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by moultano 11y ago
The article does not answer the question it poses. The answer is likely that Indians eat an enormous amount of carbohydrates and very little protein. Every single meal is accompanied by as much bread or rice as all of the other foods combin
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by moultano 11y ago
HN doesn't like boilerplate.
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by moultano 11y ago
That's a strange phenomena. People don't seem to think of whiteboard markers as disposable things. If one isn't writing they think it either needs to be fixed, or that they aren't using it correctly and it might resume w
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by moultano 11y ago
Not everyone is constructing them, but everyone needs to be able to reason about they behave, determine what they need, and yes write it if a good option isn't available.
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by moultano 11y ago
Three of my friends have done this specifically to found startups. Ironically they still have to come to the valley for funding.
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by moultano 11y ago
> But based on my few days of travel to Delhi, I feel, this article is quite alarmist. It seems strange to discount his experience living there based on your experience of a few days there. My experience of Delhi is that the visibility
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by moultano 11y ago
And yet, for all that bluster, he seems not to disagree with any of the conclusions.
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by moultano 11y ago
I usually hear it compared to 1491, which I think is much better regarded. (I loved it. I haven't read Guns Germs and Steel.)
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by moultano 11y ago
The following of almost all rules requires taking your self interest to a more meta-level. In this case, yes, it's one less car sharing your lanes. However, it's reducing the incentive for other people to carpool. That erosion of
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by moultano 12y ago
Is there a short sketch of an intuition for why quadratic works better than linear?
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by moultano 12y ago
I'd be surprised if this was the attitude of the people whose work he intends to read. I expect they were mostly very in touch with all the other art of their time.
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by moultano 12y ago
The aeropress is self cleaning. You just plunge it into the trash.
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by moultano 12y ago
However, it is much easier to clean than a French press, doesn't require a particular grind size, and you can use either a paper or metal filter if you are worried about cafestol or like oilier coffee.
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by moultano 12y ago
It would get a better reception without the intro paragraph and if it were titled "an introduction to Metropolis Hastings." The post really doesn't even give you a taste of the most common MCMC algorithms, and what they are u
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by moultano 12y ago
MCMC is waaay more general than metropolis-hastings, which is what all that "bullshit" is about.
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by moultano 12y ago
1491 is where I learned about it. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491 There's also a much shorter version of the book published in the Atlantic. http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine&#x2
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by moultano 12y ago
"Earth as garden" is the right metaphor I think. There are no wildernesses on earth that have not been reshaped by humans. It is now thought that even the amazon was mostly replanted by humans for aboreal agriculture. A pristine w
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by moultano 12y ago
Hence, patreon. I hope eventually everyone is on there and I can start contributing more materially to the artists I love than via exposure and the occasional thing they sell.
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by moultano 12y ago
It can refer to both over consumption and under investment.
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by moultano 12y ago
Why do you think running Windows is an advantage?
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by moultano 12y ago
Instacart, Handy, and DoorDash have totally changed the experience of being a new parent. Nothing makes you want to pay someone to solve your problems like not sleeping for a month.
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by moultano 12y ago
PS aside, you might find that walking aimlessly satisfies the same itch as browsing aimlessly, but you feel better at the end of it.
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by moultano 12y ago
In what way can anything that Scott Aaronson said be construed to be contributing to maintaining a culture of oppression? Patriarchy and structural oppression are useful models for understanding lots of things, but they are not isomorphic t
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by moultano 12y ago
There is another side to it. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/
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by moultano 12y ago
We won't be able to tease apart the two hypotheses for certain until we can trace the attribution to individual genes, but at least at an individual level, IQ has been shown to be mostly genetic. It seems inplausible that individual di
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by moultano 12y ago
Do you honestly believe that all differences are due to privilege?
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by moultano 12y ago
I'm glad #1 is #1. If I had to partition these into two sets, they would be "make sure it works (2-7)" and "make sure your definition of 'works' works (1)."
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by moultano 12y ago
The confusion comes from what posesses the information, you or the object. If a distribution is spread out, I know very little about it. If I learn something about it, and make it less spread out, then I have more information about it, an
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by moultano 12y ago
On the contrary, I think congresspeople should be paid enough to be independently wealthy. At least a million dollars per year. I can think of no cheaper way to prevent corruption in congress than to make sure every congressperson has fuck
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by moultano 12y ago
Pawpaws! If you live anywhere south of New York and East of Kansas, this September, walk into the woods, find a tree that looks like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=paw+paw+tree&tbm=isch shake it, and eat the frui

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