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Aggressive taxes create a black market for goods. To protect the tax revenue the govt must be aggressive about prosecuting unlicensed operators who do not pay taxes. This is counter to the social politics of wanting to end the war on drugs.

As a compromise the govt heavily taxes legal businesses while allowing the black market to thrive with minimal punishment. C’est la vie.

The purpose of parallel construction is to not disclose the actual methods used by law enforcement because they may be illegal and/or disclose sources of information that they would like to keep confidential. It only needs to be minimally believable as a “stroke of luck” to the court. Law enforcement doesn’t particularly care if the public believes it or not as long as the methods aren’t disclosed.

Sounds like parallel construction.

I think the problem for the artist is that the demand for tickets far exceeds supply. Imagine if the only way to see Bad Bunny is to pay $5000/ticket. I’m fairly confident large artists could sell out at these prices. The problem is you exclude/alienate your fan base so it’s net negative for the artist’s reach. Ticket prices are kept artificially low to be accessible to broader audiences.

While the arguments are repetitive this isn’t a culture war. The EU made its bed (or more likely, imported it) and now has to sleep in it. Deindustrialization has been ongoing.

Emperor of All Maladies is this but for 20th century cancer research.

I too want to read your planned book.

As crazy as it sounds 2.5hr of exercise per week is not a crazy expectation to care for one’s health.

“Clinically speaking, metabolic health is defined by optimal levels of five markers: blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference—without using medication.“

Things like a high sugar Twinkie diet will expose you to diabetes risk independent of calorie intake.

Money is a huge motivator. Aside from the fact that $100 check every month can directly subsidize healthier food choices.

Weight is a proxy for all sorts of related diet issues. You can lose weight on a Twinkie diet and not be metabolically healthy at the same time.

A healthy diet requires more than just the appropriate caloric intake. Although that’s a great starting point.

No need to downvote this. Long history of documented corruption.

Some questions: did she go low sugar in that period? How many sodas did she drink before she backslid?

I would drink at least 48oz per day. I stopped eating things with added sugar. Now a lemonade is too sweet for me. But if I drink 3-4 sodas I’m right back to where I was wanting to drink it all the time.

Thank you for asking this. This plagued me for years as an undergrad physics student.

Doesn’t feel like it to me. I eat 2000-2500cal/day and try to maintain 3500-4500cal burn(1hr lifting, 1hr peloton bike, 1.5hr hike daily). I keep my cardio around 140-145bpm so pretty leisurely. Increasing intensity just made me hungrier. It’s a lot of time taken out of my day but it shows results fast and I’m never hungry. A cheat day is a 500cal deficit and a normal day is 750-1250cal deficit.

I know everyone has their weight loss strategy but this is by far the least mentally taxing method I’ve used. It helps to stay motivated when you see results every other day as well.

I tell people that losing weight is reverse Pareto. The last 20% of the work is worth 80% of the results.

Manufactured a bit more than just cannabis over the years. Made everything from centrifuged orange juice for screwdrivers(the beverage) to some synthesis work.

There was a 100-person business at one point and this is the remains.

I had 10,000sqft of belongings up until a few months ago. About 100 stainless tables, 50 office chairs, desks, maybe 100+ racks, 20 chillers, 5 rotovaps, maybe 1000 beakers, etc.

At this point I’m just giving away chromatography gear, HPLC chemicals, etc.

Point is I never want to own anything again. Just getting rid of all this stuff has taken almost a year. I don’t even like owning my home anymore.

/rant

These are the mainstream e-cigs. Vape shops pushing disposables is still a big market. There will be no new cigarette companies. As long as you continue the whack-a-mole against new entrants your customer base is protected.

Altria surely didn’t want Juul to get regulated out of existence. But the rest of the majors did.

Depends entirely on the regulatory framework. Up until now crypto has been largely unregulated. With regulatory I don’t think it will be as volatile/attractive.

Chase is superior to WF and BoA both in tech and wait times in branch. I’ve lived in a handful of cities and used them all concurrently for years.

If you’re doing any kind of business you want to be at US Bank, Farmers & Merchants, East West Bank, etc. They are better about loan products.

They could’ve invested in StableGains!

There are plenty of non-tech equities at reasonable P/Es. There’s also shorting the market. ARK may be down but SARK is up…

I’ll add here that my mother also received a call from AOL.

This is what will eventually happen.

Yes, it’s bad. Gas and rent are very high. People are broke and not spending. Everyone in retail, including myself, is feeling it.

And yet we have kindness in nature as well.

Yes, it’s brutal. With the Tax Cut and Jobs Act you can incorporate more expenses in to indirect COGS but sales, marketing, opex, admin are non-deductible.

It’s the smart move. Frankly, it was a mistake to open in CA in the first place. CA is not business friendly and definitely not an affordable place to manufacture goods. Unless your business depends on local sales or needs to hire professionals at 6 figure salaries you probably shouldn’t be starting a new business here.

As a former medical researcher the underlying issue is that regulations only ratchet one way. There’s numerous ethics and oversight committees to please and rules put in place because of negligence or misconduct. There’s a line between human experimentation and research and they try to keep you far away from anything that could be interpreted as straddling it.

I’m surprised there’s still people who think he’s just a calculated puppeteer who has everyone fooled with his act. If it’s an act and he’s actually sharply insightful then I would’ve expected someone in his inner circle, present or former, would attest to the same. But every former cabinet member describes him as “what you see on TV is what you get behind closed doors“.