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by rubashov 15y ago
I think I buy into what nutritionists call the "food reward" hypothesis of obesity. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search/label/Food%20re... The key driver of modern obesity is the high availability of varied and intensely pleasing
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by rubashov 15y ago
> The default choice of garbage collector in Hotspot is the throughput collector, which is ... entirely optimized for throughput I just want to confirm this is true? Say you're doing a long running simulation. You don't care about pause
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by rubashov 15y ago
The "utilitarian" case for halting immigration is obvious to me. But utilitarian arguments are what the pro-immigration people use, too. I find it interesting that nobody ever talks about national solidarity anymore when discussing immigrat
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by rubashov 15y ago
Shared hosting services offered php. You can't do shared hosting with mod_perl.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Also consider that if they hacked the controls they'd be foolish to use the capability in peace time. That ace would be kept up the sleeve.
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by rubashov 15y ago
America needs to get back to its roots as the premier boozing nation. We were long known for this. Hell, there was practically a civil war over the whole whiskey rebellion thing.
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by rubashov 15y ago
People have multiple cars because they want to live among people who can afford multiple cars, and more specifically avoid the urban poor who cannot afford them. American car dependent suburbia exists in large part due to white flight. I im
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by rubashov 15y ago
> figure out what the top-performing countries are doing and then, by capitalizing on our unique strengths, develop a strategy to do it even better. The top performing countries' strategy is to have mostly Asian or Northern European stu
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by rubashov 15y ago
Not to be the correlation/causation asshole, but I wonder if possibly low vitamin D is to some extent a proxy for being a low income sedentary shut-in, all things that on their own are tied to disease. As the article points out Vitamin D su
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by rubashov 15y ago
> if all you care about is money, go where the money is. ... go into finance I've not seen clear evidence that "finance" is an especially reliable way for a reasonably smart person to make a lot of money. Mostly what I see is anecdote,
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by rubashov 15y ago
http://www.vdare.com/posts/chinese-immigrant-shows-gratitude... http://www.vdare.com/posts/chinese-the-exemplary-immigrants
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by rubashov 15y ago
> cheap ... dull knives that don't hold their edge Well with knives the trade off is sharpness vs how often you have to sharpen. Harder steel will "hold the edge" and require sharpening less often. But to get a truly sharp edge you have
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by rubashov 15y ago
Budweiser is extremely close to a couple of the popular pilsners served in the czech republic. People who pretend otherwise are just pretentious.
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by rubashov 15y ago
US immigration policy is clearly not motivated by ethnic identity or "xenophobia". The 1965 immigration act and the visa lottery make that clear. But I sincerely ask: why would it be wrong to base immigration policy on such concerns? A nati
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by rubashov 15y ago
Yeah, the article was a little ridiculous for not mentioning this. The impact of obamacare and the ever increasing risk of getting sued as an employer are huge and growing disincentives to hire low skill labor.
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by rubashov 15y ago
> problems with mixed collection types I don't understand. C++ has exactly the same model for collections of polymorphic types. But you can also pursue data oriented designs that aren't feasible in Java. > knowing types at runtime R
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by rubashov 15y ago
If you're fighting with the JVM this much, why not just use C++? The problems were garbage collection, lack of control over memory layout, and bloated types. Tool for the job, no?
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by rubashov 15y ago
Businesses are investing capital in automation rather than hiring people in large part because laws artificially inflate the cost of labor. The government keeps making it worse with things like obamacare. I'm pretty sure CVS would rather ha
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by rubashov 15y ago
The "overall picture is bleak" if you measure societies by flashy, marketable headline developments and gadgets. It is rather good if you more soberly consider household incomes and trade figures. Japan continues to dominate many high tech
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by rubashov 15y ago
> eating out more, because I realized it was relatively cheap. Relative to what? My experience is that eating out is extremely expensive.
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by rubashov 15y ago
> Jews were seen as people with divided loyalties But they very often ARE people with divided loyalties! Several folks in the Obama and Bush administrations have had Israeli passports. To me, that's completely crazy. Henry Kissinger,
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by rubashov 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that there's something in Jewish character that produces revolutionaries and anti-establishment types who rock the boat. The anti-tsarist intelligentsia, the 19th century anarchists, the Bolsheviks, Spanish Red Terro
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by rubashov 15y ago
Did you send your kids there?
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by rubashov 15y ago
Do you live in North America? In most American metros to live in the city with kids you have to make enough money to easily afford expensive private school tuition. If your kid goes to the public school he will be beat up by black or hispan
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by rubashov 15y ago
> I will never understand the attraction of suburbs. 60 years of deliberate policy drove middle class people out of the cities. The forced busing is pretty emblematic of what happened. http://www.amazon.com/Slaughter-Cities-Renewal-Eth
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by rubashov 15y ago
Even after controlling for ethnicity and income there are quite big geographical variations. White people in the upper mid-west are a lot healthier and long lived than whites elsewhere, for example. Comparing an extremely heterogeneous coun
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by rubashov 15y ago
Just get a $30 lamy fountain pen with a refillable cartridge, and a large bottle of ink. You're done worrying about pens and cartridges for the next 15 years or so.
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by rubashov 15y ago
> Capitalism at work. Bullshit. It's Chinese at work. Similar stories from dealing with Indians. Poverty is not an excuse. Wild hypothesis: Maybe they're poor because they cheat each other all the time. When the Japanese were dirt poor
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by rubashov 15y ago
> humanizing what might otherwise seem like utter fraud Most of your list can just be filed under "unscrupulous and untrustworthy". No need to make excuses for Han Chinese characteristics.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Fork goes out the window if you're connecting to a database, need to keep any structures in memory, or can envision a need to work on Windows. This covers a heck of a lot of situations. And fork is still kind of expensive. Say a CGI just pr

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