried about the fat macros from using butter, cooking oil-spray (like PAM) also work well for frying eggs in cast iron.
IMO it does work better than just vegetable oil but not quite as well as butter. It's also much much less tasty than using butter. The ones in the pressurized cans seem to work better than the pump versions. I'm not too worried about the propellant as the amount used per serving is minuscule. For daily eggs one can lasts me 6 month to a year. The classic version works the best, olive oil version works well but you have to be careful of the smoke point using in cast iron, the coconut oil version works well as long as it's above 74° F in your kitchen but has a hard time aerosolising otherwise.
If using cooking spray to conserve calories, go easy on how long you spray. One serving is something like 1/4 of a second. It's supposed to be ~1g fat per second spray.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
Nutritional deficiency was more or less also my instinct when I read the description. The mechanism I had envisioned is:
- Sweating + some diuresis triggers a thirst response
- OP reacts by consuming a bunch of sodium and water, thus the night time need to pee
- The increased urination flushes other critical minerals (including Iron which I failed to mention)
- Deficiency in blood mineral concentration increases thirst, return to 2.
I also agree that blood-work could be helpful here, but it would still be hard to interpret. Finding a physician who can properly interpret the results usually requires a specialist, and even that is hit-or-miss.
Even with a multi-vitamin, do you you think separate supplementation for each under covered nutrient with individual or a multi-mineral would also be advisable? My recollection is most common multi-vitamins still do not come close to even 50% RDA on several important minerals (including iron and potassium). Blanketing the spectrum does seem a lot easier than accurate tracking, but also makes it really hard to isolate variables.
Assuming, you do need supplements in addition to the multi, how important is nutrient timing in your opinion? For example if OP is supplementing vitamin D, calcium, and iron. How strong is the synergistic effect of D+calcium and how strong is the antagonistic effect of calcium+iron?
I was also thinking last night that perhaps the need to supplement magnesium in the first place is already mostly explanatory. OP didn't mention which type of magnesium supplement they was using. Of the zillion options which do you think is best for bio-availability, the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier, and sleep, Magnesium L-Threonate? Is it possible the version OP is using is just barely available enough to affect RLS, but not available enough at the brain? On timing, most recommendations are to take magnesium at night for sleep. In my personal experience if I take magnesium right before bed I end up with crazy dreams. With my last big meal of the day, or even at breakfast, tends to work better for me.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
tried adding more electrolytes (i.e. Gatorade), but I don't know what the hell I'm doing or what I'm measuring. In any case, I eat a lot of salt as is and I didn't notice any difference when adding additional electrolytes in my diet.
Literally Gatorade? Despite the advertising, the "electrolytes" in Gatorade are mostly sodium. One potato has ~8x the potassium of a 20 oz Gatorade, IIRC. Some of your symptoms are consistent with your electrolytes being completely wack. Slightly supported by the mentioned magnesium supplementation combined with high sodium, but no mention of potassium, phosphorus, or calcium.
Maybe try tracking micro-nutrients in cronometer, and seeing if you are hitting adequate intake for everything? It's hard to get enough potassium, especially at higher sodium intakes since the ratio of potassium and sodium also matters.
I also agree with @jeroboam time of day for physical activity does tend to matter, though more for some people than others. It's also likely that you need to allocate more time to adequately recover if intensity or volume is high. I used to live with a very high level athlete, it wasn't uncommon for him to allocate like 10+ hours for bed. You can get away with a lot less if you are not training hard, other stressors are low, or if it's a short stint but some people just naturally need more sleep time.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
Yes, your examples are correct. At least according to the date package I used:
> library(lubridate)
> all(c(ymd('1903-07-26') - ymd('1896-07-26') == 2555,
+ ymd('1911-01-19') - ymd('1904-01-19') == 2557,
+ ymd('1905-01-19') - ymd('1904-01-19') == 366,
+ ymd('1905-07-26') - ymd('1904-07-26') == 365))
[1] TRUE
Checks out in lubridate, which I'm very confident works back until at least Friday 15 October 1582. I think it might even work before that, but would have to do a bunch of digging to be 100% sure what the first epoch it can check is.
You also picked the golden era where the Gregorian calendar reformations were locked in, but you don't even have to deal with leap seconds, UT1, UTC, ... etc if you want periods down to the second.
Depending on how your schedule works out, breaking it up into several short sessions might even be better for you.
To supplement that I would add The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40. It's a bit like Practical Programing, but for the 40+ crowd. I would also recommend some type pulling, probably chins or pull-ups, to make it a big five.
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