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by arafa 8y ago
The article quickly discussed fecal transplants, which seem to be an extremely promising and underexplored avenue (for obvious reasons) for dealing with obesity without surgery. I always figured if I got seriously overweight I would try it
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by arafa 8y ago
I actually quite like the Yahoo Sports iOS app, it's way better than the bloated, buggy, ad-ridden disaster that the ESPN iOS app is. I used to use Yahoo Finance like some others here also. And their RSS reader was pretty decent befo
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by arafa 8y ago
You're thinking of a currency transaction report (CTR), which has a standard of $10,000 instead. Banks file SARs against customers so that the feds can follow up. No one would work with cash above that limit if they had to file a SAR
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by arafa 8y ago
I read the first book in My Struggle and quite enjoyed it. In some ways, the author is a real curmudgeon but he's also very open and self-aware about it along with his anxieties and everything else, which was refreshing. Also his memo
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by arafa 8y ago
Seconded. This link was huge to me when learning AWS products.
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by arafa 8y ago
It's a little known feature where you can get Spotify to sync local files across devices by putting both devices on the same wi-fi network. It's a pain, though, and it sometimes fails in the ways I'm talking about (I still u
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by arafa 8y ago
Is this with uploaded music? If so, it could be an issue with regular music syncing deleting or having them become unavailable. That feature is super finicky and iffy and I only ever do manual syncs to mostly avoid it. Another fun classic
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by arafa 8y ago
I was talking about the instruments, but yes vibrato would be one way that would be mirrored in the human voice.
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by arafa 8y ago
I can confirm all of this learning Dvorak. Having seen this with myself and others, it really is like a short version of learning a language and seems to use the same part of my brain. There's that period where you're not good i
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by arafa 8y ago
My experience was definitely different. Just switching my keyboard layout to Dvorak was enough to slay my RSI. It's been 15 years with no pain since. I've done all the others on this list, they didn't seem to have an impac
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by arafa 8y ago
In a history of music class I took, they casually suggested that all instruments closest to the sound and expressiveness of a human voice were among the most popular (see saxophones and guitars with tremolo). This seems to be yet another e
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by arafa 8y ago
This was my exact experience in learning an alternate keyboard layout. Worked out great for RSI and I've never looked back (though it was painful to start).
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It's a combination of sample size and effect size. The larger one is, the more I'm willing to give on the other.
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by arafa 8y ago
Of course there are exceptions and what I said doesn't capture all cases (like with massive fixed costs or unique kinds of studies), you're right. I find it's a pretty good rule of thumb, though.
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by arafa 8y ago
What I'd like to know is if the "irreproducibility crisis" is really some combination of "sample size was too small" and "effect size was too small". When I went through a lot of these studies myself and
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by arafa 9y ago
For those that enjoy this sort of thing, you may also like the backyard wrestling documentary "The Backyard" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309326/?ref_=nv_sr_4 ). It's violent and disturbing in plac
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by arafa 9y ago
I wanted to post this exact reply and saw you had already posted it. Highly recommended, I think about this podcast episode a lot.
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by arafa 9y ago
Tipping is often associated with both corruption and racism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/05/study... http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcont
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by arafa 9y ago
This is so true for me as well. I actually use more SQL, Bash, and even MS Access DBs and Excel pivots connecting to text files to get the data in the right, aggregated shape first. Then I load into R or Python as you say so I can work wi
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by arafa 9y ago
What you're saying is also confirmed by research recently cited in the excellent book The Domestic Dog (and may also be driven by in-breed variance): https://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Dog-Evolution-Behavior-Inter... Grea
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by arafa 9y ago
I agree. I had a similar experience and was thrown into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. It was so bad I stopped using their site and just started buying directly from airlines.
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by arafa 9y ago
Some of those folks have even automated blood sugar detection and insulin management, creating basically an artificial pancreas. It's pretty cool (open source) software if people want to learn more, called Nightwatch.
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by arafa 9y ago
Even if I am in the 29% (which is less likely, statistically speaking) along with my friend who also did the training and couldn't do this voluntarily, that's only one part of my argument. I'd still like to see the source fo
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by arafa 9y ago
"But we now know that most people – around 71% - can voluntarily contract the inner portion of the orbicularis oculi." I can't find the source for this anywhere online. My experience with over 100 hours of practice in front
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by arafa 10y ago
There is sort of a feedback loop based on the reports you do file, whether the Fed ends up accepting or complaining about them, and also (sadly) news reports. It works OK. Monitoring structuring mostly works fine at larger banks. The prob
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by arafa 10y ago
I always find it interesting that procedurally generated games like Spelunky and The Binding of Isaac only embrace procedural generation to a certain extent. They stitch the levels together in a procedural way and in some cases the items a
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by arafa 10y ago
"Going from imperative programming to functional programming has been a powerful paradigm shift for us to think about financial processing and accounting. We can now think of this system as a straightforward actor/handler system r
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by arafa 10y ago
Many of the graphics here violate visual best practices, which can make them very misleading (the scatter plot in particular). The most egregious is the use of a log-scale on three of the graphics, which isn't highlighted at all. Hum
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by arafa 10y ago
I agree. If medical treatments make sense in specific cases, of course use them. And sometimes combination treatments are the best (as mentioned in this thread). But hopefully this is preceded by a talk about cost/benefit of all app
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by arafa 10y ago
Adding to this article (I'm not a medical professional and not giving advice), the same inferior medical outcomes are attributed to most, if not all forms of back surgery. Physical therapy outperforms most or all back surgery with muc

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