Talophex @Talophex

Surgeon General of prediction market Twitter. Too liberal for the Deep South, too conservative for the PNW. github.com/Talophex Seattle, WA Joined September 2011

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Talophex @Talophex

a day ago

“But the dwarves delved too greedily and too deep, you know what they awoke in the darkness…”

Hedgeye @Hedgeye

6 days ago

We remain short $USO.

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4 days ago

@RRutilius753 Don’t you feel like ignoring Iran and just dialing down oil imports slowly would have brought less attention to their economic state?

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I think this year’s biggest geopolitical mystery is why China cut oil consumption exACTly when we most needed them to, did we promise something big in exchange? Why didn’t they turn the screws on us when they had the chance?

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4 days ago

@RRutilius753 There’s no way they happened to suddenly realize this right as the mess in Iran started, their oil imports are more centrally planned than that and would change at a milder pace if it was just economic slowing

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5 days ago

@Ckatoshi Still seems like they really took one for the team, I don’t think we’d do the same for them

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6 days ago

I was told by Trump that the strait is open and all the ships are flying out at warp speed, who exactly is stranded?

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6 days ago

UN says it will evacuate sailors stranded in Strait of Hormuz, as Rubio warns against tolls bbc.in/4epBBAt

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6 days ago

@samschwartz71 @Meta @PlayProphetX @Novig Your first thought was correct, this has a 0% chance of success, the American Facebook user base isn’t young and tech savvy enough to support this, and overseas people already have too many good options

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a week ago

@mmm_btus I get multiple texts, phone calls, and emails per day begging me to come work at various hospitals around the country, it would be hard to imagine a career with better job security

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a week ago

@SurgeryBro @HofkampMichael Also it wasn’t even an epidural in her story, she misspoke, it was a spinal for a c-section, even easier!

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a week ago

@mnmcsofgp @growing_daniel Patients who have a bad experience with it BEG not to receive it again in the future

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a week ago

@specialkdelslay Number 1 won’t be bothering us? What do you think they’re gonna do when their ultrasound shows a possible simple cyst on their liver? The failure to think of second and third order effects here is just incredible, even for Twitter.

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2 weeks ago

@TeamStubHub @skiplacombe Yikes guys, read the room, or even just the tweet

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2 weeks ago

@slatestarcodex @mgrczyk @drethelin Wait that’s right you’re in psych, I don’t want to bash family med (lord knows I wouldn’t last a day in clinic) but yes I agree with you, and to be fair there’s plenty of anesthesiologists doing weird things because of “this one crazy case I had…”

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2 weeks ago

@calvinfroedge My local gas stations are utterly overwhelmed, they’re doing “free fill-up Fridays” just to get rid of it

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2 weeks ago

@NathanpmYoung @grok Exactly, you seem to be experiencing really great social/happiness benefits from spending time in settings that include alcohol, don’t discount those either, so don’t stop cold just optimize

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2 weeks ago

@NathanpmYoung @grok It may be less than you think, and you CANNOT just assume the answer is how many drinks you had up to that point because recent drinks will not have “hit you” yet so they don’t count

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2 weeks ago

@NathanpmYoung @grok You’re a scientific guy let’s get quantitative about it. If you’re ever hangin out at a bar that has a breathalyzer on the wall (more common in Europe unfortunately) when you first feel that optimal buzz, go check your BAC and then back calculate how many drinks it took.

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2 weeks ago

@NathanpmYoung @grok The thing about you toppling over is insignificant, but changes to blood pressure, sleep quality (and downstream of both of those heart health) are nothing to brush off. For the record I drink and don’t even discourage it in moderation! 8 standard drinks just feels a little much.

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2 weeks ago

@slatestarcodex @mgrczyk @drethelin Please don’t include doctors when discussing irrational people who chase incidental findings, given the danger we face from the excessively litigious environment we operate in I assure you we are acting VERY rationally!