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by wdewind 9y ago
> In fact, it conferred a resistance against malaria. I think this is one of my main points: if such a large percentage of the population has something that we think of as a large negative, it's probably a good time to take a step
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by wdewind 9y ago
> If I were to speculate, I would say that we are overwhelmingly better in our general mental health. By what measure? Because I just posted a bunch of studies that show the opposite, and they actually address a lot of the issues you br
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by wdewind 9y ago
And yet by many measures mental health issues are increasing not decreasing so where is all this drastic improvement? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-changing-culture/20...
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by wdewind 9y ago
There is a wide difference in the prevalence, severity of condition and extremity of treatment in some of these conditions. Poor eyesight afflicts a large portion of the population, but the severity of the issue and the extremity of the tre
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by wdewind 9y ago
I've read a lot of your posts on this thread and appreciate your perspective. I agree with a lot of it. Honest question for you though: isn't it a bit weird to label something as a disorder if 5-10% of the population has it? Is
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by wdewind 9y ago
> I think conservatism as a personality is a symptom of good mental health: if you arent able to do something, its lazyness. So you must just need some motivation: either a beating or some money. etc. This is a really cynical view of con
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by wdewind 9y ago
I didn't grow up playing or really understanding sports. I was one of those guys who joked about "sportsball" and stuff like that. When I started really taking weight training seriously I started having a frame of reference
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by wdewind 9y ago
Hey thanks! In that case, let me shamelessly say I'm actually hiring for iOS and Rails full stack (We are a seed stage startup working on a pretty fun consumer problem, Rails experience not necessary, admitting you are wrong experienc
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by wdewind 9y ago
Because I have a shitty knowledge of Unix :) Best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong one.
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by wdewind 9y ago
> All `ps` is doing is reading files in proc. The memory info it prints is in `/proc/$pid/status`. Ruby can trivially read `/proc/self/status` to get that very naive view of how much memory it's using.
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by wdewind 9y ago
Ruby can't tell how much memory it is using from within the process, the only way to is shell out and scrape the output of ps. I would love to be wrong about this, I did a fair amount of research and all the profiling libraries I read
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by wdewind 9y ago
One of the things that makes Ruby so difficult to profile is that in order to do anything really fun (like get memory usage, for instance), you need to shell out, which means you're forking/doubling your memory footprint immediate
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by wdewind 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926182
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by wdewind 9y ago
Edit: I'm having multiple people reply with basically the same thing which is: look here's what happened in 2014. I'm just going to reply to all of you here: What happened in 2014 was not throttling in the last mile, which i
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by wdewind 9y ago
Look I understand what you're saying, but it's complicated. Obama chose to respect a tradition and he did so at the cost of allowing anti-NN people into the FCC. He could've found a republican that was pro-NN, but he didn&#
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by wdewind 9y ago
> The only reason the rule got put into place was because Verizon was found to be throttling Netflix. No that's inaccurate. Title II reclassification happened in 2015. Verizon Netflix "throttling" (controversial what act
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by wdewind 9y ago
Please don't bring divisive politics into HN. Fwiw Ajit Pai was appointed to the FCC by Obama not Trump.
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by wdewind 9y ago
https://app.put.io/ Put.io is absolutely the best way to download torrents. I am not affiliated with them in anyway except that I am a massively happy user, and assume you will use this service only to download legal torre
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by wdewind 9y ago
> I mean, when we help people in Ghana, do we check to make sure they don't have any conflicting political values? When we aid Syria, have we checked to make sure they're there aren't any nationalists and racists? Basicall
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by wdewind 9y ago
> Your "1" is true, but you prefaced it by claiming that it was one of the "major things" the parent was missing. I'm pretty sure he wasn't missing this, as indicated by the sentence "This uptick has be
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by wdewind 9y ago
There's a lot here that needs to be picked apart. Here are the major things you're missing: 1. Marijuana has been researched extensively and its health effects are at worst similar to alcohol, at best significantly less bad for y
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by wdewind 9y ago
> So unless you have a webapp that uses 8gb of memory yet stays somewhere under 20% cpu utilization (maybe with some peaks), you'll eventually get throttled. FWIW this is, unfortunately, a pretty common description of many low traff
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by wdewind 9y ago
Very interesting, thank you
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by wdewind 9y ago
> If you know how to read audit statements, Friedman bent over backwards to make sure they're not culpable for fraud (whereas normally their function is to rubber-stamp for authenticity). Can you expand on this?
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by wdewind 9y ago
That's what I'm hoping for :)
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by wdewind 9y ago
Would you mind expanding on this comment? I want to understand what you mean :)
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by wdewind 9y ago
Sure, mind body connection is everything, but there are many keto proponents that argue that controlling for calories, keto still produces superior outcomes. Outside of extreme cases like epilepsy, there is not really any reason to think t
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by wdewind 9y ago
The problem with basically all of the keto science (this study included) is that it doesn't adequately differentiate between the effects of a ketogenic diet and simple caloric restriction: > In rodents, ketogenic diets – and caloric
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by wdewind 9y ago
> It's an American thing which has spread to the rest of us. Thirty years ago, we never saw these muscle- and fighterbreeds. I don't believe we were the poorer for it. Pitbulls as a general category have been around for hundred
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by wdewind 9y ago
> There are plenty of geniuses throughout history who were asseholes but still brilliant. Agreed, as I said humans are complex and I'm sure you can find exceptions. Just talking about general trends here. > EQ and IQ are not hig

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