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by louprado 9y ago
Unless I inhaled pepper that never happens. I've watched others learn this technique too even large men. It can take years of practice though, just like learning any good habit/manner.
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by louprado 9y ago
This story was originally reported the same day Apple announced that it would no longer use Bing.[1]. Gates' sudden affection for Android feels like a transparent way to snub Apple in retaliation and nothing more. [1] https:/&#x2
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by louprado 9y ago
PSA of the day: With practice you can learn to delay your sneeze by a second or two. That gives you time exhale all the air from your lungs so the sneeze has minimal power[1]. Tilt your head down too and with further practice you can learn
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by louprado 9y ago
I had a nasty bout with an SEO marketer a few years ago. He had taken content from my website and other assets of mine without permission or advance request. I was willing to overlook it as an inevitable cost of doing business. But when he
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by louprado 9y ago
But you could use caloric restriction to get some of those years back. You're probably near rock-bottom grumpiness/misery anyway so the cost is minimal.
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by louprado 9y ago
Or he may have "found" his cure but it was not one of the variables he mentioned. With that caveat, here's what I changed to fix my 25+ years of insomnia. 1) Always wear socks and semi-tight fitting pants and t-shirt. 2) I in
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by louprado 9y ago
It's also bad from a hiring perspective since any incentive stock options may not have much upside unless the strike price is heavily discounted.
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by louprado 9y ago
By figuring out how to manipulate the market or by deanonymizing the accounts of influencers (e.g., Chinese regulator or proxy) and following their trades. But that's a lot of work and may prove impossible. Even better, use the dollar
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by louprado 9y ago
There is a drug so powerful that every drug other drug is tested against it: the placebo. If this book saves just one HN reader from opioid addiction then I am glad it made the list.
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by louprado 9y ago
"but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it". The point is you don't have to "use" a "TV". But we arguably have to use a smartphone and the internet.
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by louprado 9y ago
Perhaps the phrase "six-figure salary" has caused wage stagnation. Once a manager, for example, hits their personal goal of "six-figures", they feel they have hit an important milestone. So they are content year after ye
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by louprado 9y ago
Ethereum traded around $380 three weeks ago and is now hovering around $200, which is quite a loss in value. Ethereum makes up 44% of the total market cap of altcoins, but does anyone know what percentage of the remaining altcoins are just
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by louprado 9y ago
> "It's not the handful of climate change deniers that's the problem. It's the overwhelming number of people who want to say they're green." We see time and time again that laws are required to achieve massi
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by louprado 9y ago
⅄xe. See my comment below.
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⅄xe
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by louprado 9y ago
Assuming this was made in China, there are two sources of confusion that could lead to this mix up. 1. The letter 'A' and an upside down Y-shaped character share the same key on a Chinese/English key board. This could lead t
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by louprado 9y ago
Does anyone have an opinion if new tokens (aka altcoins) created by ERC20[1] are exacerbating Ethereum's network congestion ? My initial reaction is that ERC20 is a parasite vector that will cause long term harm to the value of ETH. Al
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by louprado 9y ago
First use I could find is by John Derbyshire June 27, 2013 [1]. This is a powerful phrase that hopefully finds common usage. Perhaps we'd all have less contempt towards opposing views if we are reminded that violence occurs when contem
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by louprado 9y ago
I recall watching a video of an engineer practicing CR. He looked miserable and older than his years. He was constantly cold and had chronic sore feet because the soles of his feet were too thin. When I don't eat enough, I don't g
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by louprado 9y ago
My father has had a low calorie diet all of his life. At 78, he is in perfect physical and mental condition. His doctor had only one concern; he is slowly losing weight each year and needs to reverse that. The doctor wanted to prescribe an
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by louprado 9y ago
Can anyone recommend an air quality detector for personal use. My second floor office is in downtown Oakland by a busy road. The windows are closed and an air filter is always running. Perhaps the air filter is providing a false sense of s
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by louprado 9y ago
My Mom suggested I start a coin where each coin is backed/tethered to one of the thousands of Beanie Babies in her closet. I told her the majority of cryptocurrency traders are too young to get the joke so it wouldn't get much tra
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by louprado 9y ago
I am not sure I understand the following advice: >"Call your cell phone provider and put a “do not port under any circumstances” hold on your phone number. Is "porting" the same as call forwarding (which I assume would als
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by louprado 9y ago
> and I'm kicking myself hard Please don't do this. Don't look at two points on a chart, the low and high, and think your the one in a million person who would have traded at those points. That type of thinking fuels bubb
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by louprado 9y ago
The last ICO I attended totally felt like an MLM meeting. Just like in MLM, one does not talk about the pyramid but instead talks about the commodity product/service/asset that enables the pyramid to be built. But everyone knows i
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by louprado 9y ago
If we are knowing and willingly exacerbating instability in poorer Central American countries because of climate change, then the "build a wall" policy suddenly makes sense.
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by louprado 9y ago
We may (or may not) have a helium shortage[1] and it requires surprising effort to ignite the hydrogen in an airship[2]. Perhaps we should reconsider if our hydrogen ban is warranted for autonomous or remotely piloted airships. Note, the ar
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> really tiresome to see people who just discovered the concept Curious, were you wearing your higher quality clothing when you made this comment ? For some, more expensive clothes increases their sense of superiority. I, for example,
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Authoritarian personalities aren't that uncommon IME.
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Are there psychological concerns regarding a child's development by interacting with these devices ? For example, I recently changed Alexa's awake word to be "computer" (one of 4 allowable options) and I say it with a co

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