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by jonbarker 8y ago
This research needs to be conducted in conjunction with the effects of prebiotics (ie certain fibrous foods). From what I understand, populating your gut with bacteria but failing to provide those bacteria with the right food is likely to
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by jonbarker 8y ago
I feel like there is a presidential golf joke in there somewhere.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
I think you are expecting the term 'validity' to mean more than what it technically means to people in philosophy, which is that it 'adheres to the form of either Modus Ponens or Modus Tollens'. Colloquially it has come
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Not sure, but I can use deduction: 1) If induction is valid, then it follows that we can use induction to reason about the world. 2) But we can't use it to reason about the world, 3) so it isn't valid. (Modus Tollens) This is va
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Use a flow to replicate your onedrive in Azure Files, then mount it to your Linux box: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/galleries/public/templates/... AND https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us
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by jonbarker 8y ago
I don't think the winner matters; if the US had lost, economic growth would have resulted anyway, just elsewhere.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
A lot of economic growth also came out of World War II, but this isn't something we want to repeat.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
There is a term for this 'solution based optimism, often of a technocratic nature': Solutionism.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Agreed, homeostasis is something we observe in evolved organisms, not in planets whose inhabitant organisms became self aware and industrialized suddenly.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
This is why as an armchair physicist I'm excited about the new neutrino observations and research going on, mainly because neutrinos aren't affected by gravitational lensing and other effects other particles encounter as they &#x2
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Stereo parallax, great term. In other words how cross-eyed we are.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Test culture promotes lack of growth mindset as students tend to associate their capabilities with their scores from an early age. The earlier we start stratifying students by test scores the more we are likely to develop adults who believe
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Knowledge workers, aka the creative class, are required to be on both schedules. They are both makers and managers. So if they are doing it 'right' they basically have two jobs.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
A good customer success team can patch sales up that might have promised features that won't be to spec. But that bandaid only lasts for a short time.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
My only complaint about my meatware computer is that it has a really bad ability to handle space complexity. With paper I can do OK with time complexity (although clockspeed is also an issue).
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by jonbarker 8y ago
With all due respect lets all be wary of the 'cult of sacrifice' which often takes hold when someone dies to save someone else. Any time someone dies to save someone else, I suggest the appropriate reaction is that we should simp
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Ah, I read this wrong. I thought it was look someone up and figure out who you follow whom they also follow. Would rather you call this 'reciprocals'.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Policy idea that will never get passed: provide a tax credit for those who eat more efficiently using some ratio of CO2 emissions over calories consumed. Add some measure for food waste in there too.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
To that I'd add if you buy make sure you are pretty sure you will be in the local market for work for 6-7 years, so even if the mortgage is below 30% and rent is more like 50% if you aren't confident you'll stay put for a whi
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Having lived there and now living in a cheaper real estate market I am grateful for having lived there, where I could not afford a house. I am now no longer interested in owning residential real estate no matter where I go!
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Having worked in wework, open floorplans with 'pods', and the cube farm setup, I prefer the farm. The problem is that most cubes don't actually cancel out noise too well so you are constantly overhearing things causing distr
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by jonbarker 8y ago
I would say the 'market rate' for the big tech cos cannot be applied to the financial analysis of hiring in startups because most startups have cash burn, and big tech is profitable. If you somehow negotiate a startup to pay you
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by jonbarker 8y ago
I believe you are correct, so they could sunset the version of their app built with React Native, but only fb could 'sunset react native'.
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by jonbarker 8y ago
There are three subcategories of innovation: product, process, and financial innovation. So you could be a water startup if your water is not differentiated but you have either some new way of financing the production of water or some new
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Zero emission cars are great; how about an apartment building with an attached parking structure with free power coming straight from the roof?
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by jonbarker 8y ago
Google returns results specifically showing which terms were missing if this were the case for me. This is useful for finding articles with intersections of concepts (assuming I got the terminology/jargon right) and knowing when those
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by jonbarker 8y ago
I have recently removed the habit of 'relentless skill acquisition' in favor of meditation. If I had a spare 20 minutes I used to practice various skills that I wanted to become good at. While this is probably better than mindle
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by jonbarker 8y ago
We need multifamily dwellings with the feature of no utilities bill because of local renewable energy on site. This would be awesome. The current vision of the future being sold to us seems to be single family homes with electric cars in
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by jonbarker 8y ago
I don't think the debate is over whether to allow Netflix to survive, Netflix will be OK and has a good bargaining position with regard to ISPs because they have content everyone wants. The more interesting question is are we creating
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by jonbarker 8y ago
They are already tiering their service based on customer bandwidth requirements (gamer internet, casual occasional streaming, or super slow).

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