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> You have biases and subjectivity when "measuring" yourself As do the nurse who draws your blood, the tech who tests it, and the doctor who interprets the results. By all means recruit them to assist in your study, but don&#x
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That's a risk of any course of action (or inaction) a person undertakes. Following your doctors or the government's guidance is no different, just shifting responsibility, and comes with its own risks (e.g. read The Big Fat Surpr
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Perhaps that was an overly antagonistic choice of words, but when you consider the way such studies are analyzed, summarized, and reconstituted for consumption by the public, all nuance is lost and all that's left is a generic guidelin
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> I don't quite understand the fascination of the HN crowd with intermittent fasting. Well, have you tried it? Unlike many fad diets there's nothing to buy, no long-term commitment, just one or a few days where you don't e
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> The odds of the next baker you higher knowing SQL and emacs? Maybe he'll be looking to hire another person like himself, moving from tech - I'm sure many (most?) of us have toyed with the idea of becoming a baker, cook, farme
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> highly portable instant-on computer one can do remote terminal work on with seemingly endless battery life Most chromebooks fit this bill nicely. Pixelbook is fantastic if you also want a premium hardware experience and native ability
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> getting food packaged and sent across the country You missed the biggest factor: industrial farming. Have you been to the midwest-does that look like a healthy, natural ecosystem? A vegan (well, most people really ) who lives there get
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I'd think Racket (and DrRacket) would be a good language & environment for a kid to explore programming in: simple, consistent syntax, easy access to graphics. I'm not sure if there's any books or tutorials targeting kids
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> Google uses POWER9 and specialized GPU-like chips As do the current top two supercomputers, Summit and Sierra, among others.
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> Imagine, you got a standard website the serves data from a database. When a customer types in the url into the browser bar what needs to happen until the customer see the website. That's a favorite of mine too. It sets up a broad
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> So, let's take Route 66. Are you telling me that none of that route had a name? In the Midwest, at least, it is very common for larger roads to have both local names and route numbers (one of county, state, or federal); no, the ro
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> Most programmers hate leaving their editors and dealing with text entry boxes on browsers. The "Edit with Emacs" extension was a game-changer for me. https://github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome
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I believe this is also true of the many phones branded "Android One" https://www.android.com/one/
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So this is something like mtail [1], with the ability to also drill down into the raw logs, and integrated into Grafana? Sounds great! We're heavy users of Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch, and while the latter started
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Ditto Machine maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator I recall still getting handouts from those in the late 80s/early 90s.
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The Sanford Underground Research Facility is in the former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota. https://www.sanfordlab.org/ Work recently began to prepare the facility for the massive DUNE neutrino detectors, which will be
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Costco (and costco.com) seems to be working on filling the niche of a trusted source for quality products at reasonable prices, with great customer service. All while treating their employees well (as I understand it).
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No, if you care about democracy you campaign. Marking your choices on a ballot has roughly the same external effect as noting them in your diary.
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Or Google Pixelbook, if you prefer Linux over Windows.
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No, of course not, you just need to convince others that it's good for _them_ to do it. It's like elections: your single vote is nearly worthless, convincing others to vote the way you want is not. Although I believe what GP meant
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The automatic bundling in Inbox - trips, purchases, finance, etc - is a killer feature for me. I tried going back to gmail and immediately missed it. I'll keep using Inbox until they take it out back, just like Reader.
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We've been using logstash as our go-to stream processing glue, its large selection of input, output, and filter plugins lets it handle just about anything, reliably. My one complaint would be the use of the jvm, particularly the slow s
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> "..they made him wear a radioactive exposure badge and fired him when the badge tipped over the safe range." Not to defend the company in this case, but I suspect he reached the annual occupational dose limit [1], so unless t
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> a topic as simple as dieting Diet and nutrition has to be one of the most complex and divisive topics currently. There is an incredible amount of anecdotal advice and "scientific" evidence for every theory imaginable, driven
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The 5-Hour Rule Used by Bill Gates, Jack Ma and Elon Musk(entrepreneur.com)
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> But... They do go sideways when I have a keyboard in front of me, my hands are not perfectly straight and parallel on the keyboard lest my wrist or shoulders end up in a weird position. I've been using an Atreus [1] at work for se
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> You should be able to get insurance for your insurance If this doesn't exist it seems like an opportunity worth investigating. Your premiums would essentially be paying for consumer research on insurers (this should also include s
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This is a really important point I think many people are missing: >96% of his wealth is tied up in AMZN stock. https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/jeffrey-p-be...
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See Gaussian (cgs) units for an example, compare Coulomb's law in cgs and SI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_units#Unit_of_charge
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I've had a Moto x4 Android One (Project Fi) for six months and I am still very impressed with its battery life. Right now it's at 75% after 15 hours of admittedly light use, but even under heavy use it easily lasts a full day. Gre

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