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by ellyagg 15y ago
I'm sorry, but it's insulting that you think those of us who find these stories disgraceful aren't aware of the issues. You think the audience here is skewed? I think you are apologizing for Google where no apology is due. It is not a given
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Whenever people get outraged about things like this, it interests me. I like looking at attractive women. I like programming. Would it be possible to have an event where I could program and look at attractive women at the same time? Or does
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by ellyagg 15y ago
You're thinking of British English. In America, punt means avoid, and most people here probably think of an American football punt--which is the voluntary end of a failed offensive possession--so suggests you're giving up for now and will t
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by ellyagg 15y ago
That doesn't really seem to agree with Paul Buchheit's quote on the wikipedia entry regarding the topic, where he said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out," adding that the slogan was "also a bit o
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Wow. I do not agree with this at all. When I've heard this sentiment before it's from people who, despite the fact that they think they are hyperlogical and despite the fact that I think I'm hyperlogical, don't in fact agree with me on all
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by ellyagg 15y ago
This thread stands as a testament to the strong pro-Google bias in the comments section of Hacker News. The bias is hard to prove, as any cultural bias is, but it's nevertheless a tide ebbing against every discussion here. The majority of c
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I don't think you are very well acquainted with the state of exercise science research. There is no one who can credibly claim what the upper limit on muscle mass accumulation is. Our current understanding of strength and hypertrophy pathwa
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Look, of course it would be nice for documentation. I didn't set out to prove anything. This was just my experience. I would like for people to believe, but I'm not selling anything, and I have nothing to lose. Was it 50-50 lean to fat? Wel
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Yep, 25 lbs. It's not unheard of. You can do google searches to read up on some other peoples' experiences, but presumably you won't believe them either. You could read 4 Hour Body, which has pics, but I guess you won't believe that either.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I added 25 lbs of muscle in <month. Since high school I'd never been able able to gain much muscle. Even lifting heavily and being quite strong and eating voraciously the highest I could get to was 163 lbs at 5'11" when I was 25. Earlie
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by ellyagg 15y ago
What a fatalistic article. Before taking the tone that this article does, I would need to see hundreds of studies suggesting that reversing overweight tendencies is not possible. It may be the minority, but legions of people have reversed t
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by ellyagg 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896889
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by ellyagg 15y ago
What on earth are you talking about? Nokia sued Apple first after it became clear they weren't going to be able to compete with the things Apple was doing. Nokia was able to successfully extort money from Apple. Apple was taught that this i
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It is an awesome list maker. Almost perfect. The auto syncing and having an app for every device are the killers. But, as a list maker, why can't I make lists in user defined order? This is one of the most fundamental things a list maker sh
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's not a quote but the implication of Locke's entire discussion of property in his second treatise. He explains that value (wealth) is created by the labor expended to create products. It follows then that wealth is not fixed.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
In sport psychology, Hull's Drive Theory predicts that introverts perform poorly under pressure. The physiological response from a job interview is as about as close to the pressure of taking the last shot in a basketball game as I've ever
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by ellyagg 15y ago
That would seem to be true, as thinking otherwise is quite foolish of course. However, the very next paragraph is: "Sure, Google hopes to build a social network that competes with Facebook, Twitter and other social services, but that is not
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Whether you like to admit it or not, swearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority. You (99% percent of us) would not drop the F-bomb in the presence of a new boss, for example, unless you had very good reason to thin
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I'm sorry, your claim seems to be: The process is working perfectly right now. This is absurd. The scientific method is a lot more open to interpretation than you suggest, and indeed it is interpreted with wide variety in different discipli
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It feels like one's opinion on this is fundamental. The way people respond to it seems more like built-in bias rather than reasoning by logic. For example, I believe I disagree with you at a premise level rather than a reasoning level. The
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by ellyagg 15y ago
The comments here so far seem oddly negative. This looks really amazing. I mostly program in screen sessions on servers, and I've so wanted to use the iPad to do this. Unfortunately, you either have to carry a separate keyboard everywhere--
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I read your linked comment, but I didn't find it persuasive. I'm no language Nazi. It's clear that language pedants are a pet peeve of yours, and that's fine, but language being fluid is not the same thing as language not having boundaries.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
We screwed them to the studs with brass flat head screws. Since it took 4 showerboards to cover the wall, this created a plus-shaped set of seams that made a cool riveted effect. However, we caulked the seams and painted over the screws and
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I wanted to put up a whiteboard to cover the entire 8x16 foot wall of my apartment living room. Ideally you'd use ceramic coated steal, but that's extremely expensive and heavy, so you'd like a cheaper alternative. The problem is that every
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I would usually agree, although not all idiomatic constructions are created equal. I find the "could care less" construction to be as nonsensical and dumb sounding as "irregardless". Moreover, I found your response to be gratuitously offens
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Of course that's not the claim being made by your parent. The argument is about how widespread it is and its effects. I'm pretty sure most people would find his story strong evidence for one side of the argument, assuming they believe it. I
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by ellyagg 15y ago
While a mechanism hasn't been shown yet, crickets were made to fear wolf spiders transgenerationally: http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/650443 ] After studying the issue, I'd be willing to bet a friend a lot of money that natural selection
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's not that, it's just that we as a community are keenly afraid of HN's comments section turning into reddit's. Reddit's threads are often clever and sometimes hilarious, but that crap has choked off most everything else. That's not what
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Hmmm, didn't realize someone had already responded to this. Don't know what you mean about white-wash. If there's something specific about the reasoning you disagree with, feel free to point it out. Regarding the gotcha quotation: I'm prett
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Why would EFF phrase it this way? Do we really need to make policy debates into wars? This sort of gloating is not useful. Google did not make this decision. People inside Google, subject to the same biases and ego defense mechanisms as any

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