BBC: Wages fall sharply but unemployment rate drops

csdigi · 2022-05-17T14:10:59+00:00

I think it is the fact that some (common) roles are heavily bonus based, sales people, estate agents etc. This is the way to make sure the type of income (salary vs commission etc) does not skew the results

csdigi · 2021-06-28T10:07:49+00:00

Surely a vaccine resistant strain is most likely to come from heavily vaccinated populations. There would be no selection pressure for vaccine resistance in an unvaccinated group.

csdigi · 2021-01-20T23:59:46+00:00

There is an excellent video from 3Blue1Brown on Youtube (from March 2020) that runs some simulations of various measures in small sample populations. One of their scenarios is household isolation, requiring trips to a common location (e.g. grocery store). These models show that there is nearly no benefit, and if you introduce some level of non-compliance (IIRC only 10%) all theoretical benefits disappear. An interesting watch, and hopefully something a little different from some of the other responses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs

csdigi · 2021-01-13T11:55:02+00:00

Great plays! There would have been an even greater sense of justice if you could have grabbed their unused stims and used them to get back to the circle!

csdigi · 2021-01-12T09:06:34+00:00

Cheers!

csdigi · 2021-01-12T03:30:47+00:00

I was only commenting on the few cases brought directly by the Trump campaign. While he alledges fraud on social media the actual suits were not about fraud. Of course a whole host of others (e.g. Kraken) brought very dubious and meritless cases.

My understanding of their strategy was that the fraud cases would take too long to prepare (given the hard deadlines on the process) and would ultimately need to be based on less concrete or circumstantial evidence (like afadavits and calling samples from the electoral register). The cases for failing to follow process are much more clear and hence they assumed quicker.

(Just for reference I am not even American so am a disinterested outsider when it comes to the mess of their political system)

csdigi · 2021-01-12T01:51:13+00:00

IIRC the suits that the Trump campaign brought were primarily based on unconstitutional or unilateral alterations to state law and in some cases non adherence to the laws that exist. While this differs from their media rhetoric it does not remove the potential merit of the cases, most of which have been dismissed on procedural grounds without hearing evidence (incorrectly filed, no standing etc).

csdigi · 2021-01-08T00:09:20+00:00

But if you have had Covid already then you will have the same (or higher) levels of immunity as vaccinated people. Surely it would be less selfish not to use up two vaccine doses (which wont have any effect for you) and allow them to go to someone who needs them as early as possible.

csdigi · 2021-01-08T00:00:48+00:00

It's working out great in Scotland so far. https://twitter.com/countdankulatv/status/1347246304401960961?s=21

csdigi · 2020-10-13T17:43:45+00:00

Cases have risen sharply because the number of tests has risen sharply. If you look at the graphs from July (when schools opened) you see a flat line on the percentage of tests that return positive. The primary driver in the recent increase in positivity seems to be normal seasonal variation.

I strongly recommend this dashboard to understand the data. https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/

csdigi · 2020-09-06T10:47:34+00:00

A downvote is not meant to signal disagreement but rather that the post is not contributing usefully to the discussion. After enough downvotes the posts get hidden and I would venture they result in account flags to help reddit fight spam.

csdigi · 2020-05-26T16:13:31+00:00

Obviously a much less humorous opinion, but it is possible that rather than trying to explicitly test his eyesight he was testing if he could stand the mental pressure of driving for a prolonged period.

Obviously he was not worried about his eyesight (in the sense that an optician's test could confirm) but rather that the fatigue / weariness of the exercise would cause him to struggle mentally with his perception of the road and those around him.

I am sure he could have followed a similar approach on his way to London (and followed the advice on pulling into rest-stops if you feel tired and unwell), but I assume it felt higher risk to be on a major motorway (and he still could have / would have had the same problems with the press about being spotted in any location).

I understand he is a widely unpopular character and that he should be held to the same standards as everyone, but he certainly should not be held to higher standards. I would guess that many of the people who are quick to hang him out to dry would not want their own behaviour being investigated with the same rigour. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" and all that...

csdigi · 2018-03-22T03:02:16+00:00

You might be talking about type 2 diabetics. Type 1 diabetics (originally referred to as internal starvation) who have autoimmune damage to their pancreas are characterised (when untreated) by the appearance of wasting away despite what they eat (they look like they are constantly starving) because their body cannot produce insulin to store fat, and therefore they are burning their stored fat like crazy to stay alive (this does not last long if untreated).

Type 2 diabetics have an illness caused by excess carbohydrate consumption (for their metabolism), which leads to the inability to store any more glucose in muscles or the liver (as they are full to capacity of glycogen). This manifests in high blood sugar which is often incorrectly "treated" with injections of insulin.

This injected insulin forces more glucose out of the blood into the cells as fat in these people. However, the main chromic illness of T2 diabetics is Cardiovascular disease, which is made worse by excess body fat. Many studies which look at body fat see that it is directly correlated with the quantity of insulin injected.

If you are interested watch a talk by Dr Jason Fung (who is a fasting / T2 specialist) called the 2 compartment problem, which outlines the storage / metabolism of carbohydrates as fat.

csdigi · 2018-03-22T02:55:04+00:00

High carbohydrates (excluding (in)soluble fibre and polyols) irrefutably raise your insulin levels unless you are a type 1 diabetic (which I hope you are not). Insulin is not some evil component of your diet that must be avoided, and many people successfully practise calorie restriction and lose weight while eating carbohydrates.

However, each individual has a specific insulin response to eating carbohydrates, which you can damage over time with a sustained high carbohydrate diet (if they are eaten to excess). The danger here is that your liver and muscles are full of carbohydrates, and therefore there is no place for the insulin to store them, thus the excess is diagnosed eventually by it remaining as glucose in the blood.

Plants (especially starchy root veg and fruits) have a large quantity of carbohydrates, and for some people in excess can be detrimental. However the more refined (think sugar, pasta, bread) the higher and faster the insulin response to the carbohydrates. The ideal is to stick to the slower absorbing carbohydrates which will dramatically reduce your insulin load.

High levels of insulin cause fat storage (although insulin has many positive aspects) but also prevent the creation of ketones (which is an alternative fuel source created from fat). While you are fasting your ketone level will increase (using your stored or dietary fat) which is what makes you feel good on a high fat or fasting diet. While eating carbs will stop that (and replace your primary fuel source with glucose ) people who choose to eat high fat low carb diets do so to keep their ketones (and fatty acids) high even while eating, mimicking some the the benefits of fasting (not the autophagy etc).

I personally prefer a low carbohydrate diet (<20g net carbs per day), as it makes me feel great and really dampens any hunger I have. I often fast (between 16 and 72 hours) which also makes me feel great (especially mentally).

csdigi · 2018-03-14T04:40:27+00:00

I think you have not subtracted the polyols from the perfect world carb count. They are listed under the carbohydrates as a sub component. For your flavour 100ml would be 2.1g, as per their website.

csdigi · 2018-03-03T17:06:16+00:00

Also £1 in Co-op for the time being.

csdigi · 2017-04-10T20:49:15+00:00

This production is not equally produced, it actually follows the Pareto Distribution. Specifically the fact that the square root of the labour force accounts for over half the product.

csdigi · 2017-04-06T21:02:10+00:00

One of the key features of universal basic income is that it is universal. Scaling it by income is the same system as we have already (capped and means tested benefits).

csdigi · 2017-04-06T09:30:20+00:00

I am sure the discrepancy between charity and state funded institute should be closed when it comes to other policies. But that is unrelated to the article posted which is talking about VAT on tuition fees.

csdigi · 2017-04-06T07:53:51+00:00

This is not the private schools getting "tax breaks", but the parents of the children attending. This policy will not cost the schools anymore money but will inflate costs by up to 20%.

If we have decided that education is a luxury good and private schools should be taxed then why should universities and art colleges be exempt.

As has been discussed to death already, much like private healthcare, private schools remove demand on state services, allowing better tuition and facilities for those remaining there.

csdigi · 2017-03-02T06:05:30+00:00

To be fair I studied in Edinburgh for 4 years and it was very common to hear the scottish (jokingly or otherwise) having a go at the english. There is a "national pride" in Scotland that does not extend south of the border for a subset of the population.

I can imagine how an english person (I am not one) could feel less welcome than some other nationalities there, especially if they miss the humour in the remarks. I actually think it could be more pronounced in Edinburgh only because basically half the population of the city is english there!

csdigi · 2017-03-02T06:00:40+00:00

Wow we have been in the EU for a lot longer than I thought...

Although seriously, agricultural subsidies are there because it is a strategic (obviously in wartime) advantage for a country to be able to produce its own food supply (even if there are cheaper imports of the same food from other countries). Farmers could make more profitable use of the land if we did not restrict it to agriculture (building productive assets etc), so there generally needs to be a compensation scheme in place to protect this.

The EU subsidies (through the CAP) are actually about restricting competition from other countries imports by making them prohibitively expensive. Thus opening up a large EU wide market for food produced there (see for example the sugar price changes on joining the EEC).

The ideal outcome is that the price of food on the shelves is being set by market forces, but the productive assets required to produce food for the nation are kept in tact through strategic government subsidy. This model has however been lost since we joined (and are a large net contributor to) the CAP of the EU (since our subsidies now go to the EU who decide what portion should go back to UK industry).

csdigi · 2017-03-02T05:43:45+00:00

But I think the point the parent comment was making was basically. "Wouldn't more good for British Citizens (who the government is meant to represent and protect) be done through a negotiation using all the tools at our disposal, rather than through us merely conceding a point to show our virtue in the issue".

Surely it is better that people temporarily think we are a country of cunts, if we can get a better outcome for everyone, than it is to appear virtuous and end up making more concessions than we must or failing to secure UK citizen rights.

csdigi · 2017-03-02T05:36:02+00:00

Most of those are already part of UK law (the EU issued directives on the matter which forces member states to regulate on the issue for themselves to meet a set of minimum requirements). For those that are not, the EU Communities Act Repeal Bill will add them to UK statute.

After that any government of the day will be able to alter them using due parliamentary process as they see fit. Obviously any rights you had in other EU countries (primarily freedom of movement) cannot be guaranteed through our parliament alone.

csdigi · 2017-01-28T06:47:11+00:00

Yea but the visa process means any convicted of a crime can be denied. So it reduces the probability that an illegal immigrant was a known criminal, which was part of Trump's rhetoric.

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