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edison85 | 8 years ago | on: To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine

I feel like most chronic issues have to be viewed systematically. Often an injury or imbalance in one area over time causes dysfunction in another and although we have physiatrists, they jus don't have enough time to look at the body as a whole and PTs have the time but many just go through the motions.

For chronic pain, I've given the book Trigger Point Workbook by Davies which makes Travell and Simon's trigger point research easily understood by the layman tona few people and many have improved over time. I've seen carpel tunnel, back pain, scoliosis, SI dysfunction, TMJ all improve

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: $782k over asking for a house in Sunnyvale

Many jobs actually are in San Jose and Sunnyvale. About 45 mins from evergreen which has great schools, safe, big houses on big lots. $1.7M would be 3k sq feet

East bay to the valley is not possible for commute under 2 hours

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: $782k over asking for a house in Sunnyvale

It's not 1 mile away from Apple, it is 3.5 miles away but this means nothing. There are 7 perfect school district areas in the Palo Alto, MV, Los Altos, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, West San Jose area. These places are in the center of the valley, extremely safe and best commute too.

This neighborhood is probably the 5th or 6th best here. Los Altos same house would go for 3.5M, MV there is just 0 supply, Palo Alto would be around Los Altos, Cupertino 300k more expensive, only west San Jose/Cupertino border is comparable. Apple has been here forever. They have had their hq here forever and same with their 2nd and 3rd largest offices.

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: $782k over asking for a house in Sunnyvale

That's just not true. They bought this house for $1M 13 years ago. 5 years ago it was worth 1.7M. It's all on public record. It's not overpriced, there is just so low capacity because no one is selling due to property tax prop 13.

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: Why Kim Jong-Un would not be irrational to use a nuclear bomb first

We've been a few moments away from world destruction a few times. This was of course one of the biggest but so was that one malfunction when the Soviets believed we had launched a nuclear strike and ordered the same but the soldier declined to do so. Turned out it was an error. Many don't realize just how precarious a world is with ICBM technology. If they did I don't think they would hesitate for 1 minute to destroy NK years ago before they were first able to create mid range missles

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information

4 executives sold 1.8 million worth of shares randomly not on a pre scheduled basis 4 days ago likely after they realized the breach.

We need regulatory framework on cybersecurity and failure to adhere to it must result in mandatory jail time

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper

They are very very cheap, the regulations make up the bulk of their costs. Most regulations are important but the costly ones are not and it takes 10+ years to get approvals due to beuracratic hold ups. Even smoothening those out and keeping exact same safety standards would cut prices and time significantly

That said I am very pro Wind. The American Midwest is a goldmine for that and I'm very excited to see it increase over the next five but I hope they keep the tax credit, wind growth will significantly fall without it

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: US judge says that Yahoo must face lawsuits over data breaches

Good, anyone who has read through the complete and utter disaster of this mess and horrible risk management and avoidance of culpability deployed by the executives would 100% agree. They knew their security was bad, purposefully did nothing and criticized those that argued. They knew data was hacked, did nothing telling no one to change passwords. Only after the breach was made public, did they do anything. Honestly I wish the hammer gets dropped and we see jail time to stop the precedent of gross negligence in handling data and security

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat

This, crispr, and self driving cars are my favorite up and coming innovations that just seem mind boggling and that will make a profound impact in our lives. I think it is realistic to see widespread use of all 3 in the next decade.

The social media, apps, cloud, big data, and phone innovations have been neat but I'm looking forward to disruptions in non tech arenas. Space, electric and hydrogen fuel cell cars, so many fascinating things up and coming.

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: 1 in 3 Americans Have $0 Saved for Retirement (2016)

Luckily social Security is there and spouses that don't work receive 50% of the benifits so there's a big chunk of the 1 in 3. Add up all your yearly earnings capped at $110k today's dollars, convert to today's dollars, divide by 420. Take 90% of first 850, 33% of 850-5200, and 16% of the rest. If you've worked minimum wage for your entire life and your spouse stays at home, that's still 95% of your yearly income. If you have home equity that means no mortgage payments or even a potential reverse mortgage.

If you are Middle class, can move to lower CoL too. It's really not that big of a problem if we increase age/decrease benifits for extremely high earners

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: Facebook – You are the Product

Is it actually possible to keep messenger without Facebook? Because Facebook is a complete time wasting, spam filled, mind dulling echo chamber platform that I keep going back to due to habit. If I log out or deactivate I completely don't care after a few days, but messenger is essential to me.

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: Why I left Academia: Part I

Great writer, but very sad story. The support she has from the academia community as a whole tells me something really does need to change here

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: About This Googler's Manifesto

Having read the full manifesto, I find myself agreeing with the author's thought process for a bunch of his points and clearly disagreeing with others. He presented them well, not offensive at all, and if I had a discussion with him I'm sure he seems open to change certain beliefs if presented with ample evidence. I would generally love talking to this guy. Instead everyone shames him, tells him his mostly very valid thought process is sexist and his career is done. This guy woukd never discuss this with anyone and things will go on as they do today or worse he'll ostracize the left completely and will go in his own bubble and no positive change. This is what happened with Trump, an acquaintance posted on Facebook how the gender wage gap was almost nonexistent at the same job, industry and role but how we should instead work towards empowering women to better deal with promotions and re entering work force after pregnancy and unanimously got destroyed by maybe a hundred fb friends. He removed most of them and started jut posting pro trump stuff and I don't blame him

edison85 | 8 years ago | on: Justice Dept. To Take on Affirmative Action in College Admissions

I think making it about race just creates more division and is really really dumb. Scores should be normalized by income, stability of household, then holistic factors such as extraneous circumstances, health, etc. Race should have no impact except in extraneous circumstances in rare cases
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