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by randomThoughts9 7y ago
There are Yogis that claim they can thrive on 2.5 hours of sleep, and that they've been doing that their entire life. I don't think he addresses this subject in the book or in his talks, but it would be interesting to know his opi
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by randomThoughts9 8y ago
Low carb is not (only) keto. And given the fact the ketosis changes completely the rules of the game, I would actually put keto in it's own category. So 100g of carbs seems like a reasonable number if you want to be sure that your subj
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by randomThoughts9 8y ago
The oldest project I know of that tried to do something similar was Naked Objects, which later became Apache Isis (the Java version at least). What's the difference between Alan Platform and Apache Isis?
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by randomThoughts9 8y ago
Not even the people that pretend to care are putting in the minimum necessary effort to fight this. So where does the war in the title come from? "War on/against x" is becoming a meaningless expression. As far as I can see, o
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by randomThoughts9 8y ago
PoW is theoretically better in this regard. I mean, in theory the market should push the profit down to a minimum, forcing the miners to spend their revenues in order to keep mining.
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
True is you manage to get into keto. But what happens if you get close, but not quite?
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
There is this principle that I always bring up when it comes to our interaction with the government, but it fits perfectly here too. You might be able to give up control over something, but never the responsibility that comes with it. So in
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
Someone posted this link on reddit today. https://think.ing.com/uploads/reports/171218_Why_Bitcoin_to_...
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
This is a very recent interpretation. It is legally true, but it goes against the true meaning of the word. When you work for a charity, do you ask for a raise? Do you get a bonus if you collect more money? How much to you get to keep? Not
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
Not trying to defend Roger Ver, but that is an awful interpretation. He wasn't shaming anybody for being poor. He was just trying to emphasize, what in his view is a discrepancy between what some people preach and what they do.
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
> This is unprecedented. Don't get me wrong, I like Kotlin, but Ceylon did the multi platform thing much better. They have real platform modules, built into the language (not just a build tool trick), and a language specification th
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
That's not entirely true. Only in the blockchain world there are two Rust projects I know of: - the parity ethereum client: https://github.com/paritytech/parity - the exonum framework: https://exonum.co
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
I agree and I appreciate what they are trying to do. But just as a counter-argument, look how a simple lock looks like in Rust [1]: fn main() { let counter = Arc::new(Mutex::new(0)); let mut handles = vec![]; for _ i
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
Well, a fun fact: there is nothing funny about that list :). It should have been called "Some facts about Rust's growing popularity". Now, my predicament: I love Rust's type system and tooling, but it's really hard
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
> Inequity doesn't mean much wrt Bitcoin IMO. I'm sorry, but you can't brush that subject off with a single sentence. It's a huge problem. If you want a real currency, that is. You might hope that the free market will
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
I wasn't claiming anything, just providing a different perspective (see the "might" in my sentence). But could you please shed some light on this sentence: > Yet, bonobos are indeed known for organizing attacks on neighbor
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
> Our forebears lived very violent lives. I've been reading some books on the subject that claim the contrary, also based on archaeological proofs (and on identifying faults with the existing studies). So I wouldn't state that
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
> meat fed to pets is (largely) not suitable for human consumption 30% unsuitable for human consumption? This choosiness is a just one more sign of affluence and one of the habits we have to get rid of if we want to improve our ecologica
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
1. I see the the current batch of crypto-currencies as an experiment and their valuation more like a bet on which currency will manage to adapt to the future. 2. Not all properties are relevant or even desirable: For example, I could live w
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
There are currencies with governance built in: PIVX and DASH are the two main exampled I know of. Basically the nodes that have a stake in the system are allowed to vote on the direction the project is going. My personal impression is that
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
Is there a spec? They talk about modules and I am curious about their syntax (if any). If we are to support a new multi-platform ecosystem, we should make sure it is built on a stable foundation. For example, I really like scala, but I can&
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by randomThoughts9 9y ago
Some clarifications: 1. Angular 2 is not object oriented in the standard meaning of the term: it does not rely on inheritance or polymorphism that much. But it does rely on classes as the backing structure of your UI components. In other wo
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by randomThoughts9 10y ago
I've been reading about these kind of experiments for years now and they all do the same mistake: it's not basic income if it has a deadline. Almost nobody will leave his job / stop looking for one / risk a complete care
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by randomThoughts9 10y ago
>the idea of a cat parasite controlling or influencing my behavior (and the behavior of others) is both fascinating and frightening wait until we'll know everything our own gut bacteria is doing to us
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by randomThoughts9 10y ago
I'm replying here but I'm trying to reply to the entire thread. - So you are talking about how much value we create and that we should receive more of it. - Then someone else mentions a lot of other professions that do that too: c
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by randomThoughts9 10y ago
At least in Eastern Europe, most developers in the 90's used yahoo (mail + messenger) and a lot of them still do, even though not exclusively anymore.
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by randomThoughts9 10y ago
It worked for GMail though.
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by randomThoughts9 10y ago
Well, in this particular case employees wanted to play the capital game. It's not a nice game it seems.
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
I find this schema, promoted if I'm not mistaken by Martin Odersky himself, as one of the biggest marketing blunders possible as far as programming languages are concerned. You keep telling developers that they are not good enough but
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by randomThoughts9 11y ago
A less mentioned problem is the fact that, as far as our industry is concerned, ads corrupt. They corrupt the developers, because the purpose is no longer to create a great product. You now have to think on how to: * tweak your product to a

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