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Why VC is killing innovation - and what to do about it(venturecompany.com)
2 points by not_that_noob 14y ago|1 comments
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by not_that_noob 14y ago
One of the most perceptive posts on Silicon Valley I have read in a long time. Very spot on.
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This is awesome. I expect they will open to non-accredited investors once the regulations from the JOBS act are clarified and enacted. All in all, it's great to see choices for getting funded. Though I doubt the old-line VC firms welcome po
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by not_that_noob 14y ago
Interesting. Being satiated after a meal is really a marker for obesity - if you eat less to get to your satiation point vs. someone else who has to eat more to get there, you're less likely to put on the pounds. I wonder if this pathogen m
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by not_that_noob 14y ago
Very interesting observation re parasitic behavior. I suspect that with modern food processing techniques to make food relentlessly cheaper, we have unwittingly enhanced the food supply for the parasite.
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by not_that_noob 14y ago
tl;dr: fat guy lost a ton of weight by a diet that reduced a specific kind of gut bacteria; this bacteria inserted into mice engineered to be thin caused the mice to gain weight. Ergo, bacteria may be driving obesity.
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by not_that_noob 14y ago
One can argue it was the calorie restriction and not the bacteria. However, the interesting part was that the pathogen then caused the mice to gain weight.
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Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfree mice(nature.com)
131 points by not_that_noob 14y ago|129 comments
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by not_that_noob 14y ago
What an amazingly insightful post. Thank you for sharing.
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Google ads crush Facebook ads in efficacy(tekpersona.ca)
6 points by not_that_noob 14y ago|4 comments
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by not_that_noob 14y ago
On a related note, what's a good place to host a high-bandwidth server? We want to host a backend for gaming, with video interspersed.