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by wdewind 11y ago
Sorry I think we agree! My point is it is a psychological issue. All things being equal (calories, nutrients etc.) the speed/magnitude of the insulin response is not important for overall health (in the non-diabetic population). The
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by wdewind 11y ago
This is a great study, for nutritional science I am very impressed with the methodology. It's very large and very thorough. It should be heavily noted that the goal of the study is not to create algorithms for healthy people, but for
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by wdewind 11y ago
Thanks for a very well thought out reply. > By contrast, wind, solar, and hydroelectric power are rather simpler, and even geothermal is fairly straightforward. My understanding is scaling these technologies is where the complexity may l
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by wdewind 11y ago
I generally agree, but in the case of the environment we're not going to have clear data on what to do. How are you comparing the risk of building nuclear to the risk of not building nuclear? It's a very difficult thing to do.
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by wdewind 11y ago
It's worth noting that, afaik, none of the reactors that have failed have been built using the "newest generation" of reactors, which are supposed to be much safer. This is a double edged sword, of course, because that also
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by wdewind 11y ago
> Facebook, however, has been demonstrably successful since going public Yes but you're ignoring that it took more than a year for FB to get back up to its IPO price after going public
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by wdewind 11y ago
Interesting, I had never heard of that.
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by wdewind 11y ago
> Garbage cans are hard to find too and everyone just carries their trash with them. I was told this is a relic of the sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Definitely true, and many times there are clauses preventing you from selling to a 3rd party before IPO anyway.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Mostly true but sometimes you can sell on a secondary market or through a tender offer.
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by wdewind 11y ago
> Did it not ring a bell that a company that can't give him cash but can instead offer compensation out of thin air in the form of options is in trouble? This is not an accurate heuristic for "how good is a company doing."
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yeah, that's a fair point, actually.
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by wdewind 11y ago
I don't think that actually speaks against the story, though. The story is: we started small to do our own thing, then a national review blew us up and we couldn't handle the stress in order to scale the business. A lot of the y
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by wdewind 11y ago
I think when you are saying "early" employees are getting screwed you have to be really specific. Joining Box etc. a few months before an IPO is not an early employee. You're joining at a point where the company is pretty t
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yeah I mean it really depends on where you are applying to work. If you are trying to join as a senior member of an organization negotiations have way fewer rules, but if you are applying to Google etc. below a level 4 position it seems pr
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by wdewind 11y ago
The actual dollar value is usually literally zero sum, but if you have a family and need a $200k salary with specific benefits as a hard requirement it's going to be helpful to get that out of the way up front. On the same note, if yo
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by wdewind 11y ago
I guess you're right, that does happen sometimes. In those cases you also shouldn't be mad, though, because they just gave you a crystal clear sign they aren't worth working for.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Don't be so literal about it. I used to get defensive about that question too, but the truth is they aren't asking you how much you are making, they are asking you to start the salary negotiation so they can get a feel for what i
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by wdewind 11y ago
> something better than PGP Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a lot of the issues are in implementing PGP in email, not in the cryptography itself. If you made a messaging app that automatically used best practices PGP w
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by wdewind 11y ago
Pretty different from what? Afghanistan in the 70s/80s was almost exactly this: a destabilized national government, insurgent forces taking and holding territory, global powers being dragged into it. The only differences are the rhet
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by wdewind 11y ago
I'm not really sure how you can read the history of the organization and come up with that. al-Tawid was founded at around the same time as al Qaeda (within a few years), and they merged to become al Qaeda in Iraq and then ISIS/I
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by wdewind 11y ago
> I find Daesh far scarier than other Islamic fundamentalist movements because their techniques are more sophisticated and their aim is much higher. Daesh are basically the same people with the same goals as the other Islamic fundamental
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by wdewind 11y ago
I think the reason no one has nailed the distributed list making part is because that's basically email, which it's really hard to improve substantially on, it turns out.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yep, totally agree with all this! Just pointing out that the low blood sugar in and of itself is probably not a huge deal from a health perspective, just the bad decision that comes from it.
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by wdewind 11y ago
> If you plot the blood sugar concentration of the person consuming a solid piece of fruit you see a nice curve where the levels rise, peak, and non-violently fall. There's nothing wrong with this except that it probably makes you f
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by wdewind 11y ago
> Finance remains the most heavily regulated industry, as it has for decades. I'm not trying to be pedantic if you were just speaking in hyperbole, but I'm curious on the methodology for determining that.
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by wdewind 11y ago
I was surprised to see this study both written up so seriously in the NYTimes and then taken so seriously on HN because when it came out it was kind of used as a textbook example of how poor study design leads to bad conclusions. Here'
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by wdewind 11y ago
Oh I didn't know that, sounds like this: https://github.com/nicoSWD/put.io-adder/blob/master/README.m... thanks, I'll try it out.
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by wdewind 11y ago
I use http://www.put.io for this and highly recommend it. If someone has already downloaded the tracker you are trying to get you get it instantly, so for anything even vaguely popular you are able to get it (or after the first
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yes but I think you might also find that a lot of times this mental abstraction/short hand is where bias lives. This is why it's so effective to verbalize problems. You frequently see patterns and logical fallacies only once you

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