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by hcurtiss 7y ago
I think the fundamental mistake of the last three decades of health advice is overestimating that capacity in the face of declining insulin sensitivity due to persistently high glycemic loads.
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
But nudging TDEE by 10 percent over the course of a year has a HUGE effect on body composition. Even 0.01% does.
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Of course they eat too much. The question is why? Taubes has a good example. If I asked you why that restaurant was so full, and you responded "because more people entered than exited," I would think you were an asshole. But C
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
There is abundant incentive to not act unilaterally in a manner that hurts the bottom line in a competitive environment (i.e., most business environments). There is very little incentive in that environment to act collectively.
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
And the all-in cost of wind will be much greater when accounting for the gas support they require.
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
For what it’s worth, there is plenty “to do” in those places too. I’m not sure what you mean by “stuck” — maybe your interests are different, but for those who like fishing after work, hiking a remote mountain, playing fetch with the dogs i
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
None of those countries stopped those practices. That is, they realized the end of their prominence due to policy positions and factors other than imperialism (or maybe even because of imperialism). That is, imperialism doesn’t necessarily
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Oh please. If imperialism and military might were the source of a country's wealth, then Mongolia would be on top, and Russia, and the sun would have never set on Great Britain. No, strong property and contract rights combined with t
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
While there are many other proposals, that kind of tax policy change would, in itself, definitely be a big change. I encourage people to use this calculator to determine your effective tax rate at various times in the past. If your family
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
There are a lot of people who rely on those investments, whether through their government retirement, their employer's retirement, or through their own holdings. Even many social programs are funded with investments in equities.
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Exactly right. Many Americans are so ashamed of the US, when in many ways it's a shining example of how to do things right -- certainly relative to many other countries. The US is a spectacularly prosperous country, and all it seems a
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Outside developed oil or coal plays, severed mineral estates in the US are the exception, not the rule. Also, to the point above, those severed mineral interests are almost always privately held.
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Arguing the facts is totally good. And you may very well be right (I don't know anything about the subject). But attacking the commenter's position because he/she is not a doctor (like you are not a doctor), struck me as po
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Of course. In many circumstances, the experts don't even agree. It's incumbent on me to inform myself, and I can lean on those very experts, but I'm not at all comfortable ceding how to weigh those tradeoffs to the people w
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
What a snide reply. Is it necessary to be a doctor to have an opinion on healthcare policy?
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Oh, please. I'm merely emphasizing the point that the promised $125 (and I saw nothing in the way of a qualification when I made my claim), was fantasy from the beginning and likely to be a very small fraction of that amount. That fa
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
LOL - no. I did not mean it literally. Did you have a point on the substance?
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
What do you want to bet the payment is less than $1 per claimant? $31MM for 150 million affected people. They knew this would be the result, and the FTC went along with it. I’m a free market right wing guy — and I’d have no problem with the
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
And you'd be wrong. In any event, again, your expensive illnesses are not representative, and many people in Washington at half the median income would be getting along suitably well. That same stat in Arkansas may be a very differen
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Nope. Just trying to understand the facts. I know several people on ACA plans, and I do not believe your experience is representative of the majority. Nevertheless, my comments aren't targeted at you. I maintain that half the media
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Here's a source for the R versus D charity: https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/11/06/whateve...
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
I don't have that guy's exact statistic, but here's a page that supports the immigration argument. The US lets a lot of people in from all over the world. Also note those numbers for Germany include people from other EU cou
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Your household makes $36k and you pay $10k for drugs on a private plan and that’s somehow a better deal than an ACA plan? Yeah, that’s not making any sense to me at all. Putting that aside, I’m not saying that’s a good life. But in the cont
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
I’m not sure I’d do the math the same way. First, it seems to me that the median household income is a better number, as most people share expenses and many households have two incomes. That seems to me to better inform ability to get by. I
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Are we sure that half the median is a good definition of “poor”? At least hypothetically, in a very wealthy country, that may still be an adequate amount to get by.
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Yes, I believe that's what they're saying. Calculating the gain when buying a car may be doable (dollar value relative to what the pesos cost originally). The part about all this that doesn't really work is if you convert t
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
This is helpful. Thank you. The whole thing is a little odd to me. I'm used to thinking about paying taxes on marginal increase in value, and I had never considered that to be defined exclusively in dollars. I suppose it is. If I
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Fair enough, but if I convert a bunch of dollars to pesos and then the value of a peso increases and it allows me to buy a nicer car (in pesos) than I could have when I received the peso, is that taxable? If it is, is the dollar the only e
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
I'm sure there's a lot to know about this topic, but it's odd to me that they'd treat a "currency" as an appreciating asset. If I'm given a dollar (or peso) as change, and if between the time I receive th
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by hcurtiss 7y ago
Seriously? Worst company in the world? Come on. They’re responding to demand. If Cargill doesn’t buy the palm oil, another importer/distributor will. Sure, educate customers regarding the impacts of their purchases, but “worst com

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