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by a008t 8y ago
At least with the CIA, arguably, the intentions were good. There are success stories, too - Japan, West Germany, South Korea. As far as I am aware, the Saudi establishment is only out for themselves.
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by a008t 8y ago
Have you been taking it? What has been your experience?
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by a008t 8y ago
Do you take L-threonate or other versions? Have you tried stopping it - did things get worse than before you started?
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by a008t 8y ago
I am 6’4 and thought it was impossible for me to gain muscle weight. Turns out I just wasn’t eating enough. Starting Strength + gallon of milk a day, and I have been making really good progress. Eating and sleeping are parts of the difficul
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by a008t 8y ago
Same. I wonder if there is any way to recreate that in normal life? I find that when travelling, I find myself excited to get up in the morning and I am quickly full of energy after waking up, motivated to do things. Not so in everyday life
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by a008t 8y ago
So what's the eli5 on how this works? How does predictit make a profit?
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Ask HN: Magnesium L-Threonate – what has been your experience?
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by a008t 8y ago
If helmets are in fact necessary, they should not be exempt. If they are not necessary, everyone should be exempt.
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by a008t 8y ago
If nobody is actually analyzing the companies to discover their intrinsic value, stock prices will detach from fundamentals and we will see much bigger crashes than we ever saw before.
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by a008t 8y ago
Five days a week sounds like too much - if you are not able to recover between sessions, you will get symptoms of overtraining which include poor sleep and poor appetite.
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by a008t 8y ago
And the beauty of being a trader/quant is that once you come up with such an automation, you will capture a lot of the upside as the company will not want to have you leave for a competitor and implement a similar strategy there.
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by a008t 8y ago
An important thing to realize is that you are not paid based on the value you added during the year. You are paid to make sure you do not leave (for a competitor). I think in the long run, acting in the best interest of the business when yo
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by a008t 8y ago
One can get a 30-year fixed rate mortgage?
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by a008t 8y ago
But that does not change the fact that his primary role at the moment is selling his research institute to potential funders.
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by a008t 8y ago
But the Fed cannot just arbitrarily set rates, presumably? There is some "real" rate in the economy, which is determined by supply/demand of capital at different maturities. If the Fed goes significantly below or above that,
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by a008t 8y ago
Houses have intrinsic value, which comes from future rental cashflows. Let's ignore the premium that some people would pay over that just because they want to be owners of a house. Then, it seems to me that house prices can be approxim
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by a008t 8y ago
Why would interest rates "normalize" though?
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by a008t 8y ago
Why is gold doing so poorly then?
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by a008t 8y ago
Are you saying that each individual person cannot decide to and then become more conscientious?
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by a008t 8y ago
My main concern is that the big government will be used by big corporations with massive compliance and legal departments to shut down any emerging competition that refuses to be bought out.
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by a008t 8y ago
So then, one can advocate against the use of social media in general or Facebook in particular, (ironically) run targeted ads on these platforms to educate the users, etc. In truth, I think social media as we know it is on the way out anywa
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by a008t 8y ago
He is primarily a salesman, is he not?
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by a008t 8y ago
Distribution of assets or distribution of consumption? I would argue the former is a complete red herring and if one is to be concerned about any inequality, it's inequality of consumption.
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by a008t 8y ago
Somehow, I feel like the old, unregulated internet was better. I wonder if that is just nostalgia or there is something to it. With an unregulated internet, any internet user has to take care of their own privacy and anonymity. Barriers for
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by a008t 8y ago
People become jaded?
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by a008t 8y ago
I remember often stumbling on online communities and message boards on Google when looking for something ~15 years ago. Most people in those communities also stumbled on them through Google. I cannot remember a single time I saw one in sear
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by a008t 8y ago
I think the way the internet has changed in the last decade has contributed to loneliness significantly. 10-15 years ago, the internet was full of small independent communities: message boards, IRC channels, chat rooms of all kinds, etc. Yo
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by a008t 8y ago
When you are in full-time education (school, university) friendships come naturally from the people you share the experience with. Work doesn't have the same effect because being professional usually implies not combining work with fun
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by a008t 8y ago
You have to agree, though, that it depends on the value that the minimum wage is set at? If you set the minimum wage at a senior developer level, anyone at the junior level will be unemployable. So if we agree that at some level of the mi
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by a008t 8y ago
Low salaries should help the startup scene, not hurt it. Where would you rather create your startup - somewhere where it would cost more to hire or less?

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