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No, because I never got into a consistent habit of it and just stopped trying. Either the weather wasn't suitable or the sun was in the wrong position when I had a few minutes to d…

I was a 1099 contractor for several years and couldn't agree more. It drove me nuts when I'd read articles like this, since I had made a conscious choice not to be an employee, for…

But vitamin D almost certainly does help with certain conditions. For example, I have psoriasis and can develop awful (painful, itchy, ugly) plaques on my knees and elbows, as well…

I've lived with ADHD for about half of my life. You may or may not have ADHD, but what you're describing sounds pretty similar. Here're a few things I do. 0. Rexamine physical heal…

Taiwan and North Korea are the only two countries I've found that seem to have no extradition and no (formal) interface to law enforcement abroad through Interpol. Palau, Tuvalu an…

> We currently have two primary forms of government: dictatorship and democracy. Hate to break it to you, but democracy and dictatorship are not mutually exclusive. See Kenneth Arr…

> This Economist article points out some of the many small academic works that quibble over details with Piketty and Saez. But that's not anything new. The major points of their wo…

So I don't disagree with any of what you've said. I'm glad you brought up decentralization, because that's what I think many people actually want. I can't run a nuclear reactor in …

I'll agree that wind turbines' effect on arable land is much, much lower than solar. That being said, there is still some effect. After all, the land is rendered useless during ins…

Solar and wind require a huge geographic footprint to generate significant energy. Because of this constraint, the cost of wind and solar is almost entirely opportunity cost, not t…

This is a good model. Companies have two constraints keeping them in line: if they cease making money, they die (in general, at least); and the law can tweak their behavior toward …

> If you are reselling the item, then you owe Amazon shipping charges for 2-day shipping. Not so fast. Amazon would like this to be true, which is why they put that provision in th…

In 1990, A. Clark Wiseman from Gonzaga calculated that if we dug a landfill 100 yards deep and put in all trash generated in the US for the next millennium, it would fit in a squar…

Yes, of course it depends on the state. CarMax operates in 41 states.[1] Given that some customers are known to cross state lines in order to purchase vehicles, CarMax likely calcu…

In certain states, the number of permits to perform state inspections is capped. New entrants who want to perform inspections (which a used car dealer will typically need to do) ha…

Apart from CarMax, there are essentially two routes for selling a vehicle. The first is a private sale, which basically involves taking on a temporary, part-time job to have people…

I was a CarMax "IT associate" once upon a time. First, CarMax itself is a great company and they do good work. I'd recommend them to anyone who is either not a good negotiator or w…

You'd be surprised how much "old boy network" stuff is involved in used cars. Calculating taxes is a giant pain (and no one except CarMax has even solved this problem as far as I c…