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by exelius 9y ago
They’re not all one category; some artificial sweeteners cause an insulin response and some do not. This would make sense as to why it can lead to diabetes; your body is constantly getting signals to release insulin to break down sugar, but
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by exelius 9y ago
I think the author is also concerned with the psychology of “all food must be sweet”. I personally found that if I simply replaced sugared food with non-sugar sweeteners, I still ended up eating too much. It wasn’t until I made a conscious
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by exelius 9y ago
Or what do you do about the millions of “functioning” mentally ill like Kenneth Eng? He’s not so far gone that he needs to be restrained 24/7, but he has no realistic chance of meaningful “recovery”. He’s always going to be a delusiona
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by exelius 9y ago
Everyone ignores that in order for a blockchain to work, there needs to be a governance model that weeds out bad actors. In finance markets, this is somewhat ok because the governance model of laissez-faire economics (a common mental model
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah but now connect them all with space elevators.
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by exelius 9y ago
1. I normally just dedicate sprint points to training up new resources for a few sprints. I’m not so heavy-handed with the internal policies so it’s up to each team how they do it, but most have some form of pull request review / gati
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by exelius 9y ago
Nope; the benefit of being a good team player is that it helps you build relationships. Those relationships often turn into opportunities down the line. But it’s hard to drive that behavior at an individual level without creating some confl
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah; industry interest groups are putting these together for basically every industry with a multi-tier supply chain. Blockchain tech is quickly taking over operations; it solves a lot of strategic problems with rent seeking and the relati
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by exelius 9y ago
Yup; pretty much any top executive at a public company actually. E-mail is only used in those instances where you want a paper trail. With the personal liability placed on executives under SOX, many simply do it out of personal protection
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by exelius 9y ago
Depends what you define as drug use; but yes. I’m on the consulting side, and I personally take stimulants for ADHD, but I don’t abuse them. Stimulant abuse is pretty obvious on the job, be it coffee or meth, so it’s best to avoid them if y
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by exelius 9y ago
Needs more blockchain IMO. I’m actually serious about that too — individuals can choose to trust / distrust other individuals they know to be experts in their personal network, and if there’s enough proximity to their trust graph, they
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by exelius 9y ago
Every fortune 50 company has a similar system at this point; you tie it in with your enterprise architecture platform so you can go directly from design to infrastructure using tested patterns. Pretty much table stakes in large enterprise a
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by exelius 9y ago
Right; but dieting is almost entirely psychological — so any ways to trick your brain into eating less have to be valid diet tips, no?
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by exelius 9y ago
Right; but it’s calorie restriction through food choice rather than limiting portion size which makes it feel like less of a sacrifice. You just have to change your filter of “things I like to eat” to include less calorie-dense foods, rathe
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by exelius 9y ago
A more realistic framing would be to say that the auditors having accepted something gives a middle manager an excuse to not have to do something when you ask. But here’s the thing; any company over a certain size is going to have internal
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by exelius 9y ago
Agreed, but multiplexed solid state LIDAR will up to a 99% use case for vision capture. What’s out there now solves maybe 80%. Its a hard problem being solved by incremental improvements — first you gotta make LIDAR work in concept (which i
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by exelius 9y ago
It’s opaque by design; but ultimately a wide range of medical device manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, etc who are able to push products that are more and more expensive into the system. Because there is not much systemic incentive to
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by exelius 9y ago
I think this is why cheap solid-state LIDAR is critical to this goal. It’s currently too expensive and bulky for this kind of use, but if you can embed a few dozen LIDAR units in a car for under $1000, you get some really accurate telemetry
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by exelius 9y ago
Which you can be thrown in jail for refusing to disclose. No need to crack a password when they can deprive you of life or liberty.
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by exelius 9y ago
HSBC/RBS/Citi were fine with it; and given the amount of the fines, it was plenty profitable and they’re likely still doing it.
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by exelius 9y ago
I am very skeptical of this claim. There is enough variation between individuals of either gender to make positive identification close to impossible (not to mention that muscular / ligament changes in the hips on hormones can cause th
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by exelius 9y ago
There is a good documentary on this. It focuses mostly on voice but the source is similar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_I_Sound_Gay%3F
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by exelius 9y ago
Nope; it’s not. Totally social. Ask any trans person; I know many and this has come up in the past.
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by exelius 9y ago
It can also be gendered; a strong signal of male/female (or at least masculine / feminine) is in the gait. Men walk with their shoulders, women with their hips.
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by exelius 9y ago
Sure real people live there, and selling it to the US wouldn’t change that. Real people live in many US territories. Life for a resident probably wouldn't change all that much under US rule. It’s a huge amount of land, but most of it i
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by exelius 9y ago
Holy cow, I forgot how toxic slashdot comments were... first non-modded comment is like Xbox Live level racism.
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by exelius 9y ago
US banks really hate being required to spend money on things, so they lobby the government against any stringent regulation.
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by exelius 9y ago
Can confirm; I’ve made a few good friends at Flywheel just from going to classes regularly. Tends to appeal to people with similar lifestyles (working professionals who are competitive and athletic).
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by exelius 9y ago
I think these funds are useful as a risk hedge — there is some non-zero risk every year that the economy will collapse. If you invest in a fund that will help offset some of that risk by performing above average in a downturn, you might wan
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by exelius 9y ago
It’s a canary in the coal mine IMO. Sure, he’s early; but he’s not wrong. A very significant portion of growth over the last decade has been the growing ability of US companies to avoid paying US taxes. That growth eventually caps out until

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