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In the long tradition of commenting on HN without reading the source, I was about to write up everything I've learned about running over the years...shoes, routes, stretches, rest …

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I’m in my 30s and I could fill up hundreds of pages with all the crappy advice I’ve been given over my life by well-meaning people. Yes, some advice is helpful, and it is helpful t…

Just reading the headline, I said to myself “I bet it’s Avi Loeb.”

I gave up on WebMD and its ilk years ago. You get better information by just searching for med literature on google scholar, and you can read anything with sci-hub. Or ask a doctor…

Kaleidoscope is def (pun intended) the prettiest diff'ing tool, but it is very sluggish on 1000+ line files. In those cases I use CompareMerge.

What’s the mechanism of action?

From the original paper [1]. > Paradoxically, participants with a scientific background may perform worse at producing random sequences, thanks to a common belief among them that t…

Does it taste like bacon?

I had turbinate reduction and deviated septum repair surgery and it changed my life for the better. I sleep better, wake up more refreshed, and have more energy during the day.

It high school I got yelled at when I put the period before the final quote mark. In college I got yelled at when I did the opposite. Both seem completely arbitrary.

This series of articles proposes that environmental contaminants are the only possible cause of obesity that fits with all the available data. Can someone with a biology/medical ba…

I did my PhD in astrophysics, and I can tell you that the author's name has become synonymous with, shall we say, fringe ideas. I won't say crack pot because he is a legit tenured …

This letter is being massively overhyped. The fact that the self driving package requires a lot of driver supervision is pretty obvious to anyone who actually drives a Tesla.

Visa cards tend to be the tastiest, followed by American Express. Discover comes in a number of flavors, but they are all a bit spicy for my taste. Occasionally I’ll grate one over…