james4k

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by james4k 5y ago
I'm not being absolutist. Eat your meat now and then. But if you're interested in longevity, cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death. So, I personally make diet decisions with that in mind. There are a lot of bunk studies,
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by james4k 5y ago
Yeah, it is frustrating. I'm no expert, either. Part of the problem with nutrition is it's hard to get quality data, like how do you get long-term studies where you can control every aspect of each participant's diet and life
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by james4k 5y ago
What do you think oil is? It's processed food. And I never said you have to get rid of it entirely. But there's no doubt we use too much of it. Why is that controversial? And there is too much consensus around saturated fat being
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by james4k 5y ago
Olive oil is considered a better oil, but it doesn't mean you can have as much as you want. It's surprising what you can cook and still get good results without oil. Not that I don't ever use oil, but a lot of times it doesn&
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by james4k 5y ago
Should reduce sugars and oils. It seems that refined oils are just as damaging if not more than refined sugars.
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by james4k 5y ago
Yeah, I wondered about the methodology there, but they provide an additional data point.
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by james4k 5y ago
It is mostly PR. Among all Amazon workers, the median pay is $28,446 a year ($13.68 an hour), a figure the company revealed this year for the first time because of a new regulatory requirement. That’s a worldwide figure that includes full
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by james4k 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment#Definition
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by james4k 6y ago
"At will" is incredibly loaded. Employment is necessary for survival.
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by james4k 6y ago
Amazon is in the spotlight right now because of their very loud anti-union efforts and being the second largest employer in the US. Excluding the Department of Defense, but that's a digression. You're right that Walmart should be
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by james4k 6y ago
Unionization is a correction of the market if anything, as labor has a buyer's market. Both by the immediate need of survival by the seller, and a similarly high rate of exploitation at competing jobs that limits real choices. And argu
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by james4k 6y ago
Natural selection gave us the social structures that allow you to buy your cold cuts and quietly hoard your wealth so that you don't have to face an ounce of real hardship in your life.
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by james4k 9y ago
A little surprising given that Blizzard owns MLG.tv, but maybe there are some more interesting details.
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by james4k 10y ago
FWIW, you can now just download a .zip of MP3s from Amazon.
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by james4k 10y ago
Another acquisition to put Minecraft ($2.5B) in perspective ...wowzers. Have to admit I am kind of bummed after just buying a Vizio TV.
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by james4k 10y ago
Is this for real? Been wondering why my home network's been having intermittent issues. Damn. Edit: Can't seem to find any confirmation after some searching. Are you sure this is what happens? Finding this hard to believe, even fo
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by james4k 10y ago
I moved away from Apple because of their awful software.. their Podcast app was probably the worst one. Granted, I was stuck on iOS 7 because I had an iPhone 4, so maybe they stopped supporting it, but it was basically unusable.
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by james4k 11y ago
The NDK for me is an island of sanity when it comes to dealing with mobile SDKs.
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by james4k 11y ago
Hmm, IIRC they had a surprisingly open streaming API (raw .mp3 stream). Doubt that will be staying. :( Edit: I see that API still exists at the moment. I wonder how that works with the ads they have running on the website. Do you currently
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by james4k 11y ago
I am surprised the petition has yet to reach 100k signatures. Is it optimistic to think that most of the tech community at least should recognize the significance of this? Even if you doubt its effect on real policy.
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by james4k 11y ago
Hmm. I used to skip breakfast years ago. I woke and went straight from my bed to my desk in order to work, and remember being quite productive. Perhaps skipping breakfast was the vital part of that routine. That said, my sleep schedule at t
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by james4k 11y ago
This is a common argument, but too much software is painfully slow to use. It becomes a user experience problem.
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by james4k 12y ago
In most cases the blame can probably go to the games and not the platform.
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by james4k 12y ago
It is worth noting that godep recently added an import path rewrite option, which removes the need to manipulate your workspace's packages or even run the dependency tool in order to `go get` or build your code. https://gith
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by james4k 12y ago
As I understand it, dynamic linking is not what is coming soon. What may be coming is the building of a Go program as a shared library, with its interface to the rest of the process likely being through cgo. This was motivated by someone ta
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by james4k 13y ago
Physically-based rendering has little to do with global illumination, and is only really about the BRDF [1] used for computing the final pixel color based on a number of inputs for that point in space. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by james4k 13y ago
Yeah, take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group#Subsidiaries_... Bugatti and Lamborghini are fun to note, though probably insignificant against VW's entire R&D budget.
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by james4k 13y ago
Why would these bitcoins be better? What would they be protecting you from?
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by james4k 13y ago
"Success in [indie] game development is lucky like poker, not lucky like the lottery." I forget where I read this; it may have been on Twitter, but it could apply to startups and probably many other facets of life. Edit: Found the
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by james4k 13y ago
Pretty brilliant. Paid to practice logo design with basically zero responsibility.

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