Recent content by JakeA

I have some questions about the presentation of the P vs NP problem here. I'm quite new to this stuff, so pardon my ignorance if I make dumb statements. http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/Official_Problem_Description.pdf Specifically: First of all this statement is confusing to me...

Here's a couple of other points I forgot to mention. 1. You can make an educated guess that human fat is hydrogen saturated. It needs to be solid at room temperatures. Plants can get away with unsaturated fat because they have cell walls and exoskeleton like superstructures to store the fat...

Thanks for the info and the links. I think in a very vague sense any saturated fat will promote high LDL, so assuming human body fat is mostly saturated, metabolizing it will promote high LDL. Definitely don't have all the details on the reactions, though, and don't even know if human fat is...

I'm certainly no expert, but I'll makes some guesses. 1. I'm not sure you can talk in terms of one concept evolving first or second. "Glycolysis" is a human construct, not one in which nature said "OK, I've finished this process, now let's do the next." They probably evolved jointly with...

Hi, Does anybody know or have a link on the chemical/metabolic pathways for human body fat? I've been trying to look this up and can't seem to find an answer. I'm curious about this concept. Human body fat is a form of animal fat, so metabolizing it should raise your LDL cholesterol...

There's a common heart defect called a PFO, Patent Foreman Ovale. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pfo+stroke+risk&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=pfo+stroke+risk It's thought to cause stroke and migraines in some people. 25% of the general population has a PFO, and 40% of people who have a...

Ascapoccia, by borrowing I mean we run huge trade deficits. I view "trade" as actual exchange of goods and services, not money. In a macro-economic sense, it's important that countries have equilibriums in trade in goods and services. Otherwise, what are we mortgaging when we don't balance...

You're funny. You use an example where a comparable government job pays twice the private sector job without benefits, and then you claim that proves that government jobs pay less. Whether or not security officer or patrol officer is harder is subjective. I say security officer is harder and...

Here's some free trade issues: 1. In America it puts domestic businesses at a disadvantage because of environmental, labor, tax, and tort laws which local but not foreign firms need to follow. 2. America doesn't "trade." It actually borrows. Trade implies equilibrium in flow of goods and...

You don't hear a lot about it, but the few places I've read, government salaries appear to be higher. http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/257/RipOff0257838.htm http://www.pennyjobs.com/pp/public/Articles.aspx?aid=321 http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimComment?id=30027...

Here's a discussion of government spending and economic growth. http://www.heritage.org/research/budget/bg1831.cfm Here's a question I've been pondering: What is the impact of inefficiency on the overall employment rate? At first glance you could come to the conclusion that requiring 2 or...

BTW, I'm back to my original assertion which is that if you make x and spend .5x, that will tend towards 50% unemployment, but definitely not in an equilibrium state. There are a few issues including periodicity of income, commodity purchases, investment, debt etc. It can get complex, but...

WWII was primarily 2 things: 1. A jobs program. The labor component of government spending was quite high, both for overseas troops and the domestic military industrial complex, even after the war was over. 2. After it was over a giant love fest, basically a baby boom. Babies btw are big...

After I posted the 50% labor contribution 50% unemployment comment, I thought about it for a bit. I don't think that deduction is correct. If you have average expenditures of x and you can trace .5x of that person's expenditures to American labor, what would you expect the unemployment rate...

I don't have a lot of faith in it. His thinking, or at least that of his advisers, is that of a sort of neo-new deal. There's a couple of problems with this. 1. The new deal didn't work. It was military spending during WWI which eventually brought the US out of the depression. 2. Our...