linkydinkandyou

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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
This is probably the best comment in the whole thread. In fact, you can't get "rich" unless you're a founder in a startup. (And no, this isn't sour grapes! I've made money in Silicon Valley, and continue to wor
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Hmmm. I tried "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Didn't get it right. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... ) Did better on "Colorless
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Aren't these annual fees a large part of the business model and the profitability? Amazon manages to be able to keep _raising_ theirs!
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
That Arab Spring is sure doing well, isn't it!?
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Exactly. People are saying that /r/fatpeoplehate "violated copyright" but every meme does that. (See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09... ). And reddit never
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
I'm not so sure that /r/fatpeoplehate did anything worse than any other "funny pictures" subreddit. (For example, ones about "rednecks" or "ravers") I think just a lot of obese people got offende
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
The forgot "fat hate." Weren't the anti-Obesity folks the straw that broke the camel's back?
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Is Y Combinator turing into "The Daily Kos?" Blaming all the world's problems on the "Koch Brothers" and "The Super Rich?" C'mon now, folks.
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
These discussions remind me of the debate over caller ID in California. California was one of the last states to have Caller ID. On the opposing side were battered women's advocacy groups arguing that Caller ID would make it impossible
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
I pay for a NY Times digital subscription. Even though I don't always agree with their editorial slant, it's better quality news in on place than you can get for "free" around the web. People hate paying so much these da
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What Makes a Good Party? (1950 Coronet Instructional Films)(archive.org)
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
From the VERY SOURCE your QUOTED: "Exercising regularly and reducing your body weight by about 5% could reduce your risk of getting diabetes by more than 50%." They list four risk factors, but the BIGGEST risk factor is EATING TO
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
How hard is it to not do something? Just don't eat so much, and 80% of Type II diabetes would go away.
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
No, my logic would not extend to people with HIV/AIDS. Why? Because the majority of people with Type II Diabetes (not all) could cure themselves just by eating less! Instead they put a burden on our health care system so they can maint
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
To be fair, some number (15% or so) of Type II patients aren't obese. I think Obesity Induced diabetes should have a different name, like "Gluttony Glucose Syndrome".
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Well, I'm the NaN person alive! I think they have some debugging to do. (To you non-computer programmers, that means "Not a Number") The response I got was: "Do you think you belong to the young or old? You are the NaN
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
We spend hundreds billions of dollars each year taking care of people who eat too much, at the expense of people who try to be responsible.
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Think of all the money we'd save if people just ate less.
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Here's a fair question to ask Alan Kay: He had roles as a "fellow" at Apple and Disney and HP. What did he do to recreate Xerox PARC's "magic" while at these places?
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
A similar thing happened--and still happens--to Jews (which is why there are so many Jewish Nobel Prize Winners from schools like "City University of New York"). The Economist blames other factors, though. "Racial prejudice o
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
There's a 3.5" floppy disk on the tray of cookies on the right!
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
You can see how "biased" wikipedia is! If you click on "Music" you see that most of the events happened in the late 60s, for example.
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
Ray Kurzweil predicts that "aging" will be solved very soon. So this problem will go away. http://www.singularity.com
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
I'm a big fan of GCC, but this just isn't true that nothing matched it. It may be true that nothing "free" matched it.' Where performance mattered we always used the commercial, proprietary, Intel compilers and&#x2F
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
I'm not picking on FLIF, it may well be better! But the concept of progressively decoding for different quality levels isn't what makes it new.
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
The New England Journal of medicine did a study with "doubly labeled water" which made it possible to determine _exactly_ how many calories a person ate. In a study of people who claimed to be "diet resistant" (some of w
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
You can't outrun your fork! And exercise just makes you hungry. Fat people should eat less until they're a healthy weight (BMI of < 24.9). Then think about exercise.
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
It's been a thing for at least 20 years, when "wavelet" compression first started being used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000#Progressive_transmis... And the Digital Cinema formats widely used to
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
JPEG 2000 has that same feature. FLIF claims it will beat the lossless compression ratio of JPEG 2000
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by linkydinkandyou 11y ago
It's still "stalking", sort of.

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