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by pombrand 8y ago
Experience the same, have water fasted 5 days before and doing it twice a year. Three options here 1. Accept you will seemingly need less sleep and go to bed later, use any sleepless time in bed as an opportunity to read and meditate. 2. Be
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by pombrand 8y ago
..and as the first paper says, ZnO nanoparticles are NOT toxic if silica coated, so devil is in the details here. It should also be noted that no in vivo toxicity has been demonstrated from non-coated nanoparticles, although there's a
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by pombrand 8y ago
Android has system wide ad blocking not requiring root through the DNS66 app, this alone makes me prefer Android.
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by pombrand 9y ago
I worked in a lab and where we used an atomic force microscope to scan single DNA strands on flat surfaces. At first we couldn't "read" anything as the surface was covered in gunk from the water we used, switching to water in
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by pombrand 9y ago
It's a bit pretentious to think that any being would bother to spend precious free energy to torture a bunch of lowly humans don't you think. Hence not worried.
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by pombrand 9y ago
Exactly right. I've gotten around this by using "Facebook Purity" a chrome extension which let's me filter what is shown on the news feed in detail: I only really want to see posts and photos the friends I haven't h
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by pombrand 9y ago
Yet moderate Ibuprofen use is harmless to the liver - so much for German rationality: https://livertox.nlm.nih.gov/Ibuprofen.htm , that said you could look at a ~20% reduction of Serum testosterone over time http:/&#x2
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by pombrand 9y ago
From going through this whole thread. Best bet Tomato rankings are as follows: 1. Homegrown (in good soil) 2. Italian 3. Albanian (heirloom) 4. Spanish Smaller, darker and more aromatic are generally better (cherry a good bet), and they&#x2
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by pombrand 9y ago
"Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" because I've been learning ineffectively my whole life not knowing that I was. Should be required reading for every 15 year old. The best, most science based book I've ev
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by pombrand 9y ago
The realnews headline: "Juice in excess is not healthy. Same goes for fruit." Guess that wouldn't get many clicks. As long as you don't consume too many calories or spike your insulin too high by drinking large quantitie
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by pombrand 10y ago
What you really need is a study comparing saturated fats, ideally from butter AND from coconut oil, with monounsaturated fat which is the plant fat recommended as healthiest (olive oil, avocados, almonds), not polyunsaturates that no-one cl
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by pombrand 10y ago
You can replace the T420 screen with a $45 Alienware 1600x900 screen that is allegedly plug-n-play and amazing https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4no5ak/t420_alien... Considering doing it to my T
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by pombrand 10y ago
For those of you who still believe it's OK or even good to eat a lot of saturated fats, if you look at the studies it's not much of a controversy:" Whether saturated fat is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a
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by pombrand 10y ago
Huge problem with the vegan meat replacements is that they're a lot more expensive than beef, around $7/lb vs ground beef at $3/lb. Like with coal vs solar, for imitation meat to win the market it needs to get less expensive
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by pombrand 11y ago
I'd also note that to predict someone's future behavior, you'd have to predict everything in their future environment, and I'd assume simulating a large part of reality would cost a lot of energy - and if we're faci
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by pombrand 11y ago
We need a follow up study comparing the effect size to that of showering..
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by pombrand 12y ago
In what case(s) did you get a 200% increase in conversion, and what's your explanation of that effect?
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by pombrand 12y ago
I wrote a summary of Cialdini's legendary book "Influence" if any of you are interested in reading more about this topic: https://medium.com/@johanaardal/a-summary-of-influence-d443a... I feel that a lot
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by pombrand 12y ago
Keep in mind that it can be flea bites, as they only start to itch after several hours, you'd usually feel it when you wake up in the morning (and suspect it was bed bugs). A great way to test for this is to get a flea bite trap from a
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by pombrand 12y ago
Wrote a quick summary of key points in the talk - it really shows what the "top VCs" are looking for, go big or go home: https://www.facebook.com/johan.aardal/posts/1015274252107585...