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by zck 10y ago
Why wouldn't they have a control group? While it would make intuitive sense that musical training changes the brain, brains also change a lot during childhood, even without musical training.
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From wusthof.com ( http://www.wusthof.com/care-and-sharpening/using-a-steel ): > The difference between honing and sharpening your knife depends on whether your knife needs regular maintenance or if you need to reset
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Meet New York’s beloved mass transit bandit(nypost.com)
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How Robert Gagno became one of the best pinball players in the world(espn.com)
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As another comment mentioned, you can't play more than 4 of a card in a deck. But Magic didn't start out that way -- you could have any number of cards in a deck. (The creator, Richard Garfield, assumed that most people would only
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I see no called-out connection between anything in the article and the gif at the top of it. It's a good gif to go along with the article, but I don't think we can say "he threw the tablet in this image because he was angry w
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If Belichick threw his paper notebook^1, would you assume it's because of the notebook? Or because his team just threw an interception, missed a field goal, or lost the game? I don't think we have any context as to what happened i
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I have the 14" Lemur: https://system76.com/laptops/lemur . What are you concerned about?
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I don't know if it counts as an ultrabook, but I'm enjoying my System76 laptop. There are a few different models, depending on what size you want.
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Names are exactly as easy to not change at comments are.
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This is completely off-topic, but I've been having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to, on Guix, install the JDKs and then set JAVA_HOME properly. Is there documentation about how to do that? I'm sure I'm just miss
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From the FAQ ( https://forgiva.com/faq ): > How about for sites with restrictive password requirements? > Passwords, generated by Forgiva are offered with 16 characters minimum (you can go up to 32 characters by default
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They took 20,000 pages, split them into test and control groups, and changed the title of questions in the test group from "$QUESTION - Coderwall" to "$QUESTION (Example) - Coderwall". They then measured how many more cl
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> Ideally in the reddit way, there were actual discussions going on (except between 3 people not the 100 the usernames would success). Comments weren't in the initial release of reddit, and wouldn't be added until the end of 2
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> PE is usually taught in a manner that's great if you're already fit, and atrocious if you're fat. I remember going through the Presidential Fitness Challenge, and saying "how am I supposed to just stretch further? I
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Stop worrying about how old you are. It doesn't matter what Evariste Galois did by the time he was twenty; that won't help you do a thing. Only doing things helps you do a thing. On that note, virtually everything anyone enjoys wa
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by zck 10y ago
Starting strength has you do six to eight sets for each exercise^1. And it recommends "[taking] enough time between sets so that you don’t feel any fatigue from the previous set before you start the next one. For guys squatting 185 pou
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I had a lot of fun when I was lifting (I followed Starting Strength for about four months), but when my lifting partner stopped, so did I. I've been doing pushups/plank/jumping lunge squats/plank/pushups for a while
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The last few paragraphs of the article discuss that: > So the researchers eliminated sports with that playoff structure, and looked only at events where gold, silver and bronze medal-winners were decided at the same time. They found the
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I, too, was doing Project Euler problems for a while, but eventually I realized that with the same amount of work I could be making things I actually want to use. My Project Euler solutions were conceptually on a shelf, sitting unused. It d
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by zck 10y ago
> So if this were anyone else with any other media organization, I would totally be on their side and agree that this is a travesty of justice that Theil was able to fund this lawsuit. There are two different things here, and I'm no
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I wonder what the chances are that Theranos has invented something valuable. Maybe not worth 9 billion dollars, but if they had any scientists doing research, they might've invented something useful.
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I was in the room for this talk; it was pretty electric. Some of the other talks I liked were the Social Engineering talk, and Cory Doctorow's keynote. The thing that crystallizes what HOPE is about, for me, was that their closing cere
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by zck 10y ago
I'm not a fan of either boxing or UFC, but from what I can tell, boxers take far more headshots, while UFC fighters are hit elsewhere more, and can get other injuries -- e.g., armbars can break arms and tear ligaments ( http:/&#
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>> Got a sudden burst of motivation to work out? Sorry, no music — headphones are dead. >Right... things with batteries need charging. That's her point. Traditional headphones don't need charging. Bluetooth headphones do.
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Peter Thiel has said ( http://a16z.com/2015/01/18/12-things-learned-from-chris-dixo... ): > The best startups are good ideas that look like bad ideas. Well, here we go. Certainly "improve cities" i
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Don't we need to wait to see what happens? This is the second business day since the vote; maybe in a month stock prices will be back to normal.
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> If they are the subject matter experts, then yes, I would prefer they are all present, and none of them be excluded because we are searching for faux diversity. My understanding is that the complaint is not "these men are not qual
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I've heard (but not tried) that Diet Coke is used because not having sugar, it's less sticky when it dries.
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There's actually an exhibit about the Ramones at the Queens Museum, less than a mile from Forest Hills, where each of the Ramones grew up. I went on Saturday. There's a decent mix of art, reviews, and equipment. http://

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