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by crpatino 13y ago
See comments above, the original research is flawed. New research shows that moderate caloric restriction has no statistically significant effect over eating a healthy diet within your caloric needs. It is overeating which decreases your li
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by crpatino 13y ago
You will get maybe 2x more needles out of +10x more haystack. Not that it does not work, but you will need to get very good at filtering.
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by crpatino 13y ago
Knowledge management in big institutions. -> Being aware there's a missing piece of the puzzle. -> Being aware of who has pieces of this puzzle. -> Being able to tell this piece belongs with a different puzzle. -> For each
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by crpatino 13y ago
You are trolling, right?
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by crpatino 13y ago
It is not a joke. I'm not meaning it as a smart-ass retort: Porn == Money
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by crpatino 13y ago
So what? Now they will have Facebook Faces? creepy....
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by crpatino 13y ago
agreed, you can only do so much when modeling a complex system with a single variable distribution.
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by crpatino 13y ago
Sorry, but splitting "classes" in thirds is just ridiculous. The way the economy works is by concentrating wealth, so any class definition based on clustering according to income/net-worth cannot be linear. A logarithmic scal
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by crpatino 13y ago
On the other hand, you can take a 20% to your base salary, but your standard of living will only decrease by what? 10%? (I am aware that the math does not pan out that way, but the fact remains that if you have confiscatory levels of taxes
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by crpatino 13y ago
Take pictures of the policemen while they are murdering/raping/ransacking. Be very careful that their faces show up as clearly as possible. Then print 100's of copies and drop them at their children's school, at their
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by crpatino 13y ago
It is also human nature to remain unconcerned with staggering levels of human suffering until it hits me or someone I personally know and care about. I just tough our civilization had implicitly agreed to hold itself to a higher standard.
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by crpatino 13y ago
Even if infant mortality is discarded, average life expectancy is a poor estimator of typical expectations of life. Considering the case of pre-industrial societies, there was a second big wave of mortality during what we now call adolescen
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by crpatino 13y ago
Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds. "You are the richest person? You get to be president for 4 years, but have to pay 50% of your net worth for the privilege. Not twice as rich as the 2nd richest person? Sorry. No reelection for y
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by crpatino 13y ago
I think your critique of Pascal's wager is correct, but you fail to see how the same logic applies to your own arguments. 1. You correctly notice that Pascal is unable to imagine a reality where there is a God, but it is not the God he
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by crpatino 13y ago
This seems awfully close to: sed 's/God/Science/g' PascalWager.template I think in both cases, the meta argument goes like this: "If the world is like I want it to be, then everything conforms to my pr
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by crpatino 13y ago
It depends, but mostly yes. As a remote worker, people won't come to like you. They won't necessarily dislike you either, just not form bonds with you on the basis of spending 8+ hours together every day. You won't get a shar
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by crpatino 13y ago
... (as of today)
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by crpatino 13y ago
You have to think it from the point of view of the potential employer/customer. Why do they want to hire a freelancer in the first place? 1. Maybe they have 50-100 hrs of work per month that requires skillset X. If none of their exist
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by crpatino 13y ago
I am familiar with maybe half of the books you mention, and the selection seems quite solid. I would however recommend to spend less time reading and more time hacking. Also, try to approach this as a series of steps, not everything in one
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by crpatino 13y ago
Manual memory management, mostly. Also, since C is a simpler language, its building blocks map more closely with what actually happens on hardware level (or they used to... back in the 1970's). Then, there's the fact that you do n
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by crpatino 13y ago
Well, yes... but then, by openly encrypting your traffic, you would be stating that you are a law-abiding, technically sophisticated citizen, willing to provide decryption keys to legitimated law enforcement officials with an appropriate
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by crpatino 13y ago
I suppose you must come from a country where rampant corruption is the norm to understand what "declared the official winner" actually means.
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by crpatino 13y ago
> ... yet while they are working, they never actually push themselves to their physical (and mental) limits. You could argue that in the long run, only those who push themselves see any kind of career progression. For the likes of your e
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by crpatino 13y ago
Ok, I get what you mean. I was aware of the Fische-Tropsch process, though I would lie if I say I understand how it works. In the proper context, I understand why you are excited about this new technology hinted in the article. As I have me
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by crpatino 13y ago
If you find this idea interesting, you may want to check Greer's online sci-fi novel: Star's Reach - A Novel on the Deindustrial Future. http://starsreach.blogspot.com/ The idea is, agrarian societies 300-odd year
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by crpatino 13y ago
I think the original question was more in terms with carbon footprint, which would be indeed neutral (as long as it happens to have a positive EROEI, which is not even mentioned in the article). Of course local pollution is a concern, but i
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by crpatino 13y ago
I agree. It might be sensible, but we do not know per the article information. Doing some very, very rough estimates, I figured we would might be able to take 20 barrels of algae slurry, "cook" them (@ 350°C & 3000 PSI) for a
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by crpatino 13y ago
Your original claim was that because of economic laws ($500/barrel argument) we will never run out of petrol. (ergo, will be able to find a way to violate laws of physics, because we want to). If you now want to change your argument an
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by crpatino 13y ago
> Even at $500/barrel equivalent there is a point where if you must have 'crude oil' you can make it for a price. Sorry, but this is just ignorant nonsense. EROEI is what counts here, not raw "profits". If your $
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by crpatino 13y ago
Yes, the argument is logically wrong... but logic is not the only mental resource we have to make sense of the world. By example, if we agreed that the truth can only be called "truth" if it is derived by "logic", there

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