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by qgin 4y ago
You can just walk down any suburban street at mid-day and load up your wagon with all kinds of packages. Why draw attention to yourself trying to shoot a drone?
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by qgin 4y ago
> it's appreciating much faster than inflation over its life I have no doubt that people who bought in early have beat inflation very well, but that doesn’t make it an inflation hedge. It doesn’t move inversely from inflation.
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by qgin 4y ago
That could be the job description of the editor of the New Yorker
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by qgin 4y ago
Hearing Ray Dalio talk about the Bridgewater app always made me think of the episode of the show Community where the school starts beta testing a very similar app called MeowMeowBeanz and it turns what were informal social hierarchies into
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by qgin 4y ago
It’s insane that on my laptop I’m using a browser to run full featured versions of Google Sheets and Figma, but on my mobile phone, the pizza place wants me to download a 30mb binary app to see their menu. Browsers are more than capable of
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by qgin 4y ago
Hey, code is law right? He is the rightful owner now.
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by qgin 4y ago
Honest question, what's the worst thing that could result from MasterCard having a hash of my handprint?
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by qgin 4y ago
Debasing currency “just a bit” is arguably a positive thing. A steady trickle of predictable low inflation encourages the use cash and taking on debt for investment in future growth. A little deflation is fun for those who hold cash, but it
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by qgin 4y ago
The grass is pretty green right now, but if the rain stops, boy it will be a problem!
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by qgin 4y ago
Concerning the referenced study that equates negative effects of sun-avoidance to smoking: https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/joim.12496 > First, it is not possible to differentiate between active sun exposure habits and a
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by qgin 4y ago
I’m really looking forward to following this line of thinking to it’s eventual replacement of car airbags with nuclear bombs. How much more careful would drivers be if they knew a collision would kill everyone in a 100 mile radius?
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by qgin 4y ago
Ever since I had pretty significant health episode, I think a lot about the saying that goes “a healthy person wants a million things, but a sick person only wants one thing”
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by qgin 4y ago
Ah, I think I’m talking more about helping friends and family and the like. Usually I can avoid helping with anything I think is going to be harmful in the long term.
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by qgin 4y ago
When someone I care about has a problem and I’m able to fix it. Nothing else feels quite as awesome or meaningful. Conversely, nothing else feels quite as terrible as when someone I care about has an unfixable problem.
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by qgin 4y ago
Loving families are easy to idealize from afar. How many families actually fit that profile? I’m not entirely sure. This is not a jaded attempt to say the pursuit of relationships or family aren’t worthwhile. I just want to set some context
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by qgin 4y ago
We're in an uncanny valley in medicine right now where it is good enough to give the impression that we have more control over human health than we actually do. More and more, the general public has come to see medicine as the Genius B
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by qgin 4y ago
Fwiw, on log scale there has been a pretty solid price channel for the past 8 years. It has only been broken twice. One was the covid low, when the price was rescued by fed printing. The second time is now. Not sure what is coming to save t
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by qgin 4y ago
Even Reddit thinks the new website is terrible. Every time I visit on mobile they tell me the app is so much better and do everything in their power to keep me from using the website.
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by qgin 4y ago
That’s the one. It apparently is also an inhibitor of mtorc1
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by qgin 4y ago
Astaxanthin is a relatively safe, readily available supplement. For the rest of those, you really would want to be under the supervision of a doctor. https://www.rapamycin.news/t/doctors-who-prescribe-rapamycin...
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by qgin 4y ago
I think that’s the big difference between how medicine up until now has approached aging and how longevity research approaches aging. Longevity research is about preventing the state that causes people to get those diseases of aging in the
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by qgin 4y ago
The NIH Interventions Testing Program has identified 6 compounds that significantly extend HEALTHY life (in model animals). Some of these compounds have been tested in multiple model animals and the effect is conserved across all of them. H
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by qgin 4y ago
No other medical treatments work this way. Private insurance and socialized healthcare systems will jump at the chance to prevent their members from becoming afflicted with the extremely predictable and expensive diseases of aging (Alzheime
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by qgin 4y ago
Having children or grandchildren is even more of a reason to be interested in research that prevents the diseases of aging (longevity). When you get the diseases of aging that precede death, like Alzheimer’s or cancer or heart disease or ju
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by qgin 4y ago
Not that I disagree, but the timing seems convenient to avoid TSLA’s imminent bear market slide.
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by qgin 4y ago
True, but at least it’s content written humans in good faith and not just SEO bait.
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by qgin 4y ago
Tether knows that people are not going to be happy when they find out the backing. They wouldn’t fight it in court so hard otherwise.
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by qgin 4y ago
It’s weird to me that BTC is selling off more on this news. Do people just not realize how much of BTC’s value comes from Tether?
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by qgin 4y ago
Just add “Reddit” to the search string Reddit is what the internet used to be back when it was useful.
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by qgin 4y ago
My favorite websites are gopheresque

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