Femur

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by Femur 18y ago
>Coming from Europe and suffering two recessions caused by US economics, all which Ayn Rand promoted I hope this crap never gets turned into a film. US economics and government policy do not at all resemble the ideas that Ayn Rand promo
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by Femur 18y ago
That is a cogent and lucid argument and I completely understand your point of view and agree with it. If your original comment had resembled your above statement, I would have up-voted you and given you kudos!
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by Femur 18y ago
I found that I tend to enjoy topics with a lot of up-votes and low comments the most. I would say that your assessment is correct. I am, however, against making that an official metric; things are working fine as is.
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by Femur 18y ago
>I'm pretty sure Femur was asking you for some more details of that evidence. Indeed I was.
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by Femur 18y ago
I did not eat the paste. I applied the paste to my teeth with my finger and let it set for approximately 30 minutes. I did this once a day for several months right before I went to bed.
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by Femur 18y ago
Why is the article wrong?
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by Femur 18y ago
I would posit that the diet presented in the article not only contributes to good dental health but also would contribute to good cardiovascular health. The diet is low on refined carbohydrates (which lead to heart disease http://www.hsph.
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by Femur 18y ago
Great article. The fact that teeth could heal themselves was unknown to me for quite some time. I thought that if you had a cavity, you had to have it filled. I used to have horrid teeth (and the diet to match). I stopped drinking soda an
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by Femur 18y ago
I do not believe it to be truly efficient as that would require perfect information for all parties that participate in the market. (discussion of that topic is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information ) I do believe that it
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by Femur 18y ago
What a fascinating woman. I especially enjoyed the fact that she is a scientist who got involved in politics. This is what a role model looks like.
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by Femur 18y ago
I forgot to mention the benefits of Indexing from a personal perspective. It is: -Cheap (low cost) -Easy (Set it and forget it with occasional rebalancing) -Safe (As long as you are properly diversified) -Low Stress (Some portions may have
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by Femur 18y ago
I am an adherent to the Efficient Market Hypothesis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_efficiency ) and thus try to capture the market (through index funds) and minimize cost. Ideally, the best way to do this is own multiple non-correlat
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by Femur 18y ago
Index funds based on Dividends are available but are not yet mainstream. The main purpose of an index funds is that it "aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market"( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund ).
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by Femur 18y ago
I also really enjoyed it and agree that charts for other car companies would be fascinating to see. It is incredible how quickly profit margins were eaten away by obligations GM made to its employees. This is evidence to the fact that the
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by Femur 18y ago
After 10 minutes of searching on Wikipedia, i could find no reference to it even though I have heard of the law many times before. Essentially the law of big numbers states that "A very large number multiplied by a small number is still a l
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by Femur 18y ago
I'm curious as to what the overall "cost" of spam is. Other than the bandwidth cost, is spam really that big of a problem? Both my work and personal addresses rarely to ever have spam, so it really does not affect me in the slightest.
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by Femur 18y ago
These trends, projected far into the future, evoke points of conversation along the lines of "The Singularity" which as been a recent hot topic here on HN. You touch on a great notion that for some trends, projection makes relative sense (e
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by Femur 18y ago
I think the article does a decent job of explaining how important properly written SQL is to the health of an application. I disagree with the notion that you should rely on your hardware or juice up your system to gain performance. This s
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by Femur 18y ago
I've been sailing for years and, as the others have written, it is awesome. I've found geek and non-geek alike find enjoyment in it.
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by Femur 18y ago
I think you are likely correct. I kill quite a few neurons with a night of heavy drinking and indeed do "mis-remember" what happened in reality. Brains are very redundant (as you mentioned) and they are also dynamic. The way I remember an
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by Femur 18y ago
Although the article touches on a fascinating subject, I disagree with the analogy the author drew between neurons and C++ code; specifically the "lines of code per Neuron." Individual neurons do not have code. The author also advocates bu