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> men when they hit 40 naturally lose between 5% and 8% of their total muscle mass a year I think your numbers might be per decade, not per year?

I don't think the original assertion is "punching down" on poor people. While you're correct that poverty isn't the "only reason" for high HIV transmission, poverty certainly contr…

the bond example is a return on your money, the profit margin example is a return on other people's money.

If this was copy-pasted, isn't it much more likely that it was copy-pasted from a document describing the performance of the SA3000 chip, than from a document that was written befo…

Here's a comparison of the Medieval Warm Period with recent temperatures (so no model based speculation). https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=31

There's a lot to unpack here: - the warming in the Medieval Warming Period is modest compared to projected modern warming - The Alps are currently "warm enough" to be crossed witho…

For the past ~60 years... with maybe just a bit of slack on the start of that, it would include tremendously impactful things like: - the clean air act and clean water act - endang…

This isn't really the issue, most of the cost of reviewing new drug applications is covered by user fees. And most of the cost and time required for getting a drug approved is in t…

protein and carbohydrate are both 4 calories per gram?

I don't think they're asserting that all of human existence can be subsumed as text, though? Just that "consciousness", or "understanding", in some meaningful sense could be exhibi…

That's a bookkeeping issue, it doesn't affect the argument at all (which is that the capex has a finite useful life over which it would need to pay for itself).

The claim could be true even if every customer is exactly like you. The implication is that Costco doesn't really make money selling stuff, they just need to roughly break even. An…

Not sure how that follows. It seems mostly irrelevant whether the new incident is related to the github issue.

The cheapest option might be to buy the index and sell short the appropriate amount of Musk companies.

Mostly never -- most of the deferral was an accounting adjustment for the value of future tax credits that they could no longer take advantage of, so there is no actual tax liabili…

Yes but if the solar panel area scales linearly with radiator area, the problem doesn't get worse?

This isn't really true, though? The ISS does it with radiators that are ~1/2 the area of its solar panels, and both should scale linearly with power?

What does it mean to "fund protests"? I'm also a "normal" person who has been to a couple No Kings protests, and no one paid me. Someone spent some money on fliers, I suppose. The …

"With Bitcoin you do not get government bailouts" -- yeah maybe not yet? Is it beyond belief that a government with leadership deeply invested in crypto currencies might take actio…

It is often illegal to purchase drugs from other sources? The named drugs are injectable and require cold storage so it is not trivial to safely source them from overseas.

I think I'm not understanding what comparison you're trying to make. I thought you were expressing some doubt about whether H1B, or temporary skilled worker visas generally, were b…

All the countries you mention offer temporary work visas for skilled workers, of varying similarity to an H1B.

> They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards. They were fine by the standards of the year before. > So a bureaucracy just declared that a legal level of em…

Can you reference where Krugman made the claim you're criticizing?

The terminations so far focus on anything with any mention of a DEI related objective and that may seem "fine", but these don't constitute a lot of the NSF's budget (the terminated…