squids

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by squids 9y ago
I think the theory was that vegan food is less palatable and often less calorie dense and harder to find so vegans eat less. IIRC a study showed low carb diets worked in a similar way, people just ate less as they found it harder to find en
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by squids 9y ago
Not so fast, if you're under 55 years old and drink more than 4 cups a day then this study found that it is pretty bad for you. >A study of more than 40,000 individuals found a statistically significant 21% increased mortality in th
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by squids 11y ago
Did you factor in inflation into your calculation? By 2010 that 1990 $5 is worth $8.80. So you'd have to look at how many people were living on below that number to get your equivalent. If i remember correctly, a 1981 $1 is now worth $
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by squids 11y ago
More than that 90% of the world still live on less than $10 a day. If you incorporate inflation into the 1981 $1 a day world bank poverty threshhold it would be about $2.50 a day now. At that $2.50 there are something like 300 million more
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by squids 11y ago
>the group without would be more likely to be hired for low wage jobs because that salary is much more important to them. That's not necessarily how it would work. In the UK we've had a top up with tax credits for low paid jobs
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by squids 11y ago
I used to think this but then I read a few studies showing larger breakfast breaking the overnight fast result in better blood sugar/insulin/body fat scores. In comparison to intermittent fasting, chronic fasting/starvation e
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by squids 11y ago
Disabling javascript is fairly easy on a page by page basis, right click on the page, inspect element to bring up the console, click on the settings cog, scroll down, disable javascript tickbox.
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by squids 11y ago
90% of the world still live on less than $10 a day. If you incorporate inflation into the 1981 $1 a day world bank poverty threshhold it would be about $2.50 a day now. At that $2.50 there are something like 300 million more people living b
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by squids 11y ago
Well suicide can either be a cry for help or a decision that life isn't worth living. Maybe more men decide the latter. I also think the financial/work aspect is being overlooked. At around 40 a man will be most likely to have kid
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by squids 12y ago
You say it wasn't successful but they industrialised to an extent that they were one of the dominant superpowers within a generation. Aside from China, another planned economy I can't think of any other examples of that pace of ec
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by squids 12y ago
>Even something technological like Facebook earned most of their money from an artificially pumped stock market, not from the real world selling products and services. I have profited enormously from the stock market because I understand
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by squids 12y ago
If they don't call them creddits they've missed a trick.
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by squids 12y ago
One big thing this article misses is that crime has been falling worldwide by a similar rate as in America ( http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-s... ). So prisons do disproportionately impris
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by squids 12y ago
I used to use tineye but google has enabled reverse image search and being google it has far more results. Go to google images and click the camera button in the search box. It's really useful for detecting scams like this, used to for
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by squids 12y ago
We just had a run in with a scam for a place in Majorca on Airbnb. The place looked amazing and was reasonably priced for what it was so I reverse image searched the pictures and it turns out they had lifted them from a resort in the Carrib