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You should read Debt: The First 2000 years. This is a common but wrong idea. Barter economies have almost never existed.

Agree! Acetaminophen is very dangerous in overdose. I've seen lots of 20 year olds who get liver transplants after they OD (intentionally) on Tylenol. If they had taken Motrin instead they'd have been fine.

That's not why. Acetaminophen is highly hepatoxic but it's only very delayed. It's added because they have a synergistic effect on pain relief.

Your stomach is already much more acidic than Coca Cola

It seems to me like you are describing some kind of viral meningitis

It’s pretty frequent

Candidate for an Ignobel prize. Could have used some figures

> For banking there is a reason for regulation, and it is precisely deposits. Deposits are open to runs. Runs are bad for all sorts of reasons. Financial crises are runs. Hence we have banking regulations. That's not a defense of current banking regulation. But there is a problem and a reason for some regulation.

> But fintech doesn't take deposits. The one central problem with banking is gone.

All banking regulations are due solely to the fact that banks take deposits? There is no other reason one could imagine for why banks, FinTech, or other financial services providers need to be regulated? All financial crises are runs on deposits?

Pretty undeveloped and unconvincing reasoning. If you think for a few seconds it’s easy to imagine other situations that led to necessary regulations in banking.

I have a recent X3. Have to say the Model Y seems much nicer. I’m going to buy that once I get rid of my BMW.

X1 is much smaller, slower, etc. not really comparable.

What comparable BMW is cheaper?

It’s not bad faith or disingenuous. Fukushima happened because of an earthquake, remember?

What is t here?

How did they have revenues of $740 million, expenses of slightly more than $1 billion, but lose $580 million?

The two plots are begging to be plotted together ala Econ 101 plots

What neighborhood?

This is a really good idea! Most recreational boaters do far less than 100 miles per day. I wonder how quickly the price will drop if they make it out of less exotic materials.

Vitamin D has been endlessly promoted as a treatment for many diseases due to evidence from observational studies, but hundreds of millions of dollars in randomized controlled trials have never demonstrated it to be effective for any disease except rickets.

There was just a large trial published in JAMA [1] examining its effectiveness for depression given solid observational data. It was not at all effective.

The reason that Vitamin D is associated with many diseases but is not causative for anything is that Vitamin D level is highly correlated with other metrics of health such as socioeconomic status, active lifestyle, nutritional sufficiency, etc.

We are wasting our time and money looking at Vitamin D again and again and again.

1. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27689...

He has published numerous falsehoods. Please don’t buy this uncritically.

How would you suggest to limit option trading?

No one was suggesting that nothing should ever be done.

Disagree. People die from stuff like this. It’s important to be aware of risks.

I’m glad it worked out in this case. He seemed careful and diligent. If the wrong person did it I could see this leading to people getting hurt (falling off the catwalk) or damage to cars (improper fastening). Overall I love it though.

The compact car thing is interesting. It seems like business travelers still rent compact cars or medium sized sedans 90% of the time in my experience.

Very interesting, thanks for this.

I find this practice very dumb. A huge amount of acronyms now have to be written like regular words.

Something just doesn’t make sense with this story. Ok, it’s possible doordash has accidentally mispriced a pizza. But why would they misprice a pizza but then pay the correct price to the restaurant?

Software that merely displays data is not typically a medical device, as long as it doesn’t transform or otherwise alter the data.

WSJ Op-Eds constantly make fallacious arguments in the service of big business and Wall Street.

Sounds fascinating. Are there real-world examples of malicious compilers?

Germans tend to take on very low levels of debt (speaking broadly). There are lots of hypotheses about the psychology behind it: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-31369185