brucephillips

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by brucephillips 9y ago
> Adult acne in most cases is however. Source? Because no, it's not. There's also no evidence that greasy food increases sebum production. You're buying into a bunch of snake oil.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
This very little evidence that diet affects acne. I'm glad you found a solution, but food probably had little to do with it. Especially "greasy" food, which is one of the items they list on their website. They also say that a
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by brucephillips 9y ago
There have been many, many studies discrediting the folk remedies proferred in this thread.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
I just checked this out. It's a dermatologist. They offer benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid, which are standard solutions. This is nothing special.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
I grew up with cystic acne that persisted into my early 20s, until two courses of Accutane cleared it up. Anecdotally, I tried everything before going on accutane. I cut out sugar to the point of avoiding fruits with high glycemic indexes.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
What interface do you want?
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by brucephillips 9y ago
There absolutely is. For a company to be valuable, it must return more profit to shareholders than they put in. The P/E ratio indicates how long it will take for this to happen.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Yes. Any public company must ultimately pay a dividend to be valuable. Edit: All of my responders are ignoring my use of "ultimately". A company can certainly invest in growth, but growth only matters if the company eventually ret
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Network effects occur when usage increases the value of the product, as with Google or Facebook. With Netflix, usage does not increase value. It instead creates more revenue, enabling Netflix to invest in fixed costs, creating scale economi
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Strictly speaking, these are scale economies, not network effects.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Does all music distract you or just music with lyrics? Do you know music theory? I'm only distracted by lyrics, but maybe I knew more about music, I'd be distracted by instrumentals.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
If a function writes to a DB, yes, that's a side effect. I think you're conflating "scope" and "purpose".
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by brucephillips 9y ago
You're correct, but would you agree that poverty is a better predictor for hardship in the USA than race? In other words, would you agree that a poor white person has a much harder life than a rich black person? Having much experience
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by brucephillips 9y ago
The same reason any industry benefits from being privatized: to incentive innovation. The antibiotics revolution would never have happened, at least not in America, had there not been a profit incentive. The other services you listed are l
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by brucephillips 9y ago
It is for modern commercial products, yes. And while there's some fragmentation and hacks that justify derision, it's not that bad. Any complex software component needs a package manager and a build system.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Stanford and Harvard do have higher admissions standards, though they also take legacy status and donations into account, which might be what staunch is referring to. However, they also practice affirmative action, which means some VCs who
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Are you proposing that investors give money to founders without meeting them first?
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by brucephillips 9y ago
A more equal gender distribution doesn't mean that women are treated better. Take Hollywood, for example.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Sure, but you can't accuse him of doing this unless he actually makes these arguments. Doing so equates to the same fallacy that intelligent design adherents make, which is that since evolution yields ugly, selfish behavior, it must be
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by brucephillips 9y ago
I haven't seen his twitter feed, granted. To your first point, to make that leap would be to conflate "is" and "ought". Yes, many people do make that error, but you can't accuse him of doing it when others do.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Though Peterson is often characterized as alt-right, I think that's quite unfair. He's often grossly mistaken about things, but doesn't believe in bigotry, nationalism, etc..
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by brucephillips 9y ago
The difference between critical theory (and postmodernism generally) and social justice is the belief in universal values. Believers in postmodernism don't accept universal values. They see every conflict as a power struggle, devoid
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by brucephillips 9y ago
How are you getting that 2,079,720,000 KWHrs in 24 hours is 24.07 MW? EDIT: This is too perfect. 1053r calls out journalists for making a basic math mistake. In doing so, he makes a basic math mistake. I ask him about it, then get downvo
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Almost all of this is true with single page apps, though. The only added complexity is you have to maintain a frontend state cache (e.g. Redux).
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by brucephillips 9y ago
I think you're conflating React with other complexities. React doesn't require 900 npm dependencies.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
I don't know Angular too well, but React is really just a templating system. It doesn't add much more complexity than any templating system, including those you would necessarily have on the backend in a multi-page app.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
The study you linked says nothing about genetics.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Every B2B company must ultimately increase their customers' profits. Every B2C company must ultimately create some desirable emotional state in its users. Whether or not you think of these as "problems" or not is an unimpor
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by brucephillips 9y ago
It's a bit misleading to say we're adding another MVC app on the client. By adding that complexity, we reduce complexity on the backend. Views on the backend are no longer true views, but rather serializations of the models. An
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by brucephillips 9y ago
In various ways. ACH is essentially FTP. Traders execute trades programatically. There's no one standard API, but there are many programmatic ways to move money.

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