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by hsitz 8y ago
>> If you go back to the beginning of the discussion, the person I was replying to was citing these studies to claim that running is perfectly safe. I'm mystified at why you'd say he was trying to "claim that running is
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by hsitz 8y ago
Interesting, given that I was down in Copper Canyons just a few weeks ago to run the Caballo Blanco race. I don't see Micah True as establishing anything. Yes, it's likely he died of cardiac arrest. Yes, he displayed the enlarg
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by hsitz 8y ago
There's plenty of exercise science stuff, much of it conflicting. Also, even if some damage to health from running were 100% certain, you need to get a handle on just how likely and how dangerous the damage is. Is it analogous to exp
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by hsitz 8y ago
>> There are notable case of ultra runners dying, and autopsy shows long term heart damage. ??? I run ultras and marathons, am 55 years old, have trained 2500 - 3000 miles/year for years. I don't necessarily consider all t
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by hsitz 8y ago
Yes, _Calculus Made Easy_ is a classic. Here's link to Project Gutenberg pdf: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
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by hsitz 8y ago
I think the claim that Dawkins views are "just too simplistic to reflect reality" is probably too simplistic itself. For a start, you can check the Wikipedia article on The Selfish Gene and its section on units of selection: ht
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by hsitz 8y ago
At least for people who want to use Emacs and Racket, it seems like this Emacs project provides the client/server kind of setup you're talking about. Or no?: https://www.greghendershott.com/2018/10/racke
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by hsitz 8y ago
??? Food is not an appreciating asset. An increase in food prices, as part of the CPI, is by definition, inflation. Home prices, in contrast, have for a long time risen much faster than inflation, at least in many areas.
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by hsitz 8y ago
The VB GUI editor and IDE generally were a fair ways behind that of Delphi, back in the 90's. With current Lazarus/FreePascal open source Delphi clone you can get a feel for it
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by hsitz 8y ago
It is quite false to suggest comparison between Emacs and Vim is like comparing a "car to a speedometer". Vim is not just an editor, it is an "extensible-editor" in much the same way as Emacs is. I don't care if Em
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by hsitz 8y ago
No comparison? Well, I'd say there certainly is a comparison to be made. If you look at the plugins/packages available for Vim and Emacs you'll find that they're surprisingly comparable. For some niches Emacs has bett
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by hsitz 8y ago
Even for that evidence would seem to be required. Patents should indeed act as an incentive to invest in an invention. But how many potential investments in inventions are dissuaded by the countervailing thought that someone must already h
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by hsitz 8y ago
I didn't suppose you were arguing for libertarianism; why would you suppose I was arguing for a "nanny state ruled by a philosopher king"? I would say that the story of Tom and Kate (taken together with millions of similar,
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by hsitz 8y ago
Sorry, no, I don't think so. Not when you place people within an economic system/environment that's designed to take advantage of their natural weaknesses. Yes, if Tom and Kate had been smarter and/or more disciplined
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by hsitz 8y ago
My main computer for last few years has been an Asus X305 laptop, using Ubuntu 14.04 with the i3 tiling window manager (i.e., there is no desktop). It's best computing environment I've had since I started out on a TRS-80 in 1979.
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by hsitz 8y ago
Well, it would be extraordinarily difficult to argue that he is only, or even primarily, a pop-science writer. If you take a look at his CV you see that he is clearly an expert in his field with plenty of work directed at scientific audien
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by hsitz 8y ago
I don't synch between instances of Org, but you can install a full-blown Emacs (and many other apps) on Android within the Termux terminal emulator: http://endlessparentheses.com/running-emacs-on-android.html It runs O
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by hsitz 8y ago
> it's obviously hard to compare them to LyX. Org-mode is certainly not directly comparable. But the output you get from Org-mode is comparable. Org-mode has excellent support for seamless export to LaTeX and LaTeX-generated-PDF,
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by hsitz 8y ago
The notes say it will "default" to Wayland, which I assume means you will have your choice.
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by hsitz 8y ago
Orgmode has support for both executing code and for literate programming -- incl. of course tangling and weaving -- in many, many languages.
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by hsitz 8y ago
AFAIK LEO is limited to Python. Orgmode supports, I believe, 50+ different languages: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html
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by hsitz 8y ago
Clones of headings (nodes) is the main thing, IMO. I'm an org user and don't have any special use for clones, but it is a neat feature. I'm pretty sure that Org overall, though, has many more features than Leo.
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by hsitz 8y ago
> The 'valuation' of a company is basically the present value of all it's estimated future cash flows. ?? A company could have huge future cash flows yet operate with zero profit, or with a loss. Maybe you're referrin
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by hsitz 8y ago
Reminds me of the "Literate Devops with Emacs" article that has been discussed on HN before. Orgmode is well suited for this sort of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16559004
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by hsitz 8y ago
Maybe it's because I'm in the 50+ age category, but I think tips are confusing for a different reason. Yes, of course, it's trivial to calculate a percentage of an amount. The confusion is in deciding what percentage to gi
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by hsitz 8y ago
>This article is completely ignorant of history. . . It doesn't sound like you actually read the article. Whether people have lived like that in former eras is irrelevant. The article talks about the U.S. in comparison with other
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by hsitz 8y ago
In fairness, the article was not arguing that some particular aspect ratio (e.g., 3:2) was _optimal_. It's main point was that 16:9 is not optimal, especially on small laptop screens, and that something wider would work better.
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by hsitz 9y ago
Okay, seems to be working now. And mailchimp link is visible in 'subscribe to newsletter' over by github and twitter icons.
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by hsitz 9y ago
Nope, still the same, can't see any mindmap or any button to click to create one. However, I can now see some blue text up above and to the right of the menu items, which when clicked takes me to mailchimp for email. That text is unre
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by hsitz 9y ago
It doesn't seem to work at all for me. Not sure why, I've checked with Chrome and Firefox on Linux (using i3 tiling window manager). I see the text outline on the left and the white pane on the right, where I assume I should see

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