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I went through something similar a few years ago. Briefly, the things that stand out for me now are: depending on your circumstances and where you live, and your goals for the futu…

Banks should really just stop calling customers and taking them through security. If there's something urgent, the protocol should be that they call you, give you a ticket number, …

Agree that bitcoin blockchain is unnecessary, but isn't there some merit in the idea that all major publishers in a juristiction would opt-in to posting to a single chain? Given th…

The hedge funds don't bet against it, they actually pay the large retail brokers for this order flow, ie they execute it for them, because it is non-alpha-bearing, ie generally clu…

An alternative to multiplicative inverse is to think of division x/y as allocating an amount x to y recipients; this is a very common operation in finance, eg allocating x shares t…

Why is the war hypothesis considered more likely than say a widespread, long lived contagious disease that had significantly higher mortality in males than females? If there was a …

Whatever the source I don't think there can be any question how Theranos will be judged at this point, which makes resorting to cheap devices all the more unnecessary and redundant…

The site is unusable on my mobile device, (chrome on OnePlus 5t, unclosable popup appears immediately) Aside, I really think displaying a picture of the "villain" so obviously doct…

Every article states this, but personally the keto diet foods are exactly what I normally crave and want to gorge on: meat, fish, nuts, avocado, butter, double cream, low carb root…

Perhaps a government will step in and fund a program to develop the vaccines. As a propaganda coup, it would give the kind of bragging rights that China or Russia would seem to cra…

For herpes simplex on the lips try a large dose of L-Lysine (6mg or more on day 1, followed by 2mg a day for a week), in all cases over the past 5 years for me this completely prev…

Why, what are the risks?

How about they start adhering to the practices that made journalism a cornerstone of functioning democracies for so long? Such as reporting all the facts critically, and not approa…

Irish "travellers", related to Romany gypsies, still burned the caravan of someone who died, at least up to 25 years ago (when I was a kid living close to a halting site). Maybe so…

A trackpoint is an absolutely non-negotiable requirement for me, so I bought several lenovo bluetooth keyboards, set them up for all the desktops I use, and kept a few spare in cas…

Not necessarily - for stock index futures, the seller of the contract can simultaneously buy the index of stocks. When the future contract reaches maturity the seller has to "deliv…

Now that someone has said this I realise I've been doing the same for quite some time. It looks like a PR department with a university attached. Edit: it's not so much that it's us…

Having 'skin in the game' means having a stake in the outcome, e.g. "Paul should invest in the company, if he's going to sit on the board he should have some skin in the game" It's…

Yes, I have heard it directly from the doctors, I also hear it repeated by other parents who have kids going through this. Unfortunately doctors don't follow the official procedure…

The results all talk about tests that measure levels in the urine or blood, not the level in the brain, sorry if I'm being thick, but I don't see any actually measure brain levels.…

What kind of things can they measure from urine and saliva? Can you point at any literature on this, would love to read more about it.

The most extreme critics of SSRIs would argue that the alterations to the brain caused by these drugs are severe and irreversible. Another genuine question: what makes us so sure t…

Yes Edit: I also hear it frequently from parents of children who have been referred to psychiatrists by their schoolteachers for (in my opinion at least) fairly minor disruptive be…

Genuine question: has there been any study that actually measured the "levels" of neurotransmitters in the brain and correlated them with the subjects' behavior? Has there been any…