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>What you put in your face is directly responsible for how fat you become.

To be equally pedantic, it's not what you "put in your face", but how much. Microbes are a factor in weight gain and weight loss just like diet and exercise are also factors. There is no "one simple trick" to lose weight, there are a variety of factors that, if understood, can help us understand the safest, most efficient ways to maintain a healthy weight.
There is no good reason to question Zuckerbergs's motives. He very clearly means to donate his money to good causes over the course of his life.

Maybe it's wrong for billionaires to influence the world as if they had billions of votes, but good or bad, anyone who questions his sincerity or general goodness is a bad judge of character.

And even if you can't imagine Zuckerberg as a good person. Good luck trying to convince yourself his paediatrician spouse is not genuinely interested in helping people.
> Look at how he lives

You mean buying multiple homes around his home for privacy? http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24285169/mark-zuckerb...

Or you mean driving his neighbors crazy with his over-the-top construction http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Neighbors-...
There came a moment when I realized that I no longer used Google to "google" things.
Is it right for one person to be in control of so much political power? Why do we allow individuals to amass that much power? Is it right for a committee to be in control of so much political power? Is it right for people to be obligated to commit their economic output to such a group that has been selected by a process as pedestrian as a popularity contest? Perhaps we should choose experts instead. Then who gets to choose the experts? Quis ipsos custodies custodies
Just because they have a $20B+ endowment doesn't mean they're going to start giving stuff away.
At this point, it cannot be fairly characterized as anecdotal that taxi drivers routinely a) demand more than the regulated rate ("tipping"); b) refuse service to persons of color, with disabilities, and with undesirable destinations; and c) decline credit cards despite bearing the processor's trade dress.

(That's just the US, though, can't speak for France, not having researched the market there.)
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Sorry, the article doesn't say that at all. It does say:

"If you want to stay lean, you'll want bacteria that are not very efficient," says Claire Fraser, a professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
yes. how often do you click some top voted link and it starts off sounding like it's going to be some in-depth and provocative analysis and it turns out the author only learned how to copy that style of that writing so the post abruptly ends when he's reached the limit of his ability, which just like this post, is pretty quickly.
I think it's less that google can cherry pick profitable customers, and more that google can cherry pick the neighborhoods where their customers will be. E.g., for your neighborhood to get on the build-out list there has to be X demand for it. Keep in mind they have both a free tier (after installation cost, which can be amortized) and a paid tier (with no installation cost).
Taking in 1800+ calories in one meal would make me lethargic. Does your food baby ever make you crash?
This is the only sane guy among all the candidates.
Who would you rather they appeal to, and why is it more legitimate than the will of the governed?
> It's amazing how even a simple improvement like systemd gets tons of negativity from admin types and people who think 70s designs should be set in stone.

That is misrepresenting (perhaps to the point of straw man) the systemd complaints.
LibreSSL seemed to be pulling ahead with two of the OpenSSL vulnerabilities not applicable.

It irks me that OpenSSL would keep a vulnerability from the LibreSSL team since August. I hope people using OpenSSL will begin to switch over now. LibreSSL has shown that it is no going away, and that it approaches security in a far better way.
Not the only one to die just because, in those times.
Another good question is whether the gut flora have any effect on the brain. And if so, how much?
Back in 1984 when the Bell System was under indictment by the DOJ for antitrust violations that was one option that was evaluated. In fact, interesting tid bit, the phone company was briefly nationalized during WWI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_AT%26T) and was run by the Post Office, similar to how some European countries have done but that arrangement lasted about 1 year. What the DOJ did was to negotiate a settlement which basically divested (broke up) the Bell System into a number of smaller companies. An option that was also floated at the time was to instead require that all communities and states issue at least 2 franchise agreements to two different companies that would be formed from the Bell companies and form a duopoly which in my view would have been a much better approach (it worked fairly well for a time with the mobile phone industry) but the Bell companies lobbied hard against that and instead proposed the settlement of the break up because then they would still hold effectively geographic monopolies. That in my view, was the major error that the DOJ made because it just promulgated the problem on a smaller scale rather than addressing the root cause.
It will take his entire lifetime to bear that out... so why are people trying to claim some sort of fraud before anything has even been done? It is not fair to try and call him a liar or to suspect him of making some false claim when that cannot even be remotely verified until after he is dead... let alone when he is in his early 30's. People just like to blow hard and complain for the sake of complaining. The guy is making a big promise and I'm going to watch what he does and hopefully he will make as big of a positive impact on society as he claims that he wants to... way to early to tell... I applaud him for even stepping out to take on the journey.
Nextdoor is pretty popular up here in Portland. Our entire neighborhood is on Nextdoor, and people use it to organize potlucks, parties, etc.
I have never experience latency here worth me noting much-less being annoyed with. I am not doubting it exist but from my experience my head phone button respond quickly(<1 second)

curious what phone and headphone type you guys use?

I use a Nexus 6 with a single button headphones.
What if collecting data center telemetry was a Snap?
Counter evidence with counterevidence; it could be a good assumption. Even if someone's personality is not static, it doesn't mean that the variation is large enough to be significant, either.
Your assumption is that obese / overweight individuals are seeking abnormally inefficient bacteria, as opposed to their perhaps having abnormally efficient microbes. I'm sure the world of the overweight is comprised of many types: those who simply overeat beyond their "normal" bacteria's ability, those who eat their way to super-efficiency, those who accidentally (antibiotics, food poisoning maybe, Caesarean-section-delivery -- who knows?) arrive there, etc.

Simply labeling it a problem of self-control paints with far too wide (and pejorative) a brush. Let's assume a hospitalization somehow leaves you with a more efficient gut -- how easily can you stop eating, say, 250 calories a day? (Research shows: not easily, and not forever.)
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Most of the educated criticism I've seen isn't about money, it's about power. A lot of his actions have shown that he values power far more than money, and we all know he has been successful in this pursuit (look at the way his facebook voting rights are structured).

I think a lot of the criticism in this case is that he isn't really being altruistic - instead he is strengthening the power he has in the most efficient way possible. Nothing too surprising, most intelligent billionaires are very good at this. The difference is most of them don't act like they're doing the world a huge favor for it.
Because internet message boards are dominated by cynics.
Calories in / Calories out is still perfectly valid. It's just that the same portion of the same food might be considered a different number of "calories in" for different people.

The "big-boned" or "genetically fat" arguments still reek of BS, but it's worth humoring the idea that we aren't 100% efficient machines that absorb the exact number of calories on the Nutrition Facts box, or burn the exact number of calories displayed on the Treadmill screen...

There's a intelligent middle-ground between equally ridiculous ideas that we are "Healthy at Every Size" and that we are perfectly tuned biological machines.
I think that you are right on this, when looking at one of the examples (server.swift) it seems that people are paid by characters typed and they forget (or never heard of) the mantra DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself):

func fdSet(fd: Int32, inout set: fd_set) {

let intOffset = Int(fd / 16)

let bitOffset: Int = Int(fd % 16)

let mask: Int = 1 << bitOffset

switch intOffset {

case 0: set.__fds_bits.0 = set.__fds_bits.0 | mask

case 1: set.__fds_bits.1 = set.__fds_bits.1 | mask

case 2: set.__fds_bits.2 = set.__fds_bits.2 | mask

case 3: set.__fds_bits.3 = set.__fds_bits.3 | mask

case 4: set.__fds_bits.4 = set.__fds_bits.4 | mask

case 5: set.__fds_bits.5 = set.__fds_bits.5 | mask

case 6: set.__fds_bits.6 = set.__fds_bits.6 | mask

case 7: set.__fds_bits.7 = set.__fds_bits.7 | mask

case 8: set.__fds_bits.8 = set.__fds_bits.8 | mask

case 9: set.__fds_bits.9 = set.__fds_bits.9 | mask

case 10: set.__fds_bits.10 = set.__fds_bits.10 | mask

case 11: set.__fds_bits.11 = set.__fds_bits.11 | mask

case 12: set.__fds_bits.12 = set.__fds_bits.12 | mask

case 13: set.__fds_bits.13 = set.__fds_bits.13 | mask

case 14: set.__fds_bits.14 = set.__fds_bits.14 | mask

case 15: set.__fds_bits.15 = set.__fds_bits.15 | mask

default: break

}

}
Also along these lines is https://github.com/kuba/simp_le , which is quite a lot larger than acme-tiny, but still much closer to something I'd want to stick in a crontab.
Stop eating carbs. Stop eating bread, pasta, beans, chips, rice and potatoes. They're not healthy. They never have been. They're pure starch. Calories from sugar are waaaay worse than calories from fat. Low fat doesn't work. Low carb, high fat is the way to go.

Keto, Adkins, etc...They work. But they're not diets. It's a healthy lifestyle choice. It needs to be a change in your life.

Two years ago I was 70kg. Now I'm 59 ~ 61kg on average, I have more muscle mass, more energy and I feel great.

Also cholesterol isn't bad for you. It fixes the damage caused by sugar to clog your arteries. No sugar, you can have a ton of cholesterol and dietary cholesterol doesn't affect blood cholesterol in most people anyway.
Can you please define "social contract"? Because you could also argue that part of the "social contract" is that cops get qualified immunity when they shoot you for any amount of suspicion. it's the price you pay for an orderly society
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Oh, that's some good news. Great that this judge saw through the plan and immediately put a stop to it. Let's hope it discourages copy cats from trying this sort of stuff ever again.
Apple and IBM are fairly close nowadays. Because of that, I got the impression this and Apple's announcement are coordinated actions.
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Because it's worked better than any other system that humanity has tried?
The whole point is that it's hyperlocal and networked. I don't think it's even possible to join it if they haven't set up a network for your community.

I'm a member and it seems moderately popular in DC... though nowhere near the penetration of old-fashioned neighborhood mailing lists.
There seems to be lot of emotion-laden writing about MZ's pledge but I looked at his letter[1] to his daughter and this is what it actually says:

Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
[...]
Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission.

He didn't actually use the word "charity". Was the term "charity" something that the media outlet pushed in its stories? Now with the closer inspection of the LLC structure, the media looks to blast MZ for being dishonest about it being a charity? Did MZ get free hero publicity by not explicitly stating it was not a 501c in his letter to the daughter? I didn't follow the story closely enough to judge if there was deception and media manipulation.

As for MZ going with the LLC structure, I think it's just a general zeitgeist of tech-billionaires to believe that other institutions besides non-profits can make more progress on improving humanity. A similar sentiment was Larry Page's "I'd rather give my billions to Elon Musk than charity".

I don't know if MZ and LP are "right" but I sort of see where they're coming from. I was looking at a startup that matched donors to charities and when I researched charities such as Pink Ribbon and Mother Theresa, etc, it really made me mistrust the whole landscape. Yes, there are sites such as GiveWell but then I'd need to research the integrity of GiveWell itself which I never got around to pursuing.

I don't know all the confluence of reasons but it does seem like traditional non-profits are not getting 100% mindshare of philanthropists.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-letter-to-o...
yeah, that is easy. i also do that with firefox. i have one themed using a proxy to work, the other not.

i was mostly talking about android apps, where there is hardly an alternative for google services.
I think you should provide arguments as to why shouldn't we. If you are really serious about changing the current status quote you are the one that needs to convince me to join your side. I do no need to justify why things are the way they are.
"In the US, many telecoms operate as a legal monopoly."

I assumed we were talking about ^^^.

I'm not being pedantic about the distinction. If you're of a libertarian bent, there is a big difference between legal and de-facto monopolists.
The race card was played in real estate and metropolitan planning long ago, to great detrimental effect on blacks. You can't separate the creation of the American suburb from America's 20th century racial history.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Also:

http://wpsa.research.pdx.edu/meet/2012/greer.pdf

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
> ~$500/yr in various fees (insurance) before gas. Add in a $120 set of tires and rims every other year (because you don't buy new, you buy used). If you live in a blue collar neighborhood maintenance usually costs next to nothing because you trade services with your neighbors or church congregation or have relatives or close friends that will do things at cost.

So, 560$/year without gas? 522.26$ a year is public transit for me.

So I’d save 40$ a year, plus all the gas.

And my commute times are lower, I’m never stuck in traffic, and even if the commute might be long on some days, I can continue working or browsing the web during it.
No, for sure. Early employees should definitely be rewarded for all those things. But it would be nice if there were a better way to structure equity for later employees so that high performing ones can be motivated proportionately.

It must be pretty demotivating to spend your time at a small company busting ass to make the stock go from $20 to $21 while you look across the office at the early birds whose only current job description appears to be "sit around and cash out my truckload of $0.01 stocks at $20 every two weeks".
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I wonder if forming a Benefit Corporation [0] was considered. This is a type of corporate entity that has only come into being in the past few years. Unlike a traditional corporation which has a mandate to operate in the best interests of its shareholders [1], a Benefit Corporation is formed with a mandate to produce a benefit to a broader class of stakeholders, which could be the general public or all of humanity. As a practical matter, if you have the assent of the shareholders a corporation can act however it likes within the law and doesn't need to try to return a profit, however it seems to me that there is a serious impedance mismatch in using a corporation for philanthropic endeavours and I wonder why, seeing as how a legal tool specifically for this purpose has recently been created, it wasn't used.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
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I don't mind that he's filthy rich. That's how capitalism works. Good for him.

But I don't like dynasties. I don't like that trusts and foundations are being used as a way to bring back dynastic wealth and power.

You see this at play in the most powerful families in America: the Kennedies, Clintons, Bushes, Romneys, Pelosis. They all use trusts and foundations to preserve wealth between generations.

I understand why people are skeptical.
I live in SF and this is happening everywhere. The house directly next to me has been under construction for more than 18 months, with parking blocked off, huge amounts of noise, etc. And I live on a fairly undistinguished block (though one that is about to have a $5m home hit the market...). This is just par for the course in SF. His home attracted a particular amount of attention because it's his.

$10 in SF for a billionaire is really pretty modest. Compare to e.g. Larry Ellison: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2011/05/31/pacific_heights_lar...
Not to nitpick, but that basic dynamic -- the prospect of decades of monopoly profits driving innovation -- was long acknowledged even when the US constitution was written; it's not just Peter Thiel's thing.

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
var results in the same behavior in chrome (empty string for a function name)

It looks like babel does this little nicety for stack-trace readability.
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Yes, typing is indeed the bottleneck. Perhaps it doesn't add up to much time overall, but until we get brain-computer interfaces and the ability to will code or instructions into existence, I want every barrier to moving the solution from my head into the computer as small as possible.

I had a very similar conversation with a colleague about UX. This one operation might not happen often, but when it does, it should be intuitive and fast. The technology is here to serve the humans.
In addition to that Zuck already dispels the meme that he isn't paying taxes in his post, the LLC will be paying taxes just like everyone else.

All of the complaints really are just proxy reasons to complain about Facebook and the guy who founded it. If Warren Buffett did this exact thing last month none of these articles would have been written.
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I handwashed dishes for 9 years. I also cooked dinner for the family (my mother and three sisters, stepfather was usually still at work) daily. I was also left with the dishes (as we did not have a mechanical dishwasher).

Not liking to cook has fuck all to do with not knowing how to cook. People who make that assumption and then are judgmental about people who dislike to cook piss me off. My issue is not that I've never cooked in my life or that I don't cook.

Sure, I could solve this by getting frozen lasagna and baking it for an hour ten. Absolutely no cleaning involved there! But that isn't cooking so much as preparing a pre-made meal.

What's something you don't like doing so I can judge and belittle you for it?
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Easy. We don't "allow" things to happen. Things happen. Nobody went around the room and asked everyone if they could give money to facebook.
Show me someone whose personality has changed without significant personal struggle and I'll show you a lobotomy.
You are welcome to continue using the 1985 era FaceBook-created-by-the-labor-of-people-long-dead. It's free. No ads either.

For the longer version of this comment, see PG's essay titled Wealth.

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
So what? If I was a billionaire I'd have multiple homes too!
This is a fair point, but why do we as hackers and entrepreneurs place so much importance on what's in a company's "DNA" then? Because right here, you have a pretty damn stark view of the founder's mindset at the genesis of his startup before and as it was taking off. It isn't like he was chastened by external forces along the way or since - ostensibly everything that's happened since has only been positive reinforcement (A billion+ users, 45 billion dollars).

I'm not saying he still feels this way or didn't or couldn't change his thinking and attitude. Common decency would behoove him to and it's reasonable to grant that. I'm happy for him and his new family, but away from all that and his foundation (which sounds very positive), It's hard not to view a lot of what Facebook does with its users through the kind of cavalier attitude embodied in that old chat log. In fact, it helps makes a lot more sense of some of their moves if you do.
> Conversely, you can gain body fat while losing lean body mass with a calorie deficit.

Do you have any sources for this? I'm curious because it matches my experience the handful of times I've attempted even fairly harsh caloric restriction. A month or two in and my weight drops such a small fraction of what all "weight loss" calculators suggest it should (like, 1/20) that I doubt the "calories in, calories out, it's so simple bro!" crowd would believe me.

Meanwhile, anaerobic exercise cuts fat and builds muscle on me like crazy. Way, way more effective. Too bad since I find it way easier to cut calories (time commitment of zero, if not negative).
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You forgot the /s at the end.
Private people having money: bad.

Politicians and bureaucrats having unlimited power: good.
This is such a weird question.
Nope. Not when I'm fasted all day before the meal.
Whoa, didn't think of that technique! Very cool for you to share and thank you very much.
I don't read the blogpost the same way. I read it as confident condescension.