@cremieuxrecueil A knowledgeable friend told me that statins are very good at lowering cholesterol, but less good at extending life spans. Do you agree, @cremieuxrecueil?
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Inactivist. N*d*s in bio! Not sure if you've noticed, but I have a blue check!
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Anti-statin grifters are funny to watch because they want desperately to appear scientific without actually being scientific.
They say things like '[An underpowered observational study] shows ApoB and LDL don't predict plaque progression', omitting that it wasn't expected to.
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@noturbine @MeredithAngwin @BillCarson2162 @NewBedfordLight @capecodtimes @lbostonfk @BostonGlobe @jonchesto @projo @hartfordcourant @EversourceCT How does “value factor” differ from capacity?
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@BillCarson2162 @NewBedfordLight @capecodtimes @lbostonfk @BostonGlobe @jonchesto @projo @hartfordcourant @EversourceCT I love the term "value factor." It's from @MeredithAngwin's book "Shorting The Grid."
When focusing on “value factor”, which is wind energy actually coming online when it’s called upon, that number plummets for wind to about 11%. (Source: shorting the grid)
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@NewBedfordLight @capecodtimes @lbostonfk @BostonGlobe @jonchesto @projo @hartfordcourant @EversourceCT
Vineyard Wind Will Never Power 400,000 Homes 24/7
File Item 6 : nameplate capacity and actual production are two distinct concepts.
May 13-26
drive.google.com/file/d/1U1czxn…
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@larissaphillip IIRC, Bezos also worked for a hedge fund before leaving to start Amazon.
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Wait, part of this doesn’t add up.
Did his mom marry a rich guy?
Benjamin Domenech@bdomenech
Jeff Bezos was born in Alberquerque to a 17 year old high school mom who divorced his alcoholic dad before Jeff was 2. He worked at McDonald's before his grades earned his way into Princeton. He started Amazon in a garage with a 245k investment from his parents. That's reality.
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I have to admit it's been a good day for Reform UK voters. Congratulations.
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@iowahawkblog We had a great time on a three-generation family cruise to Alaska from Seattle. 2004.
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Over the years I have read countless news stories about cruise ships, and not a single one was about how everybody had a wonderful time
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I am genuinely curious: why tf would anyone still consider going on cruise ships
CBS News@CBSNews
WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that "WHO assesses the public health risk as low" regarding the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. “So far, eight cases have been reported, including three deaths. Five of the eight cases
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Another wave of Full Self-Driving V14.3.2 (2026.2.9.10) is now going out to additional AI4 vehicles in North America.
This wave is expected to include about ~15-20% of eligible vehicles, bringing the total to ~55-60%.
Scotty4Scott@Scotty4Scott
@teslascope @wholemars Another wave of 14.3.2 going out!!
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Anyone else still stuck on FSD V.14.2.2.5? Should I just switch my software update preference to standard because the advanced tab clearly doesn’t do anything.
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@CaitlinPacific But think of all the single girls, with a zest for life!
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When did zesting, once a thrilling moment in a handful of recipes, become the precondition of all cooking?
How much zesting are we expected to do? And how can we look at the humiliated, pith-covered fruit as anything but a victim of our own intimate violence?
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Few people understand: Health insurance companies make most of their profit by paying claims, not by denying them.
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Smokers are beneficial to the welfare state from a financial POV. They consume a product that is highly taxed, and they die sooner and receive less pension payments.
Lifetime healthcare costs aren't that different compared to non smokers, for the latter need similarly expensive treatments late in their life, only for different reasons.
If I were an amoral bureaucrat tasked with saving the welfare state, I would encourage smoking.
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I can't agree with this. Smoking may be a grim habit, but what an adult does to their own body is their own choice. This sets a nasty precedent.
Should the state have opinions on other areas of lifestyle, or diet, as well? It's none of their business.
The link is about legislation that's finished drafting in the UK to ban cigarettes for all people born after 2008.
bbc.com/news/articles/…
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She's half right, perhaps for the wrong reasons. Building more solar won't reduce electricity prices.
There is already so much solar going into the grid that (wholesale) prices are low or negative when it's active. In other words, solar only gives us electricity when we don't want it.
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@KathrynPorter26 @Tw_timerAlder I'm surprised it's that high. Here in New England, the ISO assumes single digits.
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@Tw_timerAlder Solar in the UK has a capacity factor of 10%
It generates ZERO when we need it most
It's expensive and pointless
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Solar doesn’t work in the GB it’s too far north they say.
What are you going to do when the wind isn’t blowing they say.
Well today we have an example. Still enough wind for power generation and bags of solar.
Gas hardly features.
Get used to the new normal 💨 ☀️
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NEWS: Tesla has raised the price on all remaining new (and demo) Model S and Model X vehicles left in inventory by $15,000.
New starting prices:
• Model S AWD: $109,990
• Model S Plaid: $124,900
• Model X AWD: $114,900
• Model X Plaid: $129,900
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@PhilippeGilbert Tadej Pogačar
Mathieu van der Poel
1. Dan Lloyd
Wout van Aert
Remco Evenepoel
I don't mind which order unless specified above.
In 2024, Columbia received 97 perfect SAT scores for ~1,400 spots.
There aren't enough 1600 scorers in America to fill Columbia's class once — let alone "a few times over"!
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@zagrebbi @cremieuxrecueil Columbia's yield is around 60%. So the cutoff will be lower than 1560.
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Ran the experiment for Columbia using admissions data (h/t @cremieuxrecueil). If Columbia admitted purely by SAT in 2024, the cutoff would be 1560 — and the class would be 46% East Asian.
Black and Hispanic students would essentially disappear.
VB Knives@Empty_America
If Harvard admitted students strictly by SAT score, filling slots in descending order starting at 1600, what would be the lowest SAT score admitted to the school? And what would be the resulting demographics of the student body?
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@dieworkwear I inherited a silver plate set. A glance at eBay confirmed it was worthless.
When my wife wasn't looking, I took it to the dump.
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The slow death of formal dining and the lack of free time to polish the silver means there’s a glut of formal tableware on the second‑hand market going for a fraction of original retail prices. The craftsmanship is often amazing, but the aesthetics often don’t suit modern homes
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@Ambar_SIFF_MRA The word physiognomy is implied after her.
Incidentally, perhaps because I'm a man, I don't see such a huge looks mismatch between him and she.
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Henry Cavill and his longtime partner, Natalie Viscuso. They aren't particularly looks-matched.
Most would agree he is noticeably better looking than her.
Yet examples like this are quite common.
It highlights how men frequently prioritize loyalty, honesty, and compatibility over purely superficial looks.
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@annbauerwriter @AltDicta Two out of three ain't bad. Gates didn't need to invest more to pay for his habits: he was already plenty rich.
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I have gotten past my idealism to the point where if wealthy, powerful people are supporting something I understand it's because it will bring them either more money or more power. Period. I used to think Bill Gates cared about disease-ridden Africa and Barack Obama cared about health care for children and Bernie Sanders cared about the working man. No more. I believe Gates was invested in pharma (to pay for his teen-girl habit) and Obama wanted to take over the entire American health system for reasons of government control and Sanders is just running the same Animal Farm gambit that socialists always do.
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@Scienceofsport Many marathons sponsor groups that have a targeted finishing time. They are led by a runner who can easily achieve the goal time: e.g. a "Sub-3:00 group".
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I wonder if those taller bars just before "major milestones" might not be as likely the result of faster runners slowing down? For example, you might be capable of 3:45 at max, but you target a 3:59, or even take it easier to run 3:59 to help other runners under that milestone.
hagaetc@hagaetc
Marathon finishing time distribution proves one of my biggest leadership lessons: Deadlines work! … even if they are somewhat arbitrary
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