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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 …

Have you been taking it? What has been your experience?

Do you take L-threonate or other versions? Have you tried stopping it - did things get worse than before you started?

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 …

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 afte…

So what's the eli5 on how this works? How does predictit make a profit?

Has anyone here been taking Magnesium L-Threonate as a supplement? What has been your experience? How long have you been taking it for and how much? What was it like before you sta…

If helmets are in fact necessary, they should not be exempt. If they are not necessary, everyone should be exempt.

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 bef…

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.

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 c…

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 l…

One can get a 30-year fixed rate mortgage?

But that does not change the fact that his primary role at the moment is selling his research institute to potential funders.

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…

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.…

Why would interest rates "normalize" though?

Why is gold doing so poorly then?

Are you saying that each individual person cannot decide to and then become more conscientious?

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 b…

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…

He is primarily a salesman, is he not?

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 con…

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 t…

People become jaded?