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MrFantastic··on A study on human behavior has identified four basic personality types
Sounds like you fit into the "Rebellious" personality type.
MrFantastic··on ‘Five Second Rule’ for Food on Floor Is Untrue, Study Finds
Pasteurization happens at 140F, if you boil Raw Milk isn't that the same thing just more crudely executed.

It would seem boiling milk defeats the purpose of raw milk.

MrFantastic··on Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways
I'm not sure I agree.

In sports some people can watch a new technique and instantly be able to copy the movements. Other people have to be guided through each step. It's a combination of visual data and proprioception.

Personally, if if calculations come up conversationally, I have to see the numbers, I can't process calculations aurally.

I also remember names better if I can see them in print.

MrFantastic··on Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
Most good golfers start when they are small and/or grew up near a golf course.

Many amateurs never get good because they they don't practice the right things(e.g. putting and short game). Drive for show, putt for dough.

MrFantastic··on Voice Recognition Software Beats Humans at Typing
I've always found it funny how strange dictating to a device is relative to typing.

I can speak to real person with ease, but talking to a device makes my ideas jumbled.

I guess dictation is a skill like anything else.

MrFantastic··on Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right
There are no free markets where price transparency doesn't exist. Even surgeons can't predict what prices will be for a procedure.

Healthcare, because of the complexity of understanding how the body works, is a natural local monopoly.

Are you going to shop around for a better deal on a quadruple bypass when you already trust your surgeon? How would you know if the cheaper surgeon was as good?

Healthcare insurance suffers from the classic agency problem and has no incentive to keep costs low over the long term because they take ~7% off the top for a pass through transaction.

MrFantastic··on Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
Luckily our judicial branch isn't affected by bribes from for-profit prisons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

I'm sure the $45+ million spent lobbying congress had nothing to do with increasing private prisons 'clients' and keeping prohibition of cannabis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...

/sarcasm

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