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by no_flags 9y ago
I think the bike market is already in the process of being disrupted by online sales. Many shops are struggling or have already closed. There are several successful online-only brands in the mountain bike world such as Commencal, YT, and Ca
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by no_flags 9y ago
I don't get it. How are they in the real estate business?
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by no_flags 10y ago
I don't think this a fair analogy, or that it plausibly explains the wage gap between programmers and doctors. I'm sure doctors discuss the merits of different medical techniques at conferences. In a similar "emergency"
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by no_flags 10y ago
Supply and demand. Most companies are willing to accept some false negatives in the hiring process to avoid the false positives.
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by no_flags 10y ago
Do you live in a van by choice or because you cannot afford other housing?
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by no_flags 10y ago
> Scientifically the calorie intake is more important than the what (for losing weight) This has been the assumption but there's reason to believe it might be more complicated than that. Gary Taubes addresses the subject here: http
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by no_flags 10y ago
I thought Hayek was fairly influential in his time? He won a Nobel prize and had a significant impact on European politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
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by no_flags 10y ago
Just looked after reading your comment and it's actually pretty accurate for me.
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by no_flags 10y ago
Taxi drivers more likely to die from homicide than a traffic accident! That's shocking. I wonder what explains this. Is it armed robberies gone wrong?
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by no_flags 10y ago
Can anyone comment on how and why this price increase happened? Has supply not kept up with demand?
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by no_flags 10y ago
> access to the kind of investments that have much higher expected returns than the kind of investments a blue collar worker has access to. What kind of investments are you and the original comment referring to?
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by no_flags 10y ago
I've heard this was more of a psychological "target fixation" effect, unless I misunderstand the scenario you describe.
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by no_flags 10y ago
That's interesting. In mountain biking it is taught that must lean the bike to turn properly at speed. Some even go a step further and say lean the bike but not your body. I was pondering the physics of why it works the other day but d
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by no_flags 10y ago
Avid cyclist, but I have no idea what this is talking about: "...the phenomenon of 'countersteering', whereby the rider can steer to the left only by first briefly torquing the handlebars to the right, allowing the bike to fa
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by no_flags 10y ago
LDL is still "bad" and HDL is still "good", but that means in your blood, not your diet. The evidence linking dietary cholesterol and saturated fat to cardiovascular disease is weak. Dr. Peter Attia provides an excellent
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by no_flags 10y ago
Not sure why you say HDL has no effect. Ratios of "bad" to "good" markers have been shown to be much better predictors of risk than any one number on its own, even LDL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRF
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Readdressing Dietary Guidelines(youtube.com)
1 points by no_flags 10y ago|0 comments
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by no_flags 10y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20071648 http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/science
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by no_flags 10y ago
"The only reason the banks accept such a piddling sum is because they immediately sell the loan to a government-run corporation(or maybe skim the interest for a year or two)." Being ignorant of the situation, I went to fact check
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by no_flags 10y ago
I see. I think I would be just as infuriated with Apple if they upgraded my OS behind my back. Walling off the app store doesn't imply they can install software without my consent.
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by no_flags 10y ago
That's true, but still less annoying than when I walked up to my PC to find a brand new OS I didn't ask for. I really wish there was a viable alternative to windows for gaming because I don't want to reward unethical behavior
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by no_flags 10y ago
Wasn't there talk of building YC dorms at one point?
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by no_flags 10y ago
What do you mean by "Apple's approach"? I've never been forced to upgrade the OS on my iPhone or Macbook pro.
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by no_flags 10y ago
I actually like the concept of group based work much more in a grade-less environment. When grades are involved it over-burdens the good students because they have to pick up the slack for students who don't care, or risk getting a low
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by no_flags 10y ago
I agree about moving to pass/fail, if the bar to pass is moved up a bit. I went to a school with relatively low grade inflation and I would say any I didn't really have a good understanding of a class unless I got a B or higher, b
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by no_flags 10y ago
"wouldn't bat at eye at giving a D or F to someone who didn't do the homework / didn't do well on tests / didn't show up to class" Are there schools where this isn't the case? I sure hope not. Wh
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by no_flags 10y ago
"gated communities with armed guards" That would be Mexico
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Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years(blacklistedengineer.blogspot.com)
53 points by no_flags 10y ago|29 comments
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by no_flags 10y ago
The last couple pages of the aforementioned paper give some thoughts on that. The author suggests an approach more like engineering that is focused on formalized mathematical descriptions of biological systems.
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by no_flags 10y ago
Can someone explain why would he take out loans to buy up shares in the first place? Just to increase his personal holdings for a hopefully larger return? To ensure he is the largest single stockholder? I'm not that knowledgeable about

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