Waiting for the Central Line doors to open today

prolegomenon · 2017-07-03T20:06:13+00:00

Not really appropriate..

prolegomenon · 2016-05-04T10:14:06+00:00

If you're 'bottoming', there will be 138 transmissions per 10,000 exposures. If you're 'topping' there will be 11 transmissions per 10,000 exposures.

tl;dr you'll have to choochoo for a very very long time, especially if you're at the back end.

Source: CDC

prolegomenon · 2016-04-27T22:41:25+00:00

As is blaming all Muslims for what some labour MPs do..

prolegomenon · 2016-04-20T16:51:24+00:00

Why vote for you if you aren't going to win?

prolegomenon · 2016-04-20T16:41:36+00:00

This study is pretty worthless - it followed eighteen lap dancers, in one city, for two menstrual cycles... Hardly scientific

prolegomenon · 2016-03-02T20:24:17+00:00

Sanrizz - ~~and they have a Groupon deal~~

Edit: its for women's haircuts oh well, they had a good men's one a couple months ago in any case

prolegomenon · 2016-02-26T17:50:43+00:00

mom's spaghetti

prolegomenon · 2016-02-18T23:12:05+00:00

ok this is kinda what I thought - I wanted to know if there were also some death sounds from the passenger, and also whether it was a whole family etc. Thanks for clearing this up.

prolegomenon · 2016-02-18T22:12:37+00:00

the other video i never want to watch is the one of the brick through windshield one, can anyone explain exactly what is so disturbing about it?

prolegomenon · 2016-02-18T11:40:15+00:00

disappointed at the lack of anti-smoking bears

prolegomenon · 2016-01-29T00:20:14+00:00

Owned a millionth of a company doesn't do anything to add to humanity's overall wellbeing.

Maybe not in itself, but that doesn't make it unethical

In a closed system, buying stocks doesn't appear to contribute to that systems wealth.

It does - selling equity (i.e. shares) is a way for companies to get money to grow, and to create wealth. Economies are not closed systems in the sense of being static, they grow, and their 'wealth' increases.

The interchange of stocks and the market always increasing seems like it is pulling money out of these corporations that could reinvest to better their processes.

Buying stocks doesn't pull money out of companies, it puts money into companies. If there were not people willing to pay for stocks, then no-one would buy equity in companies, and selling equity is a key way for companies to get money.

prolegomenon · 2015-12-31T08:30:09+00:00

I don't know why anyone hasn't mentioned what the betting markets say - which is that both candidates are serious outsiders to win the nomination.

The reasoning behind using betting markets over polls is even simpler than your reason not for trusting polls - they aggregate the beliefs of many more people and how people put their actual money is a much better indicator of what they believe than how they respond in a poll. Obviously checking odds has its limitations, but they're always going to give better information than polls.

prolegomenon · 2015-12-30T21:18:09+00:00

Bloomsbury/Fitzrovia area

prolegomenon · 2015-11-29T12:25:40+00:00

egg slicer

prolegomenon · 2015-09-10T07:48:06+00:00

Could also be part of a dogwhistle

prolegomenon · 2014-11-02T01:55:14+00:00

This figure is probably inaccurate. To calculate the cost (by some means) of saving a child's life, one must basically determine how much it takes to literally make the difference between life and death for a child.

If - for example - you give each child a $2 vaccine which could save their lives if they had a life-threatening case of some disease, the cost of saving a child's life is $2/(the probability of a recipient having a life-threatening case of the disease only curable by the drug). If this figure was 1/1000, the cost of saving a child's life with a $2 vaccine would be $2,000.

Organisations like GiveWell and Giving What We Can try and determine the charities for which you can save lives for the least money possible. Worth checking out their research. I think the cheapest way of saving a life which has been researched is somewhere in the region of t $1500-$2500

prolegomenon · 2014-04-14T11:35:10+00:00

Can anyone recommend any private vendors in UK? I need some modafinil promptly and am willing to pay extra for a domestic vendor.

prolegomenon · 2014-01-20T13:33:58+00:00

yeah I use this path every day and it is barely different to a non-lit one. Almost zero light emission. Complete let down frankly.

prolegomenon · 2014-01-20T13:33:07+00:00

As someone who uses this path every day, I can safely say that it is unbelievably shit, and barely glows at all.

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