yaketysax

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by yaketysax 12y ago
"The only way you could access to information in an structured way is the way in which University teach concepts." "The real way to obtain information is to be helped with those that can give you some clues to construct the r
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by yaketysax 12y ago
There is a lot more to political philosophy than "Is president X better than president Y?". Moreover, who's claiming that something has to be demonstrated as true? You find no value whatsoever in discussing and considering
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by yaketysax 12y ago
Can all the philosophical disciplines verify their own answers? What about the social disciplines? Do you just ignore questions which aren't cleanly reducible to science or mathematics?
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by yaketysax 12y ago
University is "really not that hard" for who and where? If you want to answer the question "is university hard?" fairly (assuming that you can), you actually have to consider different people and their lives. You have to
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by yaketysax 12y ago
"If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population" It's not the role of every single worker to deal with how the customer interfaces with the pr
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by yaketysax 12y ago
"The explicitly stated purpose of Soylent is NOT to live on." That's an odd thing to say considering Rhinehart initially got all this attention because he was LIVING OFF OF IT. It's almost like he was trying to make a st
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by yaketysax 12y ago
http://www.webmd.com/diet/phytonutrients-faq "More than 25,000 phytonutrients are found in plant foods. WebMD takes a look at these six important phytonutrients -- and their potential health effects: Carotenoids,
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by yaketysax 12y ago
1. There are a lot of (nonessential) nutrients that you get from plants that you won't get from this drink. 2. Our idea of "everything the body needs" can change. 3. We don't know the long term effects of relying solely
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by yaketysax 12y ago
I have a passion for riding up hills.
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by yaketysax 12y ago
"Leave graduate school to people from India and China, for whom the prospects at home are even worse." Even worse in terms of what?
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by yaketysax 12y ago
Sweet color choice for Berkeley & Alameda.
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by yaketysax 12y ago
You made a HN thread for your own reflection on another one of your posts that nobody responded to. Wow.
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by yaketysax 12y ago
How do you get people to encourage each other if they don't care to begin with?
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by yaketysax 12y ago
"Why didn't a classroom teacher do what he did? Because our system does not reward teacher innovation and trying new things." Because most people don't give a shit? Why doesn't every STEM graduate have the same ambi
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by yaketysax 12y ago
"Everyone, even doctors, find a new food to demonize every few years, then flip and say it's the bet thing ever a decade later." Uh ya. New evidence comes to light, people change their minds. That's not necessarily a fau
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by yaketysax 12y ago
Ah ok. Had no idea how far back people were expected to remember. A few days might be fine. A year seems crazy. Also I don't know why the author put prospective and retrospective in quotes. "Prospective study" and "retro
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by yaketysax 12y ago
"News at 11: cancer is a natural occurrence." So what? Something being "natural" has no bearing on whether it is favorable or preventable. "You could exclusively eat prime quality fish, raw organic fruits and veggie
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by yaketysax 12y ago
I don't understand what's being reported on here. "The reason for the change was more thorough epidemiology. The earlier studies tended to be "retrospective," relying on people to remember dietary details from the d
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by yaketysax 12y ago
I just told you: most analysis textbooks treat the topic in a nearly identical manner (maybe not in full generality). Do you want to dispute this? Why are you pretending like we're arguing separate issues? "Your argument is that R
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by yaketysax 12y ago
PoMA presents a mathematical approach that's done in countless other analysis textbooks. What people (students) hate is that the author makes leaps in his proofs. But that's not something unique to Rudin's style. And who says
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by yaketysax 12y ago
A lot of university students are clueless about this sort of thing. If it's possible to complete the homework by just relying on lecture, then there's no reason to be reading the book. That's a common sentiment, even in some
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by yaketysax 12y ago
What exactly are these "irrational beliefs"? Please enumerate them.
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by yaketysax 12y ago
Not all educations are equal. Not all university educations are equal. And (the quality of an) education isn't strictly a function of one's character.
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by yaketysax 13y ago
If you ask some professional mathematicians, individually, why it is they're researching what they're researching, I think the most common answer will be "because I think it's interesting". There are areas of math w
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by yaketysax 13y ago
It makes me uncomfortable that there's an expectation to be part of a certain culture in order to be developer.
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by yaketysax 13y ago
"What you eat depends on what you can get from the land you live in." yes... and so different groups of people were under different pressures. So when oneeyedpigeon said "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.", and you
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by yaketysax 13y ago
What's "ok" to eat can depend on your ancestry. It makes no sense to point at different populations and say "it must be ok since they're doing it".
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by yaketysax 13y ago
"If corporations are so evil why has their pay fed my family, paid for my house" If crime is so evil why has its pay fed my family, paid for my house