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by dkural 11y ago
Adding plots to nonsense doesn't make it any less so. Evolution / population genetics is probably the most abused paradigm in science -- perhaps Quantum Mechanics is a close second. Just because something changes based on stuff ar
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by dkural 12y ago
citation: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, authorized by Steve Jobs. What political agenda? I run a company and work a lot, but I think working is only one aspect of human existence and we should try to strike some semblance of balance.
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by dkural 12y ago
Working too much, to the detriment of your health, sleep, family, and friendships, for any amount of money, even if you are the founder, is dumb. Perhaps Steve Jobs would've caught up with science and stopped his cancer earlier if he t
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by dkural 12y ago
Very misleading article. The vast majority of human obesity is not caused by genetics - indeed, this is why we have many more obese people now than we did a century, although we have the same genetics. Our great grandparents gave their gen
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by dkural 12y ago
The universe is (most likely..) made of atoms, protons electrons etc. On the other hand is seeing is done by the seer.. So we define where stuff begins and ends, and if we disagree about it, well, that's just fine.
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Ask HN: What's your personal progress narrative?
1 points by dkural 12y ago|0 comments
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by dkural 12y ago
This assumes most academics are more interested in good research than publishing papers or looking objectively at software they spent years writing without any fundamentally new ideas.
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by dkural 12y ago
that would certainly explain the Boston geographic map.
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by dkural 12y ago
For the record, PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization by the US, the EU, NATO, Canada, Japan, Australia, and at also at the state level by Germany, Spain, the UK, Netherlands etc. This organization is responsible for suicide bombin
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Illumina Accelerator Programme – Y Combinator for Biotech(nature.com)
1 points by dkural 12y ago|0 comments
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by dkural 12y ago
I agree regarding DEA threatening, lack of rights etc. However, what he did is against the law - building compartments for drugs. He built compartments for drugs. The judge correctly decided that Anaya consciously tried to evade this law b
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by dkural 12y ago
Now that I re-read my comment, what I actually meant to say is - I had enough bravado swearing by young people in college, and it is time to grow up and act professionally - but now I realize the comment can be read to mean that I had enoug
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by dkural 12y ago
More like insecure, inarticulate brogrammers who are getting burnt out overworking but think it's cool. I don't find swearing to be a conducive way of creating an inclusive, thoughtful work environment. I had enough of this fucki
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by dkural 12y ago
Talking from the perspective of a startup person - 60 dollars is less than an hour of dev pay. It seems to me incredibly cheap. I often worry that SaaS startups undercharge and starve themselves out of stability & growth. We've sp
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by dkural 12y ago
"So strangely enough the optimal thing do to in college if you want to be a successful startup founder is not some sort of new, vocational version of college focused on "entrepreneurship." It's the classic version of col
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by dkural 12y ago
If you are referring to the cosmological constant, not really: You still need rest of physical laws & constants for life to exist. Changes in the others could compensate for changes in the cosmological constant (for instance, strength o
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by dkural 12y ago
Actually, he is saying "what others find valuable is an important signal for research", and I don't see anything obviously wrong with taking into consideration what others find commercially valuable - because NSA is not a &qu
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by dkural 12y ago
A16Z, Bill Gurley etc. saying startups are spending too much money, and in inefficient ways, and thus there is a burn-rate bubble. I'm running with their definition and saying that, if 1) VCs give less money to companies - i.e. their m
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by dkural 12y ago
He's saying putting a price on it helps gauge market demand as expressed by willingness to pay, a signal that people find it valuable. What's so unreasonable about that? He didn't say it is a way to find what's important
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by dkural 12y ago
Just tweeted about this last night: 1/ The data does not support that there is much of a start-up bubble - if you dig into Ernst & Young VC report: http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY_-_Venture_Cap
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by dkural 12y ago
True, it is an idea. I guess I was responding to the order in the slide deck. I'd rather have (1) more specific, "market need". I think going idea -> product might be misunderstood by younger folk. The whole point of doi
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by dkural 12y ago
I disagree that a startup should commonly start with an "idea". Start with an unmet need people are willing to pay for. Or take an existing category with a lot of bad products and make a truly better one that improves every aspec
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by dkural 12y ago
Because your comment does not add anything to the discussion.
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by dkural 12y ago
I think on Sam Altman's part this is deliberate. He has distilled the core message of Grahamsian thought beautifully into slides. YC has been espousing this specific philosophy for a while, and I think Sam & PG both represent this
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by dkural 12y ago
Digital organisms in the future will search for their ancient roots in these phylobinary trees. They will worship different sect based on different beliefs of THE founder compiler. They will deify the human who hand-wrote the first compil
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by dkural 12y ago
For caloric purposes this makes no difference. Thus - again, soy protein = egg protein. Both will give you energy. Even with fairly low levels of food consumption (i.e. not average american), as long as it is varied, we get all the essentia
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by dkural 12y ago
Hey I fully agree with your overall point. If you don't eat more than you need in calories, you won't gain weight. Simple as that. I did have an objection regarding egg protein v.s. soy protein - perhaps you meant impurities etc.
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by dkural 12y ago
The whole point of the device & service they are selling is, they collect this data. Then you can log in and see it in the future. Distributing is a different concern. But people pay jawbone to actually collect and store it, so they can
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by dkural 12y ago
The recent FDA ruling on lab-developed test means this company is now massively disadvantaged, as their entire secrecy is based on not needing to get FDA approval. Now they need it.
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by dkural 12y ago
You will see that people in very high creativity fields adopting practices like this intuitively, which might seem crazy / lazy to those around them. Many mathematicians, musicians, novelists, auteurs come to mind. They work on a rang

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