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by Tharkun 8y ago
Lithium (or rather Li+) is widely used to help manage mood disorders. From my experience with people on it, it seems to be pretty effective.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
If this makes even one user switch away from gmail, that'll be a win in my book. I hope Google continues treating their users and products like garbage, until none are left.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I believe Nokia/Withings offers a fitness tracker with an eink display with a watchface.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Those 800k people are about 1/7th of the population in the area. So it's not super reassuring.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
That appears to be mostly the case. The whole of Flanders is pretty much urbanized, so results aren't as bad as people feared. However, when the new WHO thresholds are taken into account, about 1 in 7 people are living in the danger zo
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Some background information: in attempt to gain insight into air quality, 20k people installed NO2 measuring devices in front of their homes for a month. Spread out throughout the northern half of Belgium. NO2 is only one aspect of air poll
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Results of massive NO2 measurement experiment in Flanders (map+graph,Dutch text)(standaard.be)
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Shame that security wasn't really addressed, other than the brief mention of WPA2-PSK. I feel like PSK in general is a horrible idea in an office environment. Lots of people + lots of devices ≈ shitty password which never gets changed.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Ate you saying asbestos bound in cement is not dangerous? That's simply not true. Things like wind erosion, wear and tear, accidental breakage, can cause the fibres to escape the cement. This seemingly simple problem makes it very diff
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by Tharkun 8y ago
200k doesn't seem like that much. Rats aren't very big, and Barcelona is a pretty large city, with a population of about 1.5M humans. I would have expected more, having grown up in a rural area where there's a lot more mice,
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Not the original grandfather, but I'm a fellow migraineur. I read Sarno's book, and found it to be unhelpful. From what I remember, the gist of it is that "unresolved emotions" cause a great deal of physical problems in
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by Tharkun 8y ago
If anything, now that the internet has effectively become mankind's long-term memory, anonymity feels more important than ever. If you got into a regrettable flame war on some mailing list back in 2001, it's still out there, waiti
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Possibly slightly off topic: not ever having been in academia, how would one go about "writing a paper"? I assume you start off by researching something interesting and jotting down your results, but I'm guessing there's
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> I'd expect PSD2 legislation will all-but destroy CC companies across the EU within 3 years I wish. PSD2 will do nothing for consumers and won't hurt CC companies in the slightest. The requirements to actually be able to use
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Apparently "allow being tracked to gain more access" somehow isn't. As far as I can tell that's what every major newspaper in Belgium is doing. I suspect they've got folks in their employ who speak legalese. But t
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I didn't have any equity. The only thing I invested was several years of my life and a fair amount of blood,sweat&tears. The other early days engineers and myself worked our asses of, going beyond the call of duty as they say. I do
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I disagree with the GDPR "success story" part of your comment. So far it's backfired entirely. The goal was to provide users with more control, and (from the standpoint of such a user) to reduce relentless personal data harve
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by Tharkun 8y ago
The unfairness of it all. Years ago I was employee #1 at a small company, which grew quite large in terms of user base and profit. VC was attracted. More profit was made. New C-level executives were attracted. The founders and C-levels made
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Is this why some folks with stress and anxiety report feeling better when taking coenzyme q10 (coq10) supplements? It allegedly improves mitochondrial function...
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Keto was created specifically for people with epilepsy. It works wonders for a subset of those patients, and for them any potential down sides are very much worth it. Some people with migraine (which in some ways resembles epilepsy) have al
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I was under the impression that Visual Snow was a symptop of anxiety?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
We've had several FOSS based phones. The problem is that no one buys them, their finances dry up and the whole thing goes down the drain.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
When the French executed Lavoisier, they said "the republic needs neither chemists nor scientists". The US seems to be of a similar mind at this point in time.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Next thing you'll have to pay publishers because you read their RSS feed in a self hosted aggregator.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
TV, storefront and voting. The latter can then be abused to pretend the public agrees.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
While this is a good idea in principle, in this case it's a recent development. You can't really go back in time and unbuy it just because Google suddenly decides to be a(n even bigger) dick.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Firefox does similar things though. They hide the URL scheme by default. And subdomain are displayed in a more subtle colour than the rest of the domain.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
While my Nilfisk hoover requires me to operate it manually, it is nearly 30 years old and still works perfectly. Only thing I've had to replace is the power cord which started to come apart. Having to replace a bunch of Roomba peripher
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Wasn't someone working on a step-on scale which (somehow?) looked at blood flow in your feet and tracked this over time? Something like that might be able to detect plaque buildup over time. Not sure how accurate this would be, or how
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Oh yes, you're absolute right. I'm not saying that a a HR below 60 is abnormal or bad. I'm just saying that "low = good" isn't automatically true. AFAIK devices like fitbit have no indication of blood pressure

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