pchivers

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Why We Recommend 23andMe to Everyone We Know(cureffi.org)
1 points by pchivers 13y ago|0 comments
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by pchivers 13y ago
I was under the impression that Amy Chua (the woman who wrote "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother") gave up the "tiger mom" strategy after one of her children had a breakdown: "What brings the situation to an end is two horrifying incidents. F
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by pchivers 13y ago
This is a great article. The linked article ("Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better?") is also very interesting: "At the 2-year assessment there were no significant differences in severity of psychos
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by pchivers 13y ago
I've had good results with htmldoc ( http://www.msweet.org/projects.php?Z1 ).
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by pchivers 13y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for. I was previously using http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp , but the author is no longer making it available for free.
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Open Your Mind to the New Psychedelic Science(wired.com)
2 points by pchivers 13y ago|0 comments
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Autism: It's Not Just in the Head (2007)(discovermagazine.com)
1 points by pchivers 13y ago|0 comments
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by pchivers 13y ago
I have no idea who Barrett Brown is, but I found this interesting profile of him: http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2011/April/How_Barr... It seems like he's an Aaron Swartz-like character who is involved with Anonymous.
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by pchivers 13y ago
>failing to take into account that only a tiny fraction of the mortgage payment actually becomes equity. What percentage of a mortgage payment actually gets converted into equity? (coming from a genuinely curious person who has never ow
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by pchivers 13y ago
I'm not much of a sucker for inspirational stories, but this is one of the best I've read in a long time.
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Antioxidant supplementation decreases beneficial effects of exercise (2010)(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by pchivers 13y ago|0 comments
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Yes We Cannabis: The Legalization Movement Plots Its Next 4 Years(theatlantic.com)
2 points by pchivers 13y ago|0 comments
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by pchivers 13y ago
"Those who know me well in the the developer and tech community recognize that I have always tried to conduct myself in a way that builds bridges for everyone." I couldn't get through the first sentence without laughing. How does shaming t
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How to walk 10,000 steps a day if you’re a desk jockey(chriskresser.com)
6 points by pchivers 14y ago|0 comments
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Ex-Googlers Design an Algorithm for Investing in Young Entrepreneurs(xconomy.com)
2 points by pchivers 14y ago|0 comments
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by pchivers 14y ago
>A good start, but shopping around is hard, if not impossible I think shopping around, properly conceived, should be the primary care physician's job. If a doctor is referring e.g. 10 people a month to a specialist, then obviously they
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by pchivers 14y ago
I didn't like the article either. The whole thing struck me as melodramatic and narcissistic. Perhaps there are intelligent commentaries to be written about this culture's abuse of Adderall, but this is not one of them.
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by pchivers 14y ago
It's worth noting that there is no relationship between a U.S. hospital bill and the actual cost of the service: http://truecostofhealthcare.org/hospital_billing "Hospitals see no problem in sending bills to insurance companies for five t
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by pchivers 14y ago
Here is an interesting infographic from the National Post: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/28/guns-ownership-aroun... "In 2007, the U.S. had the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. But the U.S.
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by pchivers 14y ago
Yes. I received some counterfeit DVDs many years back and I ended up getting my money back from PayPal.
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by pchivers 14y ago
True, antidepressants are much slower acting than MDMA, but you're still looking at 80-90% of people in antidepressant trials who can correctly guess which group they're in (due to side effects such as dry mouth, sleep problems, sexual dysf
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by pchivers 14y ago
From what I understand this 95% figure is not that far off from what is obtained in anti-depressant trials, but somehow the poor blinding of anti-depressant trials is almost never mentioned as a serious methodological problem. This is discu
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by pchivers 14y ago
Takeaway quote from the article: "If you were to go out and start a meth lab in your house, what's the probability that you would ultimately end up doing jail time? It's going to be a lot higher than if you massively defraud a financial ins
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by pchivers 14y ago
From what I understand there is only one study on the relationship between creativity and LSD: Psychedelic agents in creative problem-solving: a pilot study. Harman WW, McKim RH, Mogar RE, Fadiman J, Stolaroff MJ. Psychol Rep. 1966 Aug;19
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by pchivers 14y ago
I'm sure sitting on your ass 8-10 hours a day is a health risk. Maybe not as bad as working in a factory breathing in nasty chemicals all day, or dodging falling trees as a lumberjack, but a health risk nonetheless.
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by pchivers 14y ago
Vin Diesel is definitely balding. You can see it very clearly in xXx.
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by pchivers 14y ago
Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Vin Diesel...
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by pchivers 14y ago
Google's verbatim search option will give you the results you want: http://www.wired.com/business/2011/11/google-verbatim-search...
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by pchivers 14y ago
"Ecstasy" was originally used as a synonym for pure MDMA, before the crackdown on MDMA and its precursors. I have no idea how the term is used these days.
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by pchivers 14y ago
It's highly unlikely that you were using pure MDMA. http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/05/ecstasy-related-deat... "Ecstasy is so consistently adulterated that when pure MDMA turns up on the street, it’s likely be to sold on the street u

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