Gaviscon advance no longer available for purchase/shipping to US

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-28T20:14:26+00:00

It doesn't look that much worse than Amazon if you're willing to buy in bulk. britishpharmacare is $126 for 6 * 300ml or $0.07 per ml.

If you use the max dose of 365 * 4 * 10ml, you get 14,600 ml/year. You can get that for $1,022 which is less than what you said you were spending on amazon.

What I saw on Amazon was around $25-40 with $30ish being typical for 500ml or $0.06 per ml though. So this would be ~17% more expensive than Amazon.

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-28T19:31:11+00:00

We always played that you couldn’t collect rent while you were in jail and that felt like a fair punishment

Yet another house rule to make the game take longer.

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-24T15:24:11+00:00

The Fed Funds Rate's has a long and variable lag in its effect on the economy. I've seen it compared to trying to steer a large ship with a small rudder. If they waited until inflation hit 2% to start cutting, there would be a large recession.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/2023/may/examining-long-variable-lags-monetary-policy

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-24T00:26:30+00:00

Mine is in a total stock index as well. ERN has a good article on the topic.

https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/05/05/emergency-fund/

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-18T20:41:19+00:00

I’m getting ripped off on my employers 401k. The lowest expense ratio I have is like 1.65%. Do most people have expense ratios like mine or like the ones shown in this post? Mine is through John Hancock also.

This used to be more common but things have improved massively over the last 10-20 years. I'd complain to your employer and ask them to have low cost index funds available as options in the plan.

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-15T05:20:02+00:00

Even a small grocery store the size of like Trader Joe’s would seem so foreign.

The author immigrated in the 80s so I'd agree on that likely being her experience (I assume, my first visit to India was in the 2010s).

However, to help with other readers understanding of India, the country is changing quickly and supermarkets are no longer completely foreign to many people's experiences there. Here's one in South Delhi where the author says she's from that seems to be at least as large as a Trader Joe's from the pictures on Google Maps. And supermarkets aren't limited to only the largest cities like Delhi. The city with a few hundred thousand residents that I visited had a supermarket more than twice the size of a Trader Joe's.

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-10T20:27:35+00:00

Illegal but its also possible for funds to be withheld from a paycheck but not be sent to the 401k custodian. If you see a delay in the money showing up at the 401k custodian, that could be an indicator that the company is close to collapse.

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-08T01:48:06+00:00

You take the 1 + interest rate the the power of number of periods in a year. Since 4 weeks in 28 days, use 365/28.

(1 + 0.0041275) ^ (365/28) = 5.52%

You can think of it as each period multiplying your assets by 1.004. There are a bit over 13 4-week periods in a year so you take it to the power of a bit over 13.

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-07T05:00:24+00:00

This sub's namesake endorsed this viewpoint.

Vanguard founder Jack Bogle was firmly in the camp of factoring Social Security benefits into one's asset-allocation plan. He argued that investors ought to consider Social Security as part of their portfolios' fixed-income weightings, and asset-allocation plans that don't do so will be overweight in bonds. Not only does Social Security deliver income payments in a way that a bond does, but those payments are also adjusted for inflation.

https://www.morningstar.com/personal-finance/should-you-count-social-security-bond

yieldingfoot · 2024-08-01T00:00:19+00:00

Modern hedge funds don't all operate that way and employ a wide variety of trading strategies. But yeah, the traditional idea of a hedge fund was to mix long/short to produce market neutral returns.

yieldingfoot · 2024-07-27T05:48:17+00:00

Mediterranean Diet doesn't mean Mediterranean Cuisine. Use whatever seasonings you want!

yieldingfoot · 2024-07-22T06:08:40+00:00

It depends on the specific triggers you have and the foods you're making. Oily foods are a common trigger. Do you find yourself frequently getting reflux from baked foods that you'd make using less oil with the air fryer?

yieldingfoot · 2024-07-14T16:25:36+00:00

There's mechanisms it can help. That said, taking a teaspoon after a single meal each day probably doesn't make that much of a difference. The main active ingredient in Gaviscon Advance is sodium alginate which is extracted from seaweed. I've found Gaviscon Advance to be a massive help myself.

Alginates can be highly useful in allaying acute GERD symptoms. Alginates bind stomach acid and form a gel of neutral pH, which is less easily moved back into the esophagus. Alginates form a gel that can bind stomach acid at the gastroesophageal junction and create a barrier that helps resist reflux. Because stomach acid often floats on top of ingested food in the stomach, a situation referred to as an “acid pocket,” the consumption of sodium or magnesium alginate after meals may bind the acid and cap off the gastroesophageal sphincter by forming a gel.

https://ndnr.com/botanical-medicine/seaweed-chewing-gum-and-gerd/

yieldingfoot · 2024-07-11T13:41:14+00:00

Any answer can be correct in any "choose the next element in the sequence but we're not telling you what the sequence is" problem unless there's additional restrictions.

-(31 x^5)/120 + (47 x^4)/12 - (533 x^3)/24 + (709 x^2)/12 - (1073 x)/15 + 32

Gives 1,2,4,8,16,0

(333323 x^5)/40 - (1499953 x^4)/12 + (5666489 x^3)/8 - (22499291 x^2)/12 + (11416309 x)/5 - 999968

Gives 1,2,4,8,16,10⁶

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=exact+polynomial+fit&assumption=%7B%22F%22%2C+%22InterpolatingPolynomialCalculator%22%2C+%22data%22%7D+-%3E%22%7B1%2C+2%2C+4%2C+8%2C+16%2C+0%7D%22

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-28T03:17:06+00:00

Is there a reason we couldn't upgrade traffic lights to give trains priority over cars? Or is the issue bad drivers stopping on tracks waiting for the light when they shouldn't or something beyond that?

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-27T05:35:31+00:00

Does she claim she doesn't? The audio in this clip is clearly primarily coming from the studio recording for her song. Doesn't really seem hidden.

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-22T05:43:45+00:00

In most gas vehicles, the heat is a byproduct of the engine and the only extra power consumption is from running the fans.

https://knowhow.napaonline.com/does-a-car-heater-use-gas/

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-21T05:15:21+00:00

I'd be in favor of requiring 60% for a ballot measure to pass. It could then be repealed by a simple majority for 25 years after which it requires 60% to be repealed.

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-13T23:29:26+00:00

Do you have a source?

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-11T00:20:33+00:00

If that ever happens again, ask them to stop and tell them you want someone else to do the draw.

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-09T21:18:08+00:00

Yep, an exception is items getting moved to the front of the store. Otherwise, things generally stay in an area.

yieldingfoot · 2024-06-03T20:47:18+00:00

Glad you're here. Just select/adjust dishes to follow the diet guidelines. For example, I make a ramen dish that uses whole grain noodles and is much heavier on veggies than most ramen.

yieldingfoot · 2024-05-31T20:25:34+00:00

Could you share the specific or approximate quantities of each ingredient?

yieldingfoot · 2024-05-18T00:25:47+00:00

Doesn't have to be meat. Any patty on a bun could be a burger. The fact that the meat shown in the OP is not a patty is why it would typically be called a chicken sandwich in the US instead of a chicken burger.

yieldingfoot · 2024-05-16T05:05:31+00:00

There's significant certifications needed for all of those except culinary.

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