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One More Cure for Hiccups

September 7, 2024 0 Comments

December 20, 2022 · 5:50 AM

I’ve written previously about how Paul Ingraham helped cure my patello-femoral pain syndrome.

More recently, Paul looked into hiccup cures because his father had an intractable case. What finally worked for dad? Breathing into a plastic bag.

Boosting blood CO2 (hypercapnia) by breathing in a PLASTIC bag. This one is quite plausible and is easy and safe to try. Hypercapnia definitely affects some kinds of hiccups. The story (from a smart source, a good “friend of PainSci”): “There’s an even easier way out of hiccups — at zero cost. Learned it from my uncle,

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DeFi should complement TradFi, not attack it: Finance Redefined

July 22, 2024 0 Comments

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.

Following FTX’s demise, the DeFi space is up for a complete remodel as crypto users demand better security and compliance practices.

SushiSwap’s roadmap for the coming year includes the development of a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator, a decentralized incubator and “several stealth projects.” All these projects combined can grow their market share 10x, said the CEO.

The co-founder and CEO of Ava Labs spoke with Cointelegraph at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,

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G7 finance chiefs to meet July 16, will discuss Ukraine, global taxation

July 22, 2023 0 Comments

By Tetsushi Kajimoto

TOKYO (Reuters) -Financial leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced countries will hold talks on July 16 on the sidelines of the broader G20 meeting in India, Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday.

The G7 groups Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.

“Support for Ukraine, MDBs (multilateral development banks) reform and international taxation will be discussed at this meeting,” Suzuki added. “We have no plan to issue a statement but we will lead debates to resolve problems of the world’s faces.”

Separately, the G20 under the chair of India will

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More than 1.2 billion euros in Russian assets frozen

July 6, 2023 0 Comments

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Some 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in Russian-owned assets managed by Cyprus-registered companies were frozen in compliance with sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Cyprus’ Finance Ministry said Tuesday.

The ministry told The Associated Press “the vast majority” of those assets were held in European Union credit institutions and the entire amount came on top of 105 million euros frozen by banks in Cyprus.

The ministry provided the information in response to European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders saying last week that Cyprus appeared to be falling behind on freezing Russian-owned assets.

Reynders

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Should Jordan, 58, and Joy, 57, leave their cottage to their children?

May 14, 2023 0 Comments

Jordan and Joy are looking to retire from work as soon as possible. Luckily they’ve accumulated more than enough to do so.Blair Gable/The Globe and Mail

Jordan and Joy have raised two children, paid off the family home and cottage, and amass substantial savings and investments. Jordan, who is age 58, runs his own successful technical business while Jill, 57, is a self-employed consultant. Neither has a company pension.

Jordan’s business grosses about $400,000 a year, from which he draws a salary of $75,000 a year and more if needed. Joy bills about $50,000

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Lowest fixed and variable mortgage rates in Canada for May 5 2023

May 12, 2023 0 Comments

A look at the lowest available mortgage rates on fixed and variable terms and HELOCs this weekMatt Rourke/The Associated Press

Insured borrowers still get the best deals

The gap between default-insured and uninsured mortgage rates just keeps getting wider, at least for the terms people want most.

Take two-year fixed-rate and variable-rate mortgages, for example. They’re a hot commodity because more people want shorter commitments — given they think rates are coming down by next year.

The spread between insured and uninsured mortgages grew five basis points this week on two-year fixed and variable-rate

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ChatGPT may be able to predict stock movements: finance professor

April 26, 2023 0 Comments

ChatGPT could be the next stock forecaster, according to this finance professor

Alejandro Lopez-Lira, a finance professor at the University of Florida, says that large language models may be useful when forecasting stock prices.

He used ChatGPT to parse news headlines for whether they’re good or bad for a stock, and found that ChatGPT’s ability to predict the direction of the next day’s returns were much better than random, he said in a recent unreviewed paper.

The experiment strikes at the heart of the promise around state-of-the-art artificial intelligence: With bigger computers and better datasets — like those powering ChatGPT — these AI models may display “emergent abilities,” or capabilities that weren’t

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mental health and wellbeing in the workplace – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

April 21, 2023 0 Comments

More than ever before, mental health is a topic for open discussion in the media, within our social circles and of course at work. Mental health and wellbeing is all about how we think, feel and behave, and is usually caused by a reaction to a difficult life event, which can be caused or made worse by work-related issues. In particular, working in isolation away from managers and colleagues can add stress to a workforce that is already facing a significant amount of pressure.

The scale of the problem

Globally, an estimated 264 million people suffer from depression, one of

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