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by Thriptic 11y ago
I work 10 hours per day and still make it to the gym for a few hours. I get in at 8:30, leave at 4:30, hit the gym and lift for a few hours, come back to work and work until 10 or 10:30, and then head home. Granted, I've optimized my l
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> First, there's the "me too" effect. If colleges pay football players, other athletes will want to be paid. They'll ask, "What makes football special?" and they'll have a point. What makes it special i
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It sounds like what they are referring to is a course reader published by their own university.
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I've often thought about how difficult it is to find people with the information and insight you need in universities / cities. I'm not even talking about people who can provide profound insight, which is more complicated, me
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I attended a liberal arts college which encouraged exploration of the humanities. I majored in biochem and was one course away from a minor in philosophy upon graduation. I stopped because philosophy as it was taught at my institution was f
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by Thriptic 11y ago
How are appointments handled in the institutes in Europe? Are investigators typically also affiliated with universities to get students, or is everyone working there a salaried employee of the institute?
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I don't think it's necessarily the case that academic science is a shitty value proposition; it could work well if funding were increased (obviously) and the university science model was done away with in favor of something resemb
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by Thriptic 11y ago
This. I lost about a hundred pounds by strictly adhering to keto then IIFYM + lifting. While there are differences in efficacy between various plans, the most important thing in dieting is strict adherence to a plan driven by a strong inter
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a bioengineer, not a physician, so please seek further info from a MD. > and while there's literally tons of information online about treatments and procedures, how would one go about digesting it all ? This is
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What happens when more countries decide that they're only willing to pay generic prices. The financial incentive to do the R&D will disappear.
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> A deeper problem is that math is almost always taught as a list of rules in the first place, frequently by teachers who do not themselves understand the underlying concepts. Teachers who only remember the procedures can of course only
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Yeah unless you're Eric Spoto the bench press contributes by far the least to your total. Powerlifters and olympic lifters also typically have deep respect for each other, as there is a broad intersection between the two sports.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Is it worth trying to get in contact with a recruiter if I want to leave academia and enter industry in a data science position, or better to go it alone?
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I was intrigued by this and did some very quick searching. Here is an article from 1948 which suggests that dietary differences are responsible for longer intestines in Japanese and Russians: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc&
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Is it possible that some of this overwork is being driven by general existential malaise? Having a lot of free time without purpose (and especially without meaningful relationships to occupy it) is actually pretty boring and depressing afte
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by Thriptic 11y ago
To be fair my observations are solely based off n~= 20 flights through generally smaller airports, but I have seen extreme reluctance on the part of TSA staff to pass people through the metal detectors, especially during times like holidays
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Another simple thing that could be done to increase efficiency is have notices upstream in the security line instructing people to remove their shoes / belts and store their personal items like phones before they get to the conveyor b
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I don't have the data to back it up, but from what I have personally seen, the bottleneck is now predominantly the body scanner, mostly because many airports are running a setup where they have two x-ray baggage detector lines feeding
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Brilliant. This should be implemented everywhere.
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Showing people information like this removes uncertainty and makes them feel more calm and in control, even if they can't necessarily act on the information immediately. It promotes the idea that the airport believes that user time is
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Oh man same here. I look at what some people I know have accomplished through consistent hard work at a young age and I kick myself for my laziness which was so consistently reinforced during school. Oh well, those thoughts just push me to
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by Thriptic 11y ago
You're likening women employed to chat and play games with lonely programmers to women forced into sexual slavery in wartime?
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shit flows down hill
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I'm in Boston (well, Cambridge to be precise) and am not familiar with Favor. How does it differ from Grubhub, Foodler et al?
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by Thriptic 11y ago
> Due to their nature smoke alarms have to fail in the most annoying way possible, and be difficult to disable. Why? Why not make them so that you can easily press a button and disable them for X amount of time universally? The one in my
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I don't think it's correct to say one way or the other what the critical driver is, as to my knowledge we don't have the necessary data to make such statements. Both genetics and environment likely play a role. We as a societ
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The studies cited in this article were observational, not mechanistic. What they found was that there was a correlation between being poor and having less grey matter development, not that being poor caused less grey matter development. The
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We had a variant of this system where I went to school. It was enjoyable as it yielded a lot of free time and autonomy (even if taking an above average number of classes) but it's hard to say whether it had any meaningful impact on ove
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> The purpose is not really to reduce death risk, but to increase quality of life. Not necessarily. There are many at home services geared around attempting to improve medication adherence in elderly patients for example, as they frequen
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If you're doing it for nefarious purposes, all you need to know is that the target vehicle in is on the road. You could have every active vehicle crash at the same time. While doing so blows the hack for good, it would make the motive

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