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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
So far in 2018 I have had one ~1300-1500 calorie meal per day for all except maybe ten days (where I have gone out for drinks or have extra food late in the evening with friends). The strangest thing so far is how much my body has adapted t
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
Primitive Technology: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
Where can I read more about this?
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
> A quick walk through Pompeii and Herculaneum will disabuse anyone of the notion that ancient people were any less sexually motivated than modern people. The ancient pagans have long been thought of as lascivious - that is still consist
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
If Uber dies and Lyft becomes the new market leader, who is the new underdog?
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
Follow-up: the same question, but for $1m in index funds through Vanguard.
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History of the entire world, i guess(youtube.com)
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
That isn't a fair comparison, as there is a massive difference in the quality of hole-in-the-wall ramen in Tokyo and a $2 fast food chain hamburger in the US.
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by drewblaisdell 10y ago
> We wonder why Snapchat first rose to popularity for sexting There isn't good evidence that sexting was ever the primary use case for Snapchat. This is more of a meme than reality.
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by drewblaisdell 10y ago
> They aren't just making picture filters for genetalia. And therein lies a wildly inept understanding of Snapchat that is so common among people outside of its main demographic.
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by drewblaisdell 10y ago
Something has always confused me about the Drake equation. The explanation I have heard repeatedly goes something like: "This equation shows that there should be [massive number] of alien civilizations in the universe. But where are th
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Automattic's 2016 Year in Review(automattic.com)
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by drewblaisdell 10y ago
I've never taken hallucinogens before. I want to have a positive, meaningful experience with them. How do I do it?
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The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint(ma.tt)
70 points by drewblaisdell 10y ago|4 comments
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by drewblaisdell 10y ago
Income in SF probably skews younger, though.
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Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone(nytimes.com)
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Who’s Afraid of Occupy? The John Oliver Show Erases Debt Resistance(blog.debtcollective.org)
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by drewblaisdell 11y ago
> Thomas, Erin, and I possess voluminous experimental evidence that suggests generalist engineers can know more about market making than Michael Lewis (and, if one assumes Lewis is not committing malpractice with regards to framing quote
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by drewblaisdell 11y ago
> Even nomadic hunter-gatherers engaged in deliberate mass killings 10,000 years ago This may be our earliest evidence of it, but I would bet that even pre-sapien hominids engaged in deliberate mass killings for tens of thousands of year
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by drewblaisdell 11y ago
> Some of these rocks were ejected under conditions where bacterial spores inside them can survive the trip to Mars. I fully expect we will find life on Mars that looks just like Earth life. I hope that, if we do find life on Mars, we ar
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by drewblaisdell 11y ago
Not a comment about this specifically, but I'm a big fan of your other courses on Khan Academy. They changed the way I think about the world. I can't overstate how grateful I am that you created them. Everyone should check out the
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by drewblaisdell 11y ago
(I think s/he means that it works with Flash disabled)
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by drewblaisdell 11y ago
I would pay to have this mounted on my wall.
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by drewblaisdell 11y ago
Chipotle is good. A burrito bowl with black beans, chicken, lettuce, salsa, guacamole and cheese is 660 calories with ~50g of protein.
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by drewblaisdell 12y ago
Thanks for this fascinating post. I'd love to read more from you about your experience learning Japanese — though it's possible you already wrote an essay about it that I missed.
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by drewblaisdell 12y ago
I'm curious if you have any insight into how coworker Z was hired in the first place.
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by drewblaisdell 12y ago
> Overall, I’m pretty happy my work caught someone’s attention and that I had the opportunity to meet all these people. This is a really cool way to sum up the article.
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by drewblaisdell 12y ago
A better question: who would pay $3-5 for an episode of Game of Thrones in 1080p that starts playing with a single mouse click and is available as soon as the episode airs in the earliest timezone (at least an hour before it appears online
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by drewblaisdell 12y ago
I may be remembering incorrectly, but I think post-Napster clients like DC++ made it possible to resume a download from a different source, or pull the same file from multiple sources, by comparing checksums. This made downloading popular f
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Game Networking Techniques, Explained with Pong(drewblaisdell.com)
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