Mike Murphy

Sudan civil war: Besieged el-Fasher city residents face starvation, UN warns El-Fasher, encircled by RSF paramilitary fighters, has not had food deliveries for over a year.

#BBCNews - Besieged #Sudan city residents face starvation, UN warns
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The WFP warning comes as local activists have already begun reporting deaths by starvation in el-Fasher, which is still home to about 300,000 people.

Apparently this needs saying, but if you comment, "I hope X gets sick/dies" I'm going to block you.

"as good as"

Maybe both!

Curious if people have takes on what this implies for all the data infrastructure capex getting built right now.

Random anon account informed me that I don't understand statistics and they are very much correct. I know how say bootstrapping works, but that doesn't mean my brain is convinced it isn't magic.

To be fair (in *this* case) I think the issue is with the journal, not the NYT.

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Avoiding Ultraprocessed Foods Might Double Weight Loss

Yesterday's study that should not have got past peer review is today's NYT piece

"Normally" is doing a lot of work here though. The issue isn't that raw milk is always contaminated, it's that it comes with a small risk of making you very sick.

Canadian startup Opalia scores deal with Dutch dairy company Hoogwegt to supply cultivated milk.

It is one of just a handful of global companies using bovine mammary cells to produce whole milk without the cow:

www.greenqueen.com.hk/opalia-lab-g...

Yum!

We call it...

Just an innocent man.

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Florida officials warn about risks of drinking raw milk after 21 people sickened Florida health officials say 21 people, including six children, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk, and seven were hospitalized.

The reason we pasteurize milk is to ensure it does not kill you.

How many crabs would be required to represent your current state?

The corollary to this is that climate discourse often *overestimates* the feasibility of socio-political policy choices relative to technological approaches.

This is correct.

The main strategic insight I've garnered from chess is that I can lose to small children.

Really don't know where to start with this...

It's a sample of 55 people, 12 of whom dropped out.

86% of them have tertiary education; 44% are nurses.

The authors stratify on multiple dimensions but don't control for them.

The only difference is in water mass, which is not in the balance table

Yao & Bellemare on mis-specifications, bad controls & publication bias in the literature on farm size and productivity

#EconSky

actuarially fair entropy insurance

value minus discounted

Let's do "Millenial Scottish Indie" again for $2000, Alex.

Beta Band - The Champion Versions Text is curled around a large central tiger image

1997 is the exact year the first EP of the three came out.

What is the current exchange rate of tungsten cubes to kidney beans?

Knowing true facts about the world seems like a pre-requisite for being a member of a polity

A live look at #EconSky

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checkmate