jordan0day

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by jordan0day 12y ago
But then you leave out this following quote: "Burkert: What you see in our results, is that a diet is associated with moderate consumption of meat and high in fruits and vegetables with good health. These are the results in terms of th
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> If a modern democracy manages to have 80% voter turnout you will be surprise how many safe seats will be not so safe. I really want to believe that's true, but I'm skeptical. Do you have any sort of research backing that up?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> the universe guarantees that we will reach a stable solution Oh, thank goodness, that's a reli... > That stable solution may end up killing billions of people but Uhhhhhh..... I think we're talking about social systems,
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by jordan0day 12y ago
There's a pretty interesting book titled "Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed" (CCCP, get it!?!) that has lots of pictures of similarly-weird soviet-era architecture. Review: http://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by jordan0day 12y ago
You're not wrong , but how many people consider their opportunity cost in most money-related matters? That is, every year around tax time (in the USA), I see several people trumpeting about how folks who get tax refunds did it wron
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by jordan0day 12y ago
There's a passage in Stephen Levy's book "Hackers" where he talks about a robot built by some students at MIT that could catch a ping pong ball thrown to it by a human. I don't recall what year this project was done
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by jordan0day 12y ago
It got me too -- read the first sentence and thought "Why are they talking about fonts?"
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by jordan0day 12y ago
"People who commit serious crimes generally don't think rationally" This, exactly. I don't know why so many people seem to think tougher prison sentences/three-strikes laws, etc. will deter much crime. If you'r
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by jordan0day 12y ago
F1 races already seem to have hardly any passes -- I have to imagine putting computers at the helm will just bring that total down to zero.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Folks are working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxHcJTs2Sxk
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by jordan0day 12y ago
"...a Bangladeshi nationalist movement called Gonojagoron Moncho, or National Awakening Stage. Gonojagoron Moncho was founded in response to the trial of Abdul Quader Molla, a Bangladeshi Islamist leader who last year was found guilty
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by jordan0day 12y ago
It's different and better because it moves the abstraction layer up a few notches. First, Vagrant supports much more than just VirtualBox (maybe not a big deal if you only want to use VirtualBox). Second, Vagrant comes with a nice conf
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I'm not at all knowledgeable in this subject, but wouldn't those methane emissions occur, regardless of if this method is used?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Frankly, I think the thing that they all get so wrong is over-estimating the amount of time that would actually be spent on the interface design. Ex: http://24.media.tumblr.com/d1443e589eb392e808a8c57b3d4dd0c9/... Why
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by jordan0day 12y ago
It seems we're often confronted with the job of separating the artist from their work, because of distasteful personal failings of the artist. It's awfully nice when it's not necessary, and the artist turns out to be a decent
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Serious question: What is the purpose of "drinking all night" and not getting drunk? To me, the phrase "all night" implies "a lot" or at least "relatively frequently during the course of the evening".
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Yeah, the blackout situation on MLB.tv is ludicrous. Living in the home television market of my chosen team, why would I pay to be blacked out on half the games?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Live sports (baseball and basketball, specifically) may be one of the last remaining things keeping many Americans from "cutting the cable". I think the first streaming service to be able to offer a significant amount of these wil
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by jordan0day 12y ago
While I understand your sentiment, and to a certain degree, agree with you, you're implying "the game" is "how to extract the most money from other people", and not "how to build the best stuff for humanity, an
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by jordan0day 13y ago
A plate heated to Murray Temperature seems like it would be too hot to handle comfortably? Did you find this to be an issue?
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by jordan0day 13y ago
Why couldn't it be both? To me, the least-surprising explanation would be that both the Chinese government and the NSA were trying to exploit Huawei. Any finger pointing could be chalked up as typical "left hand doesn't know
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by jordan0day 13y ago
Even if you hadn't pointed out that you didn't have children, the rest of your comment made it plain. Society doesn't force you to spend an "unrealistic amount of time on children", if anything, it's the opposi
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by jordan0day 13y ago
"As it stands, Xamarin may have nearly saturated the market it has available to it." The key part of that is "the market available to it " (Xamarin). Right now a .NET/Windows shop that wants to have an iPhone app h
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by jordan0day 13y ago
The "bridge closure to sell you" zinger made me smile.
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by jordan0day 13y ago
I literally LOL'd at the "yeeeeaahhh" upon level completion.
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by jordan0day 13y ago
There's such a strong negative connotation to "burning out" because it is a strongly negative thing. There's a big difference between "burning out" and "eh, I'm getting kind of tired of this, I wonder
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by jordan0day 13y ago
That's commonly said w.r.t. standing desks, but I have to think there's a reason we don't use shorter stools as normal desk chairs. I presume they're just not as comfortable.
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by jordan0day 13y ago
You're not wrong, but like many of these sorts of things, how much is your time worth? This sort of "I could do it myself, cheaper" reaction is pretty common for a lot of things posted on hn. I think it's natural for peo
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by jordan0day 13y ago
Yeah the harping on "fewer" vs. "less" and completely ignoring the "2" bothered me too. In my time as a newspaper writer (long ago), the general rule of thumb we used was once you hit 13, switch to numbers. Of
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by jordan0day 13y ago
If you're coming from a vegan perspective or something, I could see how cow milk could be "weird". If you eat meat or eggs, milk's just another animal product, though. Is it really any weirder than eating animal muscle?

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