jlavine

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by jlavine 4y ago
I can see the difficulty of integrating with Anki if you're trying to implement a sophisticated system for tracking a user's progress, however I would definitely want some way of studying vocabulary with spaced-repetition flashcar
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by jlavine 4y ago
I've studied a few languages and have long wished for / thought of making software roughly along the lines of what you're suggesting here. While tackling a text, looking up words one-at-a-time can be painfully inefficient and
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by jlavine 7y ago
Out of curiosity, did you get a microbiome test (e.g. from Viome) before and after removing each one of these elements from your diet, or did you make conclusions based on how you felt? Of course everyone is different, but I think published
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by jlavine 7y ago
Jason Fung explains his theory of type 2 diabetes / metabolic disorder, and how it is addressed by fasting, in detail in episode #59 of Peter Attia's "The Drive" podcast [1]. The review of Fung's "The Obesity C
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by jlavine 7y ago
I don't have a record of exactly where I read this - it was years ago - but you can find many articles explaining the claim in a similar way by googling "roundup" and "no till". Here are some articles summarizing th
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by jlavine 7y ago
I hate to sound like a shill for an evil company, but I've read that even Roundup-Ready crops have an environmental advantage in allowing greater use of low- and no-till methods on industrial farms, which sufficiently reduces erosion o
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by jlavine 7y ago
Your characterization better fits someone like Thomas Friedman, not Pinker. Pinker absolutely acknowledges the many problems of the current system and the need to devise solutions to these problems. His argument is that things have, on the
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by jlavine 7y ago
> If you don't feel like a criminal in today's society, you are complicit. Which society exactly are you referring to? What crime are you claiming that every single member of this society is complicit in? How does feeling like
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by jlavine 8y ago
I'd guess it has something to do with the fact that human skin tones all fall within some range of orange. This is the reason behind the pervasive use of orange and teal color grading in TV and movies: it accentuates the contrast betwe
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by jlavine 8y ago
I love this idea, but the only participating websites they list are Popular Mechanics and National Post, making this effectively vaporware for the time being. Launching this service without a significant set of participating sites is ridicu
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by jlavine 8y ago
There's at least a couple of studies [1][2] showing benefits of using a probiotic cleaner containing B. subtilis, B. pumilus and B. megaterium made by Belgian company Chrisal [3] over just using bleach for surfaces in a hospital settin
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by jlavine 8y ago
My impression is that "left" is used synonymously with the Democratic party and "right" with the Republican party in practically all American media. By this popular understanding, calling the New York Times right wing ma
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by jlavine 8y ago
What you write is true, but this mistake was deliberately spread through IBM's hype, such as seemingly empty promises to apply Watson to all sorts of business, medical, and political problems. This hype is the reason these demonstratio
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by jlavine 8y ago
You're conflating health issues with health care issues. What health care system now implemented in any country, or proposed for implementation in America by anyone, controls how people eat, how much alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful
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by jlavine 8y ago
The above commenter mentioned demographic and lifestyle discrepancies not adequately accounted for in this comparison of outcomes among countries... not health care problems, as you're implying.
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by jlavine 8y ago
It's their bread and butter. Sticking to the truth is tedious and gets fewer clicks than tabloid-style soap opera, so why bother?
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by jlavine 8y ago
I find that it's usually pretty clear from the bizarre language, excess enthusiasm, and lack of detail which reviews are fake or paid for, without need to refer to any 3rd-party websites. For many products with fewer than 100 ratings,
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by jlavine 8y ago
But Parliament did vote to pursue Brexit and trigger Article 50 following the referendum. You're right that the referendum did not legally compel Parliament to this vote, but many MPs thought that it ethically compelled them to it, a
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by jlavine 8y ago
>> each side had months to state their case > With one side directly and openly lying, and breaking funding laws in the process. Both sides lied and, even more so, misled, and the Remain side had the bullhorn of the government and
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by jlavine 8y ago
I certainly wasn't advocating for any sovereignty of the people outside of or above Parliament. The point is that Parliamentary elections and Parliamentary votes have aligned with the pro-Brexit result of the referendum. Parliament vot
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by jlavine 8y ago
What vote in any democracy has not been surrounded by misrepresentations by advocates of different sides? There was no censorship in the Brexit campaign. All sides were free to make their case for months during the campaign. There were plen
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by jlavine 8y ago
The promises of Parliament and the will of the people regarding Brexit were about as clear as it gets in any democracy. Parliament voted to have the referendum. The referendum was simply and clearly expressed (though not at all detailed), e
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by jlavine 8y ago
You can buy pasture-raised / grass-fed ground beef from Australia, and US-raised ground bison, in US supermarkets for $9-10 per pound, so no, it wouldn't. Even for cheap corn- and soy-fed CAFO-raised meat, agricultural subsidies l
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by jlavine 8y ago
There's already a book on this: "Other People's Money" (2016) by John Kay. It discusses how most of the modern financial industry is self-dealing, provides no real value to the economy, and is actually parasitical. Here&
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by jlavine 8y ago
> It's to enable you to NOT own a bike. While this is its main use, it's also a great alternative to riding your own bike in cases where you want extra flexiblity - as referred to in point 5 in the list above - not only for cha
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by jlavine 9y ago
GDAX started market trading way too soon, after a surprise launch of BCH trading. The momentary price spike could simply have resulted from people making unwise market orders without enough sell limits yet in place. GDAX shut down trading a
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by jlavine 9y ago
But that goes both ways: It's no easier for an American to move to and work in France than for a Frenchman to do so in the US. There are plenty of Americans who would love to make the move - to gain quality of life at the expense of a
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by jlavine 9y ago
It seems this problem should be addressed by more energy-efficient Bitcoin mining rigs and changes to the Bitcoin system to improve efficiency over the next 1-2 years. A related very recent announcement: https://halongmining.com&
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by jlavine 9y ago
Your comment is right, but it seems BD are still developing their robots to be more practical, and may eventually have something they could sell for use in the field. BD have battery-powered robots much quieter than the gas-powered Big Dog:
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by jlavine 9y ago
It's not just a dangerous idea. It's an unjust one that foregoes due process. It's vigilante justice, like witch hunting in early modern Europe and N. America, lynching in the Jim Crow era Southern USA, and the Hollywood comm

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