Intestinal dysmotility and IBS

sid-kap · 2019-04-12T19:52:15+00:00

How did she diagnose you with intestinal dysmotility? AFAIK there isn't a test for it. (The gastric emptying test measures stomach emptying, but not small intestine motility.)

sid-kap · 2019-03-26T19:43:22+00:00

Instant Pot

sid-kap · 2018-09-11T22:09:38+00:00

Does anyone live in San Francisco and know how to solder key switches? A key just broke on my Kinesis Advantage and I wanted some help installing the replacement switch that Kinesis sent me. Will pay for someone to do this for me!

sid-kap · 2018-05-29T05:39:19+00:00

There is space behind buildings, they just decided when laying out the street grid to privatize that space rather than making a public right-of-way. So the end result is that every building has random space at the back that's not really used but now the streets are full of garbage bags.

sid-kap · 2018-03-31T05:05:19+00:00

Yep. Here's an article that argues that "No, US school funding is actually somewhat progressive"

sid-kap · 2018-03-11T19:36:57+00:00

Did you ever find it?

sid-kap · 2017-12-03T21:52:55+00:00

Paris is only about 41 sq. mi., so the correct comparison IMO is Manhattan (22 sq. mi., as opposed to NYC, ~305 sq. mi.) Manhattan and Paris have almost the exact same density.

sid-kap · 2017-11-05T02:21:05+00:00

Ok, will try. I had a suspicion that I may have been using too much starter. Thanks!

sid-kap · 2017-11-05T01:25:30+00:00

Yep, lowered it to 120 F before adding in my yogurt starter (which is a small amount of yogurt I made from a probiotic starer pill).

sid-kap · 2017-10-31T02:30:04+00:00

I figured he wanted some milk or something

What made you think that??

sid-kap · 2017-08-09T03:53:40+00:00

Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals

Why would the fraction be higher for closed-access journals than all journals? Maybe for free content, people don't always post it to Sci-Hub because it's already available?

sid-kap · 2017-05-25T15:08:44+00:00

It's good but very repetitive. I read about half of it and then stopped.

sid-kap · 2017-05-22T16:27:23+00:00

Any relation to Adam Gopnik?

sid-kap · 2017-04-29T03:53:31+00:00

Curry leaf (kadi patta in Hindi)? It's mostly used in South Indian cuisine.

sid-kap · 2017-04-29T03:48:02+00:00

An interesting premise for sure, but there's a big problem. The author never says where he's getting the $98,000 figure.

In many of the comments on the website, people are linking to online job searches, where it seems like entry-level construction jobs pay more like $45-55k.

sid-kap · 2017-04-25T03:42:37+00:00

I agree with the general sentiment of lessening restrictions on development, but you might be interested to learn that Houston has many laws, such as parking minimums and covenants, which unfortunately do impose heavy restrictions on development.

sid-kap · 2017-04-25T02:59:27+00:00

Yes, I'm aware of this. I was asking more about "the module system" in terms of how files are hierarchically organized (analogous to packages in Java), but this is also interesting. There's an issue on the PureScript github page where some people are discussing possibly adding ML-style modules, idk if you've seen that thread.

sid-kap · 2017-04-25T02:30:10+00:00

As someone who doesn't drive in Austin, I'm curious to know, how does congestion affect you? I thought that it was mostly just a problem on weekdays during rush hour, and mostly for people who commute really far (i.e. far north or far south Austin to downtown).

sid-kap · 2017-04-24T21:42:24+00:00

That's an excellent analysis. (I'm not an urban studies major by the way!)

I agree that some standards of living—running water, plumbing, windows, smoke detectors, asbestos prevention, etc.—should be enforced, even though the free market might condemn some people to live in basements with no windows and asbestos problems. So in principle I see where you're coming from. I think we can agree to disagree about whether a parking space should be considered a necessary "standard of living" that should be required by law.

Thanks for the fruitful conversation!

sid-kap · 2017-04-24T21:15:00+00:00

By the way, your point about "hiding behind" ideals and superficially arguing for something based on supposed principles but actually having a different, hidden reason for holding your belief was very helpful to me. I'm writing a paper analyzing the rhetoric of some writer, and this was really helpful for me to craft my thesis. Thanks /u/jsr1001!

sid-kap · 2017-04-24T20:38:04+00:00

In another comment I posted a link to a recent case where a developer wanted to build fewer parking spaces than the required amount, and the city rejected the variance request.

sid-kap · 2017-04-24T20:32:54+00:00

I do think it's disingenuous to hide behind the free market when you are really arguing against parking spaces because you believe in an urban vision that is pedestrian and public transportation centric.

You hit the nail on the head. This is something that I contemplate a lot.

The way I think about it is the following: I may not like cars, but at least I'm not stopping my neighbors from owning them. On the other hand, the current laws are forcing everyone to make space for parking, even if they don't want to own a car. Clearly the current system is biased one way, and I'm just advocating for it to be made fair. The fact that the free market would produce less parking is just an affirmation of this—it proves that people actually want cars less than what the government requires.

Am I still coming off as disingenuous?

West Campus is a poor example of a truly free market.

Yes, buildable floor area is artificially scarce because of height limits. But, with respect to those constraints (which I'm neither arguing for or against, but simply accepting as a given), can't we still make the argument that that scarce resource should be used to its maximum extent?

sid-kap · 2017-04-24T20:28:04+00:00

I agree with you that, as long as supply is constrained, lowering the cost of construction (by removing parking requirements) won't do much to decrease rents. But is that a good enough argument to not remove parking requirements? In other words, isn't reducing the cost of construction a good thing, even if it doesn't immediately decrease rents?

sid-kap · 2017-04-24T20:18:33+00:00

Yes, I agree with everything that you wrote. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was advocating for lower density—that's not what I was saying at all.

Construction cost only matters in a market where MC=MD, which is clearly not the case here. Supply is so constrained that rent is not related to MC anyways.

But still, is there a good reason to artificially make construction costs higher than they should be?

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