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   by ippisl 14y ago

   At least according to the wikipedia , there's not much scientific basis for the controversy. And there are many other artificial sweeteners. But again, compare this to the possible harms of sugar and especially fructose. It might look quite
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   by ippisl 14y ago

   From the little i know(mostly from lustig's youtube video ,and from some googling) sugar is composed of glucose and fructose ,and fructose is the main culprit in metabolic syndrome(which causes/increases diabetes, heart disease, hypertensio
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   There's an easy fix for that: a shift from sugar to artificial sweeteners. Same as there's an easy fix for cigarettes: move to electronic cigarettes. But i guess we're more afraid of the unknown chemicals(although limited tests have shown t
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   by ippisl 14y ago

   Generally moving from monarchies to democracies could be considered a "golden" age of human history. Or maybe the rise of rationality and decline of religion. I don't see any recent big social change that big that happened recently, except
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   by ippisl 14y ago

   Michael , you say we're already in "robot utopia" in terms of tech but there already new jobs. If i look at it from the position of capabilities, not specific jobs, it doesn't seem that this is the case. For example if you look at agricultu
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   by ippisl 14y ago

   Yes, the rich invest their money. But if we accept the guess that the economy is becoming less labor intensive and more global, their investment does do less to create american jobs, because it makes more sense to invest in such places. Als
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   by ippisl 14y ago

   Claiming that "there's no real rhyme or reason to amazon's strategy" doesn't seem right, since amazon is considered great at strategy(and yglesias is the wrong guy to claim it, he's not a business expert and he's been criticized before abou
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   by ippisl 14y ago

   IN the case of pilots , few factors combined together to build this culture: 1. Checklists were introduced when flying was very young,with very few trained pilots. 2. Pilots want to live, so they use checklists. 3. Pilots don't have a choic
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   by ippisl 14y ago

   Atul gawande which is a surgeon coined the word cowboy in a new yorker article and in a lecture before new doctors. There's some research that shows that decision support systems improve medicine. Too tired to look it up.
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    I think that those things are not even new. There are already decision support systems(medical expert systems) and protocols of evidence based medicine - for standardization. And research works around the world is flowing into those systems
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    i just did a google search for : "controlled natural language" legal , and got some results.
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    One way to solve the ambiguity problem of natural languages is using a controlled natural language, which is a limited subset of a natural language[1]. Some of those are machine transformable to logic. There's even some work to encode legal
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    Both with the simplicity of the web, and the relative simplicity of building simple apps with good tools , we didn't see a great number of teenagers making money from building web sites or mobile apps. It would probably makes more sense to
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    Macdonald's recently introduced touch screens as cashiers in europe. They didn't do it in the u.s. .My guess is thy didn't want the bad PR. Maybe similar motivations exist for lack of robots. But maybe the simplest explanation is that big b
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    In the "build a search engine using python" online course , people had to do a project,a search engine. some we're really interesting projects(and probably not easy , since the students are new in programming). And if you look at the arduin
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    Currently , there's some open source research into neglected diseases. This is certainly a high risk project. I hope it succeeds. I could imagine open source would work well for non-profits, some of them doing high risk projects(like the gr
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    Democracy - The ability to vote peridically and demonstrate , the constitution are all various institutions that give power to citizens to influence the decisions of the ruler. Capitalism - a combination of cooperation and competition by co
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    open source is a co-operation model. Historically new and sucsessfull cooperation models(democracy, capitalism , scientific method) had a larger effect than new products and services. One interesting example is the industrial revolution: so
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    mediatek has a 1-ghz dual core cortex-a9 , quite cheaply[1]. [1] http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4376108/MediaTek-to-...
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    Some support for your thesis: Alice[2] is a graphical environment to teach programming. They did a study of it for high risk CS1 students and found that high risk students who used Alice achieved a much higher retention rate[2]. [1] http://
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    Another option is to use p2p as a storage mechanism. And since the storage capacity would be bigger, it could enable personalized videos.
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    Is the teensy 3(arm) fully compatible with all the arduino libraries ?
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    >> If your goal is to make unique objects that you cannot find anywhere, then, sure, 3d printers are the future In reality, uniqueness is overrated. Given a really large pool of objects to choose from(which are manufactured in mid q
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    Even the lattice acquisition was a small one , the VC's made no profit on it.
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    I think his political thinking and language thinking share a similar problem: preference of ideal theories over practical solutions.
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    I think you're diminishing the role of a big "good" vision in the process of innovation. What's the guiding vision of the internet community ? as far as i can tell is mostly there's no valuable guiding vision. It's all about rapid trial and
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    There's a database(quite old) of HN posts and comments here: http://www.btscene.eu/details/2240774/Hacker+News+Database+o...
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    one example: http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/30514580062/rubymotion-succe...
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    1. Making it easy to replace a physical interface for a hardware device with a mobile app. 2. Making in easy to do testing and verify reliability, both at the development stages and at the manufacturing stages. 3. Making it easy to port the
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    by ippisl 14y ago

    circuits.io is working on an interesting solution: http://blog.circuits.io/post/34159982502/in-this-video-karel...