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by whafro 10y ago
Maybe, but that seems to assume effectively no genetic material from the parents. What if the design starts with the parents' DNA, but makes one change to prevent a disease? Seems like that parent wouldn't be adopting a genetic or
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by whafro 10y ago
I got two of these when our son was born a couple years back, and they were amazing. I posted a review and tons of photos: https://www.care.com/c/stories/580/a-year-with-the-finnish-m... Yes, we did use the b
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by whafro 10y ago
Maybe "entrepreneurial success" would have been a better phrase (as douchey as that word can be). While his licensing, branding, and endorsement income has been huge, his attempts to start up businesses of his own have been less t
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by whafro 10y ago
I took bdcravens' comment to mean it'd be a great project for someone who wanted a way to start contributing to OSS, not a suggestion that Facebook wasn't contributing.
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by whafro 10y ago
It's historically the "repair" number, and goes to your provider's customer service line these days.
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by whafro 10y ago
I visited Centralia several years ago, and it was fascinating. I don't recall pedestrian access being impeded at the time, but there was definitely gas and smoke rising from a few spots around town. I happened to visit on a cloudy morn
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by whafro 10y ago
I don't think it's quite so cut-and-dried. A lot of the anti-EPIC sentiment I hear (digital health founder here, wife is a physician at a major medical center) is kept pretty separate from the anti-notes sentiment (which is equall
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Product Recommendations by MailChimp(mailchimp.com)
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by whafro 10y ago
This isn't a huge bet in BH's world, barely cracking their top 20 holdings list, and it barely registers a blip for Apple, but it's culturally interesting to see Buffet make another no-tech exception for Apple, and it will be
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Zenefits' new CEO just banned employees from drinking alcohol at the office(businessinsider.com)
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by whafro 11y ago
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is one of the classic gold standards. It's reasonably well-sourced, and it separates out "attributed" but uncomfirmed remarks. It's not as comprehensive as the online sites, since it&#
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by whafro 11y ago
One challenge many services face when sending emails is that you often want to log a user into the account if they've clicked in from an email – after all, if they have access to the email account, they can usually reset the password.
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by whafro 11y ago
Agreed. We're always more interested when people speak up against "their own" than when criticism comes from outsiders. Football players speaking up about their head injuries? That's a better story than some tenured prof
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by whafro 11y ago
This is certainly true. All migrated stories get their publication dates set to "now." In my case, I added a footer on each migrated post stating its original post date.
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by whafro 11y ago
Given fMRI's nature as a secondary measurement of brain activity, I'd have expected this kind of research to focus on EEG, which, as a direct measurement of brain electrical activity, should have much lower latency. I'd think
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by whafro 11y ago
Tough to be unbiased here – I walk through that neighborhood every day during my commute, and feel that a description like that is hardly a useful constraint. Especially in the few blocks around the art school (which leads toward two other
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by whafro 11y ago
I think a piece of the issue is that, in Boston in December, you can expect about half the folks on the street to be wearing a knit hat and puffy coat. You might as well say "wearing winter clothes." Black man? That's about o
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Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow, Global Traffic Management in the Cloud(aws.amazon.com)
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by whafro 11y ago
REI changed their return policy from effectively "forever" to one year. Sounds like perhaps that move gives them the freedom to pay all their employees for a day during their slow season.
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The Surprising Challenge of Tracking Pediatric Blood Pressure(kinsights.com)
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Taking All That Family Leave? Maybe Not.(kinsights.com)
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by whafro 11y ago
"As I considered the number 600,000, the Fibonacci spiral came to mind." Maybe I took this too literally, but 600,000 isn't a fibonacci number, and neither are 6, 60, or 600. Anyone have a better read on what he means by this
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by whafro 11y ago
The thing that makes Sesame Street a reason for parents to switch or become customers is that it's actually a show that's tolerable (I'd suggest actually "enjoyable") for parents. A pretty large percentage of the co
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by whafro 11y ago
We currently stream episodes via PBS, so I'd been assuming (perhaps errantly) that this arrangement would continue.
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by whafro 11y ago
Eh, I'd agree about pages on the public/commerce side, but I highly doubt anything approaching that same level of rigor applies to the AWS console.
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by whafro 11y ago
I've worked with four of the folks on that list, including the one at the top, and would disagree pretty strongly. I don't know much about the day-to-day culture of Wealthfront itself, but if it's anything like the teams thes
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by whafro 12y ago
Probably not far off from its value if it hadn't gone out of business. For-profit colleges aren't typically known for their deep alumni networks or stellar name recognition, so either way, the degree is basically valued by the edu
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by whafro 12y ago
Yeah, there's no risk of someone repossessing the education you received, like there is of the house you've defaulted on. And a reduction in the value of a bachelor's degree doesn't affect your family's net worth li
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by whafro 12y ago
Only if the degree is the sole factor in getting the career she desired. If that's the case, I can send you a degree from WhafroU via PDF for a tidy sum within an hour. Get in touch, folks!
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by whafro 12y ago
For an isolated case, that's true. But in the aggregate, as a tool to get debtors to avoid default, that may be a different story.

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