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by opo 2y ago
>The ones containing glycerol are sugar-free. Well glycerol is not sucrose but it has more calories per gram than sucrose and the FDA requires the glycerin content per serving to be declared as sugar alcohol. >Glycerin (sometimes spe
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by opo 2y ago
>Is there a academic study of the heuristic of choosing between option A versus option B? I don't know of a paper on that specific question, but for example, Gary Becker got his Nobel prize because he applied economics to a wide ran
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by opo 2y ago
>According to Statista the inflation rate has been equal or more than that with the exception of four years during that time frame. The 57% growth is after inflation: >>...median real income rose by 57% from 1990 to 2019. ('re
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by opo 2y ago
As a general defense, the research exemption is only applicable where you can reasonably claim you are using a patented invention for research purposes. But if it looks like the reason you are infringing on the patent is that you want to us
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by opo 2y ago
>...There were plenty of anti-federalists around during this time. They got to air their complaints and opinions. Nobody listened to them because the articles of confederation, and the loose, weak federal government it built was just tha
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by opo 2y ago
>...You can take a patent and build that thing in your house. The government can’t stop you, neither the inventor. It’s when you try to sell it that they can come after you. I don't think that is correct. The patent act states: &gt
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by opo 2y ago
>...The way that the modern Supreme Court (starting with its extremely conservative turn around 2005 with the replacement of O'Connor with Alito) has treated Qualified Immunity is that the constitutional violation (in this case, the
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by opo 2y ago
>"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." That quote is from Ronald Wright. It appears to be a paraphrase from this St
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by opo 2y ago
A big problem with US air traffic control is that you have the regulator regulating themselves. The USA is one of the few countries where the regulator also provides the ATC service. In comparison to Canada, the US government run air traff
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by opo 2y ago
Somewhat related, there is also the famous quote by Teddy Roosevelt: >...“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to th
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by opo 2y ago
>famously developed Alzheimer's... This isn't what his doctors have said. >...In 1989, just a few months after he completed his second term as president, Reagan underwent surgery to drain a subdural hematoma caused by a fall
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Where are you getting this NATO target of 5% of GDP? >...In 2006, NATO Defence Ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defence spending to continue to ensure the Alliance's military readin
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by opo 2y ago
Just because the far right complains about 'drugged out zombies' ruining cities thanks to drug smugglers from Mexico, doesn't mean libertarians think that. Libertarians have been opposed to the "war on drugs" for d
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by opo 2y ago
Lol. It is pretty clear that the key point of the summary I quoted was that the consensus among economists who have studied this was that at least 60% of the decline in airfare prices can be attributed to deregulation. You didn’t need to
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by opo 2y ago
33 * .6 = 19.8 My general feeling is always that if someone is going against the consensus of the experts who have studied something (whatever the issue is - it could be climate change or GMO food or effects of airline deregulation or whate
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by opo 2y ago
The general consensus among economists is that deregulation had a big effect on airline prices. For example: >...Every serious study of airline deregulation in the intervening years has found that travelers have indeed benefited enormou
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by opo 2y ago
>...When there is only one buyer or seller in any other case, we call it price gouging or price fixing. Having one buyer or seller of a product or service is neither called "price gouging" or "price fixing". >...Ad
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by opo 2y ago
>... It is impossible for independent resellers to compete with the manufacturer. Yes, those who manipulate the legislature to do rent seeking, might lose those profits when the law is removed. That is actually a feature, not a problem.
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by opo 2y ago
>...Maybe the car manufacturers take a public view that's different from their private view. Maybe without the government forcing the manufacturers to go through 3rd party dealerships, they would still use them, but how about removi
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by opo 2y ago
>...However, I think the fact is that the manufacturers who set it up like this don't want to deal with customers, and they establish dealerships that agree to a certain quality of service that the manufacturer wants associated with
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by opo 2y ago
When utilities are required to do net metering (i.e. buy power whenever it is produced at essentially the retail rate rather than buy what they need at the wholesale rate) it is a huge unsustainable subsidy to wealthier homeowners paid for
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by opo 2y ago
>...Haven't we more or less concluded that a million piecemeal rooftop installations of solar are about the worst way to do it? The data shows that you are correct. Utility grid solar provides low cost power and consumer rooftop so
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by opo 2y ago
>...rather than covering them up with spices (originally a measure to make up for the fact that things spoil easily in warm climates) While salt was used to preserve meat, the idea that the huge historical demand for spices was to cover
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by opo 2y ago
>He was, after all, a physics professor. Actually, he was a mathematics and computer science teacher at San Diego State University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge
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by opo 2y ago
>We don’t need to adjust for inflation since we are comparing nominal returns across the board. Well there are things like TIPS, so comparing real returns across the board might be more helpful. Some of the returns from S&P investing
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by opo 2y ago
>At its worst, 1999 to 2009, SP500 total annual return was only -0.2%, per dqdyj. That might not be adjusting for inflation. According to the calculator on moneychimp, with adjusting for inflation, the cagr for the S&P 500 over that
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by opo 2y ago
>They said Japan would collapse with their spending Who exactly is "They"? What did they mean when they said it would "collapse"? >Not only has that claim been proven false it has been the opposite. The general cl
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by opo 2y ago
>...And he's again been vindicated. Saying that Krugman was vindicated is quite a stretch. As the economist Noah Smith wrote: >...In 2021, Krugman tweeted: "I like it and plan to steal it. This report does look like what y
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by opo 2y ago
>...Ozempic is for type-1 diabetes At the present time, Ozempic is not approved for Type 1 diabetes: >...Ozempic® is not for use in people with type 1 diabetes. https://www.ozempic.com Compared with Type 2, with Type 1 dia
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by opo 2y ago
>...but it's common practice. There are many web pages claiming this, but I haven't seen actual statistics on this loophole. To be clear, many, many, people borrow against the value of an asset - from the middle class up to th

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