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by nether 10y ago
More people are interested in world events than in science, so it's reasonable to assume a newspaper will set a higher standard of reporting for those events. A journalist who studied political science isn't equally inept at writi
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by nether 10y ago
Social news online is even worse. At least with TV, there's a chance you'll be shown something from outside of your bubble. Polarization increased with deregulation of TV political coverage in the US. The internet has never been
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by nether 10y ago
You quit FB so that you could read a shitload more of news?
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by nether 10y ago
Fish oil for many years was one of the most well substantiated supplements. Then it came out that only people with the right genetics benefit from it, particularly the Inuit who participated in the fish oil studies. So now I've thrown
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by nether 10y ago
I'm really liking mealsquares http://www.mealsquares.com/ , they're just expensive. They do rely on whole foods to take care of unknown unknowns in nutritional requirements.
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The Peakbagger.com Mountain Range Classification System (PEMRACS)(peakbagger.com)
1 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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Innocent Man's Life Destroyed by Anonymous Topix Poster(abcnews.go.com)
11 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Most Germans were unaware of the camps until after the war. If we ever reimplement them, it won't be public. We won't (don't) know.
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by nether 10y ago
YouTube already has comment voting. So does Reddit. Doesn't seem to be a trend in regulating comment quality. OTOH a decade ago I found the lack of comment voting on FARK to be refreshing.
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by nether 10y ago
That dreadful music... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11286858
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Development of Tide Synthetic Detergent(acs.org)
1 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Chef Roy Choi addressed a similar issue in food, namely that they were all fixated on "feeding the rich": http://www.eater.com/2016/9/23/12981936/locol-watts-roy-choi... . I do wonder what YC st
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The People’s Cheeseburger(eater.com)
1 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Is this place in Santa Monica? Think I know what it is.
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by nether 10y ago
"Everyday tasks," I was picturing making coffee, driving my car...
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by nether 10y ago
Is there a non-arbitrary definition of ultralight? It seems yesterday's "ultralight" is tomorrow's "lightweight" gear.
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by nether 10y ago
What kinds of companies were these? In many industries you'd seriously compromise your hiring if you ruled out all the experienced 40+ year old candidates who don't care for FB accounts. Mechanical engineering and defense work esp
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by nether 10y ago
If you come to Los Angeles, you can do my laundry and buy my groceries for a real locals experience.
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by nether 10y ago
the consumption cycle is sustained because it benefits the powers that be. humans are insatiable , and as long as you are convinced that contentment requires "just one more thing," you will never be happy, you will always be hung
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Food Critic Subsisted Mainly on Soylent for a Month; He’d Probably Do It Again(wweek.com)
2 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Have you paid off your loans?
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by nether 10y ago
> Men and women experimenters approached total strangers on a college campus, and said “Hi, I’ve been noticing you around campus, and I find you very attractive.” I've got to try this.
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Why people lie about their number of sexual partners(college.usatoday.com)
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Their main product is their ecommerce tech stack. Soylent is a side project.
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Lunch with the FT: Rob Rhinehart(ft.com)
1 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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by nether 10y ago
Rhinehart asserted from the start that Soylent was meant to replace shitty meals like the Big Mac consumed at your desk alone. There was and still is a lot of misunderstanding about this. One of his interviews took place at some LA hipster
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by nether 10y ago
Move fast and break things, including people's GI tracts. The fact that Soylent powder is at "version 1.6" and causing these problems points to gross version number inflation. This is a showstopper. Rob Rhinehart asserts that
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by nether 10y ago
It's really both. Figure 8 in the paper depicts this circulation theory of lift. The top and bottom surfaces interact via this phenomenon, though the top is more critical as the paper explains. Also terms like "push" and &quo
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by nether 10y ago
Pre-screening is available, see TSA Pre or Global Entry. Works really well.
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by nether 10y ago
All the same FUD spoken during the early days of SpaceX. It was correct in most cases; Bigelow, Blue Origin, Xcor are floundering, SpaceX is the exception. I just hope we have more entrants in this industry to increase the odds of success.

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