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by alecst 5y ago
Haha yea I do the exact same thing. Never considered it might be awkward, just assumed they were down to talk.
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And just as exercise is more complex than just tearing your muscle fibers, fasting is more complex than just slowing your metabolic rate. You could make a similar (but wrong) “of course” argument that, while fasting, the body doesn’t have e
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by alecst 5y ago
Everyone’s different, but I can go a while without food and not have it bother me. It’s not uncommon to go a day without it and not really notice. I hear people talking about getting “hangry” but I don’t personally relate to the that feelin
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by alecst 5y ago
By that reasoning exercise should age us faster.
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by alecst 5y ago
My friends are my number one priority in my life, and I let them know it. As for how I met them, it’s kind of all over the place, ranging from my fraternity, my university, my meditation group, rock climbing, WWOOFing, language exchange, et
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by alecst 5y ago
It’s not clear to me what your position is. We are talking rare harms, perhaps dozens per million, and no deaths that I know of. So I’m unconcerned. As more data comes out maybe my mind will change and I’ll agree with you. But you seem to b
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Yea but children live among the rest of us.
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Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that pediatric study. In hindsight it’s not surprising that children might need a different quantity of vaccine than adults to tilt the balance further away from the harms caused by rare reactions.
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The alternative is to knowingly let people get infected. Almost everyone will get exposed. The vaccine is safer than infection, both in the short and long term. Saying “they got away with it” makes it sound like a conspiracy.
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by alecst 5y ago
Side effects from vaccines almost always occur within a few weeks of getting them, if they occur at all. It would be exceptional if side effects occurred months or years down the line. It’s obviously not impossible and I don’t want to give
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by alecst 5y ago
I'm intrigued. 1. How is a regular guy going to achieve the same results as a hedge fund with a 10 million dollar portfolio? 2. Regarding Buffett's quote, do you mean "diversification is protection against ignorance?" I
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by alecst 5y ago
True. People really underestimate the "alpha" of spending less and saving more.
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by alecst 5y ago
Financial koans. Fascinating. I feel enlightened already.
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Doesn't the investment world say something like "no one can beat the market forever?" Of course some people can win sometimes. But to do it consistently is a different story. You have to have some kind of edge: being faster (
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by alecst 5y ago
John Oliver had a great bit on retirement plans [1] if you're interested in passive investing. I've pretty much only followed this advice since 2016, with minor changes accounting for my personal situation. My Vanguard portfolio h
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by alecst 5y ago
Ah yes, the famous Warren Buffett who forged his own path by shirking his education and investing in meme stocks.
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What happened?
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by alecst 5y ago
Hoeing is a great full body workout. You go pretty fast if you swing from your hips without moving your arms too much, and your joints don’t feel strained either. I have seen people swing the hoe like an axe but I suspect this is not the mo
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by alecst 5y ago
When I lived in Cambodia I saw a lot of Abercrombie-model looking guys in their 50s. They were farmers, I think. I’m currently in Italy living with a farmer in her 60s who’s in great shape. The other day she dropped cold into a front split.
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They rhyme in most American English dialects.
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The hell? I’m not anti-vax, some of my PhD work was in virology. I just don’t care to keep up with the literature. Take your beef somewhere else.
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by alecst 5y ago
> Recent history seems to show taxes increase or new taxes are added. Over the last several decades taxes on pretty much everything have decreased, with the result being that we have a non-progressive tax system that favors the ultra-wea
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by alecst 5y ago
Would you mind saying what city you're talking about? It's a bit alarming that a city could be steadily increasing tax rates while offering almost nothing in return.
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by alecst 5y ago
Taxes fund schools, universities, fire and police departments, public health measures, and plenty of other things that make life more livable -- and with greater potential -- for the poor. Without taxes, only the wealthy would have access t
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by alecst 5y ago
This doesn't target N people. It targets wealth above a certain limit, and notably wealth that is typically in an asset class that makes it easy to avoid taxes. This is exactly what you describe -- a way of balancing the law so that th
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by alecst 5y ago
The US is progressive when it comes to income tax, but if you consider all contributions to tax revenue the US is basically a flat tax system. At least that's what the book Triumph of Injustice led me to believe. Like Warren Buffett
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by alecst 5y ago
I don't buy the slippery slope argument here, but I'll take it at face value. Good. Taxes have been declining for decades -- in the 1950s the highest marginal tax rate was like 95%. Now, even with a progressive tax system, in prac
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by alecst 5y ago
Yea makes sense, I thought about this a while ago when Liz Warren proposed a wealth tax in 2019. Good point.
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by alecst 5y ago
It's about taking slightly more money from the top 1,000 people who have the most money. This is completely different from targeting ethnic minorities. Progressive taxes are supposed to handle this in a broad-based way, but billionaire
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by alecst 5y ago
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/infrastructure-bill-in... I just looked it up. Why would I get outraged over something that affects less than 1,000 people, all of which who are billionaires?

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