Lewton

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by Lewton 9y ago
If death is so good, why should people live to 90? Why not 60? or 40?
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by Lewton 9y ago
Yes, exactly. The reason why I remember it so well is because I had been looking for something like Soylent for years before it came out
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by Lewton 9y ago
This is a really weird myth that has started spreading lately. That somehow Soylent was just another meal replacement in a long line of meal replacements. No, none of the products you mentioned is anywhere near as nutritionally balanced as
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by Lewton 9y ago
I think the main one that people are banking on is self driving cars. Whether it'll get here in 2 years, or 10 years. As soon as it's production ready, entire industries will be replaced
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by Lewton 9y ago
..... After having gone up 400% in a year
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by Lewton 10y ago
deadlifting heavy weights is the single best way to avoid lower back pain
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by Lewton 10y ago
It's a nice theory you got there, but it's trivially false Alternative medicine is a 34 billion dollar industry in the US alone http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSTRE56T6MN20090730
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by Lewton 10y ago
The last place I worked at will die because it will take them years to migrate from Oracle to postgres due to "technical debt" (the codebase is coupled with the database to a hilarious degree; business logic in triggers, huge plsq
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by Lewton 10y ago
The t-shirt folding thing is great. Anyone know something similar for any other type of clothes?
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by Lewton 10y ago
1 always gets me. My brain will tune out whatever piece of code I've already read once. So if I initially skim some piece of code, figuring out what it -really- does is HARD. Every subsequent look at that piece of code will be colored
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by Lewton 10y ago
I'd classify reading something in a newspaper under "personal experience", the news are mostly written in a way to invoke emotional responses. In contrast to, say, looking at the actual data and crunch the numbers yourself to
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by Lewton 10y ago
"most of it comes from personal experience." Sample size = 1? Almost sounds like younger you was better off Personal experience is a pretty terrible way to form political opinions, it leads to stuff like overestimating the rate of
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by Lewton 10y ago
According to this random table[0] I found on the intergoogles, you're technically correct but misrepresenting it with your 50-60 figure.. 100 years ago it was around 50, and now it's around 60. But finding trustworthy data about l
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by Lewton 10y ago
"What everyone has thought of, but no scientist is willing to say out loud" What no scientist is willing to say out loud, is basically what scientists have been saying out loud since the mid 90ies. It has nothing to do with unwill
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by Lewton 10y ago
the cost involved was not in legal costs Time spent preparing (four years, preparing for three different court cases in the three different circuits) high paying job offers that fell through because of the uncertainty involved Living under
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by Lewton 10y ago
This kind of naïveté about the legal system is dangerous. I know someone who spent 4 years of his life in court in a case where he was obviously in the right But every time he won, it was escalated to a higher court and it ended up costing
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by Lewton 10y ago
Fix what latency? Resolution and FOV, yeah. Quite a way to go. But the latency of modern headsets is imperceptible. And it really is a shame you haven't tried Vive roomscale. 9/10 people I've demoed it to all agreed that it
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by Lewton 10y ago
That's one of the reasons I loved the "programming languages" course on coursera[0]. The course went through 3 languages, ML, Racket and Ruby giving 2 weeks to each language. And then spent time contrasting the weaknesses and
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by Lewton 10y ago
There are a couple of reasons to come down on stuff like cold fusion and em drives hard. One of them is that of limited funding, there's almost definitely better places to spend money if the goal is progress Another is how these claims
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by Lewton 10y ago
Why was this (ant6n's) post downvoted? It's a legitimate question https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/oct/...
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by Lewton 10y ago
> This is the worse version of a technical failure. Admitting a technical failure would therefore be automatically better then a hack. I really doubt that's the way the general public views this (and they're the ones that matt
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by Lewton 10y ago
Exactly, webpages blocking zoom was a cancer so nasty the side effects of this fix are worth it
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by Lewton 10y ago
Will you update your views of the American justice system if she ends up in jail?
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by Lewton 10y ago
My phrasing was a little muddy. It's not really relevant whether Snapchat does data mining behind the scenes. But their brand is built upon ephemeral data. The exact opposite of Google. It has nothing to do with "short memory&quot
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by Lewton 10y ago
Hm, yes... Let's ponder for a moment on why, when a data mining company sells a product that gives them access to a ton of private data, people are skeptical. While a company whose main product is built on the concept of deleting data
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by Lewton 10y ago
Just a casual naming online stating that these practices are on purpose and not a bug, so when I search for the company and the issue on google, I'll know to not give them the benefit of the doubt.
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by Lewton 10y ago
Some people have no problem quitting cigarettes It's probably genetic Also it seems to correlate with risk of Parkinson's http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/832391 ( huh that seems to be paywalled? Google &
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by Lewton 10y ago
I don't get it Taleb doesn't seem to be talking about 538s actual prediction, the polls plus model on the site, he's talking about swings from 50% to 20% 538 has not swung that hard at all
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by Lewton 10y ago
>But you allow yourself to be influenced in your opinion of Donald Trump by that same media. This is absolutely ridiculous, trump has been a public figure for 30+(?) years. Even if you ignore the smearing that's been happening for t
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by Lewton 10y ago
Any politics usually get flagged and downvoted to hell.

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