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by philk 17y ago
The complicated part is all the crude models that don't do much at all that you have to trudge through to get the few worthwhile models.
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by philk 17y ago
Wrong. He was simply betting that subprime loans were a huge risk that was going to go bust. If you need to blame someone, go for the people who made these loans in the first place, or the ratings companies for failing to spot the disaste
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by philk 17y ago
The fundamental personality trait is lower level; ie risk aversion. Daniel is probably not very risk averse and hence this looked like a great opportunity. Giving people who do this a thorough and public flogging is a great thing, however,
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by philk 17y ago
I think it's mostly a gimmick to make this article popular on sites like HN. In a similar vein, stay tuned for my next two articles "Making a sandwich for Hackers" and "Cleaning your bathroom for Hackers".
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by philk 17y ago
Does anyone at the olympic lifting school know a really good, olympic lifting oriented physio? Failing that, you could perhaps contact people at olympic training centers and see if they can recommend someone. If you can find a good one the
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by philk 17y ago
The Rippetoe stuff should generally be applied such that you gradually increase your intake until you're putting on enough weight, and back off if you're gaining fat too quickly. And for the majority of Rippetoe's target audience, that is
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by philk 17y ago
Losing fat isn't all that hard. You keep lifting heavy weights and subtract ~250 kCal a day from your diet. If you aren't losing much [1] weight, you subtract another ~250 kCal/day and so on. They heavy weights are there to persuade your
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by philk 17y ago
Neat book, but I'm still not seeing it. And even including the huge variety of weird gymnastics holds [1] out there I'm not sure how you can compare with a squat or deadlift with 300+lbs of weight. For example, a full squat works the thigh
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by philk 17y ago
I'm having a hard time imagining how push-up routines can match the muscle building power of heavy squats and deadlifts.
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by philk 17y ago
If you're just starting out lifting for hypertrophy is irrelevant. You need to focus on lifting heavy and eating to match.
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by philk 17y ago
Good stuff although the rep scheme isn't optimal. I'd stick to sets of fives. A few additional points: a) Form, particularly on Squats & Deadlifts, is key. If you do them wrong you'll fuck yourself up. The stuff by Mark Rippetoe, par
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by philk 17y ago
It didn't work out so well for Hitler in the end. Lets go through the many ways in which Israel is being punished for this: * Twenty five agents have had their identities compromised. Bear in mind that agents you can send into a foreign co
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by philk 17y ago
It's not a particularly onerous requirement and far cheaper than calling your lawyers. If you're making the argument that the company that is automatically spidering your content should stop then your case is somewhat undermined by failin
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by philk 17y ago
Essentially, Rupert has made a large amount of money throughout his business lifetime from newspapers. Newspapers, particularly Rupert's have worked because they gain a monopoly (or oligopoly) position in a given town as a daily distributo
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by philk 17y ago
The point is not that he wants to cut Google off, it's that he wants leverage. Simply updating robots.txt won't effect Google at all and will blow what little leverage he has left.
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by philk 17y ago
quotes a source high up in the media industry echelon who says Murdoch is "pretty tightly wound up over Google and has been ready to sue them...He doesn't trust them at all." More than anything else this is a sign of how worried Rupert is
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by philk 17y ago
That sounds terrific. I'll send an email later.
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by philk 17y ago
Yes but think of the actual, trained operatives out there and not a boatload of wannabes who will for the most part turn out to be unsuitable.
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by philk 17y ago
The very clear message they've actually sent is "We can expose our agents and make ourselves look bad internationally. Also we can steal the identities of foreign nationals giving us further diplomatic problems.".
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by philk 17y ago
When they have photographs of the assassins faces and footage showing how the operation was conducted you haven't got away with it.
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by philk 17y ago
Seems like feel-good nonsense. I hate this sort of thing. Capitalism has delivered huge benefits in terms of prosperity, advancement and health. We've got to the point where someone willing to accept a lowered standard of living can take
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Longing for a past that never existed(sciencebasedmedicine.org)
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by philk 17y ago
That's a pretty nasty accusation to make without evidence.
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by philk 17y ago
In an ideal world, people would buy their food directly from the people who grew or caught it, or grow and catch it themselves. We already had that world, and life was nasty, brutish and short.
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by philk 17y ago
Sure, but if you respond there are two categories of people: a) People who generally like you and your essays, who will continue to agree with you, and b) People who don't like you or your essays, who will take it as further evidence that y
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by philk 17y ago
To be honest it's more that the vast bulk of people read these things then do whatever they were already planning to do. Losing weight, for example, should be really simple but there's a boatload of people out there who don't seem to be abl
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by philk 17y ago
The correct solution is just to ignore them. Sure, they're saying nasty things about you, but no-one's saying anything about them at all.
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by philk 17y ago
Oh no! If only there were other blogs on the internet. I suppose I'll just have to get a subscription then.
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by philk 17y ago
That's awesome, but when you're Google and your entire business is based on people trusting you with their data you tell them whatever the hell will make them keep handing their data over.
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by philk 17y ago
Two things: 1) When your company motto is "Don't be evil" people tend to hold you to a higher standard. 2) Facebook was a place where you'd put stuff that at least some other people would see. Google, particularly search, is a place where

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