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by lend000 3y ago
I can't imagine the boredom of not producing anything -- I love to build. I consider this work. I would consider pure leisure to be defined as doing something with no obviously productive output. There are certainly people out there wh
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by lend000 3y ago
Try living like a monk, if you have the privilege. (Seriously). Cut out all sugar, all refined carbs, all stress, and prioritize sleep, meditation, and relaxation (especially before sleep) above all else, and then gradually amp up the low i
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by lend000 3y ago
The difference is that cigarettes directly affect people around you via secondhand smoke, which is a clear externality. The real problem with sports betting is the immoral anticompetitive behavior of the gambling companies, which kick any &
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by lend000 3y ago
I think this is probably the source of the whole debacle right here... Sam is pretty self righteous and self important and just seems to lack some subtle piece of social awareness, and I imagine that turns a lot of people off. That delusion
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by lend000 3y ago
Parent (and the article) are talking about power per core.
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by lend000 3y ago
Now you're just arguing semantics, and resorting to ad hominem. Not a great look, kyleyeats. Regardless, I think it's best for everyone that you don't give medical advice.
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by lend000 3y ago
> Luckily there are fewer and fewer conditions that truly lack available treatments. A significant proportion of autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders are still very untreatable. And casting (reasonably balanced) diets as preventati
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by lend000 3y ago
That's an important distinction that you should put next to your "do not mess with diet" advice ( if the diet interacts with the treatment ). Most diets I would consider to be healthy and balanced are unlikely to interact wit
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by lend000 3y ago
> do the actual treatment, don't mess around with diet No, you should do both. Telling people not to improve their diets is just as irresponsible as telling people not to take an effective medication. Especially in cases where there
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by lend000 3y ago
> you seem awfully certain the briber is more ethically in the right here No, I'm not. I don't advocate for bribery and the developer should be charged, although the prosecution's priority should always be on the person
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by lend000 3y ago
Quote from the parent: "It seems like the only crime should be in accepting the bribe, not in offering it"
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by lend000 3y ago
Accepting bribes would still be illegal... so your premise is flawed.
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by lend000 3y ago
What's up with all the NIMBY's downvoting you? I'm also of the opinion that the penalty for accepting a bribe should be harsher than the penalty for offering one. From the article, it looks like both sides are being prosecute
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by lend000 3y ago
This meme of becoming bankrupt to pay for drugs doesn't hold water, especially in the long term. Look at HIV medications. It used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to stay afloat in the 90's, when the drugs were cutting edg
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by lend000 3y ago
1. Re: insurance buying the data to be used against you. This seems like a problem that could be solved by other regulatory venues w.r.t. pre-existing conditions in insurance. 2. This is a dramatic overreach of intellectual property. I put
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by lend000 3y ago
I can't tell if this is satire. Big pharma is going to cure my Huntington's, and they're even tell me about it before I start to lose mobility? What's the catch?
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by lend000 3y ago
> What I want if for kids to have free lunches and a great education. I want homeless to be taken in and given shelter and food. I wan't everyone to be able to just go see a doctor on a regular basis. It's not that I disagree w
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by lend000 3y ago
I assume there's a jealousy component. That being said, the current tax code is pretty unfair and stupid, but a wealth tax is not the answer. Fixing the tax brackets (which currently top out federally when you earn ~500K or so, instead
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by lend000 3y ago
> Nobody's actually suggesting randomly auctioning off people's land at periodic time intervals You might be surprised if you visit r/georgism. But the point is that if you don't do auctions, you don't know how t
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by lend000 3y ago
Sell what to who? Isn't everyone a lessor under Georgism? I don't see how having regular auctions to determine what the land is actually worth is compatible with true land ownership. You auction the land to determine the tax, some
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by lend000 3y ago
That addresses one issue, but I think you end up with similar (or worse) problems we have now w.r.t. housing density, where someone keeps their dingy old single story house in a valuable up and coming downtown neighborhood because they gain
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by lend000 3y ago
No, there's a big difference. If someone bought a house and gets priced out of the house due to massive increases in value in the neighborhood and overall market, they reap the rewards of selling the house, because they owned the prope
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by lend000 3y ago
Exactly, there's no way to separate the value of the land from the value of existing improvements.
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by lend000 3y ago
I've gone back and forth on LVT, but don't currently support it. The problem is determining what the land is worth. If you use a periodic market-based auction system (the only known way that could possibly yield accurate prices),
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by lend000 3y ago
You might as well send something more sophisticated, because most of the cost is going to be in getting it out of Earth's orbit.
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by lend000 3y ago
It's not like you or I are actually going to do anything based on our limited understandings of particle physics, so fortunately it's irrelevant. But I'm not one of those people who says every year that we understand everythi
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by lend000 3y ago
Take the following with a huge grain of salt: The controversial scientist Bob Lazar, the guy who made Area 51 a household name, put out a video when he first went public that, regardless of whether you think he's full of shit or not, i
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by lend000 3y ago
The fact that you're being downvoted for factual contributions kind of explains why it's possible to beat the markets. Most people refuse to believe it. No public strategies are going to beat the market by a huge amount, and havin
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by lend000 3y ago
That's more of an indictment of the field of economics than anything else. The most talented leave to make better money in markets and hedge funds and the remaining academics get to set our public policy. There are plenty of consistent
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by lend000 3y ago
The difficult part was knowing where to sell so you could have money on the sidelines before the market dropped. Was it right when lockdowns started? In that case, you already lost a fair amount from the top. I do believe that markets can b

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