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by ajscherer 15y ago
"You can complain all you want about food manufacturers making tasty/addictive foods which are bad for you, but they were responding to the public's demand for "low fat" driven by bad science." I am arguing that they were responding to the
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by ajscherer 15y ago
The surprise is genuine, and I didn't include any anecdotes in my post. The research I have seen indicates that high carbohydrate intake (particularly sugars) is more likely to make someone obese than high fat intake. The research I have s
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by ajscherer 15y ago
Great question, I've often wondered about the same thing. I think it's probably a combination of factors, the most important being, in my view, culture. I suspect that other countries may have more homogeneous eating traditions than the U
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by ajscherer 15y ago
I'm always surprised at the theories people are willing to believe about obesity, particularly people on hn. It really sounds reasonable to so many of you that the cause of the obesity epidemic is people actually listening to nutrition adv
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by ajscherer 15y ago
The first part of their finding, that motivated people or those with an incentive will do better on IQ tests, does seem common sense. The second part of their finding is more interesting to me, although I'm still trying to fully understand
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by ajscherer 15y ago
I wouldn't expect many creators to start understanding this point. To accept the reality that the demand for new (music / books / newspaper stories) just simply isn't high enough to support very many people making their living that way wou
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by ajscherer 16y ago
"Life expectancy at birth in the pre-agricultural community was bout twenty-six years," says Armelagos, "but in the post-agricultural community it was nineteen years. So these episodes of nutritional stress and infectious disease were seri
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by ajscherer 16y ago
So if I go read a couple weeks worth of daring fireball, I'm not going to find any posts disagreeing with something another pundit has written? In my experience pundits spend the majority of their time explaining their agreement or disagree
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Mathematics is most definitley not that. The fact that your definition probably sounds reasonable to most people who made it all the way through calculus (and even excelled in those courses) probably supports what Vi is saying. On the othe
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by ajscherer 16y ago
But the solution cannot be to make it more "touchy-feely" and make everybody feel good. Why? That certainly isn't the type of response that would cut it in mathematics, since it is just an assertion without even a hand-wave to support it
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I have always wondered if a quadrotor could be set up to harvest wind energy. I'm imagining it propping itself up against a tree or something and letting the wind blow it's rotors to recharge. Does anyone know why that won't work?
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I think you should have included a category for opioids or prescription painkillers, given their present popularity.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
How is it counterproductive? By what mechanism does complaining about the mainstream media actually make it worse? Complaining about the mainstream media may indeed fail to improve it, but saying nothing will certainly have no effect.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I think EA's marketing muscle is the reason their games tend to get "discovered", not that gamers are paying any attention to the EA brand (mostly they seem quite hostile towards it). I'm not sure why people think there is any particularly
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Even with a 27" monitor I choose to use second monitor, and when I am cross referencing two documents I will put one on each monitor. The 27" could easily hold both documents, but it just feels so much easier to use two screens. It seems p
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by ajscherer 16y ago
No particular mental effort beyond that needed to abstain from committing suicide due to the extreme monotony of a treadmill run. That said, the treadmill can be a fine tool for training. It allows you to totally ignore weather conditions,
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Of course what you call it is relevant! To claim otherwise is to pretend that language has no influence on thought, which simply isn't true and I believe you know it. Human brains will have different thoughts in a discussion of "stealin
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by ajscherer 16y ago
If people are still referring to unauthorized copying as theft the point hasn't been made enough, regardless of how many times you've been forced to read it. In my estimation "unauthorized copying is not the same as stealing" needs to be sa
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Well I guess that pretty much settles it then. It's not windy or sunny today in London so renewable energy is surely a pipe dream.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
His analogy about Kasparov needing to solve a long division problem is whack. Buzzing is part of the game of Jeapordy. For all we know he wouldn't have been a champion in a version of the game that didn't involve buzzing.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
That's all very fair, but I think what people are taking exception to is Apple's attempts to prevent their customers from accessing other content distribution platforms where Apple doesn't get a cut.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I'd greatly prefer if my freedom coincided with me being alive. "The long term" may or may not allow for that. Your argument seems to be akin to "History shows that every tyrant who ever existed has died." Yes but if one or more new tyrant
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Really? It blows your mind that people who were taught to use two spaces allow their muscle memory to continue typing two spaces in the absence of any incentive whatsoever to break the habit? You must have a mind that can be blown by a ligh
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by ajscherer 16y ago
This is an awful analogy because the author is using a scenario with which most hackers will have no familiarity (having crazy sex with a mysterious woman) to make a point about a scenario with which hackers are much more familiar (trying o
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Gross
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I feel like you can come up with any type of wild speculation, and if you base your reasoning on the theory of evolution (even in the most hand-wavy way) people will treat it almost like its a scientifically verified truth. "Evolution opera
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by ajscherer 16y ago
In addition to the other reasons mentioned, I imagine it is also a decent proxy for a number of other characteristics (white, from a wealthy family) that you might not want to make explicit in your recruiting strategy. I guess Harvard just
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by ajscherer 16y ago
The complete lack of any details may fly on Chinese Central Television and Reuters.com, but I want more when I come to hacker news. What's next? "North Korea boasts development of time machine!"
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by ajscherer 16y ago
There are substantial differences between the resturant and housing situations. Short of burning it down for fun there isn't really any way to consume a house. Also, the person who sold the house got paid for it, its the person who loaned
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I think the scenario you imagine whereby him doing a few designs for $15 leads to him being old and alone with a ruined life is pretty far fetched.

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