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by backprojection 14y ago
I don't really care; people can do whatever they want with their money, _obviously_. But I am kind of surprised Jobs owned/commissioned a yacht. I always figured owning a yacht was an abject status symbol, and that somehow Jobs tried to be
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by backprojection 14y ago
I entirely agree. People tend to run away from abstract math, with the impression that it's difficult. But the whole point is that a more abstract view of these things makes them easier to understand, not harder.
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by backprojection 14y ago
So a better analogy would be to quote total FLOPS.
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by backprojection 14y ago
This sounds great, but why is it a kick starter project? If the claims they're making are reasonable, it seems to me that, for instance, Google would be more than a little interested, and could easily cough up $750K. What am I missing?
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by backprojection 14y ago
But at that point, do you need to own the car? Basically you just described a taxi service without human drivers. Perhaps a taxi service based around self driving cars could drive costs below the cost of ownership. My guess is that the limi
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by backprojection 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but why does actively restricting features that people clearly want enhance user experience, and exemplify good taste? Where's the bad taste in NFC?
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by backprojection 14y ago
I recently bought an SIII to replace my old, broken Galaxy Nexus (cracked screen from being hit by an SUV). I ended up buying another Galaxy Nexus, and will sell the SIII. On paper the SIII blows the Nexus out of the water, but after using
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by backprojection 14y ago
I finally received my invite, only to find out I need an iPhone to use the service. I won't give up my lovely galaxy nexus! I do understand it's hard to develop these things, and for multiple platforms.
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by backprojection 14y ago
> And a calorie is a calorie with a big if: if your macro nutrients are in range The statement, 'a calorie is a calorie' is used to make the point that macro ratios don't matter for weight loss/maintenance. ... so then the argument is w
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by backprojection 14y ago
> Because any other hypothesis has to explain why it violates the conservation of energy and matter. This comment is so infuriating. I may not be a genius, but I did manage to eek out a degree in physics. I think I, and anyone here on H
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by backprojection 14y ago
>But do you know why? It isn't the schedule that really matters. You haven't shown that. Where's the randomized experiment where one group is assigned to eat 3000 cal/day evenly distributed, and the other group is assigned 6000 cal duri
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by backprojection 14y ago
> 20% increased risk of death or disease over the span of a generation is not worth getting excited about? For someone who's healthy, it may seem insignificant when the baseline risk is low, but for someone who develops a chronic diseas
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by backprojection 14y ago
Maybe you can view it as an intermediate step, the next being in vitro meat.
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by backprojection 14y ago
Is there any real evidence to suggest that real meat is bad? These guys have me pretty convinced there isn't: http://goo.gl/eoDaF > The problem with observational studies like those run by Willett and his colleagues is that they do no
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by backprojection 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing the point, but what's the problem? It seems to me that the worst senario here is that Google supplants traditional telcos, and essentially becomes another monopoly for >1Gbps web access. Compared with what we have toda
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by backprojection 14y ago
much better!
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by backprojection 14y ago
14,000 feet. Sorry to nitpick! You go with the min of the sigfigs in the expression, which here is 2 = sigfigs(12) < sigfigs(13,397.28) = 7
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by backprojection 14y ago
I'm curious what happens if you're wrong though. Suppose they successfully push on this and android devices are taken off the market, or priced so high to cover licensing fees that people won't buy them. What recourse does Google have? Pre
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by backprojection 14y ago
Significant figures, you have too many of them.
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by backprojection 14y ago
1. I think the obviousness of an idea might change throughout time. 2. What if one industry is dominated by two companies, in the sense that all the experts are employed by one or the other, then how could they be unbiassed?
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by backprojection 14y ago
exactly. > Extra terrestrial life that is more advanced than us has no reason to go on a suicide mission to come see us (a bunch of war-mongering primitive hairless baboons) Just as advanced western scientists have no interest in going
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by backprojection 14y ago
Being anti-google does indeed seem to be the hipster position at the moment. $5 says it'll soon be, 'I'm too cool even for Apple, I use Windows mobile'. Not that there's anything wrong with windows mobile, it's quite nice. I can see it havi
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by backprojection 14y ago
> High fat/high sugar foods offer the most calories/dollar. So what? Well, the theory is that cheap vegetable oil and sugar causes these metabolic disorders which then causes obesity. >Taubes' insulin theories have been debunked by
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by backprojection 15y ago
> Are the yuppies with gym memberships and hipsters with their organic vegan raw paleo diets somehow immune? Well, yes. As a paleo dieter, I can tell you I can't be eating more sugar than someone from the 1850s. My guess is that anyone
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by backprojection 15y ago
"Overweight people have a tendency to sit, while lean ones have trouble holding still and spend two hours more a day on their feet, pacing around and fidgeting, researchers are reporting in findings published today." That's exactly what I'm
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by backprojection 15y ago
It's not awful, it just seems off-the-mark. My point is that it seems avoiding physical activity at all costs is better viewed as a consequence of such a metabolic disorder, less so than a cause . I completely agree that exercise is very
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by backprojection 15y ago
"Carlin Robinson, 12, walks from her grandmother's car to the school bus in Manchester, Ky. Her house can be seen in the background. A study published in 2010, investigating high obesity rates in the town found that residents used cars to m
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by backprojection 15y ago
Wasn't the point, just a hypothetical example.
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by backprojection 15y ago
Couldn't you say the same for anyone who's product is seen as quite good? FB is holding us back because new, more innovative social networks can't get users to switch, for example.
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by backprojection 15y ago
It's starting to get to the point where, if the title of the post begins with 'MIT', I put my expect-the-BS hat on. Edit: to be clear, I think it's because MIT's PR departement is hyper-inflatory, which you can hardly blame them for. But ma

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