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My guess is this is leading up to a PR campaign where the industry will make a big deal about how seriously they are tackling the 'newly discovered' issue as an attempt to undercut a push for actual governmental oversight and regulation.

Demolition Man called it "Taco bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars ... So now all restaurants are Taco Bell."

I recently read this article and was surprised that services like Grubhub and Seamless are not only charging the user a service fee, and using tips to pay less of a guaranteed hourly wage to workers, but also charging a 10% -30% fee to the restaurant owners for result placement. This article compares this to mafia tactics. Also considering most restaurants don't have that high a margin traditionally even 10% is often all of the profits. source: https://newfoodeconomy.org/restaurants-eaters-please-love-go...

Just blaming a living wage seems like a gross oversimplification. Also landlords and exploding rents were not factored into this article.

>Our first product is a hair building fiber. Similar to what's been on the market for decades, but we've done cutting edge work to improve the static cling and the application process.

Your website and instagram seems bereft of any scientific rationale or even photo evidence that would back up this claim however.

Also when you say you have built a better mousetrap is that compared to only domestic US products or worldwide including Korean products as well?

Thanks, apparently this has been one of my less popular comments. I saw quite a few people in the comments before i posted asking if their charge/apple/whatever monitor was accurate and it's likely better to manually check heart rate to see if it's accurate, as opposed to going off random internet data on whether a device is trustworthy.

Monitors tend to be potentially less accurate than manual apical pulse when there is an arrhythmia present, the gold standard for any cardiac is auscultation, aka stethoscope, for a full minute by trained professional.

Medicine is really complex is the short version. Also Sinus Arrythmia is not uncommon.

I don't consider this a fallacy, if you follow the whole libertarian idea of a person should be able to claim philosophical exemptions for their children shouldn't that immutable right to exemption also apply to everyone?

60 Beats Per Minute feels a lot different than 100 BPM, which feels different than 140+ BPM. Once you get a feeling for how different BPM's feel to you if you have an abnormal elevation, like rapid heart rate at rest that would be an indication to manually check your pulse.

I'm just trying to say if you want to buy one that's cool but the premise that's it some kind of must-have life-saving accessory is questionable to me for the majority of people.

Yeah I should change the wording above to established cancer, thanks.

Public Service Announcement: You can just check your pulse manually for free. AFIB will be irregularly irregular.

As as comparing cancer to AFIB it's definitely not accurate to compare the two directly. A very common cause of AFIB in people younger than 60 for example is 'holiday heart' short-term AFIB related to binge drinking, it is generally self-resolving and transitory, and generally does not require treatment especially if asymptomatic. Cancer to my knowledge generally does not self-resolve.

I find it strange how many people have this puritanical mindset that just because something is pleasurable or can induce some degree of physical dependency this automatically equates to something with negative health consequences or something that they should feel guilty about imbibing.

Coffee is one of the, or the best, source of antioxidants in the standard American diet. Barring pre-existing Cardiac health issues there is no harm to daily use as long as you don't exceed maximum recommended caffeine doses, which was around six shots of espresso or equivalent.

Furthermore "In some publications, caffeine and trigonelline are considered to be antioxidants also." There is much more medical evidence that coffee is uniquely beneficial than otherwise.

Just one (of many) sources and source of above quote: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4665516/

I've heard DMT is better for contacting the aliens.

The Cult of Dead Cow thing made me a little hopeful, then I read the comments where someone referenced O'Rourke taking almost half a million from the oil & gas lobby, despite signing a pledge not to accept money from fossil fuel interests.

Counterarguments are then that out of almost 70 million raised (which seems like an astronomical amount) half a million is not a big deal and they were from individuals (gas executives) and not PAC's so there may be plausible deniability to some degree.

Still 99+% chance better than Ted Cruz I guess.

Source: https://splinternews.com/by-accepting-oil-money-beto-orourke...

I tried, it doesn't display anything than the opening slide on PC, privitized firefox and virgin chrome either.

Also pretty much anything is better than coal and fossil fuels. I can't hear the phrase 'clean coal' bandied about without wanting to bang my head against the nearest wall.

It seems like the study discussed skewed in terms of the dataset was sites that are picture-based primarily and thus generally perceived as geared towards hook-ups. This could also be interpreted that guys are more open to casual sex with whomever and women tend to be already compromising by agreeing to casual sex therefore looking for a higher threshold of attractiveness?

If you're interested in a more general view of many of the issues impairing the current US Healthcare system, this was a great in-depth article by Time: http://time.com/198/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killin...

US FDA approval process is the highest in the world, but drug costs are also much higher here than other countries, which the above article also covers and may contribute.

Drug companies use, and even in some cases rely on the over-prescription of medication to fuel profits. This is a great in-depth piece by HuffPost (I was as surprised as you at the Huffpost part) on how Johnson&Johnson illegally marketed Risperdal to fuel profits: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas...

And there is evidence a scenario much similar to the above is currently occurring with Adderall: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...

Hope you also find these interesting.

Endorsing Satanism isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you read The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey it can represent a logical construct that rejects blind theology.

The way that you phrased the part about 'emotional issues, abuse drugs or self-harm' are you meaning to imply that this somehow makes them lesser people? Bearing in mind that these traits all tend to be a direct sequelae of childhood trauma?

The short answer would be no, a good summary from the LAtimes:

"Only two countries permit DTC drug ads — the U.S. and New Zealand. Every other nation has concluded that its unwise and irresponsible to pitch potentially dangerous meds to people lacking the medical training to make smart decisions. Better to have patients discuss such things directly with their physicians."

However the last line brings up what is also a deeper issue in the current US healthcare system, all levels of health providers have this incredible pressure to spend less time with patients and this has been escalating for decades. The current profit-focused system (and this applies to most not-for-profit health systems as well because most are still driven by profit) makes it very difficult to spend appropriate time educating especially when that medication may very well not be appropriate.

The recent 'patient is always right' push by health systems, driven by Medicare reimbursement rates, also puts additional pressure on MD's to prescribe even when not appropriate for that patient. Advertising drugs on TV exacerbate this as well.

LA Times Source: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-drugadvertisi...

Foundation for Economic Education is a Partner to the Koch brothers, so likely a thinktank to espouse their point of view. Read Dark Money by Jane Mayer for more info.

Source: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Economi...

So we need to put more effort into building effective mass transportation to help the populace achieve this goal right? I mean I agree, I visited London and want the US to have an equivalent mass transit system, in most of the US you cannot find work if you don't have a car. These are hard things to modify at the individual level though.

So this was an interesting book, well written and using empirical evidence that humans are killing the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Extinction:_An_Unnat...

I tend towards the view that this book is accurate, simply because I read a lot. When you read explorers accounts hundreds of years ago you have sea and land teeming with life and biodiversity. Now, when you watch a reality TV show like 'Naked and Afraid', there is very little to no wild animal life, the show should be called show up and starve.

This seems overly optimistic, supposedly we were also supposed to have woolly mammoths by now. I think these articles are more a fundraising attempt, biotech is incredibly expensive and I don't see a clear path to monetization even if it was feasible. Article: https://singularityhub.com/2016/08/17/scientists-hoped-to-ha...

In defense of buying a used Tesla I really appreciate the idea that if your car is 'out of date' in terms of current hardware you can simply pay for an upgrade instead of being told you have to sell your car as used and buy a whole new car. When you think of how much money a lot of people invest in their cars treating it as a disposable commodity doesn't make a lot of sense economically and ecologically. In terms of turnaround time, obviously your point is valid, but if Tesla manages to disrupt the entire paradigm of an industry in a positive way it may be a minor critique in the grand scheme of things.

A lot of new high-density housing in desirable areas would go a long way to alleviating many of these issues, which at their heart seem scarcity-based.

The idea that the amount of money you make working is in any way a 'measure of the benefit you provide society' is pathological. Many of those who provide the most benefit are paid a suppance.

100% agree that promoting antitrust legislation has the potential to improve our current economic trajectory. Both regional and global monopolies are a threat.

Came here to say this, literally any Laserjet printer, I had to research it before for a business plan. Just do research on the best Color Laserjet printer (they come in both color and monochrome).

I use Ting as my primary phone provider the pricing is great if you're a light user. Their international roaming rates when traveling to first-world or major cities is usually about double the local US rates which is very fair. Do you have an unlocked international cell phone with a dual sim? This can be useful because then you can buy a second data-only sim if it works out to be cheaper which it often does.

2k for a studio in Dublin, east bay area about 1 hour via Bay Area Rapid Transit, assuming you can walk to work because BART is extremely limited for a mass transit system. 3k for a two-bedroom, so probably split the difference for a 1-bed. It wouldn't be so bad if we had better mass transit, there are only a handful of stops in SF and if you have to take a bus from there your commute time probably doubles to 2 hours. Buses suck.