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by bfe 15y ago
Thanks Fred. I'm sure that is the case for all your companies. I've just had nightmare experiences with some companies such as, at the worst extreme, one company who had a marketing person actually email me in response to several emails I s
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by bfe 15y ago
Wow. This is a fascinating article. Thank you so much!
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by bfe 15y ago
Dude. How is any of that "simple"? Thinking that just better advertising will solve gender imbalances in technical roles is overly simple.
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by bfe 15y ago
Yeah, the tone was not ideal for persuasive writing. I just found myself astonished to witness a volume of downvotes, not only on this post but also on my original post on this page which did not have the same exasperated tone, that across
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by bfe 15y ago
Whether or not you think this is tremendously important, it is. We could easily unleash almost twice as much human potential of the human race we are right now in coding, and engineering and science in general, if we go back and inspect all
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by bfe 15y ago
Sorry, I haven't been ignoring you, I've been struggling with how to respond. I think for now I will have to leave it at: (1) since I'm a patent attorney, looking at your code and advising you on its chances of patentability would constitu
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by bfe 15y ago
All of Alain de Botton's books are a complete delight to read.
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by bfe 15y ago
Am I? Are you sure? The Finns, not the Sami in particular, have been observed to be the world's foremost eaters of red meat in general, as noted in my other post. To the degree that non-Sami Finns dieted on pork and beef instead of moose a
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by bfe 15y ago
I don't know anything about this particular propaganda site but I have done research in the past that showed there are a lot of just pure propaganda machine organizations that get funding from the likes of Exxon Mobil and who all write off
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by bfe 15y ago
This is a great example of Fred sharing valuable info he gleans from his unique perspective as a VC who has managed to collect a lot of great Web portfolio companies. At the same time, the super eagerness he mentions here for companies to e
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by bfe 15y ago
To be just a little contrarian to this post, I've become at peace with the idea that you should probably always spend a great deal of time, and maybe or probably even more time than you feel totally comfortable with, learning about all aspe
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by bfe 15y ago
OK but why does a scientist suddenly get interrogated by agents from his employer's Inspector General's office and then put on administrative leave for happening to mention in a report that he noticed dead polar bears. How do you even expe
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by bfe 15y ago
OK sorry to comment on my own comment but I've been reading up on this the past couple hours and I once again call total bullshit on the Obama administration. I made several donations to the Obama campaign but like so many others I have bee
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by bfe 15y ago
Best quote from this story, and how is it interpreted by different software makers: "You’re just going to screw something up. Best thing is to take your feet off the pedals and let it fly."
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by bfe 15y ago
I can't get over how fascinating this thing is. Makes the "gristleships" in Alastair Reynolds's "Pushing Ice" all the more believable.
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by bfe 15y ago
Yes, every modern fighter jet is engineered to be aerodynamically unstable and requiring intensive computer control just to be able to fly. It's part of the special sauce that lets them perform so deliriously ridiculously, and part of why
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by bfe 15y ago
I just don't think that's a fair characterization. Obviously right in the midst of the police's own investigation airbnb's lawyers advised them not to make characterizations that would get ahead of the investigation. PG wanted to make tha
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by bfe 15y ago
The best way to read this article is to start at the end and read backwards. I didn't at first recognize the recently and Orwellianly rebranded name (in the wake of disastrous publicity) of the federal government's agency that's supposed t
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by bfe 15y ago
So every software implementation of anything is not novel? Are you really sure about that? I am wrapping up a tremendously complex and awesome patent application today that my client is essentially implementing in hardware, but there is abs
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by bfe 15y ago
Breeding for leaner red meat is a phenomenon of the last few decades, compared with breeding for fattier red meat which has been going on among domesticated cattle and swine for the last 10,000 years. Relatively leaner and relatively less p
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by bfe 15y ago
That is quite the switcheroo you pulled by declaring a "modern science-derived diet and lifestyle" to be the more calories and more booze and less exercise of the Islanders in this study. How is that "science-derived"? The point I was makin
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by bfe 15y ago
There is a significant difference, but it works the opposite way, so that beef is worse for you. Cattle have been bred under ten thousand years of domestication to have fattier meat, whereas undomesticated sources of red meat are much leane
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by bfe 15y ago
The red meat, butter, and buttermilk that abounds in the traditional Finnish diet are from moose and reindeer whose own diet in the Finnish woods is at least as all-natural, wholesome, and organic as the grass grazed by Kristen's cattle, bu
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by bfe 15y ago
Not analogous, because in this case the business intentionally facilitated the arrangement, it's their whole business model.
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by bfe 15y ago
Really? Um, which body of pre-modern folk wisdom relies on citations to evidence? To be fair there are a few, but their cited authorities of preference are scriptural. I cited a scientific review of large studies of specific health outcomes
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by bfe 15y ago
I was thinking of a scientific study I read a couple years ago, the citation for which escapes me at the moment. How I long for the day when I can install the Google brain history page implant beta. But five seconds on the present-day Googl
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by bfe 15y ago
When someone takes it on herself to actively evangelize an analysis she acknowledges is controversial, she should expect to be treated like an adult and be presented with honest opposing views, in whatever venue she chooses to take part in.
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by bfe 15y ago
Software is represented and conceptualized as math. But when you put fingers to keyboard you set in motion a bunch of electrons and magnetic domains; you're assembling mechanical objects into a complex physical machine, a computing system t
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by bfe 15y ago
Welcome and glad to have you. And while you're not a shill, I find your site misguided, in overly relying on equating natural, traditional diets with healthy, leading you to some recommendations that are orthogonal to healthiness, like ferm
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by bfe 15y ago
I stopped drinking juice a few years ago, but had the same annoyance at spending any extra time on complicated foods like oranges in the morning. My solution is I usually eat a handful of fresh strawberries as part of my breakfast - they ar

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