Thriptic

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811.
by Thriptic 12y ago
Yup, that's kind of how metabolism works. If you run a caloric deficit, you will lose weight...
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> So how did you get to be 300lb in the first place? I never paid attention to what I ate, I ate until I was stuffed, I drank way too much beer, and I never exercised. Basically I was lazy and didn't give a shit. This was the normal
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Personally, I feel like the media frequently tries to over complicate the issue of obesity and make excuses for people who can't lose weight. The individual depicted here clearly has underlying psychological and substance abuse problem
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> - Facebook is infact full of old people. People are stuck using it because most people have it. Yeah, and most people I know really only use it for chat, and only out of convenience. I will occasionally use FB to post pictures and cont
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities I was thinking of something more along the lines of "NSA brings suit against NSA after it learns that tailored operations group was secretly spying on other divisions of the
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> You assume that such wealth was earned in the first place which is rarely the case and is less so every year. Fair point. It's true that my statements only applied to individuals who earned the money themselves, and I failed to co
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by Thriptic 12y ago
What is the incentive to continue working once you hit a threshold to comfortably retire with a good quality of life then? Might a 100% inheritance tax remove significant capital from the markets which would affect growth? In this scenario,
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by Thriptic 12y ago
I can't speak for Harvard, but MIT for example insures that all students who come from families making < 75K attend tuition free. http://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> There are several opinions that I know can't be voiced here. Well now I'm quite curious. Care to make a throwaway account and voice one?
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> Give them room to express their views, even if you think they're wrong, because this is something they are often denied the right to do. Everyone should have a platform to safely express their opinions, but if their opinions are i
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by Thriptic 12y ago
This. I receive far more "professional" service from Uber than I do from my local taxi service because Uber drivers are actually held accountable for their behavior, meaning: -They show up when they say they will and do so quickly
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Numerous? This article cites a few isolated cases among the 100+ million rides per year facilitated by Uber. Even if you assume incidents are under reported, assaults and rapes are clearly extremely rare outlier events here.
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> If you're living within a corrupt, self-serving political system (we are), then naturally the only people who run for office will be products of that system. If a candidate who genuinely wants to change the status quo somehow man
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> I'm appalled at how schools like Harvard and Princeton [1] (my alma mater) treat students with psychological challenges (effectively kicking them out) I'm currently at MIT now as a grad student. The notion that MIT is kickin
825.
by Thriptic 12y ago
> If progressive values are not hacker values, the hacker values will be, should be, and must be destroyed. To presume that every aspect of your value system is superior to every aspect of everyone else's value systems is both astou
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by Thriptic 12y ago
I'm not sure where I stand on this issue of conversation privacy in public spaces, but I will say that at worst the individual should have called the people making jokes out at the time and suggested that their conversation was not app
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Companies are inherently shortsighted and beholden to their customers and shareholders (in public companies). Prolonged social attacks against a company may drive customers away or drop stock value, both of which negatively impact the compa
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by Thriptic 12y ago
I was very depressed at my job for similar reasons (albeit in research rather than as a developer), and I definitely had trouble making progress. One thing that really helped for me was exploring what other people in other research groups w
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by Thriptic 12y ago
I'm not arguing that males aren't stronger than females in the same weight class. I'm saying an untrained male can't receive moderate training and suddenly massively out lift elite female powerlifers in the same weight c
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Yea it all depends on how you define moderate amount of training. Elite qualification for females would probably be achievable for the average untrained male in the same weight class in a few years of focused training. http://www
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> Even elite, lifelong female powerlifters max out at weights that a man in the same weight class can throw up for reps with just a moderate amount of training. That's not a true statement. A quick look at the IPF female world recor
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Strange Bedfellows: Shiite Militias and the Future of Syria and Iraq(vice.com)
1 points by Thriptic 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thriptic 12y ago
There are graduate students doing the jobs of many industry professionals for $10-15 an hour. I think that says more about how poorly paid graduate students are than what the market rate for a data scientist should be.
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New Nano Device Defeats Drug Resistance(newsoffice.mit.edu)
2 points by Thriptic 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Browse hacker news ;p
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by Thriptic 12y ago
How is this different than evidence based medicine?
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by Thriptic 12y ago
The calorie range you listed is the difference between a cut and a bulk for most people. There is no possible way you could achieve better weight loss running a calorie surplus relative to a calorie deficit. > In fact, if you are eating
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Is IRC still a widely used protocol? I used it for years about 10-15 years ago, but I rarely hear of people around me using it currently.
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Ask HN: As a novice data scientist, is it useful to take CS classes?
1 points by Thriptic 12y ago|1 comments
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by Thriptic 12y ago
I'm actually consistently surprised that gender bias is really a problem (although I'm out in Boston so perhaps I don't see it). I would have thought that economic incentives would have stamped this stupid behavior out ages a

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