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jk27277on A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare

You can't spend more on everything, not on a percent of GDP basis. This is a stupid idea since every GDP is limited to 100%. If you spend more you have to take debt and spend future GDP

jk27277on How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers

https://socialfixer.com

But is not as good anymore as it used to be

jk27277on When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)

"we import more than we export. " Doubt that. Before you answer with a statistic, Google "dark matter in accounting" regarding the deficit.

If apple sells an iPhone to Germany. In what export balance does it appear? What company makes the profits?

jk27277on Europe continues to wrestle with the long arm of American law

Google the "I don't care about cookies" add on. Works wonders

jk27277on Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes

This is old news. Just happed again. Saudi Arabia lost the war https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/08/19/today-saudi-arabia-fin...

jk27277on Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align

There is technology for this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_gauge

jk27277on Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze

Berlin will be the Lisbon of the 90ies. Well deserved

jk27277on UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told

Kindly consider

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_ov...

jk27277on We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

The job market has collapsed. The phenomenon is called "market for lemons"

jk27277on Bank of Japan to be top shareholder of Japan stocks

”I often think the big challenge of economics now is perhaps not managing overall growth but managing sort of "decline" overall with demographic changes.”

You are a quick thinker my friend. If you figure out how capitalism can work on a shrinking or even steady state economy you will get the Nobel price. No kidding.

jk27277on America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity

Open a new "unrelated" subsidiary. Happens all the time.

jk27277on Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

Thorium reactors?

jk27277on Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer

The guy was an idiot. No Chinese company would stick to such a deal. Promise the world, deliver nothing.

jk27277on Making Penicillin at Home

Doing an esterfication and extracting something are still two different things. There is no aspirin tree, even if the pharmacological actions are the same.

jk27277on Making Penicillin at Home

TLDR: if, in a post apocalyptic world, your home laboratory is still running, you are able to grow penicillium or aspergillus cultures. These may, or likely may not, produce penicillin..

jk27277on Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication

Interesting. Afaik Indians have a very low Alzheimer risk supposely because of curcurma. My friend claimed curcuma also mildens Alzheimer syndromes. This made me Google if curcuma helps against herpes. It does!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2668156/

jk27277on Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research

Try softmaker office