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by simplecomplex 7y ago
In adults, the most common cause of obstructive sleep apnea is excess weight and obesity. That is a fact. If you’re very overweight and have sleep apnea, losing weight isn’t a crazy suggestion. If you’re skinny it obviously doesn’t make sen
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Yeah, and please link to it so my feed reader can pick it up from the URL.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Because on HN stating anything obvious that might offend someone is against the rules. HN prefers mindless optimism over snark. If I had said “great development, [something about how clinical trials need to be disrupted], [summary of articl
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
It’s cold and uninviting, not a warm and relaxing environment for reading and pondering. You’d think it was a museum not a library. What’s with the recent trend of libraries and coffee shops that look like modern art museums (cold, bright,
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Proper diet, exercise, and avoiding smoking also prevents more than a third of heart problems. It’s safer than blood-pressure or cholesterol medications.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
> There's "intrinsic value" which is different from the "market value". If there is, then how would I calculate the intrinsic value of a piece of real estate, to levy a tax on it? See https://en.m.wiki
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Margin of error? I don’t think you understand me. There can’t be a margin of error because there is no dollar value inherent to land (or anything). Margin of error compared to what? People attribute different values to the same property, wh
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Pretty much. An assessor can write down any assessment they want. All assessed value taxes have this problem. The value I attribute to something can only be objectively defined by a market transaction. And more importantly, people attribute
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Sounds nice but the devil is in the details. Land value tax would be determined arbitrarily not by the market. It’s sounds great if you ignore the problem of actually assessing unimproved land value. Of course we know “value” is just the am
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Advertisers don't follow us around and take photos of us, so that's not something we need to worry about. But CCTVs do have photos of us being taken every 10 seconds in public in major cities. It's not an issue. Nobody is pub
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
So? What’s the problem? If I go in public someone might photograph me or see me. If I visit a website, it might log information about my visit (to show me ads). Sounds fine to me. I like reading free news articles, paid for with ads. If I d
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Great. Professional adults don’t talk about heated issues at work when it is not necessary. For obvious reasons.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
What forces a homosexual black man into talking about politics at work? Could you give an example ?
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Yes, life can be hard. And it’s unfair. It wasn’t easy or fair in preindustrial times. People worked a few hours less on average, but they received less wealth in exchange and had no opportunity to educate themselves and grow wealth. Serfs
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Here are numbers in question: 13th century - Adult male peasant, U.K.: 1620 hours 14th century - Casual laborer, U.K.: 1440 hours Middle ages - English worker: 2309 hour 1400-1600 - Farmer-miner, adult male, U.K.: 1980 hours 1840 - Average
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Someone else is working for you instead (unless you saved this money). Whoever pays your bills is your boss. If the pay is contingent on attending graduate school then it’s actually a job.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Never before has education been so cheap or widely available. The whole world’s information is available to anyone with an Internet connection.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Haskell! If you aren't proficient in a functional language like Haskell then you haven't completed your programming education. Go, Rust, D, etc. are all just C with fancy features. Change your whole programming paradigm. Here&#x27
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Yeah, its so terrible being able to search the whole Internet for free, carry a computer in your pocket, and order anything delivered to your door.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Elizabeth Warren is an idiot, and her ignorance is destructive and a threat to a productive and free society. Arbitrarily destroying businesses doesn't make anyone richer.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
A Ponzi scheme lies about the source of returns. WeWork is not lying about any financials. WeWork is not a Ponzi scheme and you know it.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
What did they omit that constitutes a lie in your opinion?
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
How is it fraud? Investors make idiotic investments. Nobody is being forced to buy shares of WeWork, and all the financials are there. It’s not like WeWork is lying about financials.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Write a spec... What sage startup advice by YC lol. Who would have thought. Seriously though check out Shape Up: basecamp.com/shapeup It’s a whole book on how 37signals makes the sausage. Goes over how they spec out a feature, decide o
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
How is that possible if you're comparing the same data loaded on the client vs the server? Server has a faster Internet connection and connects to the DB directly (not over HTTP). Sure, clients load "faster" if you mean they
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Super happy customer of Fastmail of 7 years now. It’s a joy to use. Fast, responsive, and reliable. No pointless redesigns or 10 second loading screens like gmail.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
By definition welfare is a net loss. Otherwise it wouldn’t be needed. How can it be bad for immigrants to get more than they put in, but not citizens? The “immigrants will get more out of welfare than they put in” is exactly how welfare is
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
No, they are terrible experiences. The most frustrating part is that I’m not in control of what I read. I use feedbin to aggregate RSS feeds. I control what I read. If someone I follow publishes something, it’s in my feed, in fucking chrono
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
There is no gender or financial requirement to be a CEO. Everyone can be a CEO. Here’s some job ads for CEO: https://www.indeed.com/m/jobs?q=CEO You’ll notice there’s nothing about gender in any of them, or being born
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Which study would that be? This one [1] concludes “both the “ideological sorting” and “vote-buying” hypotheses are able to explain the positive correlations observed between PAC contributions and voting behavior.” In other words, vote buyi

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