jp555

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   by jp555 7y ago

   I don't think we can totally understand & control interconnected complex systems, only influence them tangentially. Perfect winning in the markets would be possible if we could.
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   by jp555 7y ago

   Could trying to understand the mind & body by studying the brain & genes be like understanding literature by studying ink & paper?
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   by jp555 7y ago

   Great example of reductionist Intellectual Yet Idiot garbage. TRILLIONS of trial and errors - thousands of years of meditation practice by untold billions of practitioners who have ever lived - or one almost certainly mistakenly-designed ex
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   by jp555 7y ago

   But is individual data worth that much? I mean isn’t “my” Facebook data is worth less than $0.20US/year?
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   by jp555 7y ago

   Chaos is a ladder, unless you're a theorist. To theorists chaos is destruction (of their precious models). To practitioners chaos is a ladder. Those with real Skin In the Game. Economist vs. Trader.
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   by jp555 7y ago

   I thought the W3C has been captured by corporations?
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   by jp555 7y ago

   "without free markets you get hell cause it all becomes politics" - @AmuseChimp
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   by jp555 7y ago

   "an upgrade to a diamond was demanded, on threat of divorce" this sounds like the opposite of a true marriage to me. *But of course I have no idea about your lives and wish you the very best.
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   by jp555 7y ago

   Kinda like how whale oil was displaced by dug up hydrocarbons.
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Obviously we need human ovum sized spacecraft! :P Then maybe we can get to orbit on solar pressure alone?
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    by jp555 7y ago

    I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with your doctor. I should have presented it as: “in this linked experiment, beef rose circulating insulin about as much as brown rice did”. Oh and I didn’t mean to suggest fat people are lazy, eating
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Are you suggesting that insulin only responds to carbohydrate intake? I understand insulin plays an important role in shuttling all macronutrients from the GI tract into tissues, even if that action is somewhat different for fats, proteins,
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Your point is valid, I should have specified "in most healthy individuals". https://watermark.silverchair.com/1264.pdf?token=AQECAHi208B... .
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    by jp555 7y ago

    https://watermark.silverchair.com/1264.pdf?token=AQECAHi208B... .
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    by jp555 7y ago

    I'm glad you found something that works for you, but this is massively over-complicated for almost everyone. Constant glucose tracking is interesting, but completely unnecessary. EDIT - For most healthy individuals. It's like my f
16. 196.▲
    by jp555 7y ago

    Ah yes, the Soviet way. :P
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    by jp555 7y ago

    The Singularity = Nerd Rapture 1.0 Super-intelligent AI = Nerd Rapture 2.0 I'm a lot less worried about Artificial Intelligence than I am about Artificial Stupidity .
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Absolutely agree. The idea that we are anywhere close to being able to recreate a perfectly self-sustaining closed-loop ecosystem - do better than billions of years of evolution - is a little far fetched. I think of Biosphere 2, where trees
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Don't you think two self-sufficient instances of a civilization separated by a ~dozen light-minutes decreases the risk of species extinction events?
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    by jp555 7y ago

    I wonder if your time would be better spent progressive-overload deadlifting 2x a week? I don't think you can undo sitting 50-100 hours a week with a few hours of walking any more than fasting a few hours would make up overeating for a
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Sounds like you want a multi-generational household. My household recently became multi-generational and it's really great! Feels like this is what it's supposed to be like.
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Insufficient sleep undermines dietary efforts to reduce adiposity - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951287/
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    by jp555 7y ago

    I think you're underestimating the amount of randomness at play in complex interconnected systems like markets.
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Sounds just like a lot of recent talk about college. :P
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Ah that's interesting - Elon Musk was talking about the importance of cost and complexity reduction in the wiring harness, and I think in reporting that it was mentioned that the harness costs more than a transmission. Probably another
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    by jp555 7y ago

    An ICE wiring harness costs more than the transmission, and I’ve only heard Tesla getting patents on significant innovations around the wiring harness component. All the other EVs, (including current Teslas) use old wiring harness tech, whi
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    by jp555 7y ago

    We need a study to tell us that increasing average body mass drives obesity averages more than urbanization? In related news, eating too much too often is more a cause of weight gain than how much screen time you get.
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    by jp555 7y ago

    Based on how hard you worked? What if I’m low competence and have to work very hard to be average? Should I get paid more? If I become more competent and figure out how to do x with less effort, should I then be paid LESS? Utopian ideas nev
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    by jp555 7y ago

    "You shouldn’t have to be a hustler to have more." Are you suggesting people NOT be compensated based on the value they create?? that a person should not be allowed to work harder than the person next to them? So much for a fairer
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    by jp555 7y ago

    This assumes there’s no value in forgetting, but what if that’s wrong? What if forgetting is really really important for reasons we don’t know? I mean almost everything that happened in history wasn’t recorded, and yet we’re here.