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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by scarface74 on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:16AM (#16078662)
Why not? In the grand scheme of things it's a simple case where the upside rewards are much greater than the downside risks.

It's the same theory behind venture capitalism. Your downside risk is only the amount of money you invest, your upside reward is that you may invest in what will become the next Facebook.

Yes I know that in reality most VC investors don't beat an index fund.

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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by JoeAltmaier on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:36AM (#16079208)
But there are thousands of gods. How do you decide? Pascal was a product of his times, and could only conceive of "Atheist vs Deist". Only savages could worship false gods; that wasn't even in his mind. Today his assertion sounds feeble.
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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by scarface74 on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:06AM (#16079405)
And going back to the VC analogy I referenced above, VCs invest in a lot of companies hoping One will succeed and expecting lots of them to fail.
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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by TheCoelacanth on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:57PM (#16080697)
Surely the downside risk is that you pick the incorrect deity and anger the real one causing you to be punished.
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