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Thanks for sharing. It's indeed incredibly hard to figure these things out, and even with self-experimentation, it's easy to get fooled by the placebo effect or too many variables changing at once.. Still, it's better to make your best effort than to give up and do nothing, IMO. I think one concept that helped me think about this is understanding the difference between the "minimum recommended dose" and what would be the "optimal dose". You might need a minimum of X of nutrient Y to avoid getting certain known diseases (ie. a certain amount of vitamin C to avoid getting scurvy), but this tells you nothing about what would be the optimal quantity of nutrient Y that you should get. For things where there's a known toxicity at relatively low levels, I tend not to even play around. But certain nutrients have very low toxicity up to ridiculous doses, so if there's good evidence and logic for their benefits (like vitamin D3), I have no problem taking bigger doses than the minimum recommended because it's a very asymmetric risk profile. P.S. Yes, it's bonkers that D2 is still being prescribed rather than D3.

Interesting. I've been having seasonal asthma, mostly in the fall or winter. I get a cold, and then cough for a month+, with inhalers not helping all that much. Can you elaborate a bit on your experience and how you got to levels that work for you with D and Mg? Thanks.

If you're looking for something non-financial, 'Shadow Divers' was a great audiobook.

Wait a sec, maybe it's not dead yet, Jim. Signs of life again... Seeing pretty much 100% negative feedback on Twitter directed at Google for the new finance stuff, and hopefully people are also sending feedback using the "send feedback" link at the bottom of any search page. Update: Out again at 1:06 PM...

And it looks like this broke the live updating of financial data from Google in Docs and sheets... Thanks, Google! :(

RF is great for the data on fundamentals. Google finance was great to have a long watchlist to keep an eye on. For RF international data, look here and send them a email: http://www.rocketfinancial.com/InternationalData.aspx

Google Finance stopped updating at 10:34 this morning for me... Looks like it might be dead, unless this is a temporary problem...

I've been updating my bayesian priors on this for 15 years, this isn't just one article. I wanted to share it, though. Make up your own mind, but please don't project things on me without knowing how much research I've done. Vaccines don't cause autism, not because of one article, but because of a ton of evidence in one direction and little to none in the other. Just from first principle, it's pretty easy to see how most of the world's population could be deficient in Vitamin D based on the conditions in which our bodies have evolved.

I don't. Daily I take Omega 3, vitamin C, and Vitamin D, and K2 (MK-7).

I too have been taking D3 in about the amounts you have for almost 10 years. I take 10K UI 5-7 times per week. I always take it on work days where I spend the whole day in the office. I always take it everyday in the winter (not much sun in NH) and I'll take it or not on the weekends in the summer depending on what I am doing. If I'm going to be outside all day in August I'll skip it that day. Also I look for the gell caps packed in olive oil or coconut oil rather than high omega-6 oils. These are the two brands I've been using: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JGCBGZQ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0032BH76O I've also read somewhere that Vitamin K2 helps with the absorption of D3 (and vice versa) so I take K2 with it as well: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0771YC3GQ For some weird reason I haven't been able to find 5000 UI per unit in Canada for the past couple years. It's almost as if some weird regulation made it so that the max concentration in the country is now 1000 UI. Very annoying to have to take so many small gelcaps... I hope this madness will soon end.

All of the above, looking at the varying amounts of evidence for each that there are benefits to supplementing, especially in northern countries like Canada, where I live. You can go read his stuff, I'm sure there's an archive on his site.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28768407/ There's been signs of this for many years. I've been taking 4000-8000 UI daily for over a decade now (in gelcaps -- vitamin D is fat-soluble, so the dry tablets aren't as well absorbed). I recommend you also look into Vitamin D supplementation, especially if you don't live in tropical areas where you get plenty of sun year-round. One guy who's been writing about this for a long time is a cardiologist named William Davis, I remember reading some of his stuff maybe 6-7 years ago. Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867918

Yeah. Once the grid starts to get smarter, there's all kinds of interesting things you can do. For example, demand response mechanism could pay large industrial customers money to, say, increase or reduce the temperature in large refrigerated warehouses to help smooth out the curve (f.ex. If you need your food to be kept frozen, when there's a lot of cheap power you can go lower and drop the temps in your warehouse to -10, and then during the next peak cycle you can let the warehouse progressively warm up back to, say, -2. The food stays frozen, it's not affected, but the warehouse acts as a kind of battery, soaking extra power off peak and "releasing it" (ie negawatts) during peak time -- conceptually the same thing can be done with hot water heaters and all kinds of other things, as long as you remain withins safe parameters. If you have enough of them, changing things by a couple degrees won't be noticed by users but can make a huge difference in power requirements).

Yeah, Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech will be interesting to watch over time. You can combine with variable pricing mechanisms to, for example, tell your car to charge more when rates are lower. This helps flatten the demand curve and reduce the need for peakers, as well as help absorb extra renewable energy when it's available. The reverse of this is also true: When rates spike up, you can have your car delay a charge, or not charge fully (based on some pre-defined rules, like "make sure to be charged by the morning on weekdays" or things like that) to help reduce load when supply's tightest (ie. you might plug in right after work, but the car might wait until after the evening demand peak is over to start charging once it's over a minimum charge in case you need to go out again, etc). Then the next step is to have the EV owners get paid by grid operators to use part of their batteries. So you might say "the grid can use 10% of my battery capacity when rates are higher than X" and now you can draw on millions of batteries to help find extra supply when you need it most.

Li-ion packs down 24% from 2016: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/latest-bull-case-for-electric-cars-the-cheapest-batteries-ever

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-04/america-crowns-a-new-pollution-king

Yeah, it's great. I use Google Finance for a totally different thing, though. Sites like Rocket Financial, Morningstar, Gurufocus, etc, are good to have a lot of the financial statements in the same spot to quickly compare things, note trends, see some company-specific news, some ratios, etc. Google Finance, to me, was the best place to have a bunch of watchlists and keep an eye on dozens and dozens of stocks with real-time updates and fast browsing when you click around. Not always the most productive thing, but just by quickly looking at things and bouncing between companies I've discovered things that I might not have discovered otherwise, so it has value.

Going to the direct URL still works. DOn't know for how long. I've been sending them feedback asking them to keep the separate site. I don't care if they add finance stuff in-search, but no reason to kill the old one when so many people use it and are fine with it. If they want to update it later, that's fine too.

Thank you! It popped up on an alert I have for Constellation Software, but I couldn't see what was said about it. My asking about it isn't an endorsement of this person or anything they say, to be clear :)

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/prem-watsa-acolyte-vijay-viswanatha-on-why-boring-is-beautiful/article37114702/ I'm not a sub, but I'd be curious to read this article. Unless I'm mistaken, it seems to be paywall only. I'd appreciate it if someone could send me a copy, either by sharing it here or private message me. Thanks!

Use the 'send feedback' link at the bottom of the page. This thing looks designed by someone who had never used it and won't use it...

I know, I think it's probably temporary, maybe unless they get enough backlash. They've announced the change, and this morning they started redirecting to the new one. I think we're in the middle of the transition to the new thing. They should've just updated the charts from flash to HTML5 and left it alone for another 10 years...

This morning that redirected to the new thing, now it's there again... I hope they keep it as a separate thing, maybe someday update the charts to HTML5 and then not touch it again. They can keep the in-search finance stuff if they want, but it's not a replacement for a fast site with high density of info where you can keep an eye on dozens of tickers at a glance. At the bottom of the new finance pages there's a "send feedback link". I encourage people displeased with this change to send a little something. You never know what might reach the right ears...

So they finally did it, Google totally ruined Google Finance. Did anyone have a good web alternative just to keep an eye on a long list of stocks?

Is this like one of those jokes where you pretend it happened to you, or are you Michael Goldstein?