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VR-based brain training for ADHD(medium.com)
8 points by smanuel 9mo ago|5 comments
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by smanuel 10y ago
Lithium-sulfur batteries look like the most possible candidate as the next incremental evolution of the lithium ion batteries. Lithium metal... not so much. But I really hope for revolution in this space, rather than incremental changes. Th
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by smanuel 10y ago
> If you have a lot of relations in your data don't use mongo, it's just hype. You will end up with collections without relations and then do joins in your code instead of having db do it for you. So... you are not against Mong
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by smanuel 11y ago
What's interesting about Xamarin is that they are very local about OSS (Miguel) but what they did was not very "open sourcey" - obtaining a perpetual license for Mono and this way making sure that no one else can put Mono on
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by smanuel 11y ago
It's called Homeopathy.
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by smanuel 11y ago
Just like Second Life killed real world conferences. [1] Spoiler Alert. It didn't. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2008/nov/11...
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by smanuel 11y ago
Someone should make a browser that blocks "Everybody can earn xxx$+ daily... You can earn from ..." spam comments. I think I've seen those mostly through the FB comments plugin. Ob
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by smanuel 11y ago
Even with the blood sample "shortcoming", it will be huge if it keeps to its promise. But I learned not to get excited by new medical inventions before a few years pass, before it's FDA approved, before there are enough studi
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by smanuel 11y ago
All of humanity's scientific progress has been built gradually upon principles, that have been the same for ages. Start experimenting with the fundamentals and you start wandering in a sea of abstractness - holographic universe, multiv
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by smanuel 11y ago
> They're real, like, but not really real, you know what I mean. You mean.. the real reality ? The reality that can't be easily explained through observation and empirical evidence? The reality that can't be perceived thr
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by smanuel 11y ago
> but to people who want to build their own PaaS for their internal developers I don't understand this. Can you elaborate?
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by smanuel 11y ago
> It is not optimized to be simple to deploy for operators. [1] Isn't the whole point of a PaaS to be easily deployable so that I don't have to learn a bunch of other tools, that depend on a bunch of other tools, that... You ge
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by smanuel 11y ago
I mentioned this mostly as a reply to: [3]The caveat is that petrol gas emits particulates at a smaller micron level, unnoticeable to the naked eye, and may actually be of greater concern to the general public. The diesel exhaust fumes ar
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by smanuel 11y ago
Well actually for 2015 FDA has approved 96% of the new drugs [1] so it's not the same old tough regulator it's been before. Or maybe it's just tough for things that work and allows things that shouldn't be allowed [2]. [
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by smanuel 11y ago
There's one small issue with diesel engines. Diesel exhaust fumes cause cancer: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/06/14/diesel-fu...
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by smanuel 11y ago
I'm amazed by how FDA regulates drugs and how it regulates... actually how it doesn't regulate, supplements and things like Soylent, which is not even a supplement but claims to be food "that possesses all the essential ing
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by smanuel 11y ago
Google, you can take 127.0.0.1 down, but please leave localhost alone.
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by smanuel 11y ago
This reminds me of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky's teachings about self awareness [1]. I highly recommend Ouspensky's "In search of the Miraculous". Well, you can skip / disregard the esoteric bs if you want. [1] http:&#
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by smanuel 11y ago
Well, I guess that's a very delicate subject to talk about. In Wolfenstein 3D you can't play a nazzi shooting Americans (for example). You play the good guy shooting the bad guys. I also don't think the problem is the flag. I
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How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it(bmj.com)
1 points by smanuel 11y ago|0 comments
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by smanuel 11y ago
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Shocking news.
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by smanuel 11y ago
> We tried Deis briefly but ultimately decided that it was more complicated than we felt it needed to be. That kind of reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/ Sorry if that's not the case. I've also played bri
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by smanuel 11y ago
Very nice reading on PR. Thanks for sharing.
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by smanuel 11y ago
The problem with unlimited information - it's getting harder and harder to tell what's good and what's bad for you: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8591837/how-science-is-broken Take a look a
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by smanuel 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a native English speaker. Sorry but IMO the author has failed to prove his case. The text is not easy to read, and it's hard to follow the author's thought. So long sentences and long paragraphs definitely
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by smanuel 11y ago
> if they decide to pull the plug on certain projects, those projects are going to have a very tough time. That looks like a problem to me. Also, I'm not sure how the whole system works, but let's say I'm a medical researc
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by smanuel 11y ago
Well, the writer acknowledges what the foundation has done and how much it's helping with certain diseases and problems, but still the concerns it's trying to raise seem valid IMO.
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The media loves the Gates Foundation. These experts are more skeptical(vox.com)
3 points by smanuel 11y ago|7 comments
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Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse(blogs.cdc.gov)
1 points by smanuel 11y ago|0 comments
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by smanuel 11y ago
Same stuff in 21st century is not ok.

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