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>Somehow this has turned into a popular victim-blaming culture?

Obesity is directly related to an individual's diet and exercise habits. Gaining/losing weight is easier/harder for different people for different reasons, but ultimately a person's BMI is within their control. To pretend that they are "victims" of some unavoidable outside force misses the point entirely. Obese people do not deserve to be mocked, shamed or blamed for their problems, but one cannot pretend that the power to fight obesity lies anywhere other than with the obese person. People don't "develop" or "catch" obesity, they become obese by allowing body fat to become too large a portion of their body mass. This problem may be harder to tackle for some people than others, which isn't fair, but that's life for you.

>I'd be perfectly content with a switch to flip, and have no guilt nor shame in flipping it.

As an overweight person, I completely agree! It would be great to have a truly reliable method for accelerating weight-loss. However, we can't pretend that this is going to lead to some "eat whatever you want and lose weight" magic diet pill. This research seems like it could lead to promising treatments that one would use alongside lifestyle/dietary changes and exercise.
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Unless you've bilaterally agreed or acquiesced to it, of course. Consent(.exe) is everything.

You have 72 hours (10 business days by mail) to undo your consent to the Windows license changes after clicking "Agree". Did you submit your notice in a timely fashion, or did you let the clock run out?
That's a fine point, it is basically a tautology though, and certainly doesn't mean we should ignore this kind of thing, lest the top free countries go the way of the less free.

What I find most disturbing about this guy's rhetorik is that he says "Politicians give us the right," when that is exactly opposite how things are understood to work in modern democracies. The people give their consent to politicians and by extension the government to govern.
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> I think - do they force it on Windows 7 machines?

No, but they keep nagging you every time you turn your computer on.
There are several excellent sources:

http://finviz.com

http://www.infomine.com/investment/

Anything those don't have, you can often dig up individually on sites like ycharts or similar.
Yep, every aspect of Amazon's compensation packages are designed to either not pay out, or keep employees involuntarily.

Their RSUs vest at an exponential rate, rather than the linear vesting that's standard in industry. You vest only 5% in your first year, 15% in your second year, and 40% each in years 3 and 4.

Tellingly, Amazon's median engineering tenure is 18 months - you tell me this vesting schedule wasn't designed with that in mind ;)

Ditto, Amazon's signing bonuses are usually structured with a 2-year clawback. I'm not sure if this is an attempt to increase the median tenure or avoid paying out - or maybe a bit of both.
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If we reduce to core principles, if you know your stuff, there's probably not much to disagree on. There are many factors affecting variables like appetite, subjective energy level, energy used through spontaneous movement, many hormones and so on.

But, if you're an individual trying to decide what works and what doesn't in a field where the popular media is full of misinformation, I have a really hard time seeing the position that counting calories is _completely_ unhelpful.

> "Pitting will-power against metabotically driven hunger ends, in the long-term, with biology winning every time."

Yet, awareness of calories in vs calories out can be a way to plan your strategies, to know from the start whether a given strategy can even work or not, from the point of view of physics. Many people try things that this simple knowledge would rule out. A lifestyle change that does not result in a negative energy balance will not cause someone to lose weight, period.

It's also a framework where you can discover what works for yourself. Does lowering carbs vs lowering fat affect your appetite at the same calorie level? How does burning an extra 500 calories through exercise make you feel vs lowering food intake by that amount? These are valuable things to know, again for an individual on a personal quest, not talking about making public policy or population science.

Some people find an intuitive lifestyle change that successfully allows them to lower their body fat and keep it down. Bravo. Some people also succeed more mechanically with conscious calorie control. I have a hard time seeing the argument that both of these can't be useful and successful.
Also see asdf@asdf.com: http://asdf.com/asdfemail.html I've gone to asdf.com for about 15 years now, and it hasn't changed it all. It's also always up, so it's handy to go to to test and see if I have Internet. I love that site.
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> being overweight is "simply calories in vs calories out" is both trivially true and completely unhelpful

I appreciate your overall point, but would argue that the phrase in not necessarily "trivially true" in some cases. Unlike thermodynamics, biology is not simple. A person could potentially die of hunger while also being grossly overweight if they have a problem with certain metabolic genes. If your catabolic enzymes for lipids do not function, you cannot utilize fat or break it down regardless of your overall energy budget.

That being said, I doubt that very many people have mutations in the genes for those enzymes, since those variants will tend to be selected out of the population.
Check out http://leanstack.com/the-innovator-roadmap/ for free videos by Ash to help walk you through the canvas with some examples.
First, the website is down. Second there is always overblown paranoia that runs with every release of Windows. I wish if EFF or atleast ArsTechnica would cover so atleast it will be a proving point for these independent blogs. For all I know is that these updates could be for someone who has already signed up for "Sent diagnostics to Microsoft for product improvement" on their existing Windows. Else it has to be the dumbest spyware that comes with a release note, description and a self describing name.

>2016 is the year of desktop linux.

I don't care if it is Linux, Apple or Windows. As long as someone can guarantee a certain degree of usability and a common sense of privacy, I wouldn't mind switching. However at this point where even open source is taking a nose dive (eg: "Ubuntu and Amazon Search", "Chrome and proprietary blobs", "Firefox with Hello and Pocket"), I am not sure anymore. If it keeps up this rate, in the future people might look back and see privacy as a silly idea /sad.
I think it's tough to get a legal XP license these days. MS has VM images that can be used for testing older versions of IE http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/windows/ But the expire every 30 days so you'd need some way of backing up your history, cookies, saved Flash settings etc. And I'm not sure how good the Flash performance would be on those.
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Maybe he's not old enough yet to play any of his dad's games :)
Can we stop talking about market competition as a battle where the only outcome is a single winner? That is almost never the result and almost never what you want as a customer/user/consumer.
I am SO ready for the traffic relief we got in 1999/2000 :-) But in this case it's China's market not the US market, so traffic relief in Chenzen?

Presumably it would be a challenge if your new startup was selling to people in China.
If Tesla finds itself in position to need more capital, factories are better collateral than domain name and brand equity.
There is a reference to Emacs in the OP, but not directly to what immediately sprung up in my mind[0]. In Emacs, it has a cursor (the block) and a "point" which is described as an imaginary spot at the left edge of the cursor - the point is what's important when one is indexing data (ie: setting a mark and selecting a bunch of text). The model fits for lots of things... Unfortunately for me, tmux highlighting does not follow this model.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Po...

edit: clarify Emacs reference in OP
"processed foods make you fat" isn't infuriating nonsense.
Placing blame on people while saying it has nothing to do with the quality of foods they are eating is infuriating nonsense.

The nutritional profile of processed food is generally very different from what we have evolved to digest and process in ways that will lead to you getting fat.
The most obvious and egregious example is the amount of rapidly-digested carbohydrates. Eating a plant-heavy diet will naturally slow down carbohydrate absorption, eating a diet heavy on processed food leads to much faster absorption, producing excess fat and a variety of other poor health outcomes.

Exercising less is hardly to blame. The healthiest, oldest-aged populations ("blue zones") on the planet do not significant amounts of what most people would consider exercise. They do a lot of moderate activity (walking, gardening), but they're not extraordinarily physically active in terms of calorie burning.

"Eating too much" is a consequence of high intake of processed foods, not the other way around. If you ate mostly unprocessed foods, you'd find it hard to eat too much, and your body's natural response would not entice you to anyway.
Economics play a large role. Countries with high medical costs tend to have more magical thinking that leads to overuse of "alternative" treatments with no scientific backing and that don't work.

Why? It's hard to accept that one is taking an inferior solution due to economic constraint, so people fall into a sort of magical thinking/self-deception that leads them to reject modern medicine.

In a society with expensive private health insurance and extremely high medical costs, it makes sense that people would resort to false cures. Of course, it's not always about money. See: Steve Jobs. It tends to take on a life of its own, after a certain point, because the mind-virus that might start due to inaccessibility of care lives on and spreads.
I don't know the research on this area very well. Does that mean for some people, their bodies will actually store the intake as fat preferentially even if the intake is a minimal amount for survival? You can actually die by eating a minimal amount of food because your body doesn't know to use it for energy and, instead, stores it as fat? Are there any studies on this phenomena?
I use it fairly often. Using Google for everything it's started to pick up my habits.

It'll show me when webcomics I regularly visit are updated (although that's a 0% on the useful scale since I either have them registered in feedly or in a bookmark folder categorized by their update schedule).

What's really nice though for me is recommended stories. It surfaces content I wouldn't see otherwise. I get a little bit of use out of that.

Primarily though, I haven't found a lot of use from it yet. I just recently got package tracking and it hasn't been incredibly useful yet, and I never check it for Weather like I should.

I guess it isn't quite useful yet. Would be more useful if Mint Bills plugged into it and kept me on my toes about upcoming bills, or the normal mint integration did.. anything.

Duolingo integration is interesting, but not entirely useful.
I guess it's a good thing I didn't use Tu quoque then, now if you'd said I made a Fallacy Fallacy you might be closer to the truth.

I wasn't disputing the op's conclusion, just pointed out the invalid assumption in his argument. Though I could have just dismissed him entirely by saying he made three separate Fallacies of Alleged Certainty. But then I'd be dismissing his statement the way you dismissed mine.
Errrrr, are you saying that if someone is making up random accusations which are not true, we should treat them the same as facts?
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It also loads quickly and runs almost no Javascript, making it great for anything you want to test in the dev console.
> People who use their google accounts and Chrome

whataboutism and has nothing to do with a current discussion. Chrome the browser is not an operating system.
But does that really work in this case? It seems as if these new privacy things go pretty deep.
Sure we can stop, although it is a competition. Its a competition for dollars, it has territory, it has strategies and tactics, and it generally is amenable to the same analysis you would use when analyzing armies attempting to capture, defend, or hold territory.
My touch screen works fine from my Vaio E Series to Linux Mint.
The difficult part of arguing economics is that it's a feedback loop - not even a clean loop but a messy cyclic network. One can point a myriad of direct relationships between elements of the network which are true, yet completely miss why the overall network is moving one way or another. It's not just political axe's being ground (and dismissing arguments as political is itself political), but schools of economic theory and social values. If we actually knew what to concentrate on as the root drivers of crashes - we wouldn't have crashes.
> Introverts, whom experts say comprise about a third of the population...

Stuff like this implies it's clear-cut. But I don't even know whether I'm an introvert or an extravert. I strongly identify with traits at both ends of this supposed spectrum. And I don't see myself as someone who 'swings' between the two, nor do I see my traits as conflicting. I just don't identify with this spectrum at all. And I can't confidently place other people on it either. It feels willfully vague and pseudosciencey to me.
AFAIK LuaJIT was the work of Solo programmer Mike Pall. He built it on top of Lua, of course, but it's still an incredible feat of engineering and dedication. There are some who speculate that Mike Pall is possibly an alias for a whole team of people, but I think the reality is it's just one hard-working and extremely talented individual. He's now in the process of passing on the torch to the community, after a decade of shepherding LuaJIT.
> At the same time, I really miss talking shop with other devs.

I'm in the same position, it's really lonely being the only technical resource. Just someone to bounce ideas off of. On the other side, everything works and when it doesn't I know exactly why within moments because I wrote it all.
>Does this even need to be verified ?

Of course not. We should make blind, fear-based assumptions about businesses and reject the "rudder of rationality", so that we can be blown about by the winds of whatever viral fearmongering hits the top of our feeds for the day!!
Markets are green again thanks in part to move in AAPL worth over 80B in market cap.

This happened after Tim Cook's email to Jim Cramer, which may have violated Fair Disclosure regulations: https://mobile.twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/6357996299...
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What threw Canada into a recession, is that they don't have enough other export offsets against the commodity & China weakness. They haven't managed to diversify their economy much in the last ten years. It has become an active topic of discussion since their economy began contraction, with everyone throwing around blame. So while the loonie has taken a hit [1], that isn't going to bump exports very much.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/canadian-dollar-hits-an-11-ye...
Abusive parents are going to love this.

(And that's terrifying.)
Look, even if the Baby Boomer cohort does retire and even if Social Security was funded properly, that leaves the stunning inflation of medical costs and significantly longer-than-forecasted life span of that population as yet one more entitlement economic choke-point that creates problems. There's also the closely held belief that "I paid into this system and I'm going to get everything I deserve!" which doesn't jibe with the decades of voting for people who mis-managed the finances. I don't forsee SS/entitlements "working out fine" barring drastic changes, such as collecting large swaths of destitute and poor Senior Citizens, busing them out to some reservation with centralized health care, and calling it a day.
I found the master switch of why your software is ridden with bugs. It's called lack of attention (since you didn't type it flawless and perfectly complete the first time around).

I also found the master switch of why your project is behind schedule. It's called lack of passion (because you keep choosing those pesky hobbies, social life and family/civic responsibilities over working 100+ hours per week).

I could keep going all day, but I think the point should be clear now. :P
I don't recall high Gini coefficients being associated with economic stability. The massive reduction in marginal utility from most people focusing only on immediate consumption, coupled with the massive oligopolism and centralization leading to price distortions -- those alone don't imply economic stability to me. An extreme oligopoly would likely imply civil unrest, so all else would suffer.
Woah. Nice job Ryan

It's pretty cool how he added squealing sounds when the FLY character dies. I died several times while being in Ghost mode. This game is hard!

When I was 10 I was probably still reading choose-your-own-adventure paperback books. Ryan's already wrote his own game in a functional language.

Nice job!
So his terseness is ample reason to discredit and bury his post. Got it.
To algo market makers, inverse and leveraged indices are free money. They are bought almost exclusively by clueless traders with poor execution, making it easy for market makers to shave their pennies, and due to their dynamic leveraging requirements, bleed value during market gyrations like a puddle evaporating water.

Don't buy indices with a coefficient other than 1 unless you think Wall Street is a noble cause to give money to. If you want to short volatility, use options on major indices. Better yet, don't short volatility at all unless you know what you're doing.
>The most obvious answer is the proliferation of food that is extremely calorically dense and designed to promote fast and heavy consumption.
Or you could wave your hands and say "People these days are just irresponsible!"

Could it not be both? Food may have gotten more unhealthy, but people have also grown more complacent with what and how much they put into their bodies. You can't expect everyone else to coach you on how to eat healthy, you must do it yourself.
Well I can see Russia putting alot more money into ReactOs
I'm not sure. I have seen spam that has unsubscribe buttons that actually work, as well as adware that uninstalls properly from the control panel.

I hope Windows doesn't do worse than spammers and malware programmers.
Here is another. He writes in assembler. Steve Gibson GRC.com.
I actually know a number of people working for Amazon that had comparable offers from Google and decided to work for Amazon. Admittedly, many of these people made the decision for moral reasons, specifically regarding how Google handles user data.

But as with most of Amazon, I guess a lot of it has to do with the team that you're in.
Your abstract visual debugger is really cool! I was thinking about pursuing something similar for my bachelor thesis but ended up doing something much different.

I'm curious to learn more about your insights regarding the subject, where can I find more information?

Also curious to learn what made you go from thinking "this was you" to thinking another lifestyle could make you happier, which lifestyle? Why?

Edit: Going through your submissions now (:
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I've seen a lot of posts about people worrying about personal privacy, as they should be! Right now I'm actually curious about the business implications. Is data going back to Microsoft? Should we be banning Windows for developers, finance, customer support? I'm worried about personally identifiable information (PII) leaking out of our company. Also developers still handle credentials with access to production systems, AWS, sometimes SSL certs. This data cannot be sent out of the network. What is the impact for businesses?
I agree that it seems pretty vague but they do mention that the majority of the population are Ambiverts – a third personality type.
FYI - the link has some sort of javascript problem, made my Chrome / Mac (Yosemite) max out a core and hog ram.
It's not "the" question, but it's "a" question. What I don't understand is why people balk at counting calories as part of a successful plan to change body composition, but plan everything else. Should you only go to the gym intuitively, or is it useful to count sets, weights, plan a certain time of day, maybe measure heart rates, plan rest periods and so on?

Why is food different? We know the human body is adaptable to an incredible variance of conditions, including the fact that we know that if anything, prolonged caloric restriction seems to cause adaptations that _increase_ lifespan. So what's the objection to counting and measuring?
> iPad or Chromebook, it is a loose-loose situation for the next generation.

To be encourage using a computing device at school, and then being forbidden from using one which can teach you actual computing.

That honestly sounds like crazy talk.
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If you're just a regular person, you shouldn't be trying to make millisecond-timing decisions. But you can absolutely say "thus-and-such appears to be systematically underpriced" and make a decision to transition some funds toward bargains.

I recognized there were bargains to be had in March of 2009. I didn't hit the exact bottom (March 6), but I got some pretty nice deals on March 12.

Right now, I wouldn't go out of my way to make excess contributions. The signal isn't strong enough. But sometimes it is.
I never said anything even remotely about genetics.

And I never blamed my parents, they did what they thought was best, but I dare to suggest that adults constantly telling kids: "you should lose weight" for years doesn't do any good. At worst you start to resent everyone who says that and then you are in deep trouble.

If you have been skinny to normal weight your whole life you have no idea how hard it is to keep up with a diet and how easily it gets out of hand. Kids are the place where we should start treating this epidemic and it doesn't start with nagging them every time they visit a doctor/nurse. It starts with proper school meals which favor salads instead of shit like pasta, rice and potatoes, and removing shit like coke machines from school property. With PE classes where kids actually get exercise and isn't just about playing few rounds of sports ball. And some actual advice with weight problems and proper after school activities (these probably should be sports ball activities) which don't cost a lot.

Maybe I'm way off base here. Maybe I'm just crazy. But I know what my educational system is like and for most part it ain't helping.
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Ashley Madison is getting hammered. Even cloudflare can't keep their blog up right now.

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Languages like Haxe offer a way to develop against flash targets, in addition to other platforms like js, cpp, python, etc:
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I think there's a chance that flash still stays useful, despite Adobe's action/inactions.
They keep emailing and calling me now. "I see your profile in our database and you look like an excellent fit! Why aren't you here already? It says you even passed the interview." I always play dumb, "Oh, I didn't realize Amazon was open to remote work now. Yeah, I'm interested!"
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