rdmcfee

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by rdmcfee 10y ago
A single payer system is a step in the right direction, however, there are deeper issues with the American healthcare system. The unit cost of healthcare is so much higher than in other developed countries. In British Columbia, physicians b
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by rdmcfee 10y ago
The title is misleading. The tax is apparently 1% of property value. $10,000 would be the tax on a $1M home.
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by rdmcfee 10y ago
There are two core issues with nutrition science. The first issue is that it's extremely difficult to run a long term controlled study on nutrition. Adherence to diet interventions is difficult to measure and it drops off over time. As
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by rdmcfee 10y ago
There is already some process available to measure this as Canada has tax deductions available specific to your "primary residence". CRA definitely has a way of auditing this. Sharing that information with a provincial level organ
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by rdmcfee 10y ago
But you pay interest on your leverage. So if your asset isn't appreciating faster than inflation + your interest rate then I don't think you're actually realizing any gains.
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by rdmcfee 10y ago
Except your mortgage interest may also be 3% so you may realize nothing on your investment. Your interest costs will be proportional to your leverage so you need the asset to outperform your interest rate to realize anything.
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by rdmcfee 10y ago
We Vancouverites are spoiled. I just finished an 18 month stint in the Bay Area. One of the biggest inconveniences was the driving time (especially with traffic) to get to the mountains. In Seattle now and it's a great compromise. Simi
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by rdmcfee 10y ago
One thing that stood out to me is that immigration from Canada nearly stopped altogether in the mid 1890s. I wonder if the klondike gold rush was a factor here. I know it spurred a mass migration to the North. As a collateral effect, even V
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by rdmcfee 11y ago
The more time I spend in this industry the more I realize how many software engineers leave salary on the table. It's great to see a tool like this which both encourage software engineers to negotiate their salary, and help them streng
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by rdmcfee 11y ago
Sure, the correlation is statistically significant. Without a control to infer causality the results become much less interesting. To infer causality in an epidemiological study such as this you need very large cohorts with very specific re
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by rdmcfee 11y ago
It's an interesting hypothesis but unfortunately a cohort study with no randomized control and n=236 isn't really meaningful. There's no control at all here and the sample size is tiny .
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by rdmcfee 11y ago
I believe that some startup founders/execs have optimized for valuation at the expense of costly liquidation preferences for late stage investors.
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by rdmcfee 11y ago
Maybe it's more a lack of access to modern scientific knowledge than 'craziness'.
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by rdmcfee 11y ago
I'm a big fan of personal experimentation but it's important to always be skeptical of your own n=1 conclusions. In this particular case, coinciding the interventions of your diet change and exercise regiment make it very difficul
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by rdmcfee 11y ago
Nice, Graeham!
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
I hope this will continue to be supported as I'll be including it in my projects going forwards.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Great marketing for a competing product. Has anyone tried ketosoy? I suppose the obvious first question is: How does it taste?
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Does it not seem possible that many of the factors leading to this gender grouping are influenced by biological age? For example, research shows that our brains are hugely influenceable until our mid to late 20's. At that point major p
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
This kind of innovation is cool, but it's a zero sum game. The bitcoin markets are already driven by competing bots. Their profits will be reduced as other bots iterate on their algorithms.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
I think this is a complex issue. I suspect that like with cars, many of these folks would have the option to buy a used item which is equally as functional for something like 20% of the price of a new item. Again, like cars, household items
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Electric vehicle owners use more electricity, in addition to the electricity they use for charging. Perhaps electric vehicle owners are in a higher income bracket and have larger houses.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
With the accelerating change in the earth's magnetic field it would be fantastic to drop a few of these bad boys and see what's actually going on down there.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Mrs. Dreier looks to be at least 20kg overweight. She could quite healthily fast for at least 3 months living of of those reserves plus some magnesium supplements. It has been done before with great success: http://www.ncbi.nlm.n
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Sun Burn = Radiation Burn
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Experts don't think that will happen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#Effects_on...
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Only this year did BC announce they would remove legislation which outlawed having happy hour specials.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
In addition to having similar liquor license quotas, British Columbians pay a markup of 123% for wine and 170% for spirits. Our provincial liquor board generates $1.2B per year from a population of only 4.5 million people. There are differe
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Yeah it's interesting how ancient cultures seemed to have (by trial and error I suppose) incorporated specific behaviors into their culture which, in hindsight, solve a particular problem that can be scientifically identified. An examp
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Probably easier to just take an insulin sensitivity test or get your Hb A1C tested.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
I don't know that the biological benefits of fasting are associated directly with cultural fasting patterns in our ancestry. I suspect they're more linked with our ancestral hunter-gatherer traits. It seems logical that early huma

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