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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, my issue wasn't with the mechanism of evolution, more with the phrasing. The word "survive" implies some sort of agency, the inverted phrasing does not. I could alter it to "decline of the weakest attributes as t
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by adwf 12y ago
Yes it is spin, but not just spin. "Survive" often implies some sort of agency, that there is some sort of struggle that was overcome and the organism is still alive. We teach survival skills. Whereas if you drop some antibi
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by adwf 12y ago
I usually accredit the evolution attribution problem to the phrase "survival of the fittest". It's a catchy line, it implies that the better you are the more likely you are to survive, which is kinda true, but leads to the m
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by adwf 12y ago
12 exercises in 7 minutes seems a little rapid. I usually manage 4-5 in 30-45 minutes... I guess if you're beginning from a very sedentary level, this is probably a great starting point. It exercises most major muscle groups and will
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by adwf 12y ago
I think they are putting a little too much of the blame on Wiedeking here. The CEO doesn't make huge stock purchases like this without board approval, and Piëch was on the board of both Porsche and VW. To me it sounds a lot more like
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by adwf 12y ago
It's quite similar to businessmen in the '80s learning Japanese. If you do a lot of business within a country, you are somewhat disadvantaged if you have to rely on a translator.
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by adwf 12y ago
Sounds like a great startup idea: End the San Francisco construction ban. Make a lot of money. Everyone always says to look for pain points when creating your startup, this is a great example. Maybe it's overlooked because it's
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah I've been reading a lot of the "How we applied to YC" articles recently and it does seem that even YC use a lot of referrals. Quite a few were along the lines of: Apply to YC, email a friend who knows a partner and see
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by adwf 12y ago
One thing that struck me was that both Ron and Marc said they mostly invest on referrals. Ron said that almost no-one came in unannounced anymore - every seed investment was a referral from someone he knew. Marc said that almost every A r
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by adwf 12y ago
As long as there is significant unemployment, an employee will never feel safe to change these situations for the better. As long as the pay is low, they'll never be able to just chuck a job on ethical principles - they can't aff
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by adwf 12y ago
> Wow.... And these are the companies that are getting funded? This is probably one of the more obvious downsides to strict capitalism. All that matters with regards to funding is whether or not the company is making profit doing this.
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by adwf 12y ago
Pulseaudio is still crap for me. I can't get consistent volume across applications and it's 50/50 as to whether it'll recognize my headphones on any given day. I still rate it as crap compared to my nice stable ALSA set
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by adwf 12y ago
Yep, they've been steadily ditching parts of their business for years now. This is just the short-sighted thinking coming home to roost. IBM R&D just isn't what it used to be and a company that isn't making new things,
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by adwf 12y ago
A similar thing happened with the Scottish referendum. They excluded something like 20-25% of all potential voters by saying you had to be living in Scotland to vote. It's a tricky problem though, because you'd have to define wha
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by adwf 12y ago
I think it's a lot simpler than the author is trying to make out: Traditional gym exercises are boring and hard. Cardio is boring. 60 minutes on a treadmill, 5 times a week is really boring after a while. All that racking up weights a
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, whereas Startup School Europe was really excellent and I came away completely enthused about the startup scene. Talking to Kirsty and Qasar definitely convinced me to apply for YC at least! Hope they carry on with EU events, even if
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by adwf 12y ago
Wasn't India one of the countries that demanded intercept capabilities from Skype and Blackberry? ie. Break your product or you can't do business. That's pretty hostile as far as internet freedom goes.
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by adwf 12y ago
Well I was born in '84 so it's all history to me ;) I've only ever known compiled, high performing Lisps with unnoticable GC. So it's weird when I still hear people trotting out the old "bloated, interpreted, slow&
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by adwf 12y ago
That's pretty much exactly how I develop. I rarely type anything directly into the REPL, instead typing into the source file in emacs and then C-c C-c it over to the REPL for me. The advantage is that I get a canonical copy of the en
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by adwf 12y ago
Yet to this day, I still find people claiming that Lisp is an interpreted language and that the garbage collector introduces disastrous pauses in runtime. As if it was still the same Lisp people were using back in the 1980's.
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, I think for me Kvothe's flawlessness was balanced by the unreliable narrator, who demonstrated that Kvothe in the present/future is not all-powerful anymore (if he ever was). The premise of the book thus appearing to be an
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by adwf 12y ago
Whilst I agree in some parts, the main character being exceptional is kinda the entire point of a heroic fantasy novel. They are exceptional by design. If they weren't amazing swordsmen, or magic users, or highly intelligent, or hig
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah that's true. I definitely enjoyed the book, I guess it's the old "I want more now " feeling coming into play. Which is usually a very good sign for any sort of entertainment, always leave them wanting more!
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by adwf 12y ago
I really loved Name of the Wind, but actually felt a little let down by Wise Man's Fear. Dunno whether I was just expecting too much after an excellent first book, but I thought it should have been sub-titled "Kvothe gets laid an
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, VB.net is mostly there so that people can upgrade legacy VB6 programs. Of which there are a lot . Or were, I hope that's changed a little now. It scares me just how much of the finance sector is still running on some hacked toge
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, but that's just about the case in every amateur match out there isn't it? We're only talking about kids matches here, not pro football. The purpose of the pitch is to be played on, not to look pretty. Case in point:
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by adwf 12y ago
True, but in terms of how to make money out of a huge mass of users, advertising is usually the best bet. However, I often think there's room for more directly paid search as opposed to side-funded with advertising. Afterall, companie
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by adwf 12y ago
I'm convinced Vegemite is something Australians thought up for the sole purpose of annoying British people when they buy it by mistake ;)
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by adwf 12y ago
They also claim that they can't play when the grass is wet. Am I just a crazy Englishman for thinking that's bizarre?
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by adwf 12y ago
I don't get why they don't just play on grass? Surely it doesn't cost that much to maintain. When the grass gets too worn in England, you know what we play on? Mud. Given that I know of amateur playing fields that have a d

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