AlexanderNull

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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
Why are there so many studies looking at vitamin D and bone health? Vitamin D levels affect expression of over 400 genes in the human body, make a difference in cancer survival and are strongly inversely correlated with all cause mortality
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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
You're only mentioning our CURRENT adolescence in this field. Dozens of genes associated with intelligence have already been identified and hereditary studies have already shown intelligence's genetic roots. A geneticist today can
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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
If it makes you feel any better, we're only collecting GPU info so we can identify you when you've "forgotten" to accept cookies. It's only like we're lifting your finger prints from discarded coffee cups, no b
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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
> With regards to dry dog food, canned dog food, and those dog-roll things... Can you imagine eating nothing but dry dog food most your life? Or nothing but canned food most of your life? Or nothing but luncheon meat / devon most yo
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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
One thing I do is keep a relatively small cup at my desk. I drink a lot especially when thinking hard and whenever that cup runs out that's my signal that it's time to take a break, grab more water, walk around a bit, maybe stare
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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
+1 for Mg. I prefer the citrate salt as I find it faster acting and doesn't give me the same digestive issues, but it's so damned effective for general anxiety I even keep a bottle in my desk at work!
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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
America is in the world. Next question please. Seriously though, there's millions of people here who have been left out of the exclusive and rich club. The UN repeatedly dings the USA for the standard of living of many of our citizens
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by AlexanderNull 7y ago
Code for America continues to grow and release their apps in new areas of the country. They've got their annual summit in Oakland next week (29th) and they'll be looking to get more director level folks involved because of the cur
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
It's determined by each region. Here in Oregon/Washington we have medical exemptions, religious exemptions, and plain old "I just don't agree" exemptions (aka: personal exemptions). Hence why we had such a widesprea
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
While not as applicable in situations where the engineering team isn't under much pressure to deliver, there's a pretty common negative feedback loop that can occur with engineer staffing. While under pressure, teams with an adequ
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
Having worked at both an IBM and an Oracle acquisition, once you hit year 2 they'll wish it had been the other way around. A kind of nice thing about Oracle is they don't really want you to become an "Oracle shop" after
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
Very current knowledge is one of the main things I look for when evaluating a potential hire. It not only hints at an ability to learn, but also at a passion for the industry. I think that's where a lot of ageism comes in to play. I pe
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
I hate quotes but there's a single one I'll ever use because it's not only accurate but incredibly useful: "People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
Technical debt. Some places let this stuff mount up under constant pressure from product or management to always deliver features as quickly as possible. This makes it more difficult to track down bugs or add new features as this mounts. Mo
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
Focus on getting your body used to expending energy without recent consumption. Practice intermittent fasting until you can go easily 14+ hours without food and still have energy. Once you force your body to reach that point you'll fin
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
Intermittent fasting has been shown in a few cases to exceed the benefit of caloric restriction (and it's generally easier to follow: http://www.pnas.org/content/100/10/6216 I mention that because the cy
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
As a man/person I still wholeheartedly agree here. Ultimately it comes down to recognizing exactly what your end goal is in choosing one route over another. At best someone will ignore public criticizing and start thinking of the criti
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
While Scala isn't a pure functional language there are some good resources for picking up FP related concepts with it (and it's what I recently moved over to so it's most recent for me). Scala with Cats did a pretty good job
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
Former chef here, the variance in balances of different chemical constituents can be so massive between two pieces of fruit picked from the same tree that precise recipes would be useless without requiring each reader to have access to a ma
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by AlexanderNull 8y ago
RATS. The research they cited was done on the sleeping posture of RATS, a quadrupedal, straight necked organism. I doubt it's very applicable overall to the difference between lateral and supine posture in humans so I wouldn't tak