SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Don't Catholics always have sins to absolve because of original sin?
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Food poisoning worked for me.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Wasn't ye plural?
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
In a nutshell: If we adopt the FairTax, many taxes are gone, replaced by a 23% sales tax on new products and services.
It's actually defined such that the tax is 23% of the total amount you pay, including tax. So if the total price is $100, $23 goes to the tax and $77 to the seller. It's more like a 30% tax.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
I couldn't find any reference to Cohn from more than a few years ago.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
In the NEJM tirzepatide study, they reported a final fat-to-lean ratio of 0.7, which means that the subjects were still about 0.7/1.7 = 40% body fat.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
There are gas taxes, but they're mostly to fund roads, so they may cover the cost of roads (though I'm not 100% sure of even that), but they don't also cover the social cost of carbon emissions. There also aren't generally taxes on other uses of fossil fuels.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
Greg Mankiw says that the stress tests probably wouldn't have caught this, although I imagine that they'll be modified to cover this scenario in the future.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
Yeah, but I meant Americans.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
That's a summary report. The full report is like a hundred pages with statistics for over a hundred different causes of death broken down by multiple demographic stats. Here's the report for 2019:
This is not my area of expertise, but I'd expect that to lead to much larger distances on the right tail.
It does, but I accounted for that. The right tail is longer than expected even when accounting for the fact that it's logistic. Either there's something I'm not understanding about how this works, or someone screwed up somewhere.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
That looks like a bug. The use of backticks didn't prevent the tildes from creating a strikethrough effect.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
I don't know. Switzerland, maybe? Low taxes, high wages, smart people, and excellent graphics. Singapore seems cool, too. Taiwan has low wages, but would otherwise be a pretty swell place if not for the threat from China.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
There are tons of people in the US who don't care at all about politics. Find them. Or find like-minded people in the US and move to where they are.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Nice. I've been in the top 0.5% in Japan for a couple years now, but that's bush league. It might not even put me in the top 5% in the US.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
It's not just that it doesn't aggravate the injury. It makes it better.
What I meant by "for stability" is that you probably don't want to do heavy one-handed swings with a fresh back injury.
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
You can still get a lower premium with a high deductible, right?
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Anything's possible, because laws aren't real, but the President has a constitutional mandate to "take care that the laws be executed faithfully," which includes making the expenditures specified in law. Anyone who's "harmed" by the reduction in spending (e.g. by getting laid off, or by not getting the benefit of the legally mandated spending) has standing to sue, and contrary to the histrionic claims of the left, I think the conservative majority on the Court actually cares about upholding the law.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
25 years ago.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Maybe you have scurvy.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
There are different kinds of sunflower oil, high-oleic, high-linoleic, and I guess maybe some in between.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
How many tabs do you have open, that closing 10% merits inclusion in this list?
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
Can anyone make sense of table 3 in this study? As I read it, none of the numbers add up. For example, in the "PAL: total no. errors" section, they claim a large difference between placebo and intervention with p < 0.001, but the change from baseline looks about the same in both groups. Also, the change from baseline in both groups is about 8 points, but they report about 5.
I've read a lot of scientific papers before, and I can usually make sense of them, but I have no idea what's going on here. Is this some kind of error, or are they using a convention I don't understand?
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
the study I dissected was on novel evidence suggesting semaglutide decreased incidence of Alzheimer's
Mechanistically, this seems plausible, given the evidence implicating insulin resistance and systemic inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases. Was that all, or did the study incorporate epidemiological evidence?
We have these:
Edit: This was supposed to be a response to that comment speculating about the effects of reducing the male : female ratio. I'm not sure what happened.
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