pancake

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[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cool! Is that your own conlang?

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 days ago

We can't know how medicine would be practiced under socialism, but we do know that our bodies would be the same. Cancer wouldn't be any different. Maybe there would be less cases of lung cancer, and maybe treatments would be less expensive or would be found earlier. Maybe we'd find the cure for all types of cancer simultaneously. But the limitations imposed by the nature of disease itself wouldn't change.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Capitalism always favors non-curative treatments over curative ones, and makes newer curative treatments extremely expensive (e.g. CAR-T cell therapies or genetic treatments).

But, as other users rightly point out, there are millions of ways our bodies can misbehave. Even something like "cancer" is just an array of several hundred diseases, wherein even each of them is not homogeneous across all cases. Cancer survival slowly goes up over the years as specific variants of it are tackled, but that wouldn't be different under socialism, at most just faster (Cuba has made some great contributions to cancer research) or more accessible.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 6 days ago

I should say this to people who claim "capitalism" has nothing to do with capital and is nowadays just a synonym of freedom.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dancing in occupied territory.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 days ago

I like this perspective of yours. I may as well expand the range of activities of mine I call hobbies.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Linux (windows at work tho).

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Late-Permian extinction. Not very imaginative, but I find it cool that there are so many hypotheses even about the largest mass extinction ever.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Cool! Books are an amazing source of knowledge and fun. I just got a (second hand) math book that another user recommended, and it's so far enthralling. Do you read Marxist books?

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey! Welcome aboard! :)

I'm a physician in Spain, but I like to force myself to learn new things all the time (like languages, or one time that I took up a job as a programmer). I don't really enjoy anything outside of that and sport, so I may not be of much use if you want someone to talk with about books, TV series etc.

And speaking about books, do you like reading? Is there a public library or similar in your area?

 

Edit: tl;dr: all tools seem to be capable of 28 nm process, except the lithography machines. However, the report (why?) doesn't include the most advanced lithography tools that are known to be manufactured.

Source

 

Today they published a new report in the series. To my surprise, it includes a second chart with revenue-based data. Enjoy!

 

First of all, I'm sorry if my question could be easily answered by finding the right source. Overall I'd say I read very little theory written by contemporary comrades, and that's something I need to fix once I have the time.

 

Remember this post (tl;dr: did an A2 Russian language examination after nothing more than Duolingo lessons for two years)? Well, I passed the tests! Performed kind of poorly in the essay, as expected, but still well enough not to hurt my overall score; spoken test went fine (to my surprise), as did the comprehension tests.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

1 more year has passed, and I'm still tracking these numbers, albeit now posting with a different username. The upward tendency has not just continued, but even increased; now Linux is nearing 4 % market share globally and over 2 % on Steam.

 

I'm taking a CEFR A2 Russian language exam in a few minutes. Let's see if a massive Duolingo addiction is all it akes to crack it.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4288517

I remember this post that compared the quality of life in the DPRK and the US. There are many ways in which traditional stats like the GDP per capita exhibit bias in favor of some countries; countries may differ in their...

  • ...distribution of wealth.
  • ...basic expenses.
  • ...cost of products and services.

So, I decided to give it a shot. I started from median wealth per adult values published by UBS (data from 2022); my logic was that two people who end up, no matter their income, with the same amount of expendable income will acquire a similar amount of value in the form of equities, real estate, vehicles... By using the median value, I make sure that wealth in countries with high inequality isn't overestimated.

Then, I multiplied these values by the ratio between adjusted (international dollars at 2017 prices PPP) and unadjusted GDP per capita of each country, using data from 2022 by the IMF.

There are some interesting things to note within the map. Enjoy!

 

I remember this post that compared the quality of life in the DPRK and the US. There are many ways in which traditional stats like the GDP per capita exhibit bias in favor of some countries; countries may differ in their...

  • ...distribution of wealth.
  • ...basic expenses.
  • ...cost of products and services.

So, I decided to give it a shot. I started from median wealth per adult values published by UBS (data from 2022); my logic was that two people who end up, no matter their income, with the same amount of expendable income will acquire a similar amount of value in the form of equities, real estate, vehicles... By using the median value, I make sure that wealth in countries with high inequality isn't overestimated.

Then, I multiplied these values by the ratio between adjusted (international dollars at 2017 prices PPP) and unadjusted GDP per capita of each country, using data from 2022 by the IMF.

There are some interesting things to note within the map. Enjoy!

 

It's really cool that the trend is going on. It's also interesting how this seems to correlate so well with inflation in the US (ignore badly applied statistical test):

Guess that capital gotta keep expanding at all costs :)

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