arkades

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by arkades 8y ago
I used this. Pretty happy with it.
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by arkades 8y ago
This sounded perfect until I went to your site and found the one and only way to sign in was via fb. I mean, it’s nice that -you’re- not tracking me, but you’re still requiring I invite fb to track what I’m doing. So... for those of us for
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by arkades 8y ago
After all the problems with the counterfeiting etc., I wanted a straight up “shareable list” approach to a registry when my wife and I conceived. I ended up pretty happy with Babylist, which is basically a nice centralized tool for clipping
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by arkades 8y ago
Using this on Safari on iOS: Every time I tried to swipe Back I would briefly see the HN page, and then it would reload the demo page. It wouldn’t let me swipe Back to HN. Aaaand my interest in this is gone.
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by arkades 8y ago
Summary: Diets that replaced carbs with fat burned an average of 250 calories a day more, in a study whose methodology wasn’t described or skeptically analyzed whatsoever. Author then goes on to repeat “not all calories are identical” repea
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by arkades 8y ago
I think there’s a delta between “good at X” and “reasonably familiar with and knowledgeable about X.” If you know nothing about X, you can’t speak the same language as the people you’re managing, nor understand the issues they’re tackling,
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by arkades 8y ago
Not OP but: Almost everyone old enough to have a shred of memory regarding the last time global politics went this way has passed away.
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This, btw, is the standard perspective on medication in the psychiatric community. It's uncommonly the answer in itself, but it puts the person neuropsychiatric state in a mode that is amenable to improvement. The data tend to suppor
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by arkades 8y ago
We don’t make money by prescribing drugs. Those of us on risk sharing contracts - most of us, directly or indirectly, to a greater or lesser extent - lose money by prescribing drugs. Your comment has little factual basis.
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by arkades 8y ago
No; thank you.
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by arkades 8y ago
The LA Times article seems like the best of the bunch.
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by arkades 8y ago
This is actually a terribly misleading pop-Sci writeup. Any chance mods can change the link to the actual study? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6414/598
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by arkades 8y ago
In fairness, we produce monoclonal abs for new indications - and get them into production - constantly. It's one of the richest fields in pharma right now. And people have been having slow-moving but noticeable success with this sort o
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by arkades 8y ago
The really terrible pop-sci write-up says because the antibodies are smaller. The actual publication doesn't given a reason for using llamas. The rationale discussed doesn't hold together, either, since nothing in the study is abo
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by arkades 8y ago
The point isn’t that it’s legal or not. It’s that the creator -expressed his wishes- for how his work would be treated when he chose his license. There’s nothing unethical about respecting people’s freely chosen and publicly expressed wishe
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by arkades 8y ago
But the creator has the freedom to choose any license they like, any at all. They chose a very permissive one. Why is it being a jerk to engage in a behavior that someone freely gave their blessing to?
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by arkades 8y ago
Interested in elaborating and sharing some lab values and biopsy findings? Sounds interesting.
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by arkades 8y ago
> increased values of the liver. Gilbert syndrome doesn't affect any liver function tests aside from unconjugated bilirubin - a value that reflects a backup of bilirubin processing, and not a liver-damaging process.
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by arkades 8y ago
Average caffeine pill is 100mg (roughly on par with a cup of tea or coffee). Caff can be fatal for adults at about 10g of consumption (Heckman 2010) - about 100 caffeine pills. Caffeine toxicity can happen much earlier, but it's mostly
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by arkades 8y ago
As a big fan of hackerspaces, I’d love to hear more about your experiences.
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by arkades 8y ago
Radio Shack sells - sold - a small variety of components at a massive markup. Compared to things like McMaster-Carr and ladyada/sparkfruit, I don’t think it’s been in any way relevant to the modern “maker” movement.
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by arkades 8y ago
In what version of a free market would it be illegal to poach a competitor’s customers?
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The study this summary refers to studied books as an indicator of a “culture of scholasticism.” It didn’t even really try to disentangle socioeconomic effects, because it was looking to use books as a proxy for them. It did not say “books i
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by arkades 8y ago
> so until I went through the AMZN mediation process I had a similar experience recently. Amazon bounced my review for “tone.” I went back and removed the harshest words (“garbage”), softened the criticisms, and resubmitted. It’s been w
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Why I Left My Big Fancy Tech Job and Wrote a Book(medium.com)
8 points by arkades 8y ago|2 comments
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by arkades 8y ago
So does HTML/CSS+JS. A project aiming at simplicity probably isn't one to criticize for lack of features.
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“Food waste” means, specifically, food that went unsold because a market couldn’t be found for it. Donating something rather than throwing it out is how these venture began. If you can find a market for it, its not waste.
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by arkades 8y ago
"Our venture, and ventures like ours, which rely on redistributing food waste, cannot succeed if people waste less food. So please waste more food." Talk about putting the cart before the horse. I have no problem with saying, &quo
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by arkades 8y ago
> The policy proposal, which you can read here, essentially bars out-of-network doctors from billing patients directly for their care. Instead, they would have to seek payment from the insurance plan. This would mean that in the cases a
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by arkades 8y ago
Picture a lab. It's a Nobel laureate's lab. They work on biochemistry. They work on producing drugs that might one day cure cancer. Everyone that works there gets to say, "all the small, day to day, technical things I do ...

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