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by jljljl 12y ago
Gross or net margins?
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>> But propping someone up with diabetes from 40-50 is nothing in cost compared to keeping someone healthy from age 65-75, because at 65-75 you'll still likely be treating diabetes but on top of that also tons of other ailments i
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by jljljl 12y ago
Unless, of course, better late life health allows people to work longer or contribute more to the economy in some way. In which case the impact on Medicare of healthy 65 y/o might not be so bad.
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He's not saying they won't be the most expensive group, just that promoting a healthy lifestyle will possibly reduce the amount of later life care and support they would need. For example, if we promote healthier eating habits, we
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by jljljl 12y ago
Ahh I missed that point, my bad.
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If OP's account is true, the took away the features but then refused to provide a refund. At best, that's a pretty serious customer service fail.
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The author came to agree with this over time: "Rokeach came to think that his research had been manipulative and unethical, and he offered an apology in the afterword of the 1984 edition of the book: "I really had no right, even i
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by jljljl 12y ago
Treatments that are safe but not effective can be dangerous as well, if they replace or prevent access to other more effective treatments. There is a pretty vast information imbalance between doctors and patients, and patients may not alway
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People have talked about Uber as a way to reduce pollution and wasteful driving, and the limits of Uber's ability to do so since it still needs to address peak usage. If they make this work, the Uber could turn out to be a huge environ
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by jljljl 12y ago
You should aways have the answer "Non-exploitable code" for every question. For some questions, the lack of this answer makes it clear that there is a vulnerability, and the structure of the question makes it obvious which one of
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by jljljl 12y ago
I'm not attacking Sisson's framework. I haven't read much of his stuff, but the Primal Blueprint does seem to base a lot of its information off of assumptions about what Paleolithic hunter gatherers are supposed to have eaten
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Results from one person experimenting cannot trump studies, or even natural experiments that look at a wide cross section of individuals, at least not in terms of applicability to the wider population. That said, I'm glad you found som
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The point is that even the guidelines are murky, and that it isn't clear what foods our "evolutionary past" intended us to eat. The best that the evidence seems to suggest is that diets varied widely in early humans. So basin
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Oh come on, IT isn't a perfect site but...despair? Really? I disagree with you about the About page, the large picture format is so much more immersive and engaging than the tiny text on the About page, but I guess we will have to agre
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Brilliant marketing. He also needs people to engage with the page and empathize with his grandpa. Not sure it would have been as effective at this if it had been a dull, static HTML page.
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You know what? I think it's a beautiful site. It tugs the emotions the right way, and evokes a certain feel that is probably more effective at getting people to engage and help your Grandpa identify his old photos. It also doubles as a
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The difference between the Forbes article and the Economist article is the Economist article cites facts and figures. Economies tend to be more complicated than you think. For example: ATMs may have led to an increase in banking activity, a
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>>> In Android apps, you can freely send users to another platform to do a transaction – how much revenue is generated that way? iOS blocks this, by the way, and insists on a 30% cut. This feels like a key insight...I wonder how ma
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Google Releasing Dev Boards for Modular Phone Project Ara(thenextweb.com)
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I've played and enjoyed both games. Threes is beautiful, but to be honest it sometimes feels so...heavy. The animations, the sounds, the repetitive music...sometimes it grows tiresome. Meanwhile, 2048 is something I can throw up on a b
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Keep in mind that there are assumptions made about what the "American Dream" is, driven by cultural representations of what a stereotypical successful American life should be like. It doesn't seem geared toward what the &quot
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Xiki(kickstarter.com)
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>>That works when the driver is the one who the Uber account belongs to, but if you've ever used Uber in NYC you'll know that a driver will often just rent out his cab + phone to another driver. I'd say the Uber driver
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by jljljl 12y ago
Beats Headphones are fashion items, which is really most of the innovation they provide: making a normally geeky or tacky piece of equipment into something stylish. What it looks like to you is besides the point, it's how they look to
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by jljljl 12y ago
Don't businesses already get a lot of this through Twitter, Facebook, Get Satisfaction, and other sources?
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I guess this is the result of Adobe's Might & Napoleon experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKXTKZor3A Too bad about the name change, I thought the name Napoleon (because it's a short ruler) was charmi
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by jljljl 12y ago
It's worth noting that both Dementia Pugilistica and CTE seem to take a decade or longer to appear in affected individuals, which means it is unlikely that they would have a significant impact on an individual's ability to reprodu
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by jljljl 12y ago
One question I didn't see covered in the article: Are the restaurant tickets transferrable? Can I sell my ticket to someone else if I can't make the date or something comes up? I imagine this would be a nice feature, but might op
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by jljljl 12y ago
Do you have a source or proof for these points? Last I checked a serving of Ensure was a good bit cheaper than Soylent. Shipping with the liquid/water mixed can often be a convenience, and at least Ensure also offers it's product
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by jljljl 12y ago
definitely sarcasm flavored

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