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by guylhem 14y ago
Has anyone noticed how people who do not sleep a lot "look old" - I mean with wrinkles, spots, etc. Look at investment bankers - their chronological age does not seem to match their physical appearance. This article gives a potential explan
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I'm not saying there is a 100% relation between the parents beliefs and the children. But all things equal, is a religious couple more likely to have religious children, or atheist children? Is it more than half the time ? If it is, that's
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They are therefore already taking advantage of it, but I wonder when it will be removed it the growth differential will equalize. My guess is that it won't, and the religious represent a very significant percentage of the population - until
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by guylhem 14y ago
Passionating. I see religions mostly as Conway's game of life - blips of colors fighting for territory using various ways, sometimes removing the competition, sometimes behing destroyed by competition, sometimes dying by themselves, etc. It
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This has not hurt the population yet, but the one child policy will certainly wreak havoc the country if it is maintained for too long. When it will be removed (it will have to), I wonder which group will take the most advantage of it and g
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by guylhem 14y ago
"If religion was necessary in the development of large-scale societies, can large-scale societies survive without religion? Norenzayan points to parts of Scandinavia with atheist majorities that seem to be doing just fine" For the moment.
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by guylhem 14y ago
One question : just how would you prioritize actions to turn heathcare into a real market, or as close to it as possible ? I would go for: 1) full price transparency 2) making price discrimination illegal 3) attacking the information asymme
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by guylhem 14y ago
One of their ideas is quite close to something I'm working on. However, I wasn't exactly thinking about using an accelerator, and I haven't head about them. A quick search on HN doesn't give a lot of results. Does anyone here has had some p
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I agree so much. Somewhere in my head is the idea to start a company there, taking advantage of the local talent and the less expansive life costs. I try to reason myself, saying there is so much rote learning that the applicants might not
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When I read stuff like that, I just wonder what exactly the "hacked" company is trying to achieve, or if they have any idea themselves. On one hand, you have a person who seems to genuinely care about the security of your company (since he
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by guylhem 14y ago
As shocking as it may sound, I noticed the same thing in the caribbean where population is very mixed. It's not about racism - it's more as if a shared group identity encouraged cooperative behaviour. Even weirder - there seems to be a trig
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If it was a working market, with published MSRP and true competition, price discrimination could theoretically be used to increase surplus. But it's not currently a market! At the moment, it's not. I'm not concerned with dogma so much - I c
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by guylhem 14y ago
[EDIT: Immediate downvote? New personal record! HN is becoming more and more liberal I guess. Never mind.] Once again, there are many opportunities for improvement. Business opportunities. Healthcare is plagued by inefficiencies, over regul
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by guylhem 14y ago
To answer another message from the thread, I read the article and just couldn't sympathise. However, I can totally relate with your comment. High quality service at the most competitive price should be our #1 priority.
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by guylhem 14y ago
The conclusion, "People have a right to expect more from you" seems dead wrong to me, and I don't really see any answer to the question asked by the title. If you are want some better answers, read instead this little gem ESR posted on Goog
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by guylhem 14y ago
Instead of complaining, one should try to see the business opportunities there. Many talk about finance and Wall St and the quants. Healthcare is 20% of the GDP, and based on the most basic human need, the lowest of the Maslow pyramid. (dis
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by guylhem 14y ago
For my mobile devices, I usually don't care a lot about the brand, and only slightly the costs - I simply get what best matches my needs. I want all my data in the cloud + permanent access on a powerful device where I can do everything (ie
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by guylhem 14y ago
Regarding computability, I wouldn't dare giving any opinion on that, and hopefully didn't in my original post. All I'm saying that once we figure how information is stored and processed, with enough technology we could replicate the process
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Look no further than the food we eat. First we scouted the earth to find the best stuff, then did selective breeding, now with GM the changes are directly at the genetic level. We have food optimized for tastiness. (I must say I'm waiting f
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That's more than fishy. I wonder if they will vanish in 6 months
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Not with our current technology, I agree But saying the problem can't be solved ever seems dead wrong to me. We humans excel at understanding and replicating what nature did - then at improving it. Once we clearly understand how memories a
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by guylhem 14y ago
I hate to say that, but after reading the article I get the bad feeling that you're not really hyped about joining Zynga. It's a great company doing great products. You say that you realized doing a startup was not doing what you love. I fe
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by guylhem 14y ago
People are free to do what they want. No moral obligation - just freedom. But if by any chance I found that I had this same mutation and could take advantage of their fix, I would be interested. If you found out say your son had the same
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by guylhem 14y ago
"Research into the science of intelligence has been used in the past "to target particular racial groups or individuals and delegitimize them,"" says a watchdog group eager for money and public support for its pet cause. WHO CARES? I mean
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by guylhem 14y ago
Maybe the problem is the size of the implant. I've seen pictures of rice-sized implants - that's IMHO far too big to go into a fingertip - unless you don't use your finger at all. A smaller implant would be less sensitive to magnetic fields
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by guylhem 14y ago
I think you are mistaking parenteral and enteral. The difference is where the tube goes. Feeding someone with a tube is difficult only if the tube goes into the bloodstream. If it goes to the stomach, a normal meal + a blender is all that i
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by guylhem 14y ago
You're right, there does not seem to be a model regimen - there are just too many of them. It reminds me of an article I've read recently on lesswrong about the limits of self-experimentation : the results are not transposable because of ea
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by guylhem 14y ago
You have your views on life and I respect them. You may enjoy spending hours everyday preparing your food, and hours eating it - why not. But personally, I don't. Just like you, I have my own views, which I enjoy enough to openly share them
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by guylhem 14y ago
I love this approach, and I would like to know more about the actual composition of his Soylent meal to check for other "missing things" such as iron which was mentioned in the article, and whether the correct biodisponible versions are use
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I do the same, but I have one thing I miss - an easy way to send the output out for graphs. Tweaking and playing with gnuplot is a loss of time - if on a copy/paste excel and others can understand the data from the label and plot using reas

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