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by positr0n 8y ago
You might be interested in this link. https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin Gwern claims: 1. 0.1mg is an effective dose. 2. It is probably beneficial to take it every night before sleep.
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by positr0n 8y ago
Some of these are just wrong. "Django" is not "A style sheet language that extends from CSS."
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While people are offering anecdotes about their migraines: 1. If I don't eat sugar my migraine incidence goes from 8-12/month to ~1/month. 2. Excedrin works for me every time. The longer I wait to take it the longer it takes
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by positr0n 8y ago
When I was a young child I told my mom I shouldn't have to brush my teeth since cavemen didn't have to brush their teeth. She replied "yes, but cavemen could die at 20 years old from painful tooth infections that spread up to
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by positr0n 8y ago
Great comic on this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3576
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by positr0n 8y ago
Dallas, TX | Backend Dev, Frontend Dev, Full Stack | Full-time | Onsite | http://headstorm.com We're a fast growing, high-powered technology firm dedicated to solving the most ambitious technical problems. From strategy thr
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by positr0n 9y ago
Yes I think that's what I mean. We have a $5k individual deductible. After a deductible is met, we pay 20% coinsurance. Before the deductible we pay 100%. Making up some numbers, my wife had already spent $3k on the OB-GYN which counts
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by positr0n 9y ago
> Like list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts. I just had $5k worth of bills from the birth of my last child (the amount wasn't sur
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by positr0n 9y ago
Could just be age discrimination. I've worked with more than a few people who are very suspicious of people over 40 who are "still just coders," saying that it shows the candidate lacks ambition or they must not be that good
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by positr0n 9y ago
Fascinating insight about playground design. However, I just want to put your and other reader's minds somewhat at ease about fall fatalities. I assume the construction fatalities are falls on to hard surfaces like metal or concrete. I
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I'd think that 11% of CA homeowners is large enough that you have already hit the economies of scale and the price is largely a factor of risk. Quintupling that number is not going to reduce the price.
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by positr0n 9y ago
How is the EFF ruining the US internet?
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What do you mean by that? I'm sympathetic to making healthcare look more like a free market, but I don't know what a free market in health care looks like. If you don't have money, society shouldn't just let you die. The
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Yeah but insider trading is different than fraud. The line is blurry, but I'm sure everyone at that level has some level of inside knowledge they have traded on at one time or another. Holmes on the other hand was directly defrauding i
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by positr0n 9y ago
Surely now is preferable to during the downturn when you'll get half the value for the same percentage of your company? (Assuming of course that you and I are correct that a downturn is looming).
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Awesome! I wonder if anyone sells liquid smoke made using zeolite filters. I would buy it and use it in foods like sous vide brisket. https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/08/food-lab-complete-guide-...
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by positr0n 9y ago
Yeah I completely agree it could be done cheaper because physics, my comment was about the current economics. I'm not sure how efficient China's military industrial complex is, but I wouldn't trust the US's military to b
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by positr0n 9y ago
Dallas, TX | Backend Dev, Frontend Dev, Full Stack | Full-time | Onsite | http://headstorm.com We're a fast growing, high-powered technology firm dedicated to solving the most ambitious technical problems. From strategy thr
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Tarsnap pricing change(daemonology.net)
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> It's less expensive than launching satellites I doubt it, since a single Falcon Heavy launch would carry dozens of Starlink satellites but the existing anti-satellite technology can only hit one at a time. Keep in mind they have s
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by positr0n 9y ago
Awesome! Last time I tried to use mutt it segfaulted on startup. Granted this was 6 years ago on cygwin trying to synch mail with a lotus notes server. From the main page: What is it? NeoMutt is a command line mail reader (or MUA). It&#x2
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Chrome does too. Just right click on it and "Mute site" will mute the domain. Forever I think.
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Most of the concepts HN members love to use to sound well educated while arguing on the internet are in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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Probably lack of business imagination on my part, so can you explain a situation where a company would be forced to do something that would lose it money? If you agree to a deal you must be getting some benefit out of it, right?
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Dallas, TX | Backend Dev, Frontend Dev, Full Stack | Full-time | Onsite | http://headstorm.com We're a fast growing, high-powered technology firm dedicated to solving the most ambitious technical problems. From strategy thr
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Dallas, TX | Backend Dev, Frontend Dev, Full Stack | Full-time | Onsite | http://headstorm.com We're a fast growing, high-powered technology firm dedicated to solving the most ambitious technical problems. From strategy thr
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Dallas, TX | Backend Dev, Frontend Dev, Full Stack | Full-time | Onsite | http://headstorm.com We're a fast growing, high-powered technology firm dedicated to solving the most ambitious technical problems. From strategy thr
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by positr0n 9y ago
Off topic, but this stack exchange post convinced me that the Roman's didn't have the metallurgical skills to truly enter the age of steam[0]. They didn't have the ability to mine enough iron nor the ability to cast (and defi
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Did your brother ever use the microwave offensively against you? https://xkcd.com/654/
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by positr0n 9y ago
Not related to magneto hydrodynamics, but > Did Clancy speak to someone with non public information? I heard from people working for DoD contractors that there was a lot of classified information around anti-submarine warfare technology

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