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I built LocksBet to make it easier to see where the same event is trading across prediction markets, and compare the price you would actually get after accounting for fees and liqu…

As have the opioids buprenorphine and Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone), which are genuinely useful treatments for addiction and have much lower risks of abuse.

>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 …

>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…

>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 Kalsh…

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 n…

>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 custo…

Rwanda was never colonized by the British.

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 predictin…

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 li…

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 al…

>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 nee…

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 …

I'm building a web app that helps businesses increase their sales and brand awareness by finding relevant, highly viewed Reddit discussions for them to engage with. For this kind o…

>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 differe…

> 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 m…

>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 acr…

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 …

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 ( h…

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…

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. Treat…

There is at least some evidence that levoamphetamine is more effective than dextroamphetamine for "hyperactivity and aggressiveness" associated with ADHD ( https://jamanetwork.com/…

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 an…

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 hist…

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 …