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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> a consensual hallucination Gee, kind of like money. So let's all ignore money. Even in hawaii, haolie white dudes of north american extraction look ridiculous in shorts. I'll cut them slack if they're speaking hawaiian and support s
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I bet you've never worn summer weight fabric pants. They are actually cooler than shorts of conventional fabric. You can go with seersucker or linen if you're adventurous. I am almost positive that shorts were not common attire in the sou
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> I work in a building full of men in shorts and sandals. You work in a building full of men who look ridiculous. They and their peers may not care, but many do. And what's the point of needlessly alienating others? I think fashion an
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Same problem. 30 inch waist, but my thighs are bursting out of 30 inch pants. I typically buy 32 inch and have them taken in for $6 at the dry cleaner.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> clothes are made for normal, maybe slender and fit people Ha! How wrong you are! I am what I consider should be a normal, fit size but all the competitively priced stuff is made for fatties. I am forced to go pay more for proper fi
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Let's focus in on the three major geek failures: Jeans: Don't wear them constantly. Get decent proper fitting wool pants; plain blue, black, or brown. You instantly look five times better. Also, they're more comfortable. Shorts: almost n
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I didn't imply this in particular is water inefficient, just that it's probably inefficient in some way. I suppose this system really amounts to scrap food recycling. You're feeding the fish various waste organic material that was already
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
The real question is what are the water, energy, and labor hour inputs. Agricultural scientists and businessmen are no slouches. If this were truly an economical way to feed lots of people it would probably already be widespread. Most "hig
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
melons -> squash, at least for the traditional meaning.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Accounting, supply chain, and finance are fairly empirical and solid skill based everywhere. Actuarial science programs are practically straight-up math. Sure, in general undergraduate business programs are less rigorous than engineering
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
If the app you need to script is C++ there are much more appealing options than Lua, which is very C. You get ugly C style code in your C++. QScript, ChaiScript, and projects like boost.python and libperl++, play much better with your C++.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Corn-fed beef is more extensively marbled and more tender. I don't think there's much debate that corn fed is fattier and more appealing to the average palate. The issue is health and omega-6 to omega-3 ratios. Even a small amount
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> table salt tastes like shit What's the chemical difference? Doesn't the mined salt just come from old dried out seas?
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
To my understanding, the financial picture of North American cities is essentially driven by public employee salary and benefit costs, which are out of control due to unions. Whether a city is struggling or not right now, or will struggle i
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Treasury bonds as they have no credit or call risk Arguably not 100% true anymore. Some people are buying insurance on treasuries these days.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Everybody should use the Permanent Portfolio. It's a testament to human and market irrationality that most people aren't doing this. Fortunately, most people never will, so the stability and returns of this approach should extrapolate for
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Well the CaPerl project he mentions just translates perl5 with his special keywords to standard perl5 code, I think. Who knows what he's doing here.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
A perl programmer talking about compilers in 2010 doesn't mention Parrot? Parrot has to be the easiest and fastest way to get a compiler up and running these days.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
You generation is screwed, too. Social security net revenue went negative this year. You'll never see a dime. Medicare will also be bankrupt much sooner than anyone thinks. Only the "next older generation" has made out on these ponzi sch
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
It's related to the arguments by Hans Herman Hoppe that monarchies throughout history have on net demonstrated better long term decision making and planning than democracies. A hereditary monarch has some level of incentive to optimize tax
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I want the restricted republic back. No interest in democracy. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." --Mencken
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
You don't have to "build" the data structure. You are using your native structures.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Chill out man. I'm just pointing out this stuff has been around in commercial products for a very long time. > AFAIK Redis is one of the first DBs exposing basic computer science data structures as abstract types With something like Ob
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
There are absolutely super performant in memory sql databases. You just have to pay for them. There's also csql. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSQL
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> solve this problem from scratch I'm not detracting at all, but object databases with way more advanced feature sets have been around for well over ten years ( http://web.progress.com/en/objectstore/ ). Making a stripped down version
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Did you read the article? That's pretty much what he's saying. He also insinuates that deep down South Koreans may share some of these properties.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/15/1... "The more marathons run, the higher the likelihood of heart disease. The number of marathons run was an independent and significant predictor of the likelihood of myocardial
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
There are many controlled intervention studies into diet and exercise. It is done. They provide the only results worth any consideration. More often than not regression analyses and "risk-adjustment" models are invalidated.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Marathon running appears to cause heart damage. 12% of asymptomatic marathon runners had evidence of myocardial damage. Only 4% of the sedentary controls had damage. This Breuckmann study repeatedly found about a 2.5 to 1 increased incide
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
"He started by buying the Runner's World subscription list, which yielded about 55,000 runners to study." People are taking this garbage seriously? Some guy surveys a bunch of hardcore yuppie runners (the kind who subscribe to runner's wor

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