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by louprado 8d ago
More mind blowing, that entry took _second_ place! First place would probably break my brain for the day so I won't look it up. Release party: DiHalt 2026 summer Compo: Demo Platform: zx spectrum Ranked: 2nd
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by louprado 25d ago
"People who spoke two languages had brains about six... three about seven... and four roughly 13 years younger." I am fluent in at least 10 programming languages. Do those count ? Probably, if this study revealing a hidden correla
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by louprado 3mo ago
"but as long as we all believe it has value, it does". Would one argue that an airplane is a _story_ ? If no one believed in the technology and lost faith in all pilots no one would fly. But that doesn't change the reality of
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by louprado 6mo ago
From personal observation, many Christians see oil as a unlimited natural gift from God and view alternative energy sources with disdain. Not sure if that was a deliberate strategy on Big Oil's part but it effectively solidifies massi
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by louprado 7mo ago
Agreed that initially referring to it as "brain tumor" would have been fine. Thanks for sharing your story too, perhaps this condition isn't rare. Coincidentally I once went into bar and vaguely recognized a roommate I hadn&#
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by louprado 7y ago
Regarding a comment the author made in passing: For the increasing number of people who have cataract surgery, the eye’s lenses have ben replaced with plastic, which usually have a fixed focus. (Artificial lenses that can be focused are un
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Can Electric Air Racing Add a Jolt to the Quest for Better E-Planes?(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by louprado 7y ago|0 comments
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by louprado 7y ago
Off topic, but can anyone comment on their experience renting a portable internet satellite receiver or provide a recommendation. Thanks.
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by louprado 7y ago
I initially thought the same but he did write "All signs point to another Teledesic or Iridium" and I can't argue to the contrary.
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by louprado 7y ago
In addition to those consultants, Cynthia Stine of egrowthpartners.com was recently interviewed in The Week's Jan 25, 2019 "The Last Word" column and her firm helps Amazon Sellers with Marketplace challenges. Also, Amazon&#x2
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by louprado 8y ago
This article implies that if you can't change your diet then you could achieve similar results with chewing exercises. The comments below mention mewing , but I suspect greater force would be better. Googling "chew toys for adult
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by louprado 8y ago
A bit of a tangent, but does anyone know if a "paper PhD" is still and option ? The first and only time I ever heard of it was during a lecture by Nobel laureate Dr. Shuji Nakamura[1]. IIRC, the University of Florida offered PhD&
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Robot Melts Its Bones to Change How It Walks(spectrum.ieee.org)
46 points by louprado 8y ago|6 comments
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UCB drone powered by electrohydrodynamic thrust is the smallest ever made(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by louprado 8y ago|0 comments
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by louprado 8y ago
Perhaps skin samples from different parts of the body would yield different age predictions. The actual study makes no mention which seems like a significant omission if someone were to try to reproduce this experiment.
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by louprado 8y ago
Yes when China does it, we call it "currency manipulation". But when the U.S. does it, we call it "quantitative easing".
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by louprado 8y ago
"It's time to invest and avidly pursue a new wave of technological solutions to this problem - including those that are risky, unproven, even unlikely to work". I had a recent crackpot idea that falls into the "unlikely
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by louprado 8y ago
Then forget exercise for now, just take a contemplative walk around the block. Perhaps do it right before breakfast and/or after dinner. It's easy and takes less than 10 minutes. Don't think of it as exercise and do it in a
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by louprado 8y ago
"I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow" Ironically, when I am sleep deprived I am more accident prone and more likely to get hit by a bus. But what's almost certain, if I sleep less than 7 hours for more than 1 week, I wi
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by louprado 8y ago
How is calculation of health insurance premiums not #1 on this list ? Recently I purchased a DIY mole removal product from Amazon. An expansive actuary table would show a "concern about moles" has a slight positive correlation
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by louprado 8y ago
I am not an expert on psychology, but your goal "losing more (fat) and gaining more(muscle) as fast as humanly possible", might be detrimental to your success. It probably took decades to get to your current body weight. Should it
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by louprado 8y ago
Given that poor sleep quality exacerbates insulin resistance, it is possible that by not eating late into the day, the research subjects in the article's fasting study may have also lost weight because their sleep improved.[1] Personal
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by louprado 8y ago
If you are a hacker you probably would likely take a tech powered short-cut. Google has a translator toolkit that lets you upload documents and also create a glossary for technical terms and consistent terminology. Haven't tried it yet
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by louprado 8y ago
From the article above. "That morning, Ford would begin paying his employees $5.00 a day, over twice the average wage for automakers in 1914. In addition, he was reducing the work day from 9 hours to 8 hours, a significant drop from t
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by louprado 8y ago
Nearly every self-help book mentions the importance of goal setting. It is important even for those with a pedigree and born into wealth (I recognize not every student in this study was born into wealth but the median Harvard family earns a
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by louprado 8y ago
If I understand correctly, the Bluetooth exploit also requires a man-in-the-middle attack during pairing. Wouldn't the victim then see two Bluetooth devices with the same name during pairing ? Also most Operating Systems then order th
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by louprado 8y ago
One complaint about English is that double negatives are not grammatically correct. The word "not" is so important it should be re-enforced in someway. Spanish supports double negatives. The French add redundancy with "ne&quo
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After college, international students face challenges to stay in the U.S(npr.org)
1 points by louprado 8y ago|0 comments
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How octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish defy genetics' 'central dogma'(phys.org)
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by louprado 8y ago
"the muddy pens where as many as 1,200 pigs once wallowed into a climate-controlled cricket farm. It’s on pace to yield 1,500 kilograms (3,300 pounds) of the edible protein this year" Pigs reach slaughter weight at around 6 months

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