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901.
by ng12 7y ago
> While I’m definitely a lot more fluent in it now, I dunno, it just still feels a bit weird to me. I could share some specifics but that would only invite a bunch of angry nitpicking comments. All I’ll say is that when I go over to proj
902.
by ng12 7y ago
Lentils aren't magic, there's plenty of foods like this -- pasta, rice and beans, oatmeal. Most of them are sold at convenience stores in urban areas.
903.
by ng12 7y ago
Maximizing calorie per dollar almost certainly means boxes of pasta, jars of peanut butter, and bags of rice and beans. I think comfort, habit, and convenience have more to do with it than calories.
904.
by ng12 7y ago
Here's the rub: it's much easier to overeat with carbs and sugar than with protein, fiber and fat. A lot of people wouldn't blink at 80g of carbs from fries or desert but eating four apples in one sitting is much more difficu
905.
by ng12 7y ago
> The U.S. Congress, for one, should increase funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps — on which 50 million American families depend. This is anecdotal but I used to work at a corner store in a poor neighb
906.
by ng12 7y ago
I don't understand why we are talking about this. Google is far from the first "monopoly" that I would like to see broken up. My guess is that Google's not lobbying effectively.
907.
by ng12 7y ago
That's not what Palantir Gotham does. It's much closer to a sophisticated database and Tableau than some sort of big-brother invasive nightmare.
908.
by ng12 7y ago
Not any more than it should be shocking to a forum of computer scientists that police agencies have tools to query a database and produce visualizations.
909.
by ng12 7y ago
I think this is a good analog for what Palantir does, actually. The thing to note is that Palantir is not in the data collection industry, or even the data storage industry. They are in the data analysis industry. One way or another Califor
910.
by ng12 7y ago
Building web applications, I'd imagine. Why is that surprising?
911.
by ng12 7y ago
I agree that the reporting is sub-par but that's not really what's going on. Insulin R and rapid-acting insulin are two separate medications. All insulin manufacturers produce both types and a generic is only available for NPH, de
912.
by ng12 7y ago
> If you ask the patients there’s a world of difference between the cheap genetics and the main brand products The main problem is the $25 insulin is R and not fast-acting. It's not the difference between generic and name-brand, it&
913.
by ng12 7y ago
Your evidence that Russian interference is real is that some people on the internet post anti-EU comments? Until I see some credible evidence that Russian trolls are A. state-sponsored and B. any more ubiquitous than the trolls hired by oth
914.
by ng12 7y ago
For the first I wonder if we could solve this with array syntax: const [foo, bar] = await [async1(), async2()]
915.
by ng12 7y ago
I'm not suggesting they modernize it, I'm suggesting there's a reason why it's a tourist trap and not a city.
916.
by ng12 7y ago
Alternatively, it's like calling Disneyworld a city. Lots of people there during the day, lots of people staying overnight, but not many people truly living there.
917.
by ng12 7y ago
Using {#if} or v-if or whatever feels even less natural -- especially when these template languages are hyped as being "logicless".
918.
by ng12 7y ago
Venice's problem seems obvious to me -- there are no roads. And you can't bike or use a scooter since the alleyways are narrow, zig-zagging, and full of stairs. The only modes of transportation are to walk or to take the ferry to
919.
by ng12 7y ago
That's such a cop out. Do you imagine Manhattan and Tokyo went from being uninhabited wilderness to concrete jungles in one go? No, it was constant iteration over decades. These are all solved problems. We know how to build denser citi
920.
by ng12 7y ago
School kids have to walk by a mural depecting the sometimes ugly history of their country? So what?
921.
by ng12 7y ago
The theory is it's a symbiotic relationship. Very, very few probiotic strains are actually capable of colonizing your gut, rather their presence is beneficial for the bacteria you already have.
922.
by ng12 7y ago
It's not abstraction it's indirection. You're not using <a> or <button> you're using UIButton and UILink and whatever a UIExpandedLabel or a UISelectionController does.
923.
by ng12 7y ago
Why provide a layer of indirection between the developer and the DOM? I already know HTML elements and the DOM API, why should I want to learn a hole new framework to construct them?
924.
by ng12 7y ago
> Its inadequacy is famously evident in examples such as the human muscle-mound Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson qualifying as obese. It's called an outlier.
925.
by ng12 7y ago
I'm confused. What's an example of a tweet from a government official which breaks the rules but deserves to be kept up?
926.
by ng12 7y ago
I can't say I've ever experienced this. In fact, I would occasionally browse r/T_D just to temper the overtly left-leaning bias of /r/news and /r/politics.
927.
by ng12 7y ago
Judging by the fact that there are multiple watchdog-style subreddits dedicated to policing Reddit content (Against Hate Subreddits, Top Minds, SRS, plus others) I wouldn't be surprised at all.
928.
by ng12 7y ago
Sure, but you didn't have to visit it. The worst part of the increasing corporatization of the public-facing internet is that we no longer seem to be content leaving well enough alone.
929.
by ng12 7y ago
They've increase the surface to reduce it over time, if that makes sense. Hooks are much more natural, simplistic way to write stateful components.
930.
by ng12 7y ago
That's quite hyperbolic. Functional components have existed in React for a long time, hooks are just adding existing concepts (state and lifecycle operations) to them.

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