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A single payer system is a step in the right direction, however, there are deeper issues with the American healthcare system. The unit cost of healthcare is so much higher than in …

The title is misleading. The tax is apparently 1% of property value. $10,000 would be the tax on a $1M home.

There are two core issues with nutrition science. The first issue is that it's extremely difficult to run a long term controlled study on nutrition. Adherence to diet interventions…

There is already some process available to measure this as Canada has tax deductions available specific to your "primary residence". CRA definitely has a way of auditing this. Shar…

But you pay interest on your leverage. So if your asset isn't appreciating faster than inflation + your interest rate then I don't think you're actually realizing any gains.

Except your mortgage interest may also be 3% so you may realize nothing on your investment. Your interest costs will be proportional to your leverage so you need the asset to outpe…

We Vancouverites are spoiled. I just finished an 18 month stint in the Bay Area. One of the biggest inconveniences was the driving time (especially with traffic) to get to the moun…

One thing that stood out to me is that immigration from Canada nearly stopped altogether in the mid 1890s. I wonder if the klondike gold rush was a factor here. I know it spurred a…

The more time I spend in this industry the more I realize how many software engineers leave salary on the table. It's great to see a tool like this which both encourage software en…

Sure, the correlation is statistically significant. Without a control to infer causality the results become much less interesting. To infer causality in an epidemiological study su…

It's an interesting hypothesis but unfortunately a cohort study with no randomized control and n=236 isn't really meaningful. There's no control at all here and the sample size is …

I believe that some startup founders/execs have optimized for valuation at the expense of costly liquidation preferences for late stage investors.

Maybe it's more a lack of access to modern scientific knowledge than 'craziness'.

I'm a big fan of personal experimentation but it's important to always be skeptical of your own n=1 conclusions. In this particular case, coinciding the interventions of your diet …

Nice, Graeham!

I hope this will continue to be supported as I'll be including it in my projects going forwards.

Great marketing for a competing product. Has anyone tried ketosoy? I suppose the obvious first question is: How does it taste?

Does it not seem possible that many of the factors leading to this gender grouping are influenced by biological age? For example, research shows that our brains are hugely influenc…

This kind of innovation is cool, but it's a zero sum game. The bitcoin markets are already driven by competing bots. Their profits will be reduced as other bots iterate on their al…

I think this is a complex issue. I suspect that like with cars, many of these folks would have the option to buy a used item which is equally as functional for something like 20% o…

Electric vehicle owners use more electricity, in addition to the electricity they use for charging. Perhaps electric vehicle owners are in a higher income bracket and have larger h…

With the accelerating change in the earth's magnetic field it would be fantastic to drop a few of these bad boys and see what's actually going on down there.

Mrs. Dreier looks to be at least 20kg overweight. She could quite healthily fast for at least 3 months living of of those reserves plus some magnesium supplements. It has been done…

Sun Burn = Radiation Burn

Experts don't think that will happen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#Effects_on...