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by holbrad 6y ago
Physically reshaping the eye, isn't as crazy as it sounds. Your eye shape/length isn't set, it can both shorten and lengthen in response to stimulus. I am by no means claiming this device works, just that changing the shape o
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by holbrad 6y ago
"In general, Generation Z abhors the so-called 996 work rhythm – shifts that last from 9am to 9pm, six days a week – widely expected of employees by Chinese tech giants." 9-5, 5 days a week feels draining and a bit too much. This
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by holbrad 6y ago
"Microsoft's choice of codename for the console project – Midway – was a deliberate statement, one that may seem problematic in a more enlightened age, referring as it does to the World War II battle in which US forces defeated th
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by holbrad 6y ago
Shame.
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by holbrad 6y ago
I'll bite sure. Covid is not that bad. Statistically unless you are very sick and/or very elderly, you are extremely likely to not die. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73777-8 Deaths were almost en
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by holbrad 6y ago
Perhaps it's just my friend groups and family but most people I know would be vehemently against this. (UK) Most people speed (including myself), it's just not a big deal. I mean sure people die, it happens, but that's almost
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by holbrad 6y ago
It's a low power mobile part, that's just not relevant for any of my use cases and I'm guessing that's true of a lot of HN. Intel 10nm desktop CPU's are what I'm actually interested in.
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by holbrad 7y ago
Your drastically oversimplifying LDL's role in disease. High LDL is a very weak predictor. This has been known since the Framingham study. Looking at a combination of LDL, HDL and trigs is a much better predictor. High LDL in combinati
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by holbrad 7y ago
Why would that be a better hypothesis? It seems likely that for all of these factors the arrow of causality would go in both directions. Being wealthier allows you to spend more time, money and effort on health (though with diminishing retu
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by holbrad 7y ago
Personally I think they do shoulder some blame. But I certainly think things could be made significantly easier for the average person to do the right thing. Nutrition science is very complicated with very strong biases and conflicting resu
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by holbrad 7y ago
EDIT: Apologies for the rant, went a little overboard oh well. For the overwhelming majority of heavy hitting chronic diseases (Diabetes T2, Obesity, Heart Attacks, even likely cancer). They are completely preventable though diet and other
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by holbrad 7y ago
Type 2 diabetes, isn't just completely preventable its largely reversible. ( https://www.virtahealth.com/research )
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by holbrad 8y ago
Just got 800 Kbps on a speed test. That's on "4G" in the UK.
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by holbrad 8y ago
I've been using a tool called KeyPirinha for launching programs. Configured it to launch when Alt+Space is entered. http://keypirinha.com/
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by holbrad 9y ago
>the diversity policy is about making sure top talent doesn't go elsewhere From what I know that doesn't seem to be the case at all, it's about projecting a positive image of your company (The candidates skills are seconda
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by holbrad 9y ago
You seem to be rather confused about the Bell Curve. It's my understanding that the main data presented hasn't been overturned or disproved (In-fact quite the opposite)