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by dejb 16y ago
Wow people are sensitive. Of course it's perfectly fine for the Apple apologists to rehash their justifications on each and every instance of this. But for somebody to reaffirm the basic problem with the app store model is deserving of cens
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by dejb 16y ago
> But lets not let that get in the way of a good outrage session. I know it's an old argument and many people don't like to be reminded of it, but for some people, each an every one of these 'total platform rejections' represents an out
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by dejb 16y ago
> Yes but you can't discount that. In terms of guiding what we should do now it can and should be discounted to zero. > Another example: cycling is only a viable means of transport because of the extensive road network built for (an
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by dejb 16y ago
> Veganism as a lifestyle is utterly dependent on huge energy subsidies. What? You are confusing technological development with energy. People used to rely on burning wood for heat also but do you think this is energy efficient? Do you
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by dejb 16y ago
> I know a lot of people that hate SUVs because they can't see around the damn things which makes driving more hazardous. Not to mention how much worse it would be to end up in an accident with one of them.
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by dejb 16y ago
I think the writer just described the singularity.
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by dejb 16y ago
Unfortunately the downloadable product seems to be close to dead. There have been serious security problems that have not been addressed for many months. Take a look at the forum to see what I mean. Their server side product must be their f
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by dejb 16y ago
> low weight, high rep training builds red "twitch" muscle and high weight, low rep training builds white "slow" muscle I think it's the other way around. The first reference I found was http://www.teenbodybuilding.com/shane6.htm If i
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by dejb 16y ago
You'd have to think that the land hunters would have been the ones with both the incentive and the means to enforce a cultural taboo on fishing. They might not want a whole other profession of people training with weapons all day. I could a
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by dejb 16y ago
You wouldn't care to point out any particular section. It is quite a long document and the language appears to be a bit vague and political in nature. Or is your point that this is kind of document is actually part of the problem. Either wa
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by dejb 16y ago
I disagree. Me and friend started a moderately successful web publishing business years ago while on NEIS. Of course our plans did diverge significantly from the plan we submitted to them to get approved. Obviously you shouldn't expect a lo
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by dejb 16y ago
> It looks to me like the author was building a point about evolutionary bootstrapping of brain growth by eating meat He actually spoke to 2 separate anthropologists who had different views about our evolutionary diet and he chose to we
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by dejb 16y ago
...reading the actual article to the end. ...focusing on the facts mentioned and rather than the asides offered by the author. Here's another reference to the part about starches http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6983330.stm
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by dejb 16y ago
> Hunter-gatherers were much healthier But probably not smarter in the way we think of intelligence. They didn't develop civilisation, agriculturalists did.
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by dejb 16y ago
This title appears to be knowingly misleading. Towards the end it actually goes on to say 'And cooking is what he thinks really changed our modern body'. In fact it could just have easily been cooked starchy foods that had the biggest impac
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by dejb 16y ago
> It's a brilliant, (albeit arguably evil), strategy by Apple to create a viscous circle where developers bind themselves to iPhone, which means the good apps wind up there and thus users buy the product The only problem with your theor
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by dejb 16y ago
Surely all or most of these interpretations have been considered by the director and have been actively and deliberately intertwined into the story. The budget was $160 million so think of how many startup ideas could be funded with 10% of
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by dejb 16y ago
I don't get how mentioning the political angle of the sentiment expressed in the parent post somehow makes it flamey. Both platforms and governments represent ways of coordinating the productivity of numerous participants. Although there ar
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by dejb 16y ago
You do realize that your friends are possibly becoming increasingly drunk as they repeatedly ask you if you want a drink.
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> I've noticed that people that claim to be vegetarians do it in such a way that they come off smug. Unfortunately the act of unapologetically refusing to participate in something that most other people do is often considered smug. This
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by dejb 16y ago
And here was I thinking I was providing value by linking to a very relevant response while also delivering correct credit to the original poster. Oh well I've learnt my lesson.
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by dejb 16y ago
"Penrose and his book have been debunked." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540420
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by dejb 16y ago
> One shouldn't think about legal issues in quantitative ways. What about evidence? Presumably the copyright 'deriver' isn't just going to honestly detail how they stole the work. Surely an important part of the evidence is going to be
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by dejb 16y ago
> First, you need to stop thinking in terms of 'algorithms' and 'spinning'. It's irrelevant and confuses the discussion. This is HN, not a court of law. It is entirely appropriate to use technical language here. I think if you understoo
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by dejb 16y ago
You haven't even made it to 'fail'. If you are losing faith during initial development then how do you expect to get through the really tough part of selling / promoting it after release? If you are serious about this then just find a way t
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by dejb 16y ago
Is it just me or do those photos make you suspect that this isn't about optimising for health? The author explicitly says it isn't for performance. Not sure how many avid bodybuilders there are at HN.
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by dejb 16y ago
My friend is rs4680(A, A) and he finds modafinil quite effective for increasing concentration, memory and enthusiasm for work. It didn't seem to be a lot of help for situations of sleep deprivation though which is what the study you referee
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by dejb 16y ago
You should also use Promethease which automatically links your raw data to the snpedia data to product a really long report of various traits and research results. http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease It's a bit messy and hard to
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by dejb 16y ago
On the other hand a lot of very small business can often operate by 'cash in hand' which bypasses most taxation.
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by dejb 16y ago
I'm not really that interested in fanboyism. The principles at stake in comparing open vs closed systems are orders of magnitude more important.

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