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by aaronscott 6y ago
My understanding of the parent's post was that someone with -2 vision may expect roughly perfect vision as their eyes age. I couldn't find a study with data, but there are anecdotal guides online (for picking reading glasses) whic
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by aaronscott 6y ago
I experience that feeling too after watching other people play. It's hard not to compare my current progress with folks that have mastered various aspects or who have been playing for years. That said - my first 100 hours or so were wi
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by aaronscott 6y ago
I enjoy that this was posted to HN. Factorio combines all the fun parts of my day job (algorithms, simple maths, tackling solvable problems) with a fairly quick reward cycle. It has some very fun scaling challenges at every level of play. F
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. From the wiki page: > an increase in CO2 results in a decrease in blood pH,[2] resulting in hemoglobin proteins releasing their load of oxygen. Conversely, a decrease in carbon dioxide provokes an increase in pH,
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Haha amazing. I guess I was still waking up. It's too late to edit so I must leave the mistake for all to see. Thanks for pointing it out though.
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Thank you for finding that. It seems like intermittent cold exposure may be the primary key then. I wonder if breathing exercises help modulate the bodies response to the cold. More oxygen available may mean better brown fat thermogenesis f
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Thank you for posting this! This physician summarized studies[0] that showed that blended food spiked insulation vs. the same food that was chewed. His information seemed solid, so this title was surprising to see. 0 - https://ww
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Thank you for posting this! I rely on an IL-6 inhibitor currently, and used to rely on a TNF-a inhibitor which became less effective over time. Seeing these influenced through breathing, meditation, and cold exposure is really interesting.
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Similar for me - there was a real sense of accomplishment on my first win in Slay the Spire on the easiest difficulty setting. To think that players have >90% win rates on that setting, much less on Ascension 20 is remarkable. I've
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Interesting, I pay for the professional tier, and do not see a separate dropdown available for storage. The professional plan lists 5gb/user (at a rate of about $5/month), and the only way to scale up storage on my dashboard page
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by aaronscott 6y ago
I'm happy to see ProtonMail getting exposure. I moved over from gmail about a year ago, and have been quite pleased with their service. Only downside I've seen is that there isn't a clear way to increase available data storag
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by aaronscott 6y ago
Agreed! I spent several hours reading through her posts yesterday and came away with a much better understanding of fiscal and monetary policies. I did not understand how many levers countries have to modify their currencies. I also enjoyed
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by aaronscott 7y ago
I have Crohns, and want to expand on what Hinkley is alluding to. Some drugs modify the expression of a disease which prevents further damage, and others just mask the issue. Disease modifiers like methotrexate or stelara will suppress aspe
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by aaronscott 7y ago
From the paper: "Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days." This partially explains how quickly thi
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by aaronscott 7y ago
I love these debug stories. My interesting one was from a job repairing computers in high school. My older colleague was upgrading a 486, and couldn't get the system to boot on the first try, but if you hit the reset button after it wa
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by aaronscott 7y ago
I noticed this behavior starting around the time the ranking algorithm became more ML driven. I think this may have been late 2015[0]. I switched to Duck Duck Go a few months back, at first for privacy reasons, but now find myself preferrin
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by aaronscott 8y ago
I switched to protonmail a few months back, and have been very happy with the service. They focus on privacy and security as a core value. They have a limited free account (limited in terms of storage space and message volume), so not a dir
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by aaronscott 9y ago
I completely agree with you, but also have an anecdote that argues for the parent's view. I was driving a long roadtrip from Texas to California, split into a couple segments over several days. At one point, my adrenaline and heart rat
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by aaronscott 9y ago
Anecdotally, when camping I often wake up shortly before dawn when temperatures have dropped. I imagine that poor thermal regulation and lower serotonin in the early morning is partly the reason for waking up early. I wonder if this is a ho
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by aaronscott 9y ago
I lived in a van for a year in the bay area. My social life changed for the better. Being more mobile made it easier to visit friends and family in the area. Dating was fine, it was polarizing in a way. Some girls were immediately turned of
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by aaronscott 10y ago
Just wanted to provide a counter point - I also have a 32" 4k display but find the default text size easy on the eyes without scaling. I do sit pretty close to the monitor though, about half an arms length away (elbow to fingertips). I
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by aaronscott 10y ago
I've experienced this first hand. It's a surreal feeling, because you know that objectively everything is awesome, but emotionally you want to throw it all away. I have also experienced burn out with a job that I disliked. In both
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by aaronscott 10y ago
I have had a mixed relationship with fitness. Something that works for me is audiobooks and walking. The book keeps things interesting and makes it easy to lose track of time. There isn't much activation energy required either, you jus
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by aaronscott 10y ago
SF Chronicle had a good overview[0] of what could be going wrong. From the article: The tower was built using a concrete frame instead of steel. Which is much heavier - it puts about 4.75x the amount of pressure on the soil below the buildi
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by aaronscott 10y ago
I had never considered the difference between solitude and loneliness before. His words helped me understand that they are fundamentally different. "Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes
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by aaronscott 10y ago
I tried searching for 'pig 14' - and got back an error message that included (html removed): We're sorry... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your reque