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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
> Millennials, however, use physical media all the way... They have huge DVD collections As a millenial, I have to say this statement could hardly be more misleading. Millenials I know may have DVD and even VHS collections, but that&#x27
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There are people who think advertising is morally equivalent to theft of other people's time and attention. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I do believe that AdBlock lets me get more out of the Web by eliminating the con
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Good stuff, thanks for sharing!
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I distinctly remember being upset about DRM in the '00s, back when it was being used to place onerous restrictions on content that people had ostensibly "bought" (CDs, DVDs, AAC audio files, etc.). Now that it's being us
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I was going to guess Hegel. Either one would work though
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Chemists of HN: Why does this keep happening? Why is BPA or something close to it seemingly required to manufacture plastics? Or to put it another way, why has it been so difficult to come up with an alternative that's distinct enough
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This sums up my problem with the article. People who are concerned about inequality (I can't speak for Piketty in particular because I haven't made it very far through his book) are not necessarily concerned that workers are recei
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"All lives matter" sounds a little different when you consider it in context: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/12/08/all-things-consider...
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Yes, this is an excellent point, although it doesn't contradict anything I said. In fact, it might help explain the demographic trends: older generations might be more likely to see food innovations as benevolent, because these innovat
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> you have an oversimplified view of these issues Nice try, but no. "On average, GM technology adoption has reduced chemical pesticide use by 37%, increased crop yields by 22%, and increased farmer profits by 68%. Yield gains and pe
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These issues are simpler to explain than the author realizes--and without any special invocation of Kant. Simply put, technology has made sex a lot safer at the same time as it has made food a lot more dangerous . Sex is safer (in the se
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Sure, this chart[1] may look impressive, but trust me, we don't understand nearly enough about human metabolism to create a product like Soylent. /s 1: http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1
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Is anyone else stuck on level 24? Halp! Edit: I know this is a terrible comment that contributes nothing, please don't downvote it just for that... :3
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> If you think universal access is important, and net neutrality is important, you have to be willing to publicly subsidize the construction of telecom infrastructure. Indeed, why isn't anyone willing to take this logic as far as it
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> we don't have the knowledge to create food Better stop eating then, since any plants or animals you might ingest have been bred by humans over thousands of years. Knowledge of our nutritional needs--this knowledge that we allegedl
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
They might have had controls, for all we know. The team shared many but not all details of the process, as is their prerogative. Rhinehart is an engineer by background, and his blog posts ( http://www.robrhinehart.com ) evince a
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-- Soylent is not a diet. It's not low-calorie, low-carb or anything like that. The simplest way to describe its nutritional content is that a Soylent "meal" has 33% FDA daily value of everything (including fats, carbs, pro
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:harmful... The title drew me in, but I didn't find this very insightful. I clicked on it expecting a righteous rant; instead, I found a list of
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Where Time Comes From(theatlantic.com)
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by sowhatquestion 13y ago
Sure, maybe private companies have a small supporting role in piggybacking on one of the biggest (and highest ROI) government infrastructure projects ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System The rea
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by sowhatquestion 13y ago
This is insane. By this logic, public goods don't exist. Tax-funded fire departments are great if your house catches fire, not so great if it doesn't, etc.
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by sowhatquestion 13y ago
Actually, you read my mind! I'm currently working on a Rails project that uses PostgreSQL with hstore for semi-structured data such as user information, configuration, etc. Haven't gotten too far into it yet, but it looks promisin
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by sowhatquestion 13y ago
Excellent article. As promised, the author brings a historical perspective that's typically lacking in this debate (at least for someone like me who has casually followed it on HN). Not to stray too far off topic, but this article rais
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Looks like "someone" doesn't understand income inequality trends very well. Increases in inequality have been especially pronounced at the top end of the distribution, well above the $100k threshhold. Long story short, the in
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"Ma'am, Your Burger Has Been Acquired by LinkedIn" ^ almost died laughing at that one just now
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Soylent isn't a "diet" product. Therefore it contains 2400 calories, and doesn't compromise on any macronutrients (fats, protein, carbs) for the sake of creating a "diet" product. If you're looking for exi
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Have you tried Ensure Complete? I got so impatient while waiting for my Soylent order to arrive that I actually did. First of all, it's loaded with sugar, and lacks Soylent's heavy dose of fiber to balance out the glycemic index
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I find it interesting there's one genre of indignant op-eds lamenting the death of creativity in education (including this one--not saying it's bad or formulaic, but it's definitely part of a genre).... and there's anoth
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Did anyone else notice that the "word processor" demoed here is really more of a flexible outliner, like WorkFlowy ( http://www.workflowy.com )? Actually, the more features he ran through, the more I was struck by the
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by sowhatquestion 13y ago
>Sample size is 1. No. He has a group of volunteers who are testing it with him, see the second post: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=474 Not to mention the community that's sprung up around it, on http://discourse.soylent.me and elsewhe

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