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by glenra 12y ago
People who have been fat and then lost weight have a different metabolism than people who stayed at the same lower weight throughout. Most people who lose a significant amount of weight gain it all back and then some within three years. You
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I'm pretty sure it was intended to do just what it did do - protect entrenched interests. But I agree that it did the opposite of the claimed intention. Which is often the case for legislation. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by glenra 12y ago
In a libertarian system if some hospital routinely billed excessive hard-to-understand charges, somebody else would open a hospital across the street to compete with it. The new hospital could advertise open, transparent up-front pricing (c
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by glenra 12y ago
I just looked it up - the usual estimate is that the original iPhone introduction generated $400 million worth of free publicity. Even to Apple, that's a lot. (eg: http://gizmodo.com/243222/iphone-generated-400-mil
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by glenra 12y ago
Secret-unveilings are worth many millions of dollars in free publicity. Apple gets front-page stories for all their product announcements because they're news . Without that, they'd have a much harder time. If that was at all a
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by glenra 12y ago
The best thing about Apple selling this watch now is that it puts them on track to make one half as thick a few years later that really will be aesthetically competitive. Within the decade, smartwatches will undoubtedly be thinner than
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by glenra 12y ago
> my wife who spent the best part of a decade dealing with drug addicts. Here's the problem with the experience of your wife (or anyone in medicine): selection bias . She only sees drug users whose use is a problem . Even if pos
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by glenra 12y ago
Can you think of any other "non-objective ideologies" that are as religion- like as environmentalism? I mean, I suppose you could describe some other sorts of ideologues as worshipping "the market" or "society&quot
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You don't need a non-religious example; environmentalism is a religion. Its precepts include that nature is good, that human activity is bad, and that by existing we are "destroying the planet" by taking it further away fro
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by glenra 12y ago
That would certainly help (albeit at a rather large expense for existing businesses) but probably wouldn't really solve the problem. The core issue is that bowling in a team involves an awful lot of waiting around and watching while
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by glenra 12y ago
> I bet they won't be allowed to directly bill based on time or distance driven Before jitneys were generally outlawed in the US a popular billing method was based on zones. You take a map of the city, chop it into regions and the
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by glenra 12y ago
That section of sky did fall, but the effects aren't evenly distributed. A few kinds of bars and restaurants are predictably unaffected (or even positively affected) so averaging them all together can produce misleading results. Meanwh
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> for whatever reason that rule was originally enacted Most likely the law is simple protectionism for unionized bus drivers, to stop private jitneys from putting them out of business. The use case is: you commute every day from point
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by glenra 12y ago
Maybe not every law is absurd and intended to block innovation but these laws most certainly are. It's a permit that the authorities don't have to grant and won't grant in exactly the cases where the new service is most
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by glenra 12y ago
By which you mean they already exist today? My parents got a demo ride in one at a google event earlier this year. As long as the city involved is Mountain View, the vehicles already exist. (Google's current effort relies on extremely
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by glenra 12y ago
> If patients had the ability to know expected prices beforehand, market forces would work to bring prices down. This would only really work if it were legal for hospitals to compete on price and for better/cheaper hospitals to ex
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by glenra 12y ago
Hang on: "Thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust. Specifically, one test article contained internal physical modifications that
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by glenra 12y ago
Candy Crush Saga isn't really a clone. Yes, it uses 3-in-a-row matching as a primary gameplay mechanism, but whereas every level of Bejeweled is the same identical square grid with identical goals, every level of Candy Crush Saga is di
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by glenra 12y ago
> I will never understand what's with all the "Saga" either. Candy Crush Saga is quite well named. Bejeweled is really just a single puzzle game but Candy Crush Saga is composed of hundreds of distinct puzzle games. Th
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by glenra 12y ago
That quote does not "flatly contradict" what I said. Read the link I gave. Did I perhaps need to italicize placebo ? The paper you quote is talking about the measured benefits of SSRIs relative to a placebo ; the reference I gav
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by glenra 12y ago
> Yes, unless unpublished studies are included in the analysis, after which the effect falls below that required to make a claim of clinical effectiveness. That distinction is perfectly clear in the post to which you replied. I think y
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by glenra 12y ago
> The meta-analysis that showed that studies don't show a significant affect on depression from SSRIs ... has very few serious disputes or alternative ways to view the numbers. Here's one: http://slatestarcodex.com
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by glenra 12y ago
Your tl;dr for #2 isn't accurate. Yes, these medications "have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment", but the measured benefit of placebo treatment in this case is quite large and the medications work BETTER t
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by glenra 12y ago
I find your last sentence puzzling. There are people STILL TODAY who make a decent living as Mark Twain impersonators - imagine how well the original one could do if he went BACK on the live public speaking circuit! Mark Twain would also do
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by glenra 12y ago
I'm only saying to completely remove security altogether with respect to how we treat the PASSENGERS. That is, when people walk into a plane let them be "protected" to much the same degree as when they walk down the street or
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by glenra 12y ago
Nah, I meant what we think of now as "gate". For instance, I remember going out to meet people at the gate at SFO in the 1990s. I'm not quite old enough - or perhaps didn't grow up in a small enough town? - to remember r
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by glenra 12y ago
> > Even the level of security we had before 9/11 was misguided and caused more deaths than it saved. > Even if I grant that it saved no lives, it's not obvious to me how it caused any. This is discussed elsewhere in th
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by glenra 12y ago
It's true that some people jump out of tiny planes like a cessna but I was thinking of the larger ones like this: http://www.skydivephiladelphia.com/wp-content/themes/asc/ima... Even less than fully fuel
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by glenra 12y ago
> So you also want airlines to modify cabins to handle oversized carry-on luggage? No more so than they already do. See, I routinely travel with an acoustic guitar in a gig bag as my "personal item"; it fits in the overhead c
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by glenra 12y ago
What airlines are doing now amounts precisely to "a large amount of security theatre to meet appearances for the customers and appease the local regulations." I want to decentralize for two reasons: (1) it removes single point

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