Intelligence (as measured by Spearman's g factor) is one of the best predictors for pretty much any measure of success or talent. People who excel at art or sports are also people with high g. The IQ test has one of the highest correlations Spearman's g of any test, so IQ test measures a lot more than how good you are at doing IQ tests.

IIRC, if you want to win a Nobel prize, having an IQ over 120 is paramount, but anything above that does not give you any further advantage.

Isn't this reservation applicable to any drug, or even any interaction? So the optimal choice of action would always be - nothing? If not, then why are the situations were it is not the case different from medical treatments?

Isn't the smell fishy, as in primarily coming from trimethylamine from reduction of trimethylamine oxide? In that case, it would not be that closely linked to oxidation, though it might still correlate with it (as they both increase with storage).

I don't have a citation (well, unless "personal communcation" is accepted). It was stated in a presentation about stability of fish oils, but that is not solid enough for the confidence in my original post. I am sorry for that.

With regard to the manuscript you linked to about how the oxidation state of fish oils affects the lipid profiles, it is a small study (52 participants, 17-18 in each group) and it seems that they did not correct for multiple comparisons (but I might be missing that). Looking at their numbers, it seems that the largest effect is that the group that got the good oil started out with higher blood pressure (systolic and diastolic), lower blood glucose and higher cholesterol, and than normalized on these measures, except for cholesterol, where they more than normalized. I am not even sure this meats the "hypothesis-generating" state.

Part of it is due to the dislike of monopolies, which is founded on the fact that they skew the market to the disadvantage of the non-monopolist. A union is basically monopoly on (a certain type of) work. Saying "no union member will work for you if you employ non-union workers" is equivalent to Microsoft saying "you can only buy Windows if all of the computers you sell comes with Windows installed", the latter of which is illegal. So why should the first be legal?

That does not explain why boycotts are frowned upon.

Fish oil start to stink way before it is actually bad for you. I'm not saying you should eat stinking fish oil tablets, but them stinking should not affect their effect on the body.

The difficulty is updated every 2016 blocks, or roughly every two weeks. If the amount resources spent on mining was suddenly reduced extensively, the mining would just go much slower until the next update, so no one would be able to take advantage of that (although it could be problematic for bitcoin, if e.g. the update went from 10 minutes to 100 minutes). After the next difficulty update, the difficulty would be low, but if the mining pools were back up, you would not be able to control bitcoin. Even if the update rate goes to 1 minute, this will only persist for 201,6 minutes, or a few hours.

All of this is assuming that no other response was done in the two weeks after the DDOS.

I don't think that example shows economists being wrong, it just shows people putting value in being an actor, enough to offset the (extremely) low wage. It does show me being wrong - I had not accounted for that possibility. But do you want to prohibit most of these people from being actors in order to increase the wage of the rest? If you don't, then why would you want it for taxis? If you do, I can only say that I disagree, that I think people should be allowed to choose a untraditional life if that makes them happy, but I have no arguments save that.

Because the natural level is a Pareto efficient state, which is something we should strive for from a resource allocation point of view. And because it follows from accepting that people are autonomous agents, and have the most knowledge about their own lifes, which is something we should strive for from an ethical point of view.

How powerful? The most powerful signal I can find for the US today is 5 MW, which is within the range of over-the-horizon radars still being operated today. I am not sure that we have stopped sending our most powerful signals.

Out to the geostationary orbit? Not in the last 3.9 billion years. That is 350 times farther out than the limit of space. Anything that removed everything in that bubble would have killed all life on earth. The only event of that magnitude that we have evidence of created the moon.

If there are other, more well paid jobs to have, it wont be, as taxi drivers will chose other occupations. If there aren't, that is a much larger problem than the amount of taxis.

A taxi is not much more road space consuming per traveler than having a private car. If the equilibrium amount of taxis is where the roads are clogged, road pricing (or even tax on cars or fuel) is a better system to reduce clogging than restricting the number of taxis.

If there customers paying enough to get south of the river, it wont be. If there isn't, restricting the amount of taxis is only going to make the problem worse.
In fact, that last one sounds like a problem introduced by an artificial limit on the number of taxis. Do you have any examples of it in cities where this is not the case?

What is the difference between demonstrating and picketing? That the intended effect of a demonstration is to spread information, while the intended effect of picketing is to annoy? That picketing takes place at the thing that is being complained about? Or something else?

One time-series is not enough to prove or disprove anything, especially when the data from other countries is so discordant (AFAIK, the US have always had a high level of gun ownership and a high level of violent crime, compared to other developed countries). Do we have county-level statistics for gun ownership and crime over time? That would allow for much more convincing conclusions.

AFAIK, not according to the computer simulations, which is what backs up the Theia hypothesis.

Again, I don't think this is compatible with the simulations.

And he does have sex in one of the books (Backwards, I think), though the human(?) girl did not expect the penile spines, and so was rather put off by the whole thing.