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by frossie 17y ago
Re: the China study (of which all I know is what I just read on Wikipedia). I don't want to tell you what to believe, but for the record the correct scientific measure for morbidity is "all-cause" mortality. For example, suppose I say to yo
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by frossie 17y ago
I haven't seen the comments you mention (nutrition threads bore me) but: As a hacker I'm interested in figuring out what is the optimial diet for maximum vitality and longevity As a hacker, I'm interested in the optimal trade-off between
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by frossie 17y ago
Also, I believe that the power of FREE is not about money. It's about avoiding the hassle of paying. I think the power of free is mostly about money. Look at Freecycle(.org) - the hassle in offering something that you give away for free,
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by frossie 17y ago
I agree that the fact that the user kept himself or herself anonymous is highly relevant to this story. I understand that wikipedia wants to lower the barrier to entry by allowing anonymous edits, and I have sometimes made anonymous edits o
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by frossie 17y ago
I also hire and I have two answers to that. First, you are already supposed to ignore facts that you can see when hiring. For example, you are supposed to ignore that you are interviewing a person in a wheelchair, or that is of a different
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by frossie 17y ago
That's one way of looking it. The other is: When a link is posted in HN to someone's blogs, why do people navigate back here to comment and not at the web page they were already at? I think there are some good reasons for that, including no
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by frossie 17y ago
what claims you made when you sold it to the customer Very important this one. I think it also heavily depends on whether the mobile app and the server side are complinentary, inter-dependent, or redundant. For example if your web service
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by frossie 17y ago
I see a lot of statements here that are presented as fact that I don't believe are substantiated (and in fact are contrary to my experience), such as However, clawing one's own way out of abject poverty is best achieved with a healthy dose
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by frossie 17y ago
There are systems like this for elderly people leaving alone.
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by frossie 17y ago
Did they really ban white coats? http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/06/16/ama-the-white-coats-a... Personally I don't get it. If white coats harbour diseases, doesn't it follow that whatever else they wear will have the same problem? Presum
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by frossie 17y ago
As we understand the power of placebo better, we will have to tackle the inevitable struggle of medical ethics. Is it okay for a doctor to lie to you and say "this blue pill is a new breakrthough, much better than the red pill you were taki
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by frossie 17y ago
Boy it was hard to focus on that with all the distracting ads :-) And if you are staring at that last sentence and wondering what on earth I’m talking about, you might want to scan back a few paragraphs to find the spot where you zoned out
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by frossie 17y ago
Humour is like a really sharp sword: in the right hands it is unbeatable, in the wrong hands you're picking your own body parts off the carpet. If you are planning on following the article's advice and use it as a mediation tool, or for any
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by frossie 17y ago
... which is why adblock browser features are much more popular than they used to be. They are possibly digging their own graves...
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by frossie 17y ago
Can you go away and come back with an easier question? Seriously, there are two cases here. First, the idea that developing countries (I believe the term "non-developed" is frowned upon) need certain skills to "compete" in the modern world.
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by frossie 17y ago
OP's primary argument is well established: demographics. Sure, the decline in demographics is well established, but why does that lead to a crash? A decline sure, neutral or negative growth maybe, but a crash? Crashes usually happen due t
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by frossie 17y ago
From all accounts, Steve Jobs has much closer "creative control" of his product line than Bill Gates. If you like Apple products (and nobody said one should), I don't think it is unreasonable to wonder whether you would still get what you
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by frossie 17y ago
My internal version: Upvotes mark signal Donwnvotes mark noise That said, I do think I have a non-linear response. If I see a comment at -1 which I think has genuine signal I upvote it, even if I completely disagree with the point made. How
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by frossie 17y ago
So the question we have to ask ourselves are what startups--and subsequently--what innovations are being stifled, if not avoided altogether due to copyright laws getting in the way? Well that is exactly what I don't get. I mean, there see
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by frossie 17y ago
Maybe I am being particularly thick right now but I am not entirely sure I follow what he is objecting to. Google (and Amazon) allow me to find authors I am interested in and buy their latest book - their self-published book because their p
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by frossie 17y ago
The only thing it gets right is the (US) State I am in. Still, that might be good enough for some people.
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by frossie 17y ago
Visualise a person who is neither on Facebook or Friend Connect. (Hint: there are quite a few of those). If you are happy for that person not to use your site, then by all means do what you plan.
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by frossie 17y ago
The best site I have ever found for planning air travel is this: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/prego I have been using them since before the web (seriously, you could telnet to their system on a vt100). Unfortunately you can'
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by frossie 17y ago
Some people are on texting plans so they don't pay for SMS. Oh and thinking about this some more, a really good input method would be voice-to-text services such as jott. Frankly, I can't imagine you can go too wrong having a lot of variet
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by frossie 17y ago
Well okay, you know what? I liked this more than I expected. I liked the look (I am sucker for bright colours). I liked the fact that I could try without signing up. I liked the fact that it is simple. I liked the popup offer of a super-bri
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by frossie 17y ago
Hey thanks for the free link, I wasn't going to pay $5 to read it, but now that I have, it would have been worth it. It is definitely an interesting analysis and the author has taken some pains to isolate confounding variables. The one thin
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by frossie 17y ago
It is difficult to arrange things so that all students in a classroom experience a series of mental challenges of the right complexity I think this correctly identifies the problem - the solution is harder than he seems to think. There ar
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by frossie 17y ago
Am I really a better person for having read more books? For having been exposed to certain ideas? Yes. Even if you can't directly recall what you have read, if you understood it while you were reading it you would have internalised some o
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by frossie 17y ago
I can see why this kind of article will annoy people, but I think there are some fair points. In particular, it is quite obvious to me that certain (by no means all ) users are really over-immersed in social media, to the point where it is
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by frossie 17y ago
Honestly I have a hard time taking anything this gentleman says seriously when he starts his article saying he doesn't know anyone who buys iPhone apps. I was confused by that statement to. I personally don't know any iPhone users who ha

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