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by tgb 8y ago
I consider myself reasonably frugal and thoughtful about money, but I definitely fell into one of these traps buying a suit for the first time. I went in with a specific sale in mind, they told me they had a two-for-one deal going so I migh
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by tgb 8y ago
The other detail is what they counted as a pushup. My understanding is the military is pretty strict and most gym-goers aren't. Having your arms out perpendicular to torso is noticeably easier than tucking then in towards your chest an
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by tgb 8y ago
I'm just surprised at how slow my hover-to-click time was (never got it below 100ms). Thought it would be <50ms for sure when trying hard.
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by tgb 8y ago
Is any of this currently used in ID theft (other than residential location)? Earlobe shape isn't exactly a security question. Might screw them over in the future but hard to call this the full identity theft package.
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by tgb 8y ago
I think most of the comments here are misunderstanding the article. It seems to be saying "Don't say congestion pricing is inequitable without also saying that these are things that we already have are inequitable." It's
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by tgb 8y ago
It's easy to find: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/notice-24hour-res... Edit: I should add that I don't know if this specifically applies to Kayak, etc. I'm not sure if that's what you we
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by tgb 8y ago
I don't have any intuition as to why this would be a different situation. Anyone got an explanation?
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by tgb 8y ago
Here's a Nature opinion piece arguing in favor of N=1 studies: https://www.nature.com/news/personalized-medicine-time-for-o... And another more recent one https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158
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by tgb 8y ago
Just two days ago working in Rstudio, thought my script ran fine, but actually the data loading part failed but Rstudio charges on despite errors and runs the rest of the script on the data that was still in memory from another script I had
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by tgb 8y ago
I don't understand what you mean. Are you reading the quote backwards? They're claiming 1999 had a then-record high amount of surveillance. That the trend continued is hardly a reason to call the quote insane!
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by tgb 8y ago
Check the temperature of where you keep the milk. Some parts of the fridge are warmer than others. Lots of fridges now have spots for milk in the door, but that's probably the warmest spot. Move it to the top back where the cold comes
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by tgb 8y ago
If you hire an artist to paint a landscape for you, do you have total ownership of that painting? Could you recreate it digitally and sell it? Assume no extra rights were explicitly transferred, just a standard commission of a piece of art,
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by tgb 8y ago
Why was applying a brake so energy intensive? Seems like it'd be practically free.
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by tgb 8y ago
Reminds me of http://astronaut.io/# - a page that plays Youtube videos that "no one" has seen before. Just random moments of people's lives they wanted to capture, then a few seconds later, something else. It
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by tgb 8y ago
Not my experience - being a TA for a bad professor or bad course involved more work but gets one better evaluations. You're the "good guy". If the professor is good, the standards are higher and you can't leave their sha
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by tgb 8y ago
But the difference here is that, to the best of my knowledge, there's nothing particularly difficult about CRISPR in humans. It's routine in other mammals and had previously been done on human embryos. The thing holding everyone b
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by tgb 8y ago
So how will this work with the new Google Duplex ai assistant auto calling a scammer for you? Yikes.
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by tgb 8y ago
Is this technique supposed to be uncomfortable to do? I've come across this and tried it multiple times now and holding my breath is not particularly pleasant. I've seen this suggested to help one fall asleep but it's never h
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by tgb 8y ago
I thought this meant insects and that reminded me of a favorite paper with the subtitle "A bird in the hand is worth log n in the bush" https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07428 In this different problem (estimating t
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by tgb 8y ago
Can antibiotics pass the blood brain barrier?
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by tgb 8y ago
Text message versus gmail, actually. And the difference makes a lot of sense since no one expects a single text to contain all the information of a reply and also texts are more likely to be time sensitive and so reducing friction to answer
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by tgb 8y ago
Switched to Lastpass half a year ago and it's been a rocky move (I didn't have a password manager before). It's consistently been painful to use. For example, my work email transfers between different domains for log in versu
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by tgb 8y ago
Yes, I have this concern with the new deluge of TLDs. Now something.anything could be a link but also means it might not be. www.something.anything would at least make that clear if your TLD is not easily recognizable. Even recognizable bra
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by tgb 8y ago
Why is tab separated value format superior to CSV? I understand why CSV is a poor choice and commas are more likely to be needed in cell contents than tabs, but there's not a standard format for TSV anymore than there is for CSV.
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by tgb 8y ago
Aren't CO2 scrubbers chemically based in ways that would never scale? Like the real Olympics, running marathons is a fairly inefficient way to transport people. P
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by tgb 8y ago
Genetics too. RNA sequencing data is almost exclusively considered exploratory and is expected to be replicated at least technically (by using the same biological samples for qPCR to measure a small number of genes) but also biologically wi
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by tgb 8y ago
Yes, the possibility I described was for if they did not biodegrade significantly. More reading makes it sound like they degrade in weeks, with a few exceptions.
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by tgb 8y ago
I assume any serious paper production company replants the tree, so you start with a tree and end with a tree and landfilled paper.
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by tgb 8y ago
Is L1 the most efficient for a fixed size? The difference is ~6000 km for LEO versus 1.5 million km for L1 to the Earth's center and the r^2 law means you need to put a lot more area in L1 than in LEO, even after discounting for the f
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by tgb 8y ago
So this might be a dumb question, but if I landfill paper instead of recycling it, does it degrade? If not, is that a poor man's form of carbon sequestration? A cursory glance suggests this is correct [1], though you'd need to kno

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