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I think the evidence from a lot of people here is that: - Mostly it does not matter. List when you graduated, provide evidence of what you have worked on and done well at, and be transparent if people care enough to ask - It matters more in
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^^^ Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZM_JmZdqCw
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The history of the weapons is admittedly fascinating, but is there any data to suggest that mass killers "use" AR-15 and AK-47 more than the general population or various military personel "uses" them. Every day people
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Gifted underachievement goes a lot deeper than reinforcement. Eventually, gifted people learn synthesis comes more easily to them and can learn to coast or become anti-social as a result and still get by. Peter Thiel on his thoughts re: Elo
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I have noticed this too. Large increase in the number of spam calls and texts I get in the last few months.
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Visualize what you want from life. Move towards your vision.
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Same thing happened in Toronto as the former mental hospital near Allen Gardens in the East End by Cabbagetown was essentially disbanded. A lot of people stayed in the area and can still be found there to this day (it was at least a decade
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Bottled water is almost always provided by the venue/host and not requested by the speaker themselves. Presumably he is not sanctimonious enough to request they remove them - he is worrying about bigger problems and trying to communica
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Anecdote: It takes a really long time to adapt to this. Probably a year or two.
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The people with the real power (Senate, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve) are not elected. Vote != Power. The more concentrated power is, the more likely you are to have a really favorable or really unfavorable opinion of The Boss. A dictator
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While exciting news, with an interesting, counter-intuitive finding, that is a horrible (though accurate) title and worse article. Here is the original story: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f7e66079d9ba4b4985d7af350619a
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Francis Galton – Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
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We need to create a market for halophyte plants that can be grown using salt water in dessert/saline conditions. It requires extensive marketing investment and skill in order to create a market at each level of biomass (biofuel, animal
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A nitpick of this comment would be that caries are an autoimmune response caused by the acids that sugars (and some other foods) induce in your saliva. When you eat sugar, your body creates acid to break it down, and the presence of the aci
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Spent: verb, to spend, you could spend money settling a lawsuit but it would be a stretch to call that investment. Investment: to allocate money in the expectation of future benefit, so that could mean administrative expenses, which would c
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I thought this would be a list of things like energy, food production, clean water, climate change, etc. But it seems like a list of politics inevitabilities involved in performing the science. Does it matter what form science takes if it w
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Another Larry Ellison masterstroke in corporate engineering. Zach Nelson has spent his entire career more or less building and growing Oracle spin-offs. The fact that Larry has big stakes in both Netsuite and Salesforce shows you what he re
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TL/DR - Backspace no longer takes you to the prior page in your browsing history, the way hitting the back button does. Now it is: Windows: Alt + Left arrow Mac: Delete or ⌘ + [ or ⌘ + Left arrow
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I (correctly) self diagnosed (later confirmed by gastroenterologist) my Celiac disease through 23andme. But that is the easiest 1:1 gene correlation out there. My friend found out he had the same Parkinsons gene as Sergey Brin, and there ar
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Only the exome, which is ~1.5% of the whole genome. Source: http://www.yuzuki.org/the-whole-exome-vs-whole-genome-sequen...
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My friend did the MSc in Applied Computing from U of T and liked it enough to do PhD there as well: http://web.cs.toronto.edu/Graduate/prospective_gradwhy/mscac...
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We should produce halophytes on saline and dessert land and use it for biofuel, feedstock and food. Ex.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicornia
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In that study, the water the people were drinking was up to 20x what was on the high end of the other study. If you are drinking water that is 20-100x higher in lithium, that is more like taking the lithium pills than it is like getting it
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No. It is clearly creepy. It is a natural extension of ad networks, though. I think there will be a market soon enough for glasses that provide ad blocking filters.
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Not meaningfully. I think PragmaticPulp captured it well. You can increase the amount of lithium you consume, but mostly what lithium does is improve B12 metabolism. Regardless of suicidal ideation status, taking B12 and improving diet&#x2F
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Lithium is an element, not just a medication. The element is used to medicate people with bipolar, in huge dosages. You and I both consume lithium every day. We may consume slightly more or less than others. The ones who consume slightly mo
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I made that argument in a prior thread and people were really, really against it. Despite the abundance of evidence, from that study and the Japanese one [1]. I think Zinc would make a good addition too re: suicide [2]. There are two other
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Refrigeration (and later economical freezers) are the only reason stomach cancer is not the leading cause of cancer in humans. Pre-refrigeration, mostly everything was preserved by fermentation, and lots of people got stomach cancer [1], [2
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Eventually, an AI that accounted for shrink would be more accurate than any number of cycle counts. Actually, it would not take long, most major retailers have shrink predictions down to two or three decimals, you would just need to train t
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People with bipolar tend to have higher antibodies to gliadin (gluten) than controls. People with schizophrenia have higher casein (dairy) antibodies than controls. In neither case does it cause the illness, but in both in can impact severi

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