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by jtheory 13y ago
My body seems to work the same. > or if I simply have a very efficient metabolism It seems more like an INefficient metabolism, though. If we eat more calories and don't expend more with serious exercise OR store fat, that means we
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by jtheory 13y ago
That doesn't seem to happen to everyone; I'm turning 38 this year, and so far my body doesn't look or feel much different from when I was in college (still no real propensity to store fat). I eat healthily, anyway (little caf
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by jtheory 13y ago
Height correlates with income; an appearance of health and vitality is likely important; but I highly doubt muscularity beyond what you'd get from a normal healthy lifestyle and good genes will have a positive influence on how others j
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by jtheory 13y ago
It's worse than that, because you're forgetting the principal of "like cures like" (you "treat" the person with water that's remembering the poison that would cause similar symptoms to their disease). Bu
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by jtheory 13y ago
I read the first few sentences of the post, saw what it was about (okay, fine), and then searched the page for "homeopath" to see if he actually referred to homeopathy at all. How do you apply homeopathic concepts to web developme
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by jtheory 13y ago
> Can pg speak Chinese without strong Chinese accent? I'm sure he'd agree it would be foolishness for him to launch a startup in China, pitching to Chinese investors and customers. The "half a brain" comment could hav
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by jtheory 13y ago
I don't follow your math here -- their revenue increased by $2982/week after installing the monitoring software, not decreased, due to the effects of employees who felt observed being more conscientious.
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by jtheory 13y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but no, it's not plumbing; it's the living things that take all the time. I'm sure experiences vary, but since 1998 I've rented houses and apartments, spent a year helping to run a B&B wit
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by jtheory 13y ago
This doesn't address the real problem, though, which is how exactly pg is supposed to filter out what is bias vs. what is an actual problem. It seems pretty obvious that both are true, so drawing the exact line may not be useful. If
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by jtheory 13y ago
Are these actual details of this case (if so, where are you getting them?), or examples of possible explanations that might be left out in an article such as this? I do get the sense there's quite a bit left out of the article.
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by jtheory 13y ago
This is an important lesson, but it's not an absolute rule. You need to have a sense for your customers, how much power they have over the money, and how much they'll suffer if you're inflexible. I've spent years worki
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by jtheory 13y ago
My wife is a novelist. The collaborative editing would be useful in the later phases of a book -- i.e., working with an editor and copyeditor, it's be great to have a really efficient way to review changes made to the actual text (inst
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by jtheory 13y ago
Hey Jared, I've been looking to make contact with you but not sure how; if you see this could you drop a note to cto at patientsknowbest.com?
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by jtheory 13y ago
I'm pretty sure hellbanning is not primarily an evaluation of whether the user is writing about "real" topics or not. HN is a discussion website for hackers and topics that interest them. If you're dropping wall-of-te
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by jtheory 13y ago
saferwhois.com shows the change (fetching the data from the domain's apparent current registrar, via whois.melbourneit.com).
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by jtheory 13y ago
If you're downloading an application and running it, it's pretty much immaterial whether it's Java-based or not; there's no vulnerability required to trash your computer at that point. Sandboxes only apply in the browser
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by jtheory 13y ago
I like how "I don't use it" converts so easily into "no one uses it". I'm afraid people do use it; of course the banks and so on (who probably can migrate to better solutions fairly easily); personally, I have
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by jtheory 13y ago
> Revealing plaintext passwords does not convenience the user That bit is not true, with a caveat. I have a ton of low-security username/password pairs stored in FF. I find I do need to look at the plaintext passwords now & a
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by jtheory 13y ago
A publicly-held corporation could (in theory) be sued by its shareholders if it just gave away profits like that.
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by jtheory 13y ago
I've spent a lot of time working with Mirth Connect (the OSS version), including submitting patches and bug reports back to them. The OSS base product is not crippleware by a long shot. Instead, MirthCorp's main way to encourage f
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by jtheory 13y ago
Nope, s/he is replying to the HN responses in general ("And as you see from all these post, No sign, signal or movement of appreciation what so ever."). The overall responses didn't strike me as overly negative; most of
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by jtheory 13y ago
This is an understandable position. At the same time, there's an obvious research project that would bring clarity to this question, which either has not been done (I doubt this) or has not unearthed any evidence that the leaks kille
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by jtheory 13y ago
Going after 2-factor auth as the simple way to manage this ("I can't get access, personally") seems wrong to me. The second factor is something you have. You'll normally travel with the "thing you have", and
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by jtheory 13y ago
Can you share more details of the story? I've been assuming this rule exists mostly to avoid the danger that you might accidentally phrase the reason for termination such that it could be treated as discriminatory... but this really s
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by jtheory 13y ago
I suspect that sentence was included primarily for the joke.
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by jtheory 13y ago
That's right -- a GC-holder moving out of the US would normally relinquish the GC and stop paying US taxes at that point. I don't recommend trying to hold onto a GC while living outside of the US... this is one of those areas wher
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by jtheory 13y ago
It is -- but you still do have to be aware if the objects in your collection are also immutable... if so, you may end up with an "immutable" list of 5 objects, and down the line it will still have those 5 objects, but the obje
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by jtheory 13y ago
This is interesting for its main points, but also just to look at a familiar argument from an unfamiliar viewpoint. There are some places where the analogy to color didn't ring true for me, but it was still worth reading. Like the diff
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by jtheory 13y ago
Even without Doug Lea's extensions (though they did help making it more efficient and/or easier to understand), it's been possible to do this safely in Java from v1.0 -- just synchronize and notify() or notifyAll() as needed.
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by jtheory 13y ago
You don't have to know the majority of that, though. These are tricks the compiler/VM can use, because (unless you say otherwise in code) it's assumed that there's no sharing data between threads. Most programmers (regar

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