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https://examine.com/supplements/fish-oil/#hem-triglycerides The effect is stronger in individuals with elevated triglyceride levels, but it seems to lower triglycerides in those with more normal levels as well.
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"Fine and Manson stressed that vitamin D and the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil are important nutrients, but the best way to get them is as part of a well-balanced diet. That includes eating fatty fish like sardines, tuna and sa
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8y ago
Yeah, it's very stupid. "Fish oil slashes heart attack risk by a huge percentage--but it's not a Wonder Drug that cures all ailments. Disappointing!"
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8y ago
"Touted" based on what? There isn't much good evidence linking fish oil to cancer. https://examine.com/supplements/fish-oil/ But there's very good evidence that shows fish oil has benefits for
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If you hover the homepage buttons, you can see they veeery slightly change color, to a different shade of purple. It's barely perceptible. Breaking fundamental rules of user experience right off the bat is not a good sign when I'
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8y ago
There are a couple recent SwiftOnSecurity tweets about this I thought I'd share: "Your email address is your identity. We are talking the rest of your life. I’ve done custom hosting for 10 years. My first email host got acquired
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The thing about sales is that at a certain level of client, the clients want to speak to executives, not salespeople. If you're going to place executives in the area, then their underlings need to be there too, and so on. Putting your
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>What seems to help with this Japan is that zoning and building codes are top down from the highest level of government This is the only way to effect a society where housing is "not an investment". Otherwise you're lookin
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At that point, why not just write actual CSS?
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Your argument would be stronger, I think, if it were less pro-Google and more focused on drawing an equivalence by pointing out that relying on Yandex dilutes DDG's privacy promise. "Google is good and trustworthy" is not a s
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Why would this result in templates becoming more stateful? This is simply an alternative, more flexible way to build stateful components.
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color is as much a property of font as size is
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Do researchers from disciplines like history and marine biology ever pool their resources for missions like this, just to explore uncharted areas of the ocean deep to discover what's down there? It seems like there's so much oppor
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Yeah finding something you enjoy is key. I hate running. I hate cycling. I hate cardio-class-type motions. But damn do I love me some Dance Dance Revolution. And let me tell you, once you get good at it and start doing the hardest songs on
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"Incentivizing greed" is literally how capitalism works. Or rather, it's knowing that greed will exist regardless, and then incentivizing the channeling of that greed toward better outcomes for society.
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HN commenters have such a strange cognitive dissonance on this issue. On one hand, there's this consistent theme of web Luddism - a lament for the simplicity of when the web was for documents, rather than apps. On the other hand, there
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Right? Now imagine phone tilt or battery information on the scale of billions of people. Imagine what you can infer. This person's phone has been tilting less often over the past decade - a trend correlated with, let's say, a more
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8y ago
except Lyft
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The Odyssey is the archetype for an entire genre of "road trip" stories throughout history. It's also, more broadly, a key point of influence for many aspects of the Campbellian hero's journey. The Iliad simply hasn'
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"Copyright infringement" maybe should stick if they hacks include reproductions of Epic's code, but "breach of contract and tortious interference" is a load of horse shit. Game EULAs are not the law.
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>As such, "medical care" doesn't make sense as a right, because it's a service provided to you, not inherent to you in the sense that speech or association between individuals. Guess we'd better scrap that whole
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>Wikipedia is one of the few web information sources that are globally accepted as more or less correct. This is totally wrong. Wikipedia has always been received with skepticism because it's "the site where anyone can write an
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That's why I love index funds. You're betting with the house, not against it.
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Is that not a good thing, though? Especially for the working class, breaking up via an expensive divorce, after an expensive marriage, seems objectively worse than breaking up a lengthy partnership, for all involved.
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Most of the "a lot to love" points are also hit by BEM/SMACSS. In regard to this point: >You never have to deal with one instance of a thing needing a slightly different style than the other instances, which screws up your
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This is why despite trying Vue first and liking it, after learning React, I would always use it in the future. Vue really requires you invest in its ecosystem a lot more to structure your entire frontend (and Nuxt even more so), whereas Rea
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It's fun to think about what a combat spaceship would actually look/function like. For armor, all you'd need is a large shield in front (similar to the movie Sunshine). You can turn to face inbound enemies quickly enough so t
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It's more that ships fly around in a way that only makes sense if there is air to provide drag.
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Of course it's a crutch. A crutch is a device used to help you heal, without with healing would take much longer or be much more ineffective. We need to stop demonizing crutches.
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Contrast this with their excellent identity refresh for American Express: https://www.pentagram.com/work/american-express-1 The difference is night and day. Imagine how fantastic that kind of modernizing light touch co
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