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by wavegeek 8y ago
Would it kill them to provide some decent nutritional information? Like how much salt is in the product? I found in the past that all the palatable meat substitutes were loaded with salt.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
It is strange that smart people like this are shooting themselves in the foot in this way. Yes you can save money by killing a product, but I would argue the second order effects are more important. People lose the faith to bet on your prod
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> antibiotics There is a difference in the case of antibiotics because of the issue of drug resistance. Most of the harm to others from opiate addiction is a secondary effect from the illegality of non-prescription drugs, leading to crim
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by wavegeek 8y ago
There were similar observations after the Vietnam war. Many soldiers were opiate addicts over there but the vast majority quit when they returned home and were no longer in the hell of combat. Any level of scrutiny is going to leave some un
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by wavegeek 8y ago
People have vastly differing levels of cortisol response to pain and cortisol responds to many different stressors other than pain.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
Mild sciatica is kind of funny but if you get a badly pinched nerve it is excruciating. Opiates turned off the pain for 2 hours out of three, and for a third hour I suffered. I did not get a full night's sleep for 6 weeks. Severe pain
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> Huge regulatory pressure surely hampers competition. Recently decided to open a bank account with another bank so I can shop around for time deposit rates. The form is 29 pages, almost all to satisfy regulatory requirements. The price
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by wavegeek 8y ago
At one point I thought I had found a fast factoring algorithm but I found that the internet no longer much depends on the difficulty of factoring large numbers and stopped work on the project. Elliptic Curve encryption for example does not
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> You weren't forced to. Actually you are. Doctors have a carefully protected monopoly on ordering diagnostic tests and on prescribing treatments. At least where I live, if you want diagnostic tests or drug treatments you need a pre
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by wavegeek 8y ago
OK here is an example from me. I have hypercortisolemia since 25 years at least. I have been to various endocrinologists to investigate this. It has caused numerous serious problems including blinding me in my left eye (from a cortisol rela
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by wavegeek 8y ago
The RPAH clinic was life changing for several people I know. including me. I think food/additive intolerances are a vastly underrated problem. A lot of people think they cannot tolerate "gluten" or some other thing when, ofte
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by wavegeek 8y ago
The benefits of nicotine on focus, concentration and mental ability are reasonably well established. It is unfortunate that it comes packaged with so many nasties in cigarette smoke. Of course you can get nicotine inhalers that avoid this p
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by wavegeek 8y ago
See posts below yes - this is a real thing. It was controversial until about 10-15 years ago. And the effect is bigger if you go back 50-60 years. What is interesting is that this is news to you. You would think the media would bring this i
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by wavegeek 8y ago
Arguably the vast majority of the processing power is in the plasticity. That is what enables learning.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
This is certainly evidence for the obvious point that structure matters. But it is not evidence that size does not matter. There is a reason why the human cortex is 4X the size of a chimp's. Human IQ is correlated with brain size. Dens
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by wavegeek 8y ago
But still there is an actual set of facts here.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
>control for everything The studies do not "control for everything". For example I have never seen 1. Control for the much higher levels of sick days taken by women. 2. Control for the product of hours worked and years worked.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
It is very hard to get reproduction experiments published. Even though reproducibility is absolutely core to the scientific process. You cannot make this stuff up.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> Drug prohibition has been a categorical failure in every outcome it was intended to achieve. Possibly you don't understand the intended outcomes. 1. Provide for the ongoing growth of the FBI's empire once it became apparent t
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> which is precisely why you should control for it, no? No. If willpower is inherited then what is required is a serious attempt to deal with this. If parental income is a proxy for willpower, and willpower is substantially heritable (bo
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> How do you define intelligence and how is it biologically inherited? Any textbook on the topic will explain. This is not even controversial.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> My biggest fear is that all of these complex bureaucratic laws are just raising the bar for doing a startup. A senior executive at a large bank once told me "that's the idea!". Specifically, complex and onerous regulatio
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> over 90% on time While true, this is a factoid. 1. Some trains never run. For the commuter this is like a very late train. You need to add the "did not run" numbers to the late trains to get a total effective lateness figure
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> flags of convince <pedantry>flags of convenience</pedantry>
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> we must face the social implications of substance abuse True. But we must also face up to the costs of regulation. The illegality of recreational drugs delivers $1 trillion into the hands of organized crime per annum, for example. The
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by wavegeek 8y ago
> Alcohol and nicotine are some of the most addictive drugs out there Nicotine alone is not actually that addictive. I use it as a nootropic and have not seen any signs of getting addicted. Yet years ago I struggled to give up smoking. W
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> In my college, the university takes a whopping 50% of grant money in administrative fees, leaving so much less for actual hiring of postdocs and graduate students. OMG
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by wavegeek 9y ago
The use of this information in the hands of the statistically incompetent will lead to miscarriages of justice and disaster. This basically institutionalizes the prosecutor's fallacy.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> Are you saying studies published in Nature or New England Journal of Medicine can't be trusted? http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou... Summary There is increasing concern that mo
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Many would argue that using these forms to denote subjunctive mood is archaic, like words like "thou". Certainly this is not a clear mistake.

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