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by lukifer 11y ago
I don't have the link handy, but I watched an interesting video from an orthodontist describing the root cause of most crooked teeth being due to poor diet (partially from insufficient nutrients, but also not enough hard-to-chew foods
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by lukifer 11y ago
One of the most brilliant ideas I've heard on the subject is a couple of proposed constitutional amendments stating that (a) your body is your personal property, and (b) you have an inalienable right to define who is a member of your f
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by lukifer 11y ago
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIcf-2AFHgw
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by lukifer 11y ago
Here is my high-level hypothesis, sans numbers: most workers produce far less real value than what they are paid. At one end you have many white-collar jobs that are glorified seat fillers, padding budgets for their departments. At the othe
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by lukifer 11y ago
A lot of chain restaurants source their ingredients from the same place (ie, Sysco).
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by lukifer 11y ago
Out of curiosity: what made you give up on Bitcoin? (I'm still bullish on crypto-economies in general, but am concerned that the electricity costs of PoW creates a downward price pressure that's unsustainable.)
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by lukifer 11y ago
The paradox is that rent-seeking does create an incentive to build infrastructure, be it a social app, a mobile platform, or a toll road. Whether that sort of Faustian bargain is preferable to a collectist/community solution is debatab
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by lukifer 12y ago
While I deeply support a culture of skepticism (in the proper sense of the word), I bristle at the subtle bias implicit to the phrase "extraordinary claims". Depending on one's pre-existing beliefs, for instance, the idea tha
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by lukifer 12y ago
http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
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by lukifer 12y ago
As an aside, it's no accident that women's suffrage coincides chronologically with prohibition. Though it turned out to be bad policy, prohibition was a galvanizing issue that drove many women to political activism, either for rel
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by lukifer 12y ago
I still cannot fathom why outrage is consistently confused for shock or surprise. Prior expectations are 100% irrelevant.
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by lukifer 12y ago
As Sun Tzu said, the greatest warrior is the one who need never fight. While this can be interpreted as a pacifist/moral sentiment, it is really deeply practical: fighting incurs risks and resources, even if victorious. The most effect
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by lukifer 12y ago
It is admittedly a tricky problem both in terms of engineering and social policy. NameCoin is one solution, although it has flaws that encourage squatting. I rather like the BitShares DNS [1] approach, where names are treated as scarce real
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by lukifer 12y ago
For a select few, this will be an awesome branding opportunity (hoover.sucks, dyson.sucks). Ultimately, this is not a matter of free speech, which has always been a negative right: if you're not facing criminal charges or government ha
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by lukifer 12y ago
I would recommend Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns The Future?"; the short version is, we're so hooked on free or quasi-free goods and services (which includes Amazon), that capturing and privatizing market data has become the d
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by lukifer 12y ago
I think the smart move for Mozilla would be a unified build process that exported FFos apps to iPhone and Android. If it were positioned as the best "write-once" hybrid web framework, FFos would gain a much larger app ecosystem as
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by lukifer 12y ago
I look forward to the day when 9/11 enters the same category as the JFK assassination, and questioning the official story is merely fringe and not (necessarily) crazy. 2300+ engineers are on record disputing the science of the 9/1
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by lukifer 12y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive; each carries a significant tax on the animal's health and immune system. Humans are fairly unique in our dietary flexibility; most other animals are evolutionarily adapted to a narrow range of foods.
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by lukifer 12y ago
This is already happening; I can now find labeled grass-fed beef at regular groceries as well as Whole Foods. It's expensive enough, though, that it's still relatively niche in terms of volume, especially after factoring in fast f
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by lukifer 12y ago
For the first couple years, you're right, but they've coasted on that success for far too long. They've been dragging their feet on fixes and features since then. The fact that they haven't been as bad as MS in the IE6 d
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by lukifer 12y ago
The counter-point is how PR folk have been learning to master the art of viral, distributed propaganda. While it's harder to control than broadcast (memes have a life of their own), active manipulation of public narrative for profit re
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by lukifer 12y ago
It is worse and simpler than ideology: self-interest demands collusion. Media conglomerates benefit from political ad revenue and "access"; political figures benefit from corporate news channels that won't rock the boat. Indi
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by lukifer 12y ago
I experience this phenomenon on a less immediate time scale: in the days following a new episode of Breaking Bad, etc, there is discussion and camaraderie with other fans. With the "binge-only" model of House of Cards, that same s
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by lukifer 12y ago
As a naive layman, I'd be very curious to see numbers on inefficiencies of non-tracking panels vs. typical transmission loss.
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by lukifer 12y ago
Like so many things, security is a spectrum. Just because an intruder can break your window, doesn't mean you shouldn't lock your front door.
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by lukifer 12y ago
One of the flaws of conventional school systems is the assumption that learning can be reliably quantified. While measurement can have value, something ineffable is lost when looking only at the numbers. How does one test for critical think
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by lukifer 12y ago
Fault is not a useful construct in this context. I would say rather that "it is your responsibility".
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by lukifer 12y ago
Hypothesis: Habits are the highest-yield form of discipline. We humans seem to have a sort of behavioral inertia, whether it's showing up at a job, maintaining an MMO addiction, or brushing our teeth. The ideal state is to develop posi
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by lukifer 12y ago
This one bit me too, and I was/am livid that an assumption would be made that user data is merely an expired cache to be deleted without warning.
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by lukifer 12y ago
Speaking from personal experience on Yosemite: slow UI, constant beachballs and stutters (despite lots of RAM and no platter drives), paint/refresh bugs while scrolling, 100% CPU usage to play tracks (without FX/EQ), years of miss

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