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Comment #894908
That's not what the article says. It says you have to deliberately move your eggs around according to the business cycle.
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Comment #894879
A pure cash investing strategy (money market, CD, T-Bill/Bond) now has a track record as good as the US stock market over 30 year periods. Except the much lower volatility of cash …
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Comment #891220
> lack of female talent in this industry is a real shame Why? I really don't think it matters. Is the shortage of whites in the NBA also a real shame to you?
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Comment #888466
> I must have missed the bread queue at the bakery this morning It's a digital queue now: One in nine americans on food stamps: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5…
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Comment #885815
People need fast high level OO abstractions all the time: Abstract Factory, that sort of thing. C++ is still the only game in town if you need to model something complex, as in a g…
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Comment #879312
He's ignoring the reality of irreducible complexity. There is not always some cute dynamic language trick to cut down the code length. Some software is inherently very large and co…
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Comment #875570
There was high literacy because Americans were more affluent. Slaves and indentured servants aside, there simply weren't the masses of deeply impoverished folks toiling long hours …
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Comment #875559
> Literacy became much more common by the mid 1800s Book and pamphlet sales indicate high literacy during the revolutionary period. I do not think think there was ever much illiter…
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Comment #868896
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0679.htm "marathoners might have even lower frequencies of heart attacks if they gave up marathoning and focused on shorter events which are less ta…
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Comment #865518
> These days, when talk turns to the supposed genetic differences in the intelligence of certain races, Southern Italians have disappeared from the discussion. Not been to the guid…
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Comment #864942
> every one of those studies found greater longevity and fewer lifestyle diseases in endurance athletes than in speed or power athletes. Do share. I hope you know what I mean by ob…
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Comment #864096
Your studies are all observational garbage, as were the two links I posted, more to make a point than anything. And they both did in fact raise questions about damage caused by dis…
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Comment #863410
The link is worthless. Some researchers say runners live long ... because their model says runners live long. Tautology. Why didn't they just look at dead olympic athletes? That wo…
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Comment #862660
> 41 percent less likely to suffer from high blood pressure Compared to whom? Serious racquet sport competitors? Power lifters? No, compared to couch potatoes with lousy diets. Wel…
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Comment #861132
I don't think coffee is technically a bean. It's the pit of a fruit. Anyway, it has no calories. Cavemen almost certainly drank various teas. It's very important with the paleo stu…
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Comment #861078
A pork chop and some carrots. There's nothing complicated about it. You can do OK at grocery store buffets, actually.
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Comment #861059
Top ten reasons not to run marathons: http://www.arthurdevany.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons.html
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Comment #861049
I'm afraid you are trying to mislead. No, a large pool of undocumented mexican labor was not coming to the US to live and work. Not until the late 40s, anyway. Then the problem was…
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Comment #861014
http://imgur.com/uyIxQ There you go, wiseguy.
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Comment #860994
It's true I've never been fat, but the changes in my health and body composition as I shifted to eating this way were undeniable. Likewise my health also improved as I phased out a…
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Comment #860980
I wouldn't say "no coffee" is a paleo thing. Also, I would say experiment with dairy. Dairy makes me feel great. Full fat yogurt is a fantastically cheap and healthy central compon…
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Comment #860963
This trumps absolutely anything else you can do: avoid starch and sugar. Eat only meat/fish, vegetables, and fruit. Simply don't eat sugary drinks, cereal, oatmeal, rice, potatoes,…
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Comment #860310
In the case of Japan we're talking about a lot of Chinese and Koreans who do in fact speak Japanese.