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by MCRed 11y ago
I've been paying very close attention to the responses of my body to different foods, etc. Drinking water has not produced better weight loss than drinking coke zero. Maybe by "soda" you meant soda with sugar...but for me,
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by MCRed 11y ago
In both groups %50 of their calories came from carbohydrates. Carbs are quick sugar energy, and the resulting rise in blood sugar tells the body that it has plenty of energy. This would have been much more interesting if one group had low
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by MCRed 11y ago
Interestingly, Google, and the other companies, may be seeking out females in an effort to compensate for under representation among their ranks of current employees.
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by MCRed 11y ago
The reason the "stimulus" didn't work is that it costs more to the economy to produce the money that was spent to "stimulate" it than the economic benefits of that spending could produce. And yes, 8 years ago people
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by MCRed 11y ago
Now do Amazon which is a retailer, often running at a loss on the retail side, with a nicely growing Hosting business... but even the margins on the hosting business don't justify Amazon's P/E ratio. I don't think the ma
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by MCRed 11y ago
This is the distinction between a crime and something that is illegal. On HN people rarely make the distinction because they think something being illegal makes it a crime. Illegal means it violates a law. A crime is something that actual
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by MCRed 11y ago
US Law does not apply to Costa Rica-- it's outside their jurisdiction. That's one of the fundamental problems here. The US could pass a law that Sainsburies (a UK grocery store, with no US locations) has to employ a jazz band at
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by MCRed 11y ago
I don't subscribe to the WSJ so I can't read the OP, but I thought the Yuan was wanting to rise, and that china was slowly letting it revalue. I thought all the economic pressure was aligned that way. Chinese have currency contro
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by MCRed 11y ago
Elixir has pipes too. One of the great things about it.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Apple Watch is fantastic. It keeps introducing me to new features...like I got a phone call and took it from the watch. That was unexpected (I didn't bother to read up on it before buying-- I just wanted it for fitness tracking.) Hell
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by MCRed 11y ago
IT's a nice change of pace from the crackpot economics posts that normally fill the homepage.
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by MCRed 11y ago
During WWII we produced guns en masse called "the liberator" which were air dropped behind Nazi lines. The Nazis ran out of ammo and so many of the jews in the concentration camps were guarded by empty rifles. If they had had ba
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by MCRed 11y ago
With the federal reserve pumping out money like nobodies business, the resulting inflation is a major brake on the economy. It also results in less profits for companies, less income growth for employees etc. The only people it really bene
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by MCRed 11y ago
BY the way, they don't talk about it now, but originally in 2001 the media reported that "al queda" was a code name used by the CIA for their database of mujahideen fighters. Somehow the narrative later morphed into "al
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by MCRed 11y ago
General advice for anyone young who is reading this-- if the person you're trying to learn from offers seminars, it's a good sign he's not worth your time, and seminars are rarely worth the money. "Free" ones are t
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by MCRed 11y ago
I read this book, was skeptical given the gungho attitude, so I did some due diligence: Roberty Kiyosaki claimed to have founded a company that went public. So I figured Kiyosaki was a rare enough name and searched the SEC records to find
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by MCRed 11y ago
I walked in to the TV showing the launch. I hadn't known it had exploded. I didn't realize I was seeing a replay. I spent my time as a kid living on Vandenberg Air Force base, and my father would drag me out to Minute Men missile
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by MCRed 11y ago
These orgs (and all of us) should have legal teeth. We should be able to indict and subsequently prosecute those whose crimes have become obvious and for whome there is sufficient evidence. Government prosecutors will never do it.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Absolutely, but also look at the higher level- The snowden revelations showed a treasonous level of criminal activity at the highest levels of government. So, of course, Snowden is the bad guy and no charges have been filed against the perp
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by MCRed 11y ago
Unfortunately, where to move? The situation is like that all over the USA. The increasing militarization of the police in the past 20 years (one thing about being "old" is you can see these things happen before your eyes) have p
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by MCRed 11y ago
A big part of the problem is our system is set up to favor the governent-- when there's a trial, the judge, the prosecutor, the cops (who handle and control all the evidence) the lab (many scandals in the past 40 years about fraudulent
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by MCRed 11y ago
Look at real GDP growth from Chile and Cuba over the past 50 years. Chile is far outpacing Cuba. I bet adding venezuela would also be illuminating. It's easy to do "pretty well" in the early years, the books can be cooked, t
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by MCRed 11y ago
I have those kinds of meetings all the time on slack.
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by MCRed 11y ago
-- Lower office costs - which is really important for startups. Ironically a lot of startups seem to be office focused, but if there's less than 8 people in the company, don't get an office. You don't need the expense and ha
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by MCRed 11y ago
In the USA, if Basic Income were to be implemented, where would the money come from? Currently the rate of monetary inflation is quite high- we've gone from $11T to $18T in the monetary system during the Obama administration. If we
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by MCRed 11y ago
For me, and I believe there are at least two different types of people in this regard, the key to losing weight was insulin levels. Namely, I went on a low carb diet and lost around 100 pounds. Some people, I believe, are insulin resistant
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by MCRed 11y ago
Shouldn't those parameters then be well known to everybody? And subject to investigation? Can you give more detail as to why this is a backdoor?
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by MCRed 11y ago
I think they are counting on Open Source being the protection. Any changes to the code can be scrutinized, and the code can be forked (already has).
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by MCRed 11y ago
The IIHS is a private organization motivated by "greed" and funded by the insurance industry. Yet it's not surprising to see people coming in here and jumping on the opportunity to credit government for their work. Why is t
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by MCRed 11y ago
In short this is a result of the principle-agent problem. Politicians can be influenced. The government has little time to get in, and when regulations are set they are rarely updated... meanwhile the IIHS helping insurers save money (by se

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