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by lend000 4y ago
It's unreal that most of the comments here are missing this. The government guarantees effectively infinite loans that can be put toward college, and prices rise to meet the supply. Cause and effect.
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by lend000 4y ago
Private individuals didn't control the means of production. Individual profit motive exists regardless of whether that individual has been put into a socialist country or a country with more economic freedom, so it's probably best
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Intel Core i9-13900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 7950X at 125W and 65W(club386.com)
6 points by lend000 4y ago|0 comments
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by lend000 4y ago
Thanks for all the info! I'm glad you found something that worked for you. I've been meditating for 6 months and I suppose it's the best way I've found to calm my body, along with slowing my breathing rate, but I certain
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by lend000 4y ago
You had ME/CFS and completely cured it using the aforementioned techniques? I'd be interested in learning more details about your journey.
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by lend000 4y ago
Interesting. This is very in line with my experience, and I'll try to incorporate in your recommendations and see if they work. I dedicate a significant portion of my life to managing the symptoms and optimizing my health now, which is
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by lend000 4y ago
Tribulus Terrestris, at a low dose. It probably isn't doing much to be honest, but I'm trying not to add or remove too many things at once. That will probably be the next one to go.
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by lend000 4y ago
Anecdata: I had what seemed like relatively mild covid in March 2020, but never fully recovered, and I ended up unable to do strenuous or stressful activity without a super fight or flight physical response. I was in my 20's, and origi
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LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape(reason.com)
712 points by lend000 4y ago|359 comments
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by lend000 4y ago
This post on the eve of the animal testing requirement is honestly even less compelling than the argument "what about the bad guys" when politicians talk about outlawing encryption. The US FDA, as it exists today, is the single bi
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by lend000 4y ago
Curious if anyone here had additional context around this. Do calf raises have a similar effect? Do people with a habit of bouncing their calves while seated (essentially a soleus pushup as described in the article) have higher metabolisms
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'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting(stories.uh.edu)
319 points by lend000 4y ago|195 comments
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by lend000 4y ago
> It turns out, yes! What happens is that when the salt is added some of the ice melts – pulling heat from the system – until the temperature has reached the new, lower equilibrium point. Correction, or addendum here: the actual dissolut
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by lend000 4y ago
That's different than saying they have zero dollars, like the sibling comment that the parent was probably alluding to. In fact, there have been ~$20 billion in withdrawals during the last few months as the market has turned bearish an
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by lend000 4y ago
A lot of analysts put excessive weight on interest rate activity. Especially when rates start rising into reasonable territory (closer to the inflation rate), the effect tapers. For example, if the Fed raised rates to 100% tomorrow, it woul
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by lend000 4y ago
So, what's the solution nowadays? Is the cookware really the greatest source of these chemicals in the human body when properly used? It seems like lower hanging fruit is avoiding Teflon dental floss, "compostable" straws&#x2
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by lend000 4y ago
Pollution is probably the most objectively measurable of externalities. Much more so than say economic externalities/deciding what the exact values should be for tax brackets. We could just start with the easiest case, which is a produ
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by lend000 4y ago
+1 but generalize to all major pollutants, with the taxes levied being theoretically equal to the cost to "undo" that pollution.
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by lend000 4y ago
Not taking one position or the other, but you can't make any conclusions about whether a separate consciousness exists from anesthesia, only that no memories were formed that can be accessed by that consciousness (even if it did experi
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by lend000 4y ago
It's possible to have many correct points but miss the forest for the trees/argue past each other. I didn't mean that last comment to be condescending, by the way. To my original post (the second part), the BLS primarily meas
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by lend000 4y ago
> we used to junk cars sooner because new cars were cheaper This is not obvious to you? Look at how many things (especially plastics and electronics) are wasted today while they still function because they are so cheap. How many times ha
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by lend000 4y ago
That's actually a pretty big difference compared to the OP's claim, AND note that this statistic incorporates a delay (we are comparing 1990 vehicles to 2009 vehicles instead of 1998 to 2020). Granted, we don't know how long
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by lend000 4y ago
I think the original poster's claim of lasting twice as long is a big exaggeration, but it'd be interesting to see a source. Regardless, cars are likely more expensive to maintain now with all of the added complexity / sensor
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by lend000 4y ago
That was my interpretation when I first read the detailed process about the BLS survey. It will still measure inflation, but if the median American's spending preferences changes when prices change (which is true until the median Ameri
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by lend000 4y ago
But it's irrelevant when that's the cheapest new vehicle, most working Americans need a car, and despite better fuel efficiency, it isn't really that much cheaper to own a car. Hedonic adjustments make sense in theory, but in
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by lend000 4y ago
CPI has been engineered to meet targets for a long time. Several major flaws with CPI: Hedonic adjustments are more or less at the mercy of the bureaucrats. For example, new vehicles did not go up in hedonic-adjusted price from 1997 to 2020
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by lend000 4y ago
Do you think your father would disagree that history is written by the victors? Even today, there are two major factions in the US where the two sides not only disagree about what to do, but why, how, and even what things happened this year
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by lend000 4y ago
At some point in the future, we will have plants that essentially perform "alchemy" using nuclear transition state probability tables (the nuclear version of the chemistry done on an industrial scale today). The power cost will be
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by lend000 4y ago
The top tax bracket in 1913, the first year of the federal income tax as it exists today, was equivalent to ~14 million dollars at today's value. Our wealth inequality problems could largely be solved by fixing the tax brackets (especi
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by lend000 4y ago
Well that is sort of the point of such groups ;)

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