tptacek

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2011.
by tptacek 7mo ago
Did you read this paper? Do you really think this is good evidence for the claim? I'd love to hear why. I could give a fulsome critique of it but I think the simpler thing to say just to kick this off is that I could give you a PubMed
2012.
by tptacek 7mo ago
This is an article of faith on the Internet, but I haven't seen a credible cite to back up a material, meaningful insulin response to the mere taste of sweetness. Worth remembering: insulin response to aspartame has always been a maj
2013.
by tptacek 7mo ago
There is no meaningful insulin response to noncaloric sweeteners.
2014.
by tptacek 7mo ago
People say this about MSG too, but when you blind-test them the effect vanishes, which is unsurprising because the constituents in MSG are, like aspartame, widely prevalent in traditional foodstuffs.
2015.
by tptacek 7mo ago
There's nothing wrong with HFCS either, at least not that isn't also wrong with sugar. This is all just naturalist fallacy stuff.
2016.
by tptacek 7mo ago
If there's anything wrong with MSG that isn't simply due to sodium intake, I think it's unknown to science (at least in the sense that there's no theory about it with any wide uptake). MSG is also intensively studied and
2017.
by tptacek 7mo ago
I think a lot of people who say stuff like this are really saying that they prefer being in their teens and early 20s. Understandable!
2018.
by tptacek 7mo ago
A six-pack of aspartame-sweetened Diet Coke has about as much methanol as a single apple.
2019.
by tptacek 7mo ago
How would that work? It's hydrolized into its constituents, which are present in higher quantities in apples and chicken and other foods, in the upper GI. Do you have a cite for this?
2020.
by tptacek 7mo ago
Why not?
2021.
by tptacek 7mo ago
This is a pretty common feature, isn't it? Binary templates, I mean. Even Hex Fiend has it.
2022.
by tptacek 7mo ago
We all get that Oracle has literally the same naming provenance, right? Actually more so: they took the name from the Central Intelligence Agency project they started the company with. Every time this comes up, I find myself asking, "w
2023.
by tptacek 7mo ago
They're defense contractors the same way IBM and Oracle are. Palantir has a huge USG business, but they're also widely used across the Fortune 500. From the coverage of Palantir online you'd think the company actually manufa
2024.
by tptacek 7mo ago
I respectfully respect the premise that the choices are "paper books" or "Youtube influencers", though I'll note we didn't have Gilbert Strang's 18.06 course back in 1999 either. I'd also note that th
2025.
by tptacek 7mo ago
This is going to come off glib, but I don't think you can believe any of this having actually used the Internet of 1999. As is so often the case, there are lots of real annoyances and offenses behind the sentiment, but still, the Inter
2026.
by tptacek 7mo ago
This is why it was such a big deal when that researcher at Cleveland State misappropriated UKBB data for a race-science study with Emil Kirkegaard. After he was fired, people on Twitter were all like "this is just suppression of scienc
2027.
by tptacek 7mo ago
I think the FOP stickers are quite bad, but it's obviously not a "protection racket"; virtually nobody around here has them, and for a protection scheme to work there has to be some pressure to buy in.
2028.
by tptacek 7mo ago
One of the most important "con"'s is that without controls, fewer people will allow their data to be included in the data sets.
2029.
by tptacek 7mo ago
Oracle was started to build databases for the Central Intelligence Agency, gets ~90% of its revenue from services, is a huge GSA/DISA contractor, and earns about 16x what Palantir does. I've heard people with direct ties to Palant
2030.
by tptacek 7mo ago
What part of it doesn't ring true to you?
2031.
by tptacek 7mo ago
From an illustration in the middle of the piece: "The Stack": Space: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Maxar, Voyager Cloud: Palantir, IBM, Cisco, Meta, AWS, Microsoft Surface: Data Centers, Urban Surveillance, Mobile Fortify, Axon Energy: The
2032.
by tptacek 7mo ago
Getting a data center halted in Monterey Park doesn't seem like that much of a flex; is there some subtle reason why this wasn't a super weird place to try to site a dense data center in the first place? Most of these things seem
2033.
by tptacek 7mo ago
I live in a muni where virtually all development is done under variance, so I'm not sure what you mean here; "peasants" get stuff all the time, in fact, my guess is most of what gets decided on is "peasants" getting
2034.
by tptacek 7mo ago
I don't agree, and none.
2035.
by tptacek 7mo ago
"Cautious" modifications to zoning is a NIMBY argument, just for what it's worth.
2036.
by tptacek 7mo ago
"Don't try to make a living writing genre fiction for established publishers".
2037.
by tptacek 7mo ago
I think AI-generated look-feel and web design is basically fine, and that the real problem is that so much of the substance of these submissions is vibe-coded. Even that's OK conceptually, the real problem is that in the (bad) common c
2038.
by tptacek 7mo ago
It's a US-specific observation.
2039.
by tptacek 7mo ago
I think the claim made used both the word "net" and "exodus" and was simply false.
2040.
by tptacek 7mo ago
Almost all new construction is luxury housing; it's what pencils out. The mechanism by which it reduces prices is by reducing demand pressure on older housing stock, which would otherwise be bought up and rehabbed by the same people mo

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