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Without reading the study in detail, I feel like 4,483 is too few people to detect an effect like this because you can’t easily control for how much vitamin d people get from the s…

They’re pretty good though. And also cheaper. The same argument could be made of chips.

Article suggests he has 3 direct reports More of a PM

FWIW, try not to act on that assumption being correct. Because if you’re wrong, you now have two illnesses simultaneously...

To be a dungeon master is effectively to achieve AGI. It’s... not realistic. Current NLP systems have mapped out what language means, and can use that to generate text. But they ha…

That is because you have not seen One Cut of the Dead https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Cut_of_the_Dead

Can you name any piece of intellectual property that has a small, recurring income after 30 years?

> A bunch of people couldn't get to us, but that wasn't really our fault (or was it?). At the end of the day the users didn't care if it was our fault or their ISP, so we counted t…

Further, The introduction of hotels to the game was not intended initially. Adding hotels causes more housing to appear, which is antithetical to the point of housing shortages

That is... false. Trading down consistently only works if you’re playing with idiots. Trading a high value property for a low value property makes sense if you get a color set, but…

No no no The trend in board games right now is legacy board games, where the game maintains state after each session. What you really want is legacy monopoly. Where the winners of …

Subscription is the opposite of what you want for a product that nobody wants 95% of the time but then everybody wants 5% of the time. As a supplier you would be locked in to selli…

People generally aren’t going to use them correctly, aren’t going to change them frequently enough, are likely to touch their face frequently if not used to the mask, and aren’t ne…

That’s not a fair thing to say. Closing businesses doesn’t guarantee anything about the virus. The halting of economic activity, even temporarily, can devastate people’s lives beca…

Housing is an essential. You can’t just go homeless without significant consequences. That’s not “voluntary”. Just moving somewhere else is not always viable. To prove an extreme c…

Spreading scary ideas that could “maybe” be true to laypeople with no ability to interpret “maybe” is highly likely to be more help than hurt

-4% Chinese GDP would kill a lot more than the virus...

Your other comments suggest you are in, or are pursuing, a FAANG internship. The target audience of this piece... is you. The wisdom being preached is that although you may be set …

New Jersey gas pumpers seem like a close approximation here. They provide a legally mandated service which I find makes my day worse.

But... she does have repercussions? She has chronic back pain and deteriorating health... Pain pills are either A) not going to be strong enough B) harshly addictive. Probably opio…

I was at a tobacco company hq once. It surprised me to learn that almost everyone there smoked. A lot.

The fact that only he knew is really the crucial point here. That gives him incredible opportunity to sway the conversation. He also has the ability to cherry-pick which recordings…

> What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm Ugh One thing I hated about this story was people complaining about being controlled by a black box al…

That’s hilarious. Any idea what else was in them? I’d presume they were basically tasty cocktails so as not to taste like alcohol. But perhaps they were made to taste awful?

What bothers me is the difficulty in interpreting such numbers because they’re not normalized to health. E.g. dropping sperm counts in men. Is that dropping in all men? Or is it a …