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by notadoc 9y ago
Frank Luntz is kind of a modern wizard with coining friendlier terms for politicians to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Use_of_language You might recall the whole rephrasing "global warming" as
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by notadoc 9y ago
Exercise is good for nearly everything. We evolved to be active, not to be sedentary. The more you can move, the better.
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by notadoc 9y ago
I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the realtor and charge a reasonable flat fee ($1000?) to buy/sell a house and handle all the related details. Why do we need realtors at this point? Everyone finds houses thems
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by notadoc 9y ago
In many west coast locations, house prices are far beyond the prior housing bubble peaks, I often come across places that are 75% to 100% more than they were during the mid-2000s bubble. Pick any popular western location, city, or neighborh
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by notadoc 9y ago
> I used to think that also until I studied economics in college Right so you kind of proved my point, that deflation is the academic economist boogieman.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Given the effectiveness of QE and ZIRP creating 10%-20% annual asset inflation for the past decade while most wages are flat? I'd have to bet on the central banks, not that I agree with the policy.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> If your body needs 2500 calories a day and you eat 2000 Very few people require 2500 calories a day, particularly with modern sedentary lifestyles. Plus, aside from the thermodynamics component, from a nutrition standpoint not all calo
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by notadoc 9y ago
Most people I've known with back pain related to weak or strained muscles were best helped with physical therapy. Often it means strengthening the abdominal muscles and loosening the chest/shoulders. Most of modern life is terribl
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by notadoc 9y ago
Did you adjust your diet during that period of time? What do you think was the original cause?
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by notadoc 9y ago
> You can't really negate it with immigration, can you? Well from a purely numerical standpoint, yes you can. > Worse yet, you can end up with "illegal" elderly with zero savings. That would make for a miserable sight.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Does Verge produce anything original or is it all blog regurgitation? How much of the web today is blog revomit vs original content?
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by notadoc 9y ago
The same demographic trend is projected to hit the USA if the USA doesn't negate it with immigration. Really the entire industrialized modern world has shrinking or stagnant population growth. Educated people are having less children (
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by notadoc 9y ago
Deflation is the endless terrifying boogieman of economists and academics and drives the constant obsession with creating inflation by central banks. Prices coming down ? Oh dear, we can't possibly have that!
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by notadoc 9y ago
I'm strongly in favor of going to Mars, but maybe we should also work on fixing up our home planet too.
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by notadoc 9y ago
I made all of those changes on a relatives iPhone and they still struggle to read anything on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by notadoc 9y ago
I suppose the insider-baseball nature of how the story is presented is what makes it hard to follow. These type of articles are often a mishmash of namedropping and assumptions, which ends up distracting from the actual story or the topic i
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by notadoc 9y ago
OK if I "don't get it" then can you explain how what you said here: > "It was unWANTED and inappropriate advances given the professional relationship and setting." is different from what I said here: "any
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by notadoc 9y ago
Fonts are a big issue, but it's not just the web. Two things I hear frequent complaints about are: - low contrast overly thin and small iOS fonts - low contrast overly thin very small Mac fonts This includes myself but I've had th
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by notadoc 9y ago
Bubblemania
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by notadoc 9y ago
"Advances" is the wording used in the authors own medium post, do you have a suggestion on how they should have phrased it? Do you know anyone, female or male, who have been hit on, flirted with, or sexually harassed at work by co
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by notadoc 9y ago
I had to follow a string of links to understand this story better, but it sounds like this individual made advances towards coworkers and colleagues. That got me thinking, on a nationwide basis, how many people would be resigning if they we
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by notadoc 9y ago
Three days? Three weeks would be more noteworthy, but really get back to me after three months or three years.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Surely this is a sort of top indicator. I was at a social event recently and some remarkably non-technical people were talking about bitcoin. It reminded me an awful lot of the wall street adage about the shoeshiner/waiter/driver
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by notadoc 9y ago
> a YouGov poll this month found that nearly two thirds of American adults would personally be willing to try MDMA, Ketamine, or Psilocybin if it was proven safe to treat a condition they have. This seems very dubious. I find it hard to
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by notadoc 9y ago
Eventually you will realize that you know absolutely nothing, and it's liberating. Even if you're considered a relative expert on a particular topic or subject, there is usually no end to learning more about it. That's the hu
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by notadoc 9y ago
This is blatantly inaccurate and outdated, which is not to say that there is not massive media conglomeration but rather the information presented is inaccurate. This link is also reblog spam from a BusinessInsider reblog spam from some oth
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by notadoc 9y ago
My apologies, not meant to troll but rather be a commentary on how our nation handles science and data.
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by notadoc 9y ago
This seems sort of like the kind of visa system the USA would advertise to attract a particular talented group, does it not? The founder visa looks quite friendly and easy, but it's four years. What happens after that? And what if the
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by notadoc 9y ago
We need to hear all sides of this debate before coming to any conclusions. It's probably time to inject as much political vitriol into this as possible, and pretend to debate this controversial 'study' and so-called 'sci
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by notadoc 9y ago
> The US should take leadership ideas from China? Yes, why not? The USA should take good ideas from anywhere they come from, as should any other country. > notice that China is very short on private cars. China has 172 million private

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