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Cake day: July 21st, 2024

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  • Look into survivorship bias. The only 90 year old smokers you see are of course the ones that survived.

    The statistic is an average. The 30 year old non-smoker being killed in an accident is an outlier exactly the same as the 90 year old that still smokes on the way to their grave. You might not lose anything because you die before you get lung cancer or you lose much more because you develop it at 40 years old, but on average a smoker loses 20 min per cigarette.

    That’s how these statistics usually work:

    (life expectancy of non-smokers - life expectancy of smokers) / # cigarettes an average smoker smokes in their lifetime

    Obviously, it’s not literally like “that one cigarette ends your life 20 minutes earlier”.




  • I guess the people in this thread here just hate people from developing countries or they haven’t read the article. Or could someone explain why people here celebrate this:

    Rest of World analysis of that data found that a number of developing countries are plateauing in the number of mobile internet subscribers. That suggests that in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Mexico, the easiest populations to get online have already logged on, and getting the rest of the population on mobile internet will continue to be a challenge.

    And

    The cost of data in Africa, for example, is more than twice that of the Americas, the second most expensive region.