rubashov

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by rubashov 14y ago
The debate around the original asian exclusion acts is kind of interesting to read. A lot of articles from the time are reproduced online. The common sentiment was that white americans didn't want to compete with people willing to work 16 h
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by rubashov 14y ago
I wish someone like Bill Gates would stop doing sisyphean third world do-gooder junk and fund some long term, large controlled studies on humans instead. It seems to me that to do actual science on human health you need space program like m
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by rubashov 14y ago
> anything other than differences in levels of exercise/activity I've seen claims that having few friends shows up in mortality worse than than a pack-a-day smoking habit. Of course that's all hand-wavy statistical controls, but then ag
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by rubashov 14y ago
A digital electric pressure cooker is a better option than a slow cooker in my experience. I use one. Pretty much everything cooks inside 20 minutes, even a whole frozen chicken. I cook tons of stuff straight from frozen. But still, prepari
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by rubashov 14y ago
Food prep is by far the most time consuming and drudge heavy daily task, but it remains pretty much impossible to eat healthily if you don't cook daily. Short of paying a personal chef or landing a full time housewife there doesn't seem to
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by rubashov 14y ago
I've had the experience of trying to read Nabakov and Nietzsche and in both cases being sure most of it was sailing way over my head. I kind of enjoyed the stuff anyway, but as a working adult I don't have time to screw around with secret d
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by rubashov 14y ago
I tried to do a couple coursera courses and found the video lectures highly inefficient; very needlessly time consuming, even watching them sped up. All I really want is a glorified text book with quiz grading and a final.
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by rubashov 14y ago
Isn't this to some degree a matter of fixating on consumer brands? To my understanding Japan still runs a massive trade surplus in high tech equipment and parts and has many super profitable firms making that stuff. The parts that go into o
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by rubashov 14y ago
You explain the memory locality issue well but the question is how is the situation better in any other language.
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by rubashov 14y ago
How is your example a language thing? Would a JITed language improve the locality of the m_numLoadedAssets variable? I'm not quite sure I get it.
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by rubashov 14y ago
> the biggest gains are made on an algorithmic level I have had a few experiences of simply porting something rather directly to C++ and seeing 10X speed and memory improvements. The 'hidden costs' in other languages are loads of unavoi
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by rubashov 14y ago
I thought I was depressed and anxious for almost two years. It turned out I just had a chronic sinus infection. I'm suspicious that a lot of what gets considered as psychiatric problems are really physical health problems. Anecdotally, a lo
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by rubashov 14y ago
The article says hadza walk many miles per day but burn the same calories as sedentary westerners. How is this possible? Well you go look at the table in the study and the hadza are all 30kg lighter than westerners. The men are all apparent
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by rubashov 14y ago
As I read your post I realized app.net is probably for me. It's like lower Manhattan or parts of San Francisco. People who think the rents are ridiculous shouldn't live there anyway; it's not for them.
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by rubashov 14y ago
Are you serious? Look at any inflation adjusted chart of the US equities market and there are obviously multiple such periods. http://www.angelfire.com/or/truthfinder/index14.html http://www.dogsofthedow.com/dow1925cpilog.htm Furthermor
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by rubashov 14y ago
The idea that people should have to speculate in stocks to tread water, index fund or not, is absurd and historically abnormal. I also happen think that dumping money into a stock index fund will be a good way to lose over the next 10 years
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by rubashov 14y ago
He claims it's "ridiculous" to expect people to save responsibly. Yet it happens in east asia, and it happened historically in the west. The story is another demo of this curiously common mentality where nobody can be held to account for th
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by rubashov 14y ago
> Cholesterol isn't bad, saturated fat isn't bad The issue gets super complicated once you add chronic emotional stress. A huge problem with all these dietary disease models is they ignore cortisol and stress levels, which may ultimatel
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by rubashov 14y ago
Absolutely. Fat white people in desk jobs eat handfuls of soy loaded trail mix in the afternoon, and an apple an hour before lunch. It's SWPL emotional eating.
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by rubashov 14y ago
> people who favor fruits and vegetables, grains and legumes over beef, pork and fatty foods are healthier I have two eyes and that doesn't square at all. The fat people eat packaged food and restaurant food, which are very skimpy on me
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by rubashov 14y ago
Yeah, I wasn't contradicting you, dude. Maybe you'd make more friends if you chilled out.
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by rubashov 14y ago
Beyond the juvenile stage men can't bond through "play time". Men bond through shared struggle and purpose. You aren't going to make close lifetime male friends at some stupid beer centric sports league. http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Men-J
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by rubashov 14y ago
OK, so some colleges in the 20s and 30s discriminated against Jews and others (vast majority?) didn't. Your link goes on about Feynman and Salk going to NYU and MIT instead of their first choices. These men both easily found their way to th
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by rubashov 14y ago
On black and Jewish I'm not going to take your point as granted. I'd need an unbiased analysis.
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by rubashov 14y ago
Fair point on the disastrous social engineering and urban redevelopment schemes of the 20th century. But, what about sending men to the moon or designing and building the sr-71 in a few years? Or for that matter conquering Japan and Germany
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by rubashov 14y ago
The assertion that "elite" status is more meritocratic today than in the past (in America) is highly questionable. Go look at 100 year old university admissions tests. Note that they didn't care what "clubs" you were in. Brooks goes on abou
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by rubashov 14y ago
Regulation. The kind of people who build a successful software startup don't want to deal with OSHA, the EPA, and local zoning boards. If you're freewheeling and you want to build something physical you have to go to China.
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by rubashov 14y ago
So why do bastardy, bad taste in fashion, and obesity all track so closely? You see this all over the world. Where people are well dressed and there is little bastardy, they are thin, regardless of the affluence level.
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by rubashov 14y ago
> Eat the same diet as you are now, but less of it Considering vitamins and minerals most people eat crap. Deficiencies are fairly rampant. The problem is that grains/beans, dairy, potato, and oils are good for energy but have very lous
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by rubashov 14y ago
I don't know why it's out of consideration that people are just shameless slobs now and that's a major component of the obesity epidemic. Bastardy, tattoos, and dressing like a sloppy clown in public were inconceivable 40 years ago when eve

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