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Comment Re:Stone Age diet ? he wants to live all 20 years? (Score 1) 441

The youngest children getting pregnant ever recorded are listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
and here: http://www.therichest.com/rich...
No idea how reliable the links are, as certainly not everything makes it into "the news".
My point is, getting the period etc. and being in puberty before twelve is extremely rare, especially in industrialized nations. Before ten is rarely heard of, especially for boys.

Bottom line for girls being fertile and being in puberty is not even the same ... a girl can have her period and become pregnant before she even has breasts: breasts grow through the puberty, their growing basically is the definition of puberty.

Comment Re:Dementia will get'm long before 120 (Score 1) 441

Yea sure, I expected to get a scientific article :D

No idea why you believe the bullshit you linked to.

Telomerase only works (naturally) in 3 kinds of human cells, none of them is affected by exercising ... it is left up to you to figure which cells that are, or just google it, rofl.

Comment Re:Supply / Demand curve (Score 1) 190

A baker can not change the prices over day.

What he has put into he window in the morning is in most countries of the world binding till the evening.

So my example makes perfect sense and your does not.

Now lets talk about a gas station, which can change prices arbitrarily (more or less) ... then you had a point.

Nevertheless: that is not the market in both examples we have a single bakery and a single gas station.

Uber on the other hand tries to change prices for the whole market it has access to: that is unfair towards the customers.

If there is much more demand than there is supply, raising prices is a very legitimate (and used) method of ensuring efficiency, which otherwise would be much lower. Higher prices don't increase efficiency. They only rip either the customer off or make the supplier rich or both (or somewhere a middle man).
Lower prices indicate more efficiency ... that is a no brainer.

Comment Re:Supply / Demand curve (Score 1, Troll) 190

Yes, and we all know that law does not exist, it is a simplification to explain 4 year olds how markets work.

In reality a bakery bakes 1000 biscuits. There is a price sign which says 80cents. It does not matter if they are sold out at 4PM or at 6PM. It does not matter if there are only 100 left at 3PM, the baker won't increase the price. He still sells them for 80cents.

The next day again: he won't increase the price to 85cent because all his customers coming and expecting the 80cents price would be shocked.

What he is doing is very simple: he will bake more biscuits and sell _more_ for the same price. Perhaps he will even buy a new baking machine and get more efficient will _lower_ the price.

If you ever had looked at Mors Law and electronics you had noticed demand increase over last decades tremendous. So did the prices sink.

Comment Re:Stone Age diet ? he wants to live all 20 years? (Score 2) 441

Puberty does not start with 8-12 ... it is rather 12-14/15 with 14 likely the average.
The cases where kids came into puberty and fertile even before 10 are extremely rare, perhaps 10 per year on the whole planet.

It's only been about 100 years since the number 1 killer of women was childbirth.
Yes, and you ever wondered why? The answer is super simple. Around that time "medical" doctors still experimented with corpses of the dead. And they had no clue about bacteria and sterilization.
There is a reason why women giving birth preferred nurses from female abbeys as midwives over "high decorated medical doctors" who infected them with bacteria from rotting corpses.

The rest of your post is only an attempt to be on conclusion with your start ... both parts are wrong.

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