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They couldn’t coerce enough people to install the app.

In the people that use meat’s superior satiety to stay lean, you see lower inflammation, IGF-1, insulin … etc. On a purely meat diet with loads of protein, my IGF-1 was 90, a z-score of -1.

He tricked me into working for a month without a contract and then wouldn’t answer my calls when I asked him to sign the terms we agreed upon. I had to show up and sit on their couch until he showed up to write me a check to go away. He’s a slippery character.

There are hunter gatherers (hadza, ache, pygmies) that eat substantial amounts of honey without becoming overweight.

On a high fat ketogenic diet, my thirst is satisfied on ~500ml of water a day. I drink much more when running on glucose, if it's really hot or I exercise intensely.

Lose body fat. Stopping eating refined carbohydrates. Take the Kraft glucose insulin test to see if you have “diabetes in situ” https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/services/kraft-prediabetes...

You can get plenty of calories from raw animal fats. Cooking does help a lot with plants though. Also helps with infectious agents in meat and plants.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920391/

By analyzing plant remains in the cave, Humphrey's team found that residents ate lots of a particularly sweet type of acorn, which becomes soft and sticky when cooked. They also ate wild oats and legumes. Such foods can lead to serious decay,

Cold is correlated with low sunlight, which leads to less vitamin D production:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/

Building tools for fact-checking and helping people decipher fact from fiction will become increasingly important to keep the electorate informed

Sadly the electorate doesn't care about being informed. They seek out news that confirms their world view. Any information that contradicts their world view is deemed "fake news".

We are being made to participate in this venture via taxes.

That said, its incredibly exciting.

A lot of formerly beneficial adaptations have become "diseases" in the modern world (sugar cravings for instance).

So best choice is to probably to invest in S&P while learning to program on your own.

A twin study to look for a potential common cause between poverty and poor food selection might yield interesting results.

It was a lifesaver for those times when it was 6pm and you didn't have dinner ready for your kids.

Author missed option 3:

Do contract work at $250 an hour or equivalent compensation in shares at >= series B funded startups. Choose the level of risk you're willing to accept in cash vs equity. (Nearly) completely avoid politics and other office related BS. Take vacation between gigs if you like. Get a very broad variety of experiences at different companies and get a good feeling for what companies are willing to pay for should you decide to start your own.

Are you attempting to justify this? If I ran a "harmless" experiment over a population of 100M that happened to kill 10 or 20 "outliers" should I be exempt from consequences as well?

There is an iOS wallet that connects directly to the network that downloads the necessary info in seconds:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/breadwallet-bitcoin-wallet/i...

Minor nit to give credit where it's due. 280 North had three founders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280_North,_Inc.

If bitcoin was used as widely as the USD this would never have happened. It happened because of weak depth in the bitcoin markets (i.e. not that many people are trading it).

The gateways will be targeted for regulation until they are no different than modern banks.

How about this?

each Licensee must obtain the superintendent’s prior written approval for any plan or proposal to introduce or offer a new product, service, or activity, or to make a material change to an existing product, service, or activity

Everyone is making decisions about spending their capital every day so decisions are quite distributed.

I think you meant that it works better when capital is evenly distributed. I don't know if that is true but there seems to be lots of evidence that it doesn't work well when its distribution is largely determined by who can steal the most (as is the case with the current system).

Software developers make $100+ an hour. The jobs are there for people willing to adapt to them. You can't just wait to be handed a job that matches your current abilities.

Sounds like you discovered an opportunity for a job ...

They can afford it if they can create something of value that you're willing to accept in return. If they can't then that is the real problem. You have to ask why they can't create enough wealth to trade for the things they want / need.

Nobody creates the jobs, they exist to be discovered. If you adopt the viewpoint that other people create jobs for you then your fate is not in your own hands.

People want things. If you can create something that other people want and they can create something that you want, you both have a job.

It seems unlikely to me that we're anywhere close to diminishing returns from technology. More likely we're seeing what happens when a system is full of perverse incentives that reward unproductive / destructive behavior.

Why will high Debt-to-GDP or government spending send the economy into a recession?

Do you agree that it is a problem at some point? If so then why not at current levels?