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by opo 9y ago
While I've seen estimates that the "adequate" amount of K2 is estimated to be 120 mcg per day, it was only with 200 mcg that the proteins that are dependent on Vitamin K2 were almost fully activated: https://www.nc
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by opo 9y ago
In a study of college athletes, males were deficient in about 40% of the vitamins and 50% of the minerals required. The female athletes were better but were still deficient in 29% of the vitamins and 40% of the minerals RDA. https:/&
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by opo 9y ago
>...You could instead figure out how to incorporate dark leafy greens into your diet a few times a week. They are basically multivitamins in plant form. It really isn't that simple. One issue is that it doesn't matter how many
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by opo 9y ago
>...even nuclear advocates say those old reactors are unsafe. No, this is not what people are saying. Those plants from the 50s and 60s have proven to be far safer ways of generating electricity than any alternative. Even today those pl
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by opo 9y ago
>“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” -John Maynard Keynes There isn't much evidence that was said by Keynes: >...In conclusion, this saying appeared in print by the 1990s and was closely associated
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by opo 9y ago
The article is an advocacy piece andit turns out isn't telling the entire story. The rules are described here: https://www.tva.gov/Energy/Valley-Renewable-Energy/Dispersed... There are 3 options: >Self-Ge
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by opo 9y ago
This seems the most fair way to handle power that is not generated by the utility. If the consumer wants to cut themselves off the grid and have enough extra solar panels and batteries to be self sufficient, that should also be allowed.
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by opo 9y ago
>...Xerox invented the PC, the mouse, the GUI and others While Xerox invented the GUI and other technologies, Douglass Englebart at SRI invented the mouse and Henry Edward Roberts designed the first PC, the Altair 8800 https:/&#x2F
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by opo 9y ago
There is pretty much overwhelming research that people are more productive and healthy at work when they have some privacy and don't have distractions. One example - a study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology of mor
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by opo 9y ago
>...The infringement claims were thrown out earlier than that (September 2017, IIRC). According to the article, the infringement claims were dropped after Waymo was notified of the USPTO reexamination that was going to be done due to Swi
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by opo 9y ago
They have a web site showing dentists who have their equipment: https://www.cereconline.com/locator
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by opo 9y ago
For some more background, Frontline did an episode on solitary confinement: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/solitary-nation/ And if you think solitary confinement is a nightmare, how about putting
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by opo 9y ago
>...I mean, either way, it's exceedingly rare, but the odds of a young child being abducted is a good bit higher than the odds that they are struck by lightning. Your link is talking about fatalities. Just as the number of fataliti
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by opo 9y ago
>...It's more common than lightning strikes, though still super remote. It doesn't look that way: >...During the study year, there were an estimated 115 stereotypical kidnappings, defined as abductions perpetrated by a stran
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by opo 9y ago
>...The US has the highest "statutory" tax rates but the lowest effective tax rates in the first world for business income. Lots of people claim this, but it doesn't appear to be true: >...The U.S. effective corporate t
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by opo 9y ago
>...And I don't think government does everything inefficiently, at least in our country (cz). I think smaller government is often more responsive. The Czech Republic is closer in population to some of the US states. >...So what d
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by opo 9y ago
If you need an example of trying to offer practical solutions, go to reason.org and you can probably find hundreds of pages of commentary, practical solutions, reviews, etc. The top story on the site looks like it is on the details of the c
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by opo 9y ago
I suspect anyone who has been interacted with a government agency would say ay "government does everything inefficently" - you don't have to be a libertarian to notice that. Any large organization and particularly one that h
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by opo 9y ago
>...That's why Libertaristan isn't on any maps. I do wonder why people go out of their way to misrepresent libertarianism. This shouldn't have to be pointed out, but libertarianism != anarchism. To have any kind of work
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by opo 9y ago
>...Just take half a pound of spinach and boil it, when you eat it, it'll be about the size of a medium bowl. That will be about 50 calories and contain 1200% of your daily vitamin K needed! It really isn't that simple. One is
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by opo 9y ago
>...Considering urban areas isolate cases is somewhere in between funny and absurd. What you said was "That's why a house costs on average 24 times more today than in 1960," You didn't say you were only taking about
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by opo 9y ago
>...That's why a house costs on average 24 times more today than in 1960, There might be isolated cases of that happening, but in general, nothing close to that. >...In fact, if you look at a fifty-year period after World War II,
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by opo 9y ago
What does Pakistan have to do with the person’s comment? >...The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and military are widely alleged by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban during their founding and time
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by opo 9y ago
>...Most of the developed world tax resident individuals and corporates on worldwide income. Yes, citizens are taxes on worldwide income, but not corporations. >...US is only unique in taxing non-resident individuals. The US and Eritr
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by opo 9y ago
>...My first problem is this: why exactly can't we treat companies the same way? I would be all for a 20% corporate tax rate if it meant a tax on worldwide income with credits for any taxes paid to foreign governments... exactly lik
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by opo 9y ago
Oh, would you then also force Samsung to pay US taxes on all profits it made in Korea and elsewhere? The same for Huawei and the profits it makes in China? For obvious reasons, no other developed country in the world has a corporate tax sy
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by opo 9y ago
Relations between the west and the Soviet Union were more complex than that: >...The United States government was initially hostile to the Soviet leaders for taking Russia out of World War I and was opposed to a state ideologically based
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by opo 9y ago
You bring up many good points, but I don’t think you need to accept the main point of the original post: >Most wealth is material... The wealth/value of the companies that control the intellectual property that the world relies on,
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by opo 9y ago
>...It's after Nixon "war on drugs" stance that we begin to see harsher and harsher penalties for possession, criminalisation of usage I don't know about other countries but the real push for harsher penalties in the
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by opo 9y ago
>Finally. I hope this will signal a turning point on this insane approach to national health in all countries. Drugs are a health problem, not a criminal problem. Agreed. >...Nixon started the war on drugs anyway as a mean to attack l

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