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by pakitan 8y ago
It's impressive in terms of having a coherent flow - there is a clearly stated "opinion" in the beginning and everything that follows is in support of that opinion. However, the dead giveaway is that there is zero reasoning,
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The problem for spammers, as well as for fake news writers, has never been in coming up with the text for the spam email or the fake news story. This is already cheap and easy enough. The problem is with distribution and getting enough eyeb
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by pakitan 8y ago
Do the $3000 hearing aids differ significantly than, say, this: https://www.amazon.de/Audiben-PSA-H%C3%B6rverst%C3%A4rker-Pr...
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by pakitan 8y ago
Yet, somehow, Mongolians seem to have a slightly higher life expectancy than Indians, who generally subsist on plant-based diets.
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Yet our gut is optimized for a meat based diet. Our digestive system resembles more the one of lion than the one of our closest cousin - the chimpanzee. In his book "Sapiens", Yuval Harari talks about how we literally drove into e
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by pakitan 8y ago
> Though, there are plenty of counter examples of cultures that have an almost all meat diet and are perfectly healthy, there are other factors involved in those cultures that don't apply to your average first world eater -- the mea
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The fact that humans evolved without access to sunscreen is just a starting point, when someone is considering whether to use sunscreen or not. You chose to take issue with that one sentence, while ignoring everything else in the article. A
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> A more charitable view would be, "Currently I have better evidence in the literature that this medication would be more helpful than sun exposure, which in large quantities has more evidence of harm than benefit." That's
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> 2) Studies also show that vitamin D deficiency is related to many illness. Taking supplement protects against them. That's hardly a "rebuke". First, I'll note that you carefully used the word "related" ins
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I'm not from US, I didn't imply that he must get all his calories from chicken and I'm not the one who brought up the chicken in the first place. He seemed to imply that chicken is a significant part of this diet and it simpl
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by pakitan 8y ago
> A whole chicken costs $6 That means you blew your 3-day food budget on half a chicken. That's just not nearly enough calories for 3 days. I'm not doubting you're able to afford chicken on that tight budget, it just seems
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by pakitan 8y ago
You can do it anywhere if you're frugal and willing to cook. One side effect of globalization is that food staples prices are pretty much the same over the world. I'm not saying it will necessarily be a healthy diet and $1/da
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by pakitan 8y ago
Isn't all this achieved with a generic code signing certificate? What additional benefit does Apple's "notarization" offer, other than further fragmenting the market?
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But this is not spending of $36M/hour. House edge is something like 1% so you're expected to lose "just" $360K.
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Except that, the way education works in USA, has little to do with the "free market". The free market is vastly distorted by the government guaranteeing student loans. I can assure you the picture would be very different if lend
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Is Chrome the only browser this trick worked on?
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> The big betting venue in Europe (at least back when I knew things) is an exchange, though. They take no outcome risk and make money either way, though typically more if the underdog wins. Yes, they can't lose, but they still pen
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by pakitan 8y ago
> In theory or in practice? :-) You're right (in theory), in practice I can assure, it happens. If you're foreigner, haggling at a local flea market, of course it can happen. But in "official" places, this is simply n
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by pakitan 8y ago
> This is why in Bulgaria, Cz and other countries you see locals paying low rates while other Europeans paying private college fees. That's incorrect. In EU you can't price-discriminate, based on nationality, regardless of the
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by pakitan 8y ago
1. Free lunch may not be free but while it may cost $X for the company to offer that lunch and while they may deduct that $X from my salary, the value of that lunch to me is not $X but, say, 10 x $X because it saves me time going to and sea
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by pakitan 8y ago
That's exactly what they are doing except the part with "absorbing debt". Banks and credit card companies don't suffer any losses because it's the merchants who absorb them. And that's the root of the problem.
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It's the total volume of the open bid orders.
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by pakitan 8y ago
It's too short of a season - few weeks. For the rest of the year, the bees will literally have nothing to forage on and when there is lack of forage, the queen will stop laying eggs, which will eventually lead to colony's death.
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by pakitan 8y ago
> Basic point is: If 37.5 moves the price 0.0002, and 13,076.389 only moves it by half that, then the second purchase is fake (trading to yourself). No, you're making an assumption which is easily proven wrong. Here is what Kraken&#
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by pakitan 8y ago
> Rudeness is inferred or "felt" by the other party Not really. When you attack/insult someone, instead of attacking his ideas, it's pretty much universally accepted that you're being an asshole. It's not a
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by pakitan 8y ago
How is their spam filtering. For me gmail really does an outstanding job in that regard and it's hard to beat them.
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by pakitan 9y ago
If every fund is getting the majority of their strategies from the same academic papers, that must do wonders for the profit :)
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by pakitan 9y ago
A more accurate statement will be "Nearly everything you can think of has already been done or will be done soon and since this is a zero-sum game, the expected profit in the long term from quant trading is approaching zero"
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> My favorite was a guy who was supposedly not able to walk Isn't this something that the insurance company would be able to confirm by forcing the person to undergo a medical exam? Seems hard to imagine that such a disability can b
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The non-exposed rats are more likely to die than the exposed ones. That's the important part of the study. I'm not sure what kind of "independent expert" will "reevaluate" the data to underline risks that don&#

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