andrewem

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Their revenues are in the billions per year, and so their investors would be looking for new revenues in the billions. The assumption that there's an untapped multi-billion dollar market for logistics software that they could quickly d
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A great project which attempts to consider many of the possible things that people with a terrible illness think of trying to fix it is ALS Untangled, http://http://alsuntangled.com A group of experts on ALS (aka Motor
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by andrewem 9y ago
Helping out with another person's baby, I found that it was useful to see things like "is the baby behind on their usual food intake?" or "has the baby been asleep for a long time?" Tracking (via any means) was help
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The reason tummy time is recommended is because now it's encouraged to have babies sleep on their backs to avoid SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). The down side is they don't get time on their stomachs to work those muscles, an
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by andrewem 9y ago
Let's say most of your great grandfather's people were killed by another group of people and dispossessed of their land and property. And then someone came along and coerced them into making recordings, perhaps of their secret rel
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Seeds too. My local library has a bunch of different types of plant seeds, mainly foods. The idea is you take seeds in the spring, plant and grow them, harvest them, and then preserve the seeds and return them to the library to be "bor
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by andrewem 9y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, I meant - why would one choose a maglev for low-speed transportation, rather than a non-maglev vehicle that runs on rails? (Fill in whatever terms you want in your mind, light rail, subway, tube, undergr
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by andrewem 9y ago
This is an important point, and one you can see in practice in downtown Boston walking above the I-93 tunnel - lots of land is still used for off-ramps and on-ramps, which tends to have high-speed traffic, whose presence is dangerous and di
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So, planners there are car-hostile but are still spending billions to deliver as many total lanes as currently exist, counting both the tunnel and the surface street? If that's the definition we're using, then I'd like someon
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by andrewem 9y ago
Genuine question: what's the point of low-speed maglev? Seems like you could just use a regular electric train.
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Anyone who believes that they can gain sympathy for their cause in a country by indiscriminately killing people there is misguided. When someone's policy is mass murder that would happily target me, it's hard for me to muster much
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by andrewem 9y ago
My university (in the United States) had a course code like this, except that it was allowed to be repeated so you could take it a number of times under the same course code.
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I didn't know what the verb "coppice" means, but it turns out to mean cutting off the top of a tree so that new growth will occur: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing
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by andrewem 9y ago
Agreed. See for instance https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid... with a graph showing US drug overdose deaths are far higher now (well, as of 2016 estimated data) than ever b
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The argument the author makes is exactly that this is a time where words like "lies" are necessary, and to avoid them now constitutes lying to your audience rather than avoiding inappropriate overstatement.
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(As was noted elsewhere in the comments on this submission, the author is a woman, and quite well known - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Gessen ) It's hard to know how to criticize your comment constructivel
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I know a person who grew to love stouts and porters, but then for medical reasons had to give up all caffeine. It's awfully hard to figure out which of those beers contain caffeine from coffee, and which just have coffee-like flavors.
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Here you go - for a link to a national "corporate agenda" that applies to large companies, see the conveniently titled "2017 American Growth Agenda" put out by the US Chamber of Commerce, the major big business lobbying
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The problem is that anything which you remember that well is likely to be discoverable by other people. For instance, if someone's mother is dead there's a good chance that her obituary will be online and list the names of her chi
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by andrewem 9y ago
That argument has been made many times and in great detail. See for instance the work of Diane Ravitch, former US Assistant Secretary of Education ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Ravitch ) Edit: she was Assistant
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by andrewem 9y ago
Your mention of grocery stores and the environment reminds me of the first time I went to Houston, in the mid-'90s. I went to a Fiesta grocery store and was amazed to discover the front entrance had huge doors wide open, just dumping c
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It's entirely possible that it was the drug, but there was some factor that led his tumor to be susceptible to it, most likely a DNA mutation in the tumor. That's what "personalized medicine" or "precision medicine&
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Use of "Democrat" rather than "Democratic" in this context is meant as a term of abuse, at least by conservatives who have started using it. If your goal is to signal that you despise that party, then by all means keep u
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Funny, I do the opposite. When I find a book on Amazon, I'll see if it's at my local library and if not put in a request to have it shipped from another library in the same system (in my case, that system covers a number of nearby
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Sorry to tell you, but the general rule that adding road capacity doesn't reduce congestion (due to induced demand) will be true of any future Bay crossings.
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I worked at a place where a junior developer announced shortly after starting that he was moving 3 time zones away. The company decided to continue to employ him. It was probably doomed no matter what they did, but they also insisted he wor
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I just (re)read a book which deals with a lot of similar themes. It's a collection of letters to a Yiddish-language newspaper advice column which started in 1906. Many of the letters are about immigration, including conflict between ge
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by andrewem 9y ago
Until I read your comment it had not occurred to me that there could be different varieties of blueberries, but of course there can.
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This helped me put in context this more recent piece about another trademarked apple, the cosmic crisp. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/03/525421226/was... Edit: to summarize, there
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by andrewem 9y ago
I'm no doctor, but your description plus your use of the word "condition" makes me wonder if what you experience is hypomania. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania

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