jamesaguilar

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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I'm not sure what it is either. But I did just start really consuming podcasts this year, so I am a member of the consumption side of this Renaissance, even if I have no insight to the systemic patterns that caused it.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Can someone enlighten us non-Django, non-Python folks?
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> every category but price Don't forget convenience. That is not a little thing.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
That would be a little thing called wishful thinking. Personally, I think the reason people aren't up in arms is pretty clear. People get up in arms about things that harm them -- oppressive governments (Arab Spring), desperate economi
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
A salient article from LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Rationality and knowledge are related, but not equivalent, as you seem to believe.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
A few things. 1. 6'1" @ 215lb is not that bad. I'm 6'4" and 195lb. Morbidly obese would be like 250lb+ at your height, at least in the US. 2. If you start with light weight and follow the linear progression of a pro
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Maybe its just bro science, but most natty lifters talk about the importance of squats in terms of the additional testosterone released by growing the largest muscle group. Ex. http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I doubt there has been anything on Stronglifts in particular. Strength training[1] in general and progressive overload[2] in particular is pretty well-supported, as far as I know. Stronglifts is just one of many schedules of weight training
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I have never heard of that. To my understanding, the important elements are: - Recovery doesn't take seven days. - Squats target the biggest muscles. - The biggest muscles produce the most testosterone, enabling you to ma
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Believe it. I'm not strong though. Maybe when I'm repping 300 it'll be hard to do it three times a week. At 245 it is not a big problem.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I tried the seven minute workout for a little while and saw no improvement in any dimension. This[1], on the other hand, has gotten me some significant results so far, five months in. [1] http://stronglifts.com/
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I thought that yummyfajitas' point was that fundamental analysis doesn't work, like all public forms of stock market analysis. Financially illiterate people are even less likely to understand that, which means that making the &quo
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> Godwin does not apply because [the Bilderberg Group] actually are white supremacists. Basis for this accusation? Can't find anything about it except for from Stormfront and Alex Jones, neither of which count as basis for anything.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
It doesn't seem like it should be that hard. Calculate the percentage of traffic that uses a street in each direction. If more than 10% of it is going in the opposite direction on a one-way street, flag that street for human review.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Sure, but "we don't know, therefore let's provisionally go the MRA's unsourced claims," is not a sound interim position.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
This is only really true in a purely logical argument. In rational arguments, like the one we're having now, source does affect posterior expectation. That is, someone of unimpeachable character and a history of reliability saying &q
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> Hard to make a judgement call . . . It is not hard for me to decide whether to trust Planet Money or anonymous Reddit commenters, at least one of which is a known MRA, especially on a topic relating to sexism. I guess that might just s
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
He posted a link to an n-gram search, which is like me posting a picture of a flower to prove that the sky is blue. The data cited is not germane to the quesiton. To wit: one would expect that n-gram search to look the same whether or not
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Many people who get into programming, do so because they either want to make games, or like computers because of games. This was widely true among my CS class at WashU, and also many of the professionals I currently work with.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Goes to credibility. When you're talking about a post with zero evidence presented, sometimes it really is more believable coming from Neil Degrasse Tyson versus the guy who believes in Timecube.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
You mean besides the Planet Money episode, which was well-researched and extensively sourced, with interviews of people who actually study the issue and are not radical mens' rights advocates?
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> No one was able to dispute the claim. There is an invisible soundless fairy unicorn in my room. Please dispute this claim with evidence. Thanks in advance.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
The views in that comment are completely unsubstantiated. There was no evidence presented that "data processing" was ever taught as part of or categorized as computer science. In fact, later comments debunk that viewpoint. Also
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
How draconian? These are much like current taxation laws for non-blockchain currencies, and other control and auditing laws that are already on the books.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Nope. The government derives most of its tax base from various income-based taxes (corporate and personal), or property and use taxes at the state and local level. Only anonymous entities would be able to avoid these, Bitcoin or no. It woul
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Well, a few things. First off, a lot of people on here probably understand that when you don't have money to pay for bandwidth, banning people who use a lot of it might be reasonable. It's not like you have a whole lot of other op
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Examples of non-sexist, non-racist people who have lost their jobs due to civil rights activists?
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Far more worried about an asteroid wiping out life on the planet than I am worried about women and minorities guillotining me.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I am white. I do have white privilege. I do not need anyone to defend me from activists seeking equality.

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