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Health Insurance vs. Food Insurance(difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com)
6 points by api 13y ago|2 comments
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by api 13y ago
If older chips from Intel and AMD could be overclocked to twice their baseline rates with high-end cooling, I wonder what you could clock this beast up to? And yes there is a market for this. There are certain workloads that are simply not
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by api 13y ago
Actually you laugh, but being spied on by someone with no jurisdiction over you is better than being spied on by someone who can name you an enemy combatant because they misunderstand your e-mails that contain a plot synopsis for a book you
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by api 13y ago
I never got math or liked it until I had to do real-world things with it, at which point I dug and managed to teach myself things that I needed. Nearly all my math teachers were horrible. One or two of them seemed almost intentionally obtus
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by api 13y ago
Mathematics is arguably the worst taught subject. I think this is entirely the fault of the teachers and writers of the curriculum, who systematically fail to explain their subject in an approachable way. I wrote a rant about it here: http
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by api 13y ago
The worst thing about terror is the social and cultural effect it has. America swung hard to the theocratic right after 9/11-- ironically the same ideology as the terrorists more or less (except Dominionist Christian instead of Wahhabi
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Dark Rye: Detroit (Issue 11)(darkrye.com)
1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
A good piece of advice I got from a lawyer once: If you are ever arrested, don't say a word especially if you are innocent . The cops never arrest anyone unless they think they're guilty, so anything you say -- as the saying goes in Americ
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by api 13y ago
"Okay, we're going to start with a simplified version of this concept first. Keep in mind that the reality is somewhat more difficult to grasp, but grasping this simplified and idealized version will help you to eventually grasp the real de
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by api 13y ago
Total tangential point: I noticed something while reading this otherwise good explanation. I can't speak for others, but for me it explains why I often had a tough time with math in school and possibly also why pure functional languages hav
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The Lambda Calculus: What is it and why should you care?(zeroturnaround.com)
2 points by api 13y ago|4 comments
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by api 13y ago
Yeah. A lot of smart folks on HN, but also a lot of naive sheltered upper-class youngsters who have never even seen genuine adversity or human suffering. This elite naivete blew me away when I spent years in the rough orbit of the Ivy Lea
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by api 13y ago
"These people are my friends. They are my students, my relatives. They have no «hidden agenda» as the state likes to say. Their agenda is out there. It is very clear. The whole country is being sold to corporations by the government, for th
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by api 13y ago
Greedy for what? That's why I decided to exit the rat race to some extent. Look: I can understand working 80 hour work weeks for art , for something you really care about. I also might work like that if I thought I could really get rich-
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by api 13y ago
This surprises me given how god-awful expensive London is. I remember it being one of those cities I've visited where I was like "how do people live here? what do all these people do?" Or maybe, like New York, you actually can live there fa
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by api 13y ago
Sell. Seriously. If you own one of these, sell. Then laugh. This real estate hyperinflation is going to destroy the very engine of class mobility and youthful enthusiasm for a better life that powers the Valley. When that's gone, the Valley
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by api 13y ago
What would have happened had GMO food been introduced with labels in the beginning that indicated that it was GMO, how it was modified, and the benefits? I wouldn't be surprised if there'd be much less opposition to it. If you're opposed to
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by api 13y ago
Changing the subject. The subject is conservatism. A conservative is not someone who rejects all of a thing, but someone who is skeptical and suspicious of new things. As a result of many past issues with novel food products, people have
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by api 13y ago
I'm not anti-science. I'm not even anti-GMO, though I doubt they're some kind of panacea either. You know... I have an apology I'd like to make. I'd like to apologize to all those marketing and sales people I slandered over my years as an e
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by api 13y ago
"Honestly, you're trying to smear the name of "experts" in general, without separating "health experts" (medical doctors, nutritionists, idiot laypeople who label themselves naturopaths, etc) from scientists. I feel like you're trying to fi
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by api 13y ago
What people are concerned about is basically "embrace, extend, extinguish" business practices applied to agriculture, with the result being a consolidation of ownership of the means of seed production into the hands of a small oligopoly of
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by api 13y ago
GMO might be different, but people are going to err on the side of caution. All the hype about how GMO will end hunger and nutritional deficiencies and such is part of the problem. I'd say at this point breathless hype is seen as a contrari
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by api 13y ago
You aren't even comprehending it. Even if every single claim I listed is completely wrong, the social phenomenon I am describing exists and must be understood if culture is to become more rational. I've tried to point out the perception-of-
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by api 13y ago
So far nobody's responded to my core point, which is about human social behavior and inductive inference in the absence of deep subject matter understanding. People have also cherry picked this or that. I'll concede MSG. That's not the poin
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by api 13y ago
I should also have been more precise. By food "innovations" I meant synthetic alterations in the composition of food itself such as the introduction of chemically altered oils, flavoring additives, preservatives, and similar. Borlaug change
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by api 13y ago
"Anti-scientific" Herein lies the problem. Science is a method, not a dogma or a series of religious pronouncements. Trans-fat and even cigarettes were once considered healthy according to the science of the day. As far as suspicion of new
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by api 13y ago
A lot of people see opposition to GMOs as irrational, but I don't think it is. It's perfectly rational, especially if you don't really understand genetics (which most people don't... it's an esoteric subject). The reason it's rational is
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by api 13y ago
I really think there'd be less opposition to GMOs were it not for the fact that this one company -- a firm with a history of somewhat scummy and antagonistic behavior -- didn't control the entire industry.
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by api 13y ago
I am yet again reminded that I made the right decision to not go there. I really think the Valley is coasting on its 90s mythos of being a hotbed of genuine creativity, real opportunity, and interesting cutting-edge culture. Today it sounds
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by api 13y ago
Fun to ask these questions of different languages. Here's two I've been using recently: - C++: What they got right? RAII, ability to code "close to the metal" if you want or highly abstractly if you don't, templates for powerful code re-use

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