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mdon··on Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]
Thanks
mdon··on Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]
Thank you for this link!
mdon··on Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]
What do you change about your lifestyle with that test result? I have a child with ASD, and also drinks mad amounts of water. But I didn't see any treatment plan if this deficiency is confirmed.
mdon··on Ask HN: Why does it seem hard to buy an ONT for fiber?
You can extract the certificate from the bgw210 and put it on a third party router. Then you don’t need the ATT modem at all. I did that last summer using this: https://github.com/mozzarellathicc/attcerts
mdon··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
Where are you and what rental agency are you using? Is it at the airport?
mdon··on Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges
I think this is similar to LTCM in the 90s, which reminded people of the depression era quote: “Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”
mdon··on Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads
perhaps the goal isn't eliminating congestion, but allowing more mobility. meaning people can accomplish more things, make more trips.
mdon··on Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline
Are you a time traveler from the 90s?
mdon··on 'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma
WhatsApp blackberry developer here (2010-eol). We were pretty sure they wouldn’t let us into their store if we had started later, but they left us in since we were already there starting in 2009.

We did start to hit push service quotas. They quota by the app, not per user with the app. So we had a quota of 5 million pushes per day. Asked for more. Denied. We found some creative alternatives. PIN messaging was a surprisingly open API. So we ended up having currently connected devices send a PIN message to devices we want to bring online. The recipient device would delete the message to cut down on noise.

mdon··on Twitter Office Supply Auction
Most residential leases don’t. It’s very common in commercial leases however.
mdon··on 5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Near San Jose, CA
felt it mildly on California Ave, in Palo Alto.
mdon··on Remote startups will win the war for top talent
When workers say 'hybrid' they really mean 100% remote? what aspect of this definition is a hybrid of working from the office?

  The problem? When workers say hybrid, they typically mean they want the flexibility to choose where they work from and when, all the time. (In a sign of how jarring this concept is to ingrained expectations, Gartner refers to this as “radical flexibility.”) On average, that will be three days a week from home, two from somewhere else.
mdon··on What is traceability and why does WhatsApp oppose it?
Not true - that loss was based on employee compensation due to the size of the deal and realized stock appreciation. WhatsApp could have covered operating costs indefinitely from user $1 payments.
mdon··on TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
This should be tagged (2019). The irs has added more rules around the marketing of the free tax filing service
mdon··on How to Build an Iconic Company – Keith Rabois [audio]
ISOs are not universally better. They have a 24 month time requirement while NSOs only have a 12 month requirement.
mdon··on “Open Source” Ventilator Project by University of Florida
Surely some context is missing here. One of the use-cases for a cpap is reducing your own snoring for your bed partner.
mdon··on Ask San Franciscans: Is it worth taking a 2 week holiday to SF?
You clearly have no understanding of the enormity of the eastern time zone if MIT is the only engineering school you can think of.
mdon··on Is OpenTable Worth it?
"That’s ultimately the most perplexing thing about OpenTable: unlike so many other Web services, this one has actually driven up operating costs, not reduced them."

How much do restaurants pay to accept phone reservations? It seems the cost comes from running two reservation systems - hiring a person to accept traditional phone calls, and paying OpenTable for the online reservation system.

mdon··on Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days
Have either of them published subscriber numbers or growth rates?
mdon··on Letter to a Young PL Enthusiast
Kind of funny that the only negative listed for C# is "(it) hails from the evil Northwest."

A backhanded way of saying C# is really nice.

mdon··on Twitter's Alex Payne quits, heads onto something new.
this already exists: USAA Banking and Investing