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by ozborn 9y ago
There is nothing wrong with N=81 if the effect is large enough. They did use VO2Max to measure CRF.
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by ozborn 9y ago
Where did you get the 99% from? I thought the conclusion from that study was at least 9% of NFL players would gone on to develop CTE. This estimate was made by making a conservative (but very unrealistic estimate) that EVERY player that d
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by ozborn 10y ago
Can somebody who is an engineer or is familiar with the tunneling process explain why boring machines are used for tunneling rather than explosives? It seems to me the primary energy costs of tunneling are associated with converting hard ea
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by ozborn 10y ago
Yes. It's been reported that 30% of the human brain is dedicated to visual processing, more than all of the other senses put together. I think also most input to the brain from the visual system.
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by ozborn 10y ago
I would agree - I just finished my PhD in October. I did my PhD (Computer Science) while working full-time as a research associate and I was objectively less productive as a scientist while doing my PhD. I did it for the "union card&qu
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by ozborn 10y ago
Great comment. Without privacy for verification the election is open for vote buying which I think is the biggest flaw with the proposed system. I also like the idea of using 2 paper receipts which I think is easy for people to understand.
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by ozborn 10y ago
There are at least a couple of different online LaTeX editors out there that make collaboration pretty easy and take compile worries out of the equation. I've used both ShareLaTeX and Overleaf with success, but there are other ones out
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by ozborn 10y ago
Like many living in the southern USA my air conditioning expenses are much higher than my heating expenses, I'm sure many Indians wouldn't mind air conditioning either.
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by ozborn 10y ago
Direct democracy over representative democracy? Sousveillance instead of surveillance? A politics of abundance instead of rapacity?
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by ozborn 10y ago
That's not evidence in my book. If you check the history of the European Union ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union ) it is history of various agreements between an ever-changing set of memb
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by ozborn 10y ago
I suspect many (perhaps most) of the people reading that article agree that suburbia sucks - the tricky part is fixing it.
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by ozborn 10y ago
A good article, but if you take a look at the 7 problems that SENS "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" identifies as needing to be solved to address ageing the telomere length issue is just one subset of single issue
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by ozborn 11y ago
"I can't hardly imagine that most people posting here would ever consider a job where literally every word or sound that came out of their mouth during their entire working life was recorded, and likely subject to public disclosur
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by ozborn 11y ago
Sadly it is even worse - think early 70s. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...
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by ozborn 11y ago
I'm a huge fan of Gitlab and use it at my workplace, but haven't upgraded to even 8.0 to try the continuous integration (CI) feature. Wikipedia makes it look pretty comparable on features to more mature CI system like Jenkins but
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by ozborn 11y ago
True, but I was pretty surprised to see how large the differences were between his breakfast/caffeine state versus fasting state. That's a substantial difference and pretty interesting. I also think just tracking MRI variation (ev
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by ozborn 11y ago
As someone with a biology background I find the conclusions a little too general. Mortality curves are not only species specific, but particular for that environment. A curve using saltwater crocodiles or lobsters would look quite different
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by ozborn 12y ago
It's a personal choice. For me there is definitely an implied or because I struggle to make time for exercise as it is. I also prefer almost any form of exercise over meditation. :)
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by ozborn 12y ago
I think if you are looking for mental self improvement this Havard article may be more appropriate ( http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes-... ). The short summary is exercise . Not only do you get
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by ozborn 13y ago
Can anybody explain why Moldova is doing so well with this despite being so poor? I can see various initiatives they have undertaken that would get them moving in the right direction such as joining the Open Development Technology Alliance
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by ozborn 13y ago
As pointed out by another poster, Hollywood is a "world leader" in movie production and is heavily unionized. Another heavily unionized high tech industry in the US is the aerospace industry (Boeing) as is its competitor in the EU
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by ozborn 14y ago
It isn't overlooked, follow the link to the technical report. http://www.tappi.org/Hide/Events/2012-Nanotechnology-Confere...