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by lhh 10mo ago
Very sad, for more reasons than one. For pretty much everyone, heart disease is totally preventable now. If you’re over 30, get your ApoB checked (non HDL cholesterol is a proxy), and if it’s high, get a calcium scan on your heart. If you s
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by lhh 2y ago
Titan (about John Rockefeller and the making of Standard Oil) and House of Morgan (about J.P. Morgan, the man and the investment bank, and the making of the modern financial system) were both excellent.
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by lhh 2y ago
Interesting, I'd always assumed people snorted the powder because it's not absorbed if consumed orally, but apparently that's not true. Maybe just it's just for the absorption speed? So... if someone drank industrial qua
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by lhh 2y ago
Three friends and I summited Vulcan Misti in Peru (~19k ft) over 2 days with no altitude training. All of us came from sea level, had 2 days to acclimate staying in the town nearby (~7k ft). This was a year out of college, all of us were D3
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by lhh 2y ago
I likewise had it in tea several times hiking in Peru. I personally didn’t notice any effect whatsoever, might as well have been mint tea.
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by lhh 2y ago
Disappointed that Nigel Pennypinch is missing from the acknowledgements.
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SaaS Revenue Forecasting(modeloptic.com)
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by lhh 3y ago
Yes: “Hey, our company is on the market for sale and I thought you might be interested in taking a look before we accept another offer.” And you can tailor it based on the specifics. Working with an advisor can sometimes make this easier be
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by lhh 3y ago
All great points! If anyone is interested in how things tend to work if you're trying to proactively sell a company (especially a profitable one), I put together a write up a while back: https://www.fivecastfinancial.com&#x2
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by lhh 3y ago
"If you're an optimist you're probably an idiot" has to be one of the most British hypotheses I've ever heard.
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by lhh 3y ago
Don't underestimate the benefit of exercise on mental performance. Your brain is a physical thing after all, mitochondria and all, and exercise improves its ability to function. Plus you'll feel way better, and probably live bette
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by lhh 4y ago
23andme will tell you your APOE genotype, one of the variants of which is a major risk factor for Alzheimer's.
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by lhh 4y ago
I agree that spreadsheets are still extremely useful, and surprisingly difficult to improve upon. Maybe it's because spreadsheets combine a bunch of the primitives used to build many types of applications - tabular data, persistent dat
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by lhh 5y ago
Hopefully TransUnion is more respectful of your rights.
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by lhh 5y ago
I really don't understand all the outrage in most of the comments here. Seems to me like they're just trying to launch a new cryptocurrency, they're trying to find a reasonably equitable way to distribute the initial tokens t
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by lhh 5y ago
He mentions several times that accountants do their work in Excel, but any account would consider it barbaric to actually try to do transaction-level double-entry bookkeeping in Excel instead of a purpose-built system like QuickBooks/X
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by lhh 6y ago
These complaints don’t seem to align with reality from what I can tell. The TARP “bailout” was one of the biggest, which taxpayers profited on. The nationalization of Fannie and Freddie was hugely expensive, but I don’t see how that can be
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Show HN: Modeloptic – Powerful and Intuitive Financial Reporting and Projections(modeloptic.com)
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SaaS Revenue Forecasting(modeloptic.com)
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SaaS Revenue Forecasting(modeloptic.com)
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by lhh 6y ago
I'm not arguing that "because they benefit they're therefore not being exploited". I'm arguing that "because they voluntarily enter into the agreement with full information they're therefore not being expl
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by lhh 6y ago
If what you care about is lifting citizenry out of poverty, free markets have the best track record by far, despite countless attempts otherwise.
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by lhh 6y ago
> You cannot legally own slaves, even if both parties are consenting adults. So clearly, your premise is flawed: there are absolutely things that the government can determine to be illegal. In California, this includes exploitative labor
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by lhh 6y ago
> That's a really harmful outlook. Harmful how, exactly? I don't agree that the government should be deeming any type of agreement that adults voluntarily enter into as illegal. The notion that the government should be doing th
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by lhh 6y ago
> Becerra said in an interview on CNBC on Tuesday that he was unconcerned about the potential for Uber to leave the state as a result of the order. “Any business model that relies on shortchanging workers in order to make it probably sho
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by lhh 6y ago
How does it follow that someone was exploited for that to have happened?
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by lhh 6y ago
> Uber has spent their entire existence dancing in legal gray areas. It's hard to have a ton of sympathy for them when their over-generous re-interpretations of the law bite them in the ass on occasion. True. But it's also hard
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by lhh 6y ago
Uber/Lyft/etc create jobs that otherwise didn't exist, thus providing an additional option for potential workers. With the additional option, maybe that option is better than some people's alternative options. We can sur
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by lhh 6y ago
I'm not saying the companies need government assistance. I'm saying they and their drivers should be able to come to whatever agreement they want to come to (or not).
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by lhh 6y ago
> A worker’s will to do something does not necessarily mean that thing is good for the worker That strikes me as a pretty condescending point of view. Shouldn't adults be allowed to make their own decisions on what is best for their

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