michaelmachine

Chiropractors don’t actually help with back pain or any of the other problems they claims to help. The practice is based on “re-aligning” subtle subluxations in the spine. Two problems: there is no evidence that these subtle subluxations exist, and there is no evidence that spine alignment even extreme ones cause any ailments other than pinched nerves. Here is a good summary about the history of this pseudo-science: https://theoutline.com/post/1617/chiropractors-are-bullshit

Taking away jobs makes people mad. 17% of Canada’s economy is natural resource extraction: mining, logging, hydrocarbons. Greater than 200,000 Canadians are employed by the logging sector [1].

[1]: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/files/files/pd...

There is a video available here as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-1JibORg

We did them in Alberta, Canada after the shooting in Taber, Alberta in 1999.

Ants at Work by Deborah Gordon is a really great book.

The rules for faxes are pretty strange in Alberta, Canada. The main security measure seems to be adding a cover letter as the first page. Meanwhile, personal health information in emails is a big no-no.

Battery life and increased battery life are almost always a feature that is marketed by laptop manufacturers. On the Macbook Pro one of the key features being marketed is "up to 10 hours of battery life". I guess you may mean that making it thinner increases the "sleek look" and visual appeal?

Yeah there is lots of literature on this issue and some ongoing studies trying to determine how to reduce medical error during the hand-off. For example: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD...

I agree that Uber has resulted in more competition from local competitors which is great, but this information about Uber pricing is not correct. Uber prices have gone down overall since the regulatory changes were made to allow Uber and other "ride shares" in Edmonton and put in place insurance requirements. The base cost per trip has gone up but the per distance and per time cost has gone down. Before the regulatory change my trip home from work averaged ~ $10. Example: Base fare: $2.75, Distance: $3.56, Time: $2.32, Safe ride fee: $1.00, Total: $9.63 After the change my trips average the same. Example: Base fair: $2.25, distance $3.46, time: $1.58, booking fee: $2.15, per trip fee (for insurance): $0.06. The total base cost before was $3.75 and after is $4.46, but the per minute and per km costs have gone down. So very short trips cost more than before, but long trips cost less than before. The regulatory change resulted in a cost of $0.06 per trip for insurance.

My city Edmonton, Canada also has a map of all the trees they maintain: https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees-Specie...

I only use it for escaping from a full screen view on youtube

There are also galaxies that are 99.9% dark matter apparently [1]. I don't think they are counted in this survey.

[1]: http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/galaxy-found-9999-dar...

They do have automatic recurring billing for the Public Cloud servers now, but on the dedicated servers it is still the old payment system for some reason.

Rdio was acquired by Pandora.

I was surprised by how far the exemptions go. The Biotech Research Park in Dubai include tax free salaries for all employees.

Most reefs rely on photosynthesis via a symbiotic relationship with cyanobacteria to get energy, but the water here is too cloudy. Instead many of the sponges in this reef rely on a symbiotic relationship with chemosynthetic microbes. Pretty cool!

here is the paper http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e1501252

youtube video showing the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuygOYZ1Ngo

Hey, Mike from DrugBank here. Send me an email at mike@drugbank.ca to chat more. You should take a look at https://www.openphacts.org/ which has a similar goal to this project. I think one problem is this: http://xkcd.com/927/

Also check out this article for more background on these images and the EPIC project.

Check out How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler.

Same for me! My back pain was gone almost immediately after I started working out again.

Brat is awesome! I just started using it last week for a project. For people who don't know what Brat is, there is a nice demo here using Brat to visualize the output of Stanford CoreNLP:

http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/corenlp/

really cool! Are you planning to turn this into an API or app for tracking nutrition?

How does this compare to CryptDB http://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/ ?

Check out "Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life" it was really helpful for me.

The most important thing for me in life has been focus. Pick 3 big goals for the year, 3 big goals for the month. At the start of the week pick 3 goals for the week. And each day pick 3 goals for the day.

You have to pick goals that you can accomplish in the time frame, and a limit of 3 makes it easy to keep the goals in your head.

The important thing is to always be moving towards something you think is important, and say no to the other things.

I don't think they are pretending they figured out a way to fake depth, it sounds like they have created a compact head-mounted light field display, which is absolutely a huge step forward. Unlike classic stereoscopic technologies light field displays let your eyes refocus the image because the displays recreate the direction of the from the object as well as the color and intensity. NVIDIA demoed a compact head mounted light field display recently that explains the concept. See it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451746

See the paper here http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6218/145

The author of this article has a site where he summarizes his suggestions to slow aging http://agingadvice.org/

Pixel Qi had some pretty interesting products being developed including reflective LCD displays. I am not sure how readable they are in low light conditions, but I always thought it would be cool to have one of these for programming.