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Very sad, for more reasons than one. For pretty much everyone, heart disease is totally preventable now. If you’re over 30, get your ApoB checked (non HDL cholesterol is a proxy), …

Titan (about John Rockefeller and the making of Standard Oil) and House of Morgan (about J.P. Morgan, the man and the investment bank, and the making of the modern financial system…

Interesting, I'd always assumed people snorted the powder because it's not absorbed if consumed orally, but apparently that's not true. Maybe just it's just for the absorption spee…

Three friends and I summited Vulcan Misti in Peru (~19k ft) over 2 days with no altitude training. All of us came from sea level, had 2 days to acclimate staying in the town nearby…

I likewise had it in tea several times hiking in Peru. I personally didn’t notice any effect whatsoever, might as well have been mint tea.

Disappointed that Nigel Pennypinch is missing from the acknowledgements.

Yes: “Hey, our company is on the market for sale and I thought you might be interested in taking a look before we accept another offer.” And you can tailor it based on the specific…

All great points! If anyone is interested in how things tend to work if you're trying to proactively sell a company (especially a profitable one), I put together a write up a while…

"If you're an optimist you're probably an idiot" has to be one of the most British hypotheses I've ever heard.

Don't underestimate the benefit of exercise on mental performance. Your brain is a physical thing after all, mitochondria and all, and exercise improves its ability to function. Pl…

23andme will tell you your APOE genotype, one of the variants of which is a major risk factor for Alzheimer's.

I agree that spreadsheets are still extremely useful, and surprisingly difficult to improve upon. Maybe it's because spreadsheets combine a bunch of the primitives used to build ma…

Hopefully TransUnion is more respectful of your rights.

I really don't understand all the outrage in most of the comments here. Seems to me like they're just trying to launch a new cryptocurrency, they're trying to find a reasonably equ…

He mentions several times that accountants do their work in Excel, but any account would consider it barbaric to actually try to do transaction-level double-entry bookkeeping in Ex…

These complaints don’t seem to align with reality from what I can tell. The TARP “bailout” was one of the biggest, which taxpayers profited on. The nationalization of Fannie and Fr…

I'm not arguing that "because they benefit they're therefore not being exploited". I'm arguing that "because they voluntarily enter into the agreement with full information they're…

If what you care about is lifting citizenry out of poverty, free markets have the best track record by far, despite countless attempts otherwise.

> You cannot legally own slaves, even if both parties are consenting adults. So clearly, your premise is flawed: there are absolutely things that the government can determine to be…

> That's a really harmful outlook. Harmful how, exactly? I don't agree that the government should be deeming any type of agreement that adults voluntarily enter into as illegal. Th…

> Becerra said in an interview on CNBC on Tuesday that he was unconcerned about the potential for Uber to leave the state as a result of the order. “Any business model that relies …