breadwinner

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by breadwinner 1y ago
I am a current TiVo customer, and this is sad news. I use TiVo to record over-the-air TV transmission. TiVo software is great, it is the only usable UI these days. Compare it to Google TV for example. TiVo's UI is mostly text and some
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by breadwinner 1y ago
He's starting wars in Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Trump told the military last week, "This is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war too. It's a war from within."
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by breadwinner 1y ago
That's very cool... but it is for a different reason ("Aspirin disrupts the platelets and removes their influence over the T-cells so they can hunt out the cancer.") I am curious whether aspirin also helps in another way: by
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> Combined with React Hooks (which replaced stateful classes with functional composition), the ecosystem shifted decisively toward FP. React is the farthest thing from functional, see here: https://mckoder.medium.com/why-
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Would it be accurate to say enteric coated baby aspirin reduces risk of stroke due to its blood thinning properties, but since it is anti-inflammatory, also reduces risk of atherosclerosis and now cancer?
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by breadwinner 1y ago
You are absolutely right and it makes sense to start with a spreadsheet. As I said elsewhere, you have to reach a pain threshold in order to look for alternatives to Excel. And how soon you reach the pain threshold depends on how big your d
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Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook's Political Ads(nytimes.com)
20 points by breadwinner 1y ago|2 comments
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by breadwinner 1y ago
You are absolutely right about needing more clicks and key strokes in Airtable. You have to reach the pain threshold in order to look for alternatives to Excel. And how soon you reach the pain threshold depends on how big your data is and h
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by breadwinner 1y ago
That's true, nothing is as ubiquitous as Excel. But Excel is not designed for multiple people simultaneously updating data. At some point you need a database.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Not true. You can't use SQL in Airtable even if you want to, it just doesn't support it. Also, Airtable is SaaS, you can't install it.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
I would say Airtable is. Or if your users are slightly more technical you can try https://visualdb.com/ because it lets you use your own Postgres instance as the backend db.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
That's not true, you can use Airtable to get the ease of use of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Here's a modern Microsoft Access: https://visualdb.com/ Or try Airtable.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Have you tried Airtable? It works like a spreadsheet but is a database underneath.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> even a complicated spreadsheet that can be directly edited and modified by the actual business stakeholders You can do that in a spreadsheet-database hybrid such as Airtable.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
You need to give them a tool that's as easy to use as a spreadsheet, and yet stores data in a relational database. There are plenty of spreadsheet-database hybrids in the market.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Have you not heard of spreadsheet-database hybrids? Like Airtable? Or if you want to use Postgres: https://visualdb.com
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> incremental transition path from spreadsheets to a full blown database There are plenty of tools for that. Airtable comes to mind, or if you want to use your own database try: https://visualdb.com/
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> I wish there was a better way to make spreadsheets use a database as a backend. Here you go: https://visualdb.com/
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> They're all news articles. Correct, but if you read the news articles you'll see that they are reporting results from scientific articles and clinical trials. In other words, it is not the reporter's opinions.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> It's a bad blog post for sure The blog is merely pointers to, and excerpts from, other articles on sources such as New York Times and Bloomberg. The blog post can't be bad unless the original sources it cites are bad. Which
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Yes, there is that risk. On the other hand there is the risk of stroke, which I am more scared of, which is why I take aspirin. What is the impact of NSAID Gastritis? How bad is it and can you recover from it?
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Sure statins may have saved lives, but the question is how. Is it by controlling LDL, or by reducing inflammation? This story says it is the latter: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-15/heart-dis
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by breadwinner 1y ago
So you are saying the human body manufactures a substance that is extremely harmful to the body. And yet lowering it artificially can lead to issues such as loss of short term memory. The body needs cholesterol! You could qualify your arg
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by breadwinner 1y ago
What about Vytorin trial? Vytorin is a combination of cholesterol-lowering drugs, one called Zetia and the other a statin called Zocor. Because the two drugs lower LDL cholesterol by different mechanisms, the makers of Vytorin (Merck and Sc
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> The cholesterol to heart disease link is one of the best attested in medical science What about this: Cholesterol lowering is not the reason for the benefit of statins. If it was, lowering cholesterol via any means should have produc
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Low dose aspirin can lower inflammation.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Cholesterol and statins have always been suspect science in any case: https://medium.com/@petilon/cholesterol-and-statins-e7d9d8ee...
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Trump defends use of the U.S. military against the 'enemy within'(npr.org)
43 points by breadwinner 1y ago|13 comments
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Not very far off: https://www.brioni.com/en/us/ca/suits

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