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by vharuck 5y ago
One option is government subsidies, like what's done for farms and military hardware. Just keep buying it up, even if it rots or rusts. The goal is to make sure those industries remain healthy and don't slip back in expertise.
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Are there exemptions from this in the US? Yes, implied acceptance of risk. In short, if a person understood the chance of the bad thing happening when they chose to take part, they can't blame somebody else for it happening. (Unle
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by vharuck 5y ago
Obesity is a major risk factor for cancer. Exercise itself didn't fight cancer cells, it's just what we encourage to combat obesity.
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by vharuck 5y ago
I'm going to assume your point is "Expansion of Medicaid/Medicare did not have as much of an impact as most think, and the results in my quote provide some evidence." Please correct me if I'm wrong. Stage at diagno
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by vharuck 5y ago
>I can't help thinking that NPR's silence on this rather fundamental feature of cancer, i.e. the role of environmental carcinogens, is in some way related to the money they take from their advertisers in the fossil fuel /
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Walmart and other big chains have used their sales information to know which products were worth making “house brand” copies of, then promoting those alongside the original ones. Aren't those white label products? Major manufactur
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by vharuck 5y ago
I've come around to this view, too. Also like names, the best solution is to avoid using them for analysis. Run them through an address geocoding service and store the coordinates next to the address. Use the original address for sen
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by vharuck 5y ago
I liked how another poster explained rental car business models, and how the pandemic royally screwed them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28568896
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by vharuck 5y ago
Out of curiosity, I wondered if the FDA agreed. And they do: https://www.cfsanappsexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm... The FDA does warn against using the name "white tuna," but they sure don&#x27
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by vharuck 5y ago
As the article mentions, murder rates rose across the country. And not many cities actually had official support, let alone took action, for defunding or restructuring police forces. Honestly, blaming it on the "Defund the police&quot
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by vharuck 5y ago
>The old body has not changed. The same software is still running on the same hardware, what would change? But bodies do change over time; cells use molecules from food to create new ones, old cells die, people lose limbs. Now we'r
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by vharuck 5y ago
This is what Japan's NHK does, and I watch it a lot on Roku. Documentaries, cooking shows, talk shows focusing on Japanese culture, etc. They're basically cultivating and training tourists, which is great! I want to know abou
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by vharuck 5y ago
Tabletop games, and any activity where you meet with a small group of regulars, is resistant to the perils of popularity. More people playing D&D means the publisher can publish more books and offer accessories, because they're co
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by vharuck 5y ago
About a 2% chance of catching it before the end of the year. Much higher than I expected. There could be another spike this Fall and Winter, which would increase the chance. But, hopefully, more people getting vaccinated and possibly boo
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by vharuck 5y ago
There's "free" as in beer, "free" as in free speech, and "free" as in Freedom Fries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
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by vharuck 5y ago
This is done today by stem cell banks. They're typically used for treatment of diseases like leukemia. Public stem cell banks work similarly to blood banks, and there are private banks where your stem cells are saved for your family.
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by vharuck 5y ago
I wish the article provided links or references for each major philosophy. I've avoided diving down this rabbit hole for a while because I'm already afraid I'm slipping at its edge. But it'd be nice to read books or es
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by vharuck 5y ago
A better explanation of the growth from 1870 to 1900 is the Second Industrial Revolution[1]. This was a short period of massive changes to logistics (better railways), society (electric lights improved factory productivity), and what was e
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Real life is often not as clear. We don’t know whether our costs are sunk or not. I'm having trouble thinking of when it's not clear. >Has the athlete who trained 7 years to get to elite status wasted her time, or is she on
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by vharuck 5y ago
I'm not surprised flu rates are crashing with the current social distancing, mask wearing, and higher skittishness around people with respiratory symptoms. Even if most people do them poorly, and others don't do them out of prote
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by vharuck 5y ago
https://www.cancer.org/healthy.html - No smoking, or chewing tobacco - Don't drink excessively - Stay at a good weight - Use sunblock - Eat healthy (notably, reduce consumption of red meats) - Get your recommended canc
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by vharuck 5y ago
When I read Lovecraft's stories, I used to have trouble believing people would willingly worship an uncaring force that was going to kill them just like the others. After the past few years, it's gotten easier to understand.
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by vharuck 5y ago
Yes, that's a very reasonable assumption. I assume all information I give out will be shared beyond my control, unless the recipient promises in writing to protect it and would suffer proportionally if they broke that promise. In p
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by vharuck 5y ago
>We have to have locks on the doors to our homes and vehicles, because people might trespass. But most of us don't have metal bars over our homes' windows. There's a middle ground of making bad behavior mildly inconvenien
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by vharuck 5y ago
>We said a similar proliferation sentence once on communication technology and biology - and here we are. Everybody can build and wield information-technology weapons and very soon everyone will be able to craft his/her own bio-weap
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by vharuck 5y ago
This particular word problem is a clever one that can be sold a with different mental models (variable in an equation, imagining a brick being split, and probably other ways I haven't thought of). But it's a dumb problem with no
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Maybe there's a brief moment of "I'm impressed with how much work you put into this" but for that to happen, you kind of have to see the work being done. Or be knowledgeable enough to estimate the effort and skill re
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by vharuck 5y ago
It should be covered under "right to publicity" laws [0]. TFA touched on this. These are the laws that prevent people from capitalizing on celebrities' names or likenesses without permission. This is applied even if the pe
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by vharuck 5y ago
All models are wrong. But some are also useful. Don't be surprised when a screwdriver isn't useful as a hammer.
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Just like in old media. We have fox and cnn, we will have Facebook Twitter and whatever the right will build. I don't think it's destined or even likely to end up this way. The reason there's no major conservatively alig

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