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Comment Re:30% ? (Score 1) 200

Generally that statistic refers to "at any given age, averaged out." You're 30% more likely to die at age 60 if you don't exercise, compared to if you do. Conversely, you're 30% more likely to die at age 60 if you exercise too intensely, compared to those who exercise in moderation. Most of those weighted averages also stop around age 90 or so, depending on their methodology, since few people live that long and those that do are quite unlikely to be jogging multiple miles every day.

Comment Re:Bound to happen (Score 1) 619

I whitelist specific sites that I believe deserve my revenue. For example, webcomics, if the artist asks me nicely. Or I pay the website that offers a premium, ad-free experience the fee they want me to pay to justify their content creation or my bandwith usage (I pay for digital FM premium just to shut the ads up, since they are all audio.)

The point is that it's MY choice to pay for the reduced advertising experience, thanks to AdBlock.

Comment Re:slippery slope (Score 1) 412

No, I think it's perfectly fine to require a company to have to prove that their product does what they say it does, or at the least, require that they provide refunds when it doesn't. If I buy a PS4, I expect it to play PS4 games, and if it doesn't, I have 30 days to return it. If I buy a case of beer that says variety pack but it turns out to only contain brown ale, the store is going to let me return it.

Many of these supplement companies do have a money back guarantee, but they make it such a hassle to return the product that most people chalk it up as a loss. I don't mind them being allowed to make whatever claims they want about efficacy as long as they're required to take it back when it doesn't work.

Comment Re:HPV (Score 1) 740

HPV can also cause oral cancer. The odds of transmission in any other vector besides oral sex are low, since it requires skin to skin contact, but unless you're as celibate as a nun and never plan to kiss anyone either, it's probably not a bad idea.

For that matter, the HPV shot is not recommended for adults, since most of us have probably already been exposed (unless, again, you're a nun.) It's only recommended for pre-adolescents, under the likely true assumption that the majority of them will NOT be celibate. No one says that you, presumably an adult, has to get the HPV shot.

Comment Re:Misunderstanding of Higher Education Economics (Score 1) 94

Correction: Full time, already tenured professors who have been teaching for a few decades might hit close to six figures. Tenure-track, or just-tenured professors are usually in the 50K-60K range. Still better than the adjuncts, but still not as much, adjusted for inflation, as my father made processing medical records in the '80s. (Source: I'm married to a tenured professor. I sure wish he was making close to six figures....)

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