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by rubashov 16y ago
> don't eat boxed foods or foods that went through multiple stages of processing What's wrong with cheese, or butter? Or sauerkraut and pickles? All processed food. Also, powdered mashed potatoes and puffed rice are just conveniently
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by rubashov 16y ago
There's a substantial amount of semiconductor plant still in the states. There's a huge Micron plant not far from me right now. The quality and reliability surveys over the last eight years or so are not favorable to Toyota. US made cars
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by rubashov 16y ago
Japan remains one of the nicest places in the world to live. It is still a huge success story. There are two interesting ideas on why Japan gets so dumped on as a failure, or "moribund". 1) While the Japanese people are doing fine, western
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by rubashov 16y ago
The basic complaint is that social sites grow into mobs. The solution is rather obviously: halt growth. You have to limit the number of active users to some vaguely Dunbar-ish number or you inevitably wind up with a lowest common denomina
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by rubashov 16y ago
There are homeless because the flop houses and super cheap apartments (think ten to a bathroom) have been killed off by permitting and zoning laws. To solve homelessness you just need to make it legal to open up a for profit ten dollar a n
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by rubashov 16y ago
You are mistaken. There are JIT libraries for C++. There are also dynamic profiling compilers (intel).
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by rubashov 16y ago
Java is never definitively faster than C++, because there's nothing Java does that can't be done in C++, including JIT optimizations.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> wouldn't want to write a webapp in C++ Actually, POCO has all the stuff you need to write a web-app: templating, form handling, http request/reponse objects, etc. Not that I've done it, but it looks like you could write a web-app usi
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by rubashov 16y ago
What about the missionaries who stopped indigenous peoples' crazy blood soaked ways and widespread human sacrifice rituals? The Aztecs in particular were quite psycho. With the daily stories of decapitated bodies and mass slayings in conne
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by rubashov 16y ago
To be fair, shorthand is a lot simpler than C++.
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by rubashov 16y ago
For the last few months every morning I brew a cup of coffee and then sit down in a chair for ten minutes and stare at a dracaena plant across the room, coffee in hand, taking an occasional sip. I try not to let my mind wander and just foc
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by rubashov 16y ago
> What are landlines good for? Clear, high quality voice communication. I rarely talk on my cell phone. It's essentially for text. I try to call people at their landlines.
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by rubashov 16y ago
You can have dirt-cheap or you can have customer service. The east coast intercity bus lines are very clearly built around the former.
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by rubashov 16y ago
It's not fraud, it's promissory estoppel.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Yes, the absence of a high saturated fat diet leapt out right away. That's what wins the clinical trial equivalents of this.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Is this site full of fatties? Why does every diet article shoot to the top? Gotta be careful if that's the case. Wouldn't want to catch the fat virus here or anything.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Must be a rough gig if you can't take ten minutes here and there. How do you poop?
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by rubashov 16y ago
The standing desk thing is silly. Just stroll around the block every few hours.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> It ain't what your body was designed to do. The physical activity levels of hunter-gatherers is actually pretty low, day-to-day. They spend a lot of days sitting around.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Writing your own server in C seems a little crazy anymore. Just use a C++ framework like POCO or ASIO. POCO gives you a fast httpserver component with all the tricky stuff figured out.
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by rubashov 16y ago
That sounds like a horrible idea. Can you imagine if half the senate had been in office over 60 years? They'd still be fighting about the Civil Rights act. Cronkite still reading the news. The same NYT and WSJ editorial staffs for many d
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by rubashov 16y ago
Old Overholdt is perfectly palatable. I don't think it's worth knocking.
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by rubashov 16y ago
It's actually not that rare they don't have rye. Often you ask for rye and just get a canadian whiskey.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Without the government's liability coverage for nuclear plants, none would ever be built at all. A nuclear plant is simply un-insurable. To all those people who insist nuclear power is very safe: no private insurance company has ever concl
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by rubashov 16y ago
> China of the present China is not well run. The economy remains under the heavy thumb of the state and is not really serving the needs of the people. Consumption as a share of GDP is actually going down. Massive malinvestments from
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by rubashov 16y ago
Pick a metric and singapore probably wins. They have a functioning universal healthcare system based on vouchers. Their government is cheap, being remarkably cheap and effective on any GDP based measure. They have an effective but cheap
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by rubashov 16y ago
Pointing to China for excellent government is highly questionable. Singapore, however, is probably the best run country on the planet.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> It used to be, that people had kids simply because it was the default That's not really true in the long perspective. Everybody confuses the global post-war baby-boom with all of human history. A large fraction of Europeans were hist
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Technical details for a MMOG in perl(madmongers.org)
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by rubashov 16y ago
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." -- Albert Einstein

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