chiaro
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Comment · 7 years ago
Another thing not mentioned, which I'd noticed recently after a couple of very poor nights, was feeling very dehydrated. Drinking a lot of water didn't seem to help, and it all went straight through. Some surface level research indicated that it could be a lack of vasopressin, so it makes me wonder if taking a small amount of desmopressin (with sufficient hydration electrolytes) would help take the unpleasant edge off the next day.
Comment · 7 years ago
Or the classic least norwegian squares method of regression in the WSJ
Comment · 8 years ago
Common law rests heavily on stare decisis. The precedent set in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth is not likely to be overturned, as far as free political speech and organisation goes.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
if ME&S represents the sum of Austrian economics, then it has little hope indeed.
Comment · 8 years ago
Central banking evolved as a series of hotfixes for various macroeconomic edge-cases. Bank runs is one. Wildly varying inflation rates is another.
Comment · 8 years ago
Another similar epidemic to lead poisoning we've been sleeping on is lithium deficiency. Look at the quantum of improvement on suicide and all kinds of violent crime, including rape and murder per this study[1]. Image of results table:
It's hard not to conclude that it's immoral to not chuck lithium in the water supply, if the natural variance is associated with a doubling of murder. The study has been replicated on suicide in Japan[2] and on Dementia in Denmark[3].
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579
Comment · 8 years ago
I've already seen that interview. How people behave behind closed doors is a more trustworthy guide to their sympathies.
Comment · 8 years ago
The leaked emails documenting his correspondence with various alt-right figureheads paints a different picture.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...
Comment · 8 years ago
David Brooks has a good piece of commentary here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/east-germany-immi...
Every few years I try to write a column staking out a reasonable middle ground on immigration. After all, most big, important issues are clashes in which both sides have a piece of the truth.
The case for restricting immigration seems superficially plausible. Over the last several decades we’ve conducted a potentially reckless experiment. The number of foreign-born Americans is at record highs, straining national cohesion, raising distrust. Maybe America should take a pause, as we did in the 1920s. After all, that pause seemed to produce the cohesive America of the 1940s that won the war and rose to pre-eminence.
Every few years I try to write this moderate column. And every few years I fail. That’s because when you wade into the evidence you find that the case for restricting immigration is pathetically weak. The only people who have less actual data on their side are the people who deny climate change.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's a matter of proportion. Tariffs are some of the most destructive and distortionary taxes you could implement. The costs will be borne by many, and the benefits, a select few.
Comment · 8 years ago
Utterly stupid. Interesting to see if this realignment is a long term thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%E2%80%93closed_political_...
Comment · 8 years ago
These groups are there because in California they can capture a larger portion of the effects of trickle-down than in North Carolina, Texas, or New York; and because the state-provided safety net, average people's compassion, and availability of human connections and capital allows them a small, but more meaningful chance of breaking out of the poverty trap.
This is correct. Warm winters is also a significant pull-factor.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sounds like the killer app for child pornography.