aznjons

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by aznjons 13y ago
Did you bother to read the abstract of the source provided? It directly refutes pretty much all of your points including a control group. For your convenience, I've italicized the relevant text: >Participants were drawn from the Hea
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by aznjons 13y ago
Fat shaming actually increases risk of becoming or staying obese. So although obesity is unhealthy, fat shaming is still bad and stupid since it does not help, and actually hurts. There are better ways to help people become healthy. >The
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by aznjons 13y ago
This is great advice and it is fantastic because it is specific and actionable. I would love to see one tailored for validating consumer products rather than B2B ones. A good amount of this is definitely applicable to validating for consume
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by aznjons 13y ago
When you're a young person, peer pressure and need for peer acceptance/interaction is a powerful force that can defy rational action. Young people have limited perspective beyond the immediate social environments of their family a
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by aznjons 13y ago
I feel like this kind of horrific tragedy must be addressed and especially in the context of virtual/computer facilitated environments by developers and engineers. Here is a problem that I would like to see combated with machine learni
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by aznjons 13y ago
Well put, the relationship trends more and more asymmetric. Add in rhetoric designed to convince workers to buy into a system that exploits them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6240495 In general, employers have far m
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by aznjons 13y ago
A similar analogy that occurs to me is the justice system. Yes, there will be guilty criminals who walk free of a innocent-until-proven-guilty, trial-by-jury-of-your-peers justice system. The alternative is convincingly worse enough that we
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by aznjons 13y ago
Are you referring to the chart that illustrates funding as a percent of GDP? If so, I think that the numbers may be larger than you think. Half a hundredth of a percent of the US GDP is still 7.5 billion dollars per year. To put this into p
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by aznjons 13y ago
In light of these predictions, I am more curious as to how governments will address this problem. I find it difficult that governments will easily give up on their surveillance goals. The question then becomes how will they work around the
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by aznjons 13y ago
The drive of the hacker is to solve problems and find novel or efficient solutions to problems and the tools used to solve those problems. It's not surprising that this can be taken to the extreme as we strive to continually optimize
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by aznjons 13y ago
Being a first-time bootstrapper, I am striving very hard to minimize financial exposure. However, this means that I had to convince my cofounders and team to work for free; or rather, they agreed to join because they believe in the vision a
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by aznjons 13y ago
I'm not sure that dynamic segregation of social connections is the ultimate solution to the mediocrity of social network applications. Or rather, most social network sites come to serve a specific purpose or narrow purpose rather than
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by aznjons 13y ago
How ironic. I would say that labeling someone who posted factual evidence that M-66 explosives are in fact legal and relatively ordinary recreational fireworks as an "outrage tourist" is a beautiful example of character assassina
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by aznjons 13y ago
First: On your assertion that federal government agencies (or agencies that work in tandem with them) act in line with mathematical probability like the base rate theorem and that they necessarily allocate resources in a cost-effective mann
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by aznjons 13y ago
In fact, why wouldn't improving education help with the claim that people are inherently lazy. I don't understand the objectivist assumption that there are huge numbers of lazy people who will always leech off of others. Instead o
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by aznjons 13y ago
I am working on this problem. Feel free to contact me; my email is in my profile if you are interested in talking about it.
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by aznjons 13y ago
One perspective on the current debate over whether governments should spy on other countries seems very similar to arms race issues. However, instead of debating whether nuclear weapons should be decommissioned in the canonical example of a
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by aznjons 13y ago
Serious answer: If your goal is that important to you, it's really a personal issue you will need to work out with yourself and your wife. I think that no book will be able to uniquely address your personal relationship. Additionally,
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by aznjons 13y ago
A number of initial responses to this article seem to acquiesce to the program because it scans technically "public" information. Speaking from the context of the United States, the 4th Amendment to the Constitution is what may be
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by aznjons 13y ago
I had no idea about this issue, thanks for the link! Looks like the FISC overruled the executive branch's argument about classifying the ruling. Kudos to the EFF. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/pub
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by aznjons 13y ago
Even if H1B employees are not underpaid, artificially increasing the supply of highly-demanded technical talent prevents tech giants from needing to raise compensation across the board. Artificially seems to be a justifiable characterizatio