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by cconroy 10y ago
It also appears phenolic compounds in plants play a role in helping too.[1][2] [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23365108 [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22935321
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by cconroy 10y ago
Regardless, people coming away with the conclusion that fructose is bad for you is bananas ;) Also it is not clear that he is for/against eating lots of fruits and starchy veges of which humans thrive on. Lots of evidence for this too!
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In pictures: The Prisoner at 50(bbc.com)
80 points by cconroy 10y ago|15 comments
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by cconroy 10y ago
You mentioned Islam and he is talking about Islamist here. Huge difference, though I'm not agreeing with a first strike here.
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by cconroy 10y ago
I don't think so. Sql is declarative though and the engine does the imperative work for you. A simple example of multiple uses: Simpsons = ['bart', 'lisa', 'homer'], member(X, Simpsons)? will do a for each
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by cconroy 10y ago
Minor nitpick: prolog uses unification not pattern matching which is more general because it can handle unbound variables. Major nitpick: declarative thinking becomes the dominant way of thinking not pattern matching. When you write prolog
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by cconroy 10y ago
This is great, thanks! Have you looked into the udacity ML nanodegree? I gave it a cursory look and it seems pretty decent.
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by cconroy 10y ago
This reminded me of an interesting dream I had. I dreamt I created a nice language with a meta protocol. In working with the language and using this protocol I changed the language into a different language which gave me insights on changin
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by cconroy 10y ago
Me too. But if he doesn't answer it he may mean how languages don't have a well designed meta protocol. See the one they built for CLOS in that good book.
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by cconroy 10y ago
Forgive my ignorance on this issue but Earth has various feedback mechanisms that forestalls CO2: getting absorbed back into rocks and consumption by flora. Is comparing CO2 levels to 4 mya disingenuous because that is just one variable we
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by cconroy 11y ago
Tv is a cool medium of which requires participation. If the audience (public) are not "put on" to terrorism, that is not participating, the the power of idea will cease (and the secondary effects like the issue raised here).
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by cconroy 11y ago
But it is not illegal to not pay back private or federal debt, right? The federal gov has ways to get payment via tax refunds and social security benefits.
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by cconroy 11y ago
Did not know that and that is important context. I hope he is receiving proper medical treatment and wish him the best.
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by cconroy 11y ago
What is the worst thing he said that was dim-witted that you remember off hand? Generally curious, he defends his positions rather well I believe.
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by cconroy 11y ago
Are you sure it is not just because he is not having fun anymore. Otherwise is skin is too thin.
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by cconroy 11y ago
I dont know Fry but he isn't handling things as well as Dawkins does it seems. Dawkins has a hilarious video of him reading the most hateful tweets. You have to be careful. Some of the people who complain about others being offended al
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by cconroy 11y ago
Is Fry leaving bc of the PC culture or bc of all the mean things trolls say about him? This may be obvious but I don't know Fry or his circumstances.
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Are US Stocks Overvalued?(blogs.piie.com)
1 points by cconroy 11y ago|0 comments
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by cconroy 11y ago
I think you could make a strong case that would still be problamatic. Let me explain this by attempting to uncover what I think is the underlying problem. Firstly economic inequality may or may not be a problem, so it is probably not worth
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by cconroy 11y ago
`I burnt out once after a few years of very intense, very committed work. I wasn't better off at the end of it and nobody says "thank you", not sincerely anyway. And after you leave, the waters close around you and it will be
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by cconroy 11y ago
You are obviously biased. Im sure those tech gods affect politics as much as the Kochs -- but it is the kind of political choices that you are ok with. Therefore, they are the good guys and the Kochs are the bad guys. Not so sure things are
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The Basic Income Guarantee: what stands in its way?(coppolacomment.com)
6 points by cconroy 11y ago|0 comments
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by cconroy 11y ago
Can you explain why you think Bob Kahn is against net neutrality (whereas Vint Cerf is for it)? I am not that familiar with this issue and the other sides arguments (against), but there are prominent people there.
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by cconroy 11y ago
About once a month for the past 3-4 years I have typed "Alan Kay" into youtube. This has been more valuable than my 85K CS Degree manyfold.
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Rethinking CS Education (A. Kay)(youtube.com)
1 points by cconroy 11y ago|1 comments
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by cconroy 11y ago
It is a shame this work is relegated to mainly niche. Am i wrong for saying this?
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by cconroy 11y ago
s/computer/dynamic medium/g
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by cconroy 11y ago
One thing is clear: our brains required tremendous amounts of energy. Cooking starches allows us to extract more energy from them. Meat eating is calorically dense too and so that could of played a role (see Expesive Tissue Hypothesis). I
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by cconroy 11y ago
It's funny I come to hn for stuff like this. Thanks for the video. Here is a nice one for Debussy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kziF6whWW8 )
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by cconroy 11y ago
In a function call the arguments are applied to the function after being evaluated (LISP's apply). In Message Passing a message (which is just another object) is sent to the receiver object. The crucial difference is in a function ca

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