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by tacon 8y ago
Type 2 diabetes is currently on track to bankrupt the world's healthcare system. Easily 60% of the US residents reading this comment are already insulin resistant, they just don't know it yet. Many of those will progress to full
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by tacon 8y ago
I think daily weighing is important because it is hundreds of daily decisions to not eat that need to be made. Our current society makes food available at all times, and daily weighing is one part in actually thinking about our body an
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Uber Rival Didi Chuxing Uses Machine Learning to Revolutionize Transportation(forbes.com)
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by tacon 8y ago
Yes. Collection agencies normally are used for unsecured debt. Mortgages are secured by real estate. There has always been a brisk market for real estate paper ("notes"). This might be someone that lent on a second mortgage and n
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by tacon 8y ago
"The charity then offers to pay off `A`s loan, and the money comes back to `C`." That isn't a charity. It violates the Federal laws about tax exempt organizations.
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by tacon 8y ago
I have a good friend from China, age 67, who has been here since 1982. Her father was doctor to Deng Xiaoping from when they were hiding in the mountains during the revolution. She had a somewhat privileged upbringing, and part of that wa
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by tacon 8y ago
I am having a hard time following your logic. The lease is a contract, and the tenant gets the use of the space in exchange for paying a certain amount on a certain schedule. What possible difference does it make why the payment was not r
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by tacon 8y ago
I can see Chinese capital flight as a driver of transactional bitcoin. How does that lead to holding bitcoin as an investment?
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by tacon 8y ago
>Why not? Fame has a dark side. When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence o
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Database Migration–What Do You Need to Know Before You Start?(aws.amazon.com)
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Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech(psychologytoday.com)
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by tacon 8y ago
For a terrific overview of the back pain industry and the scams that many places try to pull, I recommend the new book "Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery"[0]. The author gave a great i
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How I cheated the Apple Podcast charts for $5(niemanlab.org)
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AnswerThePublic: that free visual keyword research and content ideas tool(answerthepublic.com)
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by tacon 8y ago
I liked that video, too. Kay suggested that there is a very long list of human universals, that almost all of them can be translated into a human need or want, and that very few had yet been mined for their business potential. I went look
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by tacon 8y ago
I will be 65 in a few months. I did my first ever dead hang strict pullup about a year ago. Lately I can do six. This time next year, probably twelve. It is fun slowing or reversing sarcopenia, which is mainly a societal result, not a g
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by tacon 8y ago
If you check, you will find it is incredibly rare for health and fitness books and articles to define "health", "fitness" or "exercise". Body by Science[0][1] gets right to it on pages 2 and 3 to define all th
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by tacon 8y ago
My understanding is that stuxnet got out of Natanz, by mistake. The world was never supposed to see that code. It was planted inside the Natanz secure perimeter.
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Riemann hypothesis, the fine structure constant, and the Todd function(johndcook.com)
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"The Rite of Spring" was also hated initially, until it grew on people.
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by tacon 8y ago
I believe the official name is "surtitles", as they appear above the stage. (One small advantage for the cheap, high seats with easy view of surtitles.) Those are pretty standard these days in the big theaters. Don't be foo
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UBeam wireless power’s CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot(techcrunch.com)
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Tesla’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Elon Musk(nytimes.com)
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Docker for development: or how I learned to stop worrying and love onboarding(cravencode.com)
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How to use Docker for Node.js development(cravencode.com)
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When to work: How to optimize your daily schedule for energy, motivation, focus(blog.rescuetime.com)
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by tacon 8y ago
Talking is maybe more of an issue, but taking a phone call in the middle of a movie doesn't work around me. It has only happened once, near the emotional peak of The Aviator in 2004. The theater wasn't that crowded, and after jus
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Dry Water(en.wikipedia.org)
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My favorite book on customer development is "The Mom Test"[0], by a YCombinator alum. The name is terrible, but the content of that book is golden. He tells the terrifying story of talking to customers constantly as they wasted
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by tacon 8y ago
I heard that similar tactic on some podcast by a services guy. I can't remember the actual field, let's say "lose weight" services. They ask the new client "How committed are you to losing weight?" Let'

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