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by odyssey7 7y ago
I'm getting into PureScript and Haskell, with the intention of using them in real-world projects.
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> Out of curiosity, do you have any formal training on medicine/physiology or is your knowledge base self-aquired? This isn’t an argument that supports your reasoning. It’s just an appeal to authority. > When an immuno-suppressiv
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by odyssey7 7y ago
But like you pointed out, there are times when it makes sense. The world is a better place because Barry Marshall gave himself H. pylori. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
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by odyssey7 7y ago
I disagree. Infecting yourself can have a high likelihood of causing others to be infected, depending on the pathogen, and risks costing many thousands in medical expenses that will be borne by society at large. Edit: Society at large bears
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by odyssey7 7y ago
I once heard that an acquaintance had participated in a study for which he was injected with a flu virus. I never verified this however.
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by odyssey7 7y ago
I’m not able to access this content, but I’ve noticed several theories about specific chronic diseases being the effects of persistent infections that haven’t been widely recognized as such. If any of the theories are true, it means that ma
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by odyssey7 7y ago
I haven’t lowered my rates. In freelancing, it’s normal for a lot of people to be charging less than you. I don’t think that has changed. Clients care about the value they’re getting, so I focus on providing good service. Once a relationshi
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by odyssey7 7y ago
It’s an interesting question what aspects of human behavior the government should be able to regulate. A couple of points beside that are 1) this would incentivize drug companies to use desperate patients as a low-cost way of screening drug
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by odyssey7 7y ago
I was speaking to the strategies that could be employed vs what we’re actually doing, and I am concerned that what we’re doing will cause a recession. To relate the strategy to that formal definition of a recession, if everybody stayed home
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by odyssey7 7y ago
I'm not sure that locking the place down for a little while per se will cause a recession. Numbers will take a hit for a while because people are prevented from spending and working, but the normal course of action after a snow day or
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by odyssey7 7y ago
And then there are questions like: Should trading be convenient? Inexpensive?
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by odyssey7 7y ago
> only good if everyone understands the problem and solution space equally That's a goal of pairing up. Together you'll get it better than you would have separately, if for no other reason than the one person who already knows
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by odyssey7 7y ago
Why not use a cheap noseclip for swimming? Perfectly leak-free. The paper suggests intranasal transmission is what you most want to avoid. > It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctiva
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by odyssey7 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote or South Florida Software engineer experienced in API integrations, ETL, back-end automations, and relational databases. My work with a client usually starts with a planning and estimating stage. First, we gather requi
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by odyssey7 7y ago
Interesting. I guess both can make a location uninhabitable for native species. This one is ironic because the plant being both cultivated and harmed by the agriculture could be the native species itself. Another difference is that with mos
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by odyssey7 7y ago
> Obviously, there's a finite amount of metal one could draw from any given location, and depending how deep root systems grow there's maybe not a lot of long term value in mining the surface this way. My concern was, if this g
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When I think about my first-person experience, it's something that happens in the present instant. The awareness of a distant and recent past may simply be a result of memory stimuli being presented by the brain to the consciousness at
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by odyssey7 7y ago
A necessary condition for this ranking is that the business' offering was valued from the time it started to the present. Good food and a nice experience is apparently a timeless product category -- although that's far from a suff
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Options are priced by the same market forces that a speculator attempts to time. You can always lose the price you pay for the options, although you can avoid insolvency by not buying more than you can afford to lose.
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by odyssey7 7y ago
Ah, so the secret to having a bunch of 5x engineers is to not burn them out.
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by odyssey7 7y ago
> plan your day out in five minute intervals, that's a great way to burn out Oh for sure. I've tried planning the day's development into discrete tasks in 15, 30, etc. -minute blocks, and it's chaos. It's essenti
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by odyssey7 7y ago
Cool metaphor of “well balanced and nutritional dinner” vs “fast food.”
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Agreed!
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"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it." - The C Programming Language, K&R
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Does the Earth or the apple cause the gravity?
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The US has considered doing this for other reasons. It’s an interesting idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
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by odyssey7 7y ago
SEEKING WORK - South Florida / Miami - Remote usually Skills: Experienced generalist software developer who does integrations, automations, data exports and imports, web applications, and API development. Core technologies are Node.js,
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Schoenberg gave the scale some decent discussion in his Harmonielehre in the section on the major mode and diatonic chords. Overall, he was liberal and encouraging about the directions that music could go, and he led by example in producing
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Ah, working through K&R was such a pleasant time, back in undergrad.
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by odyssey7 7y ago
Sources like the book “Tiny Habits” say that feeling successful often builds momentum and gets you to perform better. I’d guess that the opposite is also true. Feeling unsuccessful too much would erode and destroy whatever it is you’re brin

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