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by hristov 7y ago
Your link does not support what you are saying. The linked article says that: (i) there aren't enough studies for the toxicity of depleted uranium (ii) we know that uranium is chemically somewhat similar to lead (iii) there are a lot o
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by hristov 7y ago
It is very easy. For work you have the standard business casual. From bottom up it is black shoes (but not necessarily super shiny), black socks, slacks that are either black, grey, beige, or brown and a colorful checkered or striped button
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by hristov 7y ago
This article has a bit of an underhanded motive. It pretends that is all pro environment but it comes out as an attack on fast fashion. One can argue that fast fashion is bad for the environment. One can argue that it encourages people to t
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by hristov 7y ago
It is not that much about education. Currently there exists a complex system of various incentives to convince doctors to prescribe more pills and to prescribe certain types of pills. The pharma companies have installed their people in hosp
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by hristov 7y ago
Nobody is required to give out rebates to pharmacy benefit managers and the like. That is a problem the pharma companies created by themselves. The pharmas can drop their list prices and stop rebates tomorrow if they really wanted.
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by hristov 7y ago
When wholesale prices go up, retail prices almost always follow.
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Yes, and in the second arm of the scam, the drug companies will send out their army of salespeople to convince doctors and hospitals to prescribe the more expensive version. Because of small differences between the drugs (maybe the liquid v
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by hristov 7y ago
This is very interesting. And it is very good news that companies are finding higher efficiencies in mass produce-able electric motors. It means that electric cars will become more affordable and practical quicker. But I do hope they do not
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by hristov 7y ago
If you do not want to hear one thing about negotiating power then you are missing the main reason why medical costs are skyrocketing. Medicare/medicaid does not negotiate drug costs down because it is prohibited by law from doing so. T
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by hristov 7y ago
Was he though? It seems to me that all that Stallman said was lets please figure out exactly what Minsky did.
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by hristov 7y ago
I think it is unfair to hound him over his latest statement about sexual assault. He is absolutely right that the term sexual assault includes actions that are so different that it can be used to unfairly destroy people's reputation. A
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by hristov 7y ago
It is the Saudi's that are killing innocents in Yemen. Saudi Arabia started the war in Yemen simply because they wanted to impose a hated dictator on Yemen. If the Saudis let the Yemeni choose their own leader, or even imposed a dictat
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by hristov 7y ago
Victory - Joseph Conrad Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky (there is a bunch of other brilliant Dostoyevsky books)
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by hristov 7y ago
Everyone that wants to get into tech investing should read about Mark Twains misadventures in investing. Current stories about tech investing and investing in general are greatly affected by survivor bias. If you are not a successful invest
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by hristov 7y ago
Seems like you are still addicted to heroin and just trying to rationalise things. Lets play devils advocate, lets say the problem really was cost and difficulty of procurement. Then rich people should have no issue with it, no? They have e
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by hristov 7y ago
I actually followed Camille Paglia from her time as salon columnist and found her really annoying. First of all for someone being celebrated for being provocative she is depressingly mainstream. Her views are generally center-right. She sup
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by hristov 7y ago
I am going to say the obvious here but sometimes the obvious needs to be said. This is why we need net neutrality!
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by hristov 7y ago
Here is an example of nevada giving homeless people with mental problems bus tickets to california instead of treating them. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/nevada-settles-... This is article abo
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by hristov 7y ago
This is very much a problem but it is incorrectly stated as California's problem. This America’s problem. It just so happens that because California is relatively rich, tends to have some of the most tolerable year round weather and th
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by hristov 7y ago
Perhaps i misspoke. By less settles i meant that it was less known about and believed among the average population rather than as a scientific consensus. The relevant discussion here is corporate risk disclosure. If a corporation says it do
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by hristov 7y ago
Yes. During the Bush administration, for example, it was the NY attorney general Spitzer that held financial institutions accountable for their crimes as the president was determined to let them get away with everything.
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by hristov 7y ago
Unfortunately environmental protection laws are relatively weak in this country. Fortunately shareholder protection laws are relatively strong. So the attorney general, like a good lawyer, goes for the cause of action that will give him a h
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by hristov 7y ago
They might not be the greatest victims but they certainly are some of the victims. They invested money in a company whose business model was unsustainable. The company knew that the business model was unsustainable but did not tell them. In
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by hristov 7y ago
To be fair there have been plenty of losses from stockholders as well.
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by hristov 7y ago
The idea is to make the bamboo useful so farming it would be profitable.
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by hristov 7y ago
If you are seriously considering using building materials for carbon storage the best would be bamboo. It grows incredibly fast so that it soaks up carbon fast. However we would need more R&D to make the manufacture of bamboo building m
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by hristov 7y ago
So techcrunch still runs one sided articles about companies that are basically glorified advertisements. They haven't changed after all these years. They did not dwell on the biggest difference between aluminum air and lithium batterie
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by hristov 7y ago
Good. Could not have happened soon enough.
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by hristov 7y ago
That is the superficial thinking but unfortunately it is not true. First when they cut trees, they do not haul in the branches and the leaves. There is no money in that. The branches and the leaves are all cut out and left in place with jus
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by hristov 7y ago
Renoir hating is one of the dumbest hipster trends out there. It is one of those idiotic self-congratulatory instagram movements which are designed to just cause mild shock enough to be followed and perhaps gather the attention of a bored j

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