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by bfe 15y ago
The natural ligand for cannabinoid receptors, anandamide, is stimulated by exercise, particularly distance running. "Runner's High" is just that.
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by bfe 15y ago
I wonder if there's any observed correlation between earliness of launch (per pg's advice) and likelihood of future success?
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by bfe 15y ago
I don't think this passes economics 101. It's often incredibly hard for an individual inventor to bring their invention to market even with a patent. Freedom to sell or license their patent instead of requiring every inventor to also build
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I think there is some divergence of perceptions here. I've worked with a lot of applicants for software patents, and they're not vaguely involved in applying to cover something well-known for which they might want to feel ashamed. Typically
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If they make as many coding errors as spelling errors, I'll stick with my current list app.
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She essentially says that a startup that implements a recruitment process that taps a very large number of potential recruits in search of the best candidates, and that effectively evaluates candidates based on their actual qualifications f
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Although Gene seems to discount the inhibitory effect of a patent troll getting fined over $600,000, I think this case will focus the minds of overzealous patent owners, as well as the patent attorneys involved, for whom a Rule 11 sanction
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by bfe 15y ago
Cell phones are currently revolutionizing life for the better in unexpected ways in many of the poorer areas of the world that only recently got cell phone service as their first phone service of any kind. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
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Of course, the Martian Bible also doesn't say anything about god creating life on Earth.
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This great post should be really encouraging: you can achieve a terrific competitive advantage right off the bat just by launching a business that manages to avoid doing stupid shit.
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by bfe 15y ago
Because Zed Shaw's original book makes learning Python so easy for anyone without assuming any prior knowledge, plus he's hilarious.
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IIRC, Mars's global atmospheric pressure is about 25% higher in the southern summer than in the southern winter, due to differential sublimation and condensation of carbon dioxide, from the southern ice cap as well as from the soil at lower
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by bfe 15y ago
Great point that most people don't get. As Robert Zubrin said, you could drop 100 Spirit/Opportunity level rovers into the Rocky Mountains and probably never find prehistoric fossils, while a team of four human scientists would easily find
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by bfe 15y ago
I love how the NASA administrator uses the opportunity to remind everyone of the goal to send human explorers to Mars.
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Three cheers for the science journalism in this link. The reporter clearly conveys the facts of the announced findings, includes images of candidate flowing water on Mars with captions as they appear in the original paper in the journal Sci
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by bfe 15y ago
One separate Hacker News page for Software Patents News, with every submission that mentions "software patents" automatically diverted to it, and that allows the remaining ten percent of articles to appear on the original Hacker News page.
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by bfe 15y ago
To try to add Hacker News relevance to this story and its discussion: doesn't this show it's high time for truck-driving robots to free humans from this dreary job? Robots who won't, in the midst of personal anguish, be stressed about pass
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by bfe 15y ago
Way back in the day I used to earn money on the side tutoring students in math and physics. I've long thought about advertising around the University to recruit a grad student or someone to help me with my efforts in Chinese or Python. I
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by bfe 15y ago
This post did a great job actually getting me excited about Tutorspree.
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The big clue is how few of the companies in his survey have ever had venture capital -- which he cites as "myth-busting" about startups, but really just revealingly myth-busts his sample set. I could go next month and start an innovative bo
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by bfe 15y ago
This is a terrific post, but it is also one of a couple of examples where Marc and/or Ben later acted in seeming contradiction to what they espoused in one of their blog posts (relying on Ben here describing this post as representing both h
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by bfe 15y ago
That's the crux of it, simply that we should wait for more information before making a rush to judgment, the same reason we have a legal process instead of entering a liability verdict after the first day of media accusations.
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Yes, Feynman's Cargo Cult Science lecture is an old favorite of mine, and anyone who doesn't bend over backwards to repeatedly question every assumption and bit of evidence and source of information is never going to reach the best availabl
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I've been experimenting with lots of different things. By far the most useful thing I've found is to take a running break for three to ten miles in the middle of the workday to break it in half. I have a standing desk and a sitting desk, an
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by bfe 15y ago
But if you're reading Learn Python the Hard Way and actually doing what it says, you are doing a bunch of coding exercises including experimenting and not just reading.
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I'm going to leave it at that except to say I think you'll be better served spending more time with Feynman than your other sources of inspiration.
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I guess default perception of burden of proof, prior to sufficient learning on the topic, has a lot to do with life experience, and I'm not going to spend my Saturday night looking up citations for someone who is wrong on the Internet, espe
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by bfe 15y ago
No we wouldn't need to try to balance genders in any given profession at the end of the day if everyone had completely equal opportunity at every stage of intellectual and educational and professional growth. But if you think we're anywher
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by bfe 15y ago
Thanks for having the ovaries or balls to speak up for your until now silent cohort, and OK I'll name names. Here's one great example: Amy Moritz Ridenour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Ridenour She is a total intellectual prostitute f
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As someone born and raised in Michigan and whose partner was also born and raised in Michigan, my advice is that other than visiting grandparents and hiking and touring breweries, you will find your opportunities tremendously expanded by as

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