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Show HN: LocksBet – a price comparison tool for prediction markets(locksbet.com)
2 points by at-w 3mo ago|0 comments
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by at-w 7mo ago
As have the opioids buprenorphine and Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone), which are genuinely useful treatments for addiction and have much lower risks of abuse.
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by at-w 7mo ago
>each of which ended up making a stronger, more dangerous opioid This is true of some early opioids like heroin, but with e.g. Oxycontin the problem wasn’t a stronger opioid, it's how it ended up being prescribed. Purdue's mark
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by at-w 8mo ago
>Taxes paid by your employer aren't taxes you pay. They have the same effect in that they reduce what employees take home in a given labour market. Employees are effectively paying them in the same way that people who buy alcohol&
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by at-w 1y ago
>the house take on the major platforms is vastly higher than with traditional sports betting What kind of markets is this referring to? Polymarket still charges 0 fees. While Kalshi's fees+spread can approach or even exceed traditio
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by at-w 1y ago
There are lots of places where you can bet against other players now. The older betting markets like Betfair are no longer available in the US, but Kalshi, Polymarket, and others now offer the same kind of two-sided marketplace in the US.
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by at-w 1y ago
>It’s no different from VAT versus sales tax: same result, different math. There's lots of evidence that tips vary significantly based on the traits of the customer (like the customer's self-esteem and sense of shame: https:&
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by at-w 1y ago
Rwanda was never colonized by the British.
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by at-w 2y ago
There's interesting data on the accuracy of US presidential markets if you're interested in this kind of thing. It's especially remarkable how accurate they were (both at predicting the outcome and how close the results were)
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by at-w 2y ago
From 2020-2024, the UN recorded ~17,000 deaths among children in all measured countries combined. The share of that that is among older children/teens and in developed countries like the US is vanishingly small.
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by at-w 2y ago
I'm not super well versed but my understanding is that that's right, with your actual DHT levels being the third variable. There are other non-hormonal causes of hair loss, like alopecia areata, but they're much less common.
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by at-w 2y ago
>It seems that he is spending a lot of his time & effort on maintaining his hair (huge kudos for admitting that!). If his body was functioning like an 18-year old he should not need to do that. If Bryan really set back his true aging
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by at-w 3y ago
Lawyers aren't limited to isolated cases. Class actions exist for this exact reason and regularly lead to hundred million dollar+ payouts from banks and other large defendants for harm done to large groups of people.
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Ask HN: How and where do you get users for your MVP?
3 points by at-w 3y ago|0 comments
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by at-w 3y ago
>Individually yes, genetics contribute to height, but the full range of height genetics exist in every culture. "The full range of incomes exist in every country, therefore differences in average incomes across countries must be neg
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by at-w 3y ago
> Pygmy genetics are minorly distinct. No other group is One group in all of humanity happened to have measurable differences in genes affecting height? How does that explain the many other distinct "Pygmy" groups entirely sepa
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by at-w 3y ago
>between cultures I don't see cultures mentioned anywhere in the article or the comment you replied to. If mean that there are no differences in the genes that determine height across populations, that is incorrect. For example, the
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by at-w 3y ago
That also raises the question of whether increased focus on these issues can negatively affect at least a subset of people. We know that severe mental (and even physical) symptoms can "spread" in social groups ( https://
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by at-w 3y ago
Were cities less automobile centric in the '70s, when the obesity rate was far lower? According to the CDC, physical activity has actually risen significantly in recent decades ( https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity&#x2F
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by at-w 3y ago
I agree that much of their use of "holistic" factors is simple discrimination and should be illegal, but considering other non-academic factors (arguably including character) seems reasonable, if not necessary, given the intent of
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by at-w 3y ago
The difference between excluding people from payment processing and physical private property is that payments is clearly an oligopoly for which no viable alternative exists. Treating monopolistic industries that provide essential services
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by at-w 4y ago
There is at least some evidence that levoamphetamine is more effective than dextroamphetamine for "hyperactivity and aggressiveness" associated with ADHD ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/a
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by at-w 4y ago
My impression was that dextroamphetamine also worked better in many patients than drugs that combine it with levoamphetamine such as Adderall. Even when Vyvanse was under patent and expensive, it was preferred by many for this reason (Vyvan
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by at-w 4y ago
It's an even more astonishingly bad idea if you just consider the buyer side. What could possibly go wrong with expecting 18 year olds to be able to buy a house with no credit history or assets to speak of? Forget renting a dorm, just
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by at-w 4y ago
I have no interest in being forced to tie down millions of dollars or go into massive debt every time I want to move or work somewhere new because you don't approve of me agreeing to pay someone to rent their place. Without the ability
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by at-w 4y ago
Interesting parallels to the "epidemic" of Tourettes symptoms among teen girls that exploded over the past 2 years: https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-... As with gender dysphoria, pa
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by at-w 4y ago
It would seem that the massive increase in young people opting for these procedures would lead to fundamental differences in the population that undergoes them. Assuming your understanding is based on long-term studies done before this mass
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by at-w 4y ago
Is there strong evidence that widespread adversity like a recession increases mental illness? I would guess that those kinds of factors that affect everyone in your social group have a less negative effect mental health wise, as everyone ar
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by at-w 4y ago
Thanks, didn't know it was that widespread. Have Republicans never tried to end these rules?
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by at-w 4y ago
The Economist has a policy of not using authors' names for any of their articles.

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