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But there's more than one stock market - there are so many around the world, surely them buying couldn't make that much of an impact?

I've never understood that argument. Can't they just sink more money into the stock market?

Taking into account reinvested dividends, it's given an annualised return of 3.5% in the past 20 years. Source:

https://dqydj.com/nikkei-return-calculator-dividend-reinvest...

My response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18309857

I think you're waving away my point. I was trying to say that people 1000 years ago disliked bears and wolves because people would die. Roads weren't safe. The problems with boars pale in significance to the problems bears and wolves caused. OP said "we're currently having large issue in Europe for having eradicated most boars' natural predators" - but these issues aren't larger than the problems that boars' natural predators caused, which would've been obvious to anyone who lived at a time when they still existed.

If we spoke to someone 1000 years ago and told them in the future we've eradicated bears and wolves, they'd think the boar problem would pale in insignificance to the triumph of removing bears and wolves.

I'm not saying extinction is a good thing, but contextually it sounds weird to talk about us suffering from large issues from eradicating those predators.

Unless I've read the figures wrong, a 100% estate tax could provide around 1/6th of government expenditure in the UK. This would be a meaningful amount of money.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-sta...

Nice bit of code.

Just to clarify, wouldn't you need to order by parent_id for the row["parent.id"] != results.last.id to work? Otherwise, say you're ordering by child.date_modified, you could end up with two identical parent_ids in your array?

You're right about the flood planning, I just checked. It's worth noting that the chapters in the Bible are likely modern too.

Abraham lived for 175 years, Moses suspiciously lived for exactly 120 years, some medieval commentators claim the genesis verse is a reference to him (although there is no other proof).

Many people who were born after the flood are listed in the Bible as living longer than 120 years. It's just not a very internally consistent book (probably because it has multiple authors).

Edit: I was wrong about the part below.

As for it being 120 years until the flood, if my memory serves me right, that passage is clearly after the flood (and as a reaction to the 'wickedness' before the flood).

Cached version for those under GDPR (the LA Times has seen it fit to block all GDPR countries from their website):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nQgta5-...

You'd need to get past the login screen to install a chroot, so not appropriate for OPs usecase. Some machines support modifying the bios, but it requires taking off the panels to unscrew the write protect screw.

Why would the legal risk ever be over?

What language was that? I'm sceptical they couldn't find a translator.

I appreciate the apology, but I don't feel ghosting on an online conversation should require an apology.

People have other lives, most often online discussions go way past their due date (I actually like the fact that HN doesn't give you a notification when somebody replies to your comment).

It was a good discussion though, the placebo effect is fascinating.

According to friends in the cryptography space and from a cursory reading of wikipedia, Telegram is a shitshow compared to Signal.

It's one thing not to trust Signal. It's another to recommend alternatives that are far worse.

I read it and I don't think it's worth reading - it struck me as the ravings of a disgruntled pseudo-intellectual.

Why every year? That seems excessive.

I'm another victim of Poe's law.

FanDuel founders = The founders of FanDuel

To receive no cash = will not receive any money

From sale to = as a result of the sale of (FanDuel)

PaddyPower Betfair = to the company Betfair, which itself is owned by PaddyPower

The founders of FanDuel will not receive any money as a result of the sale of FanDuel to the company Betfair, which itself is owned by PaddyPower.

> The power of theater-- of storytelling and the mind --to engage healing should form a third pillar of medicine along with Biochemistry and Surgery.

Let's say hypothetically that two patients received this 'theater treatment' - but one had an amazing actor and the other had a mediocre actor. The amazing actor convinced Patient A of the efficacy of the treatment better than Patient B.

If you believe that 'theater treatment' or the placebo effect is binary then it doesn't matter how good the actors are, and therefore they will get better at the same rate. If you believe 'theater treatment' isn't binary, then the more the person believes in the treatment, the faster their condition will improve. That's what I mean by binary vs a spectrum.

There's evidence that placebo treatments aren't binary - e.g. placebo injections work better than pills - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.....

Therefore, with reference to my original statement 'Presumably the placebo effect is stronger when patients do not realise they are getting placebos'. In both cases, the placebo effect will work, however it will work better if the theater is more convincing - and it's more convincing when they aren't told it's sugar pills.

Can you continue to try months? Surely getting your friends or family to help should help you narrow it down.

Can you remember who you would've been in touch with in 2007? For me, I would simply email my friends from that era, and ask them to find the earliest correspondence from that address. That should give you the month you opened your account.

Do you have studies to back up the claim that placebo is binary and not a spectrum?

Presumably the placebo effect is stronger when patients do not realise they are getting placebos.

Unfortunately my block of flats was built in 1902 and is on a narrow street.

Deliveries so often don't show up that I have given up - I now use collect+, amazon lockers or get items delivered to work.

I think you're understating this potential breach in law. This isn't a local law of some city in the world - it is a state law in the country these companies were founded in.

And it isn't some odd law that the company would easily forget about - FB and Google both get their revenue from advertising, and political advertising disclosure laws are pretty common. While Washington might have some stricter rules, I'd expect the companies to have a division working on compliance.

People who purchased internet advertising because they were sold on being able to narrowly target their niche demographic might now instead purchase radio ads.

They do marry other Jews or descendants of converts from other courts, they just don't marry converts or convert using their own courts. Therefore they are not a real endogamous population.

Also, the edict is only since 1937, they were accepting converts earlier than that. So fundamentally they aren't a success story - they haven't been doing this very long.

You disable the account, which means it isn't active and therefore any employee action won't affect the company.