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We should be able to do better than that. If there are indications that some foods are burdensome to health, then there should be indications that some foods are beneficial.
It is just taking us forever to separate the facts from the persuasions.

Anecdotally, the spices Tumeric and Cumin seem to be great tonics for my particular metabolism/diet/lifestyle.
"And in my day we had wires to our speakers." Progress marches on.
I did that while criticizing pg's original essay.

dang still deleted me as a troll, because god forbid somebody be moderately brusque towards the almighty always perfect pg. god forbid somebody even get near his bubble.

to me the worst part of pg's essay is that he never actually provided ANY evidence that startups increase income inequality. He noted that founders get rich, but he didn't go through who else wins and loses because of those startups. He didn't note that they shift power from the old guard.

The whole thing was just pg going 'oh god people hate rich people and i'm rich, FUCK THEM' It was dumb.
3000 years is more than enough in humans. The lactase persistence mutation in Europeans basically went from 0% of the population to near 100% in Northern Europeans in 3000 years. This was totally due to a change in diet when adults started drinking animal milk.

Evolution speed is proportional to the population size as the rate of new genes appearing is directly proportional to the number of individuals while the speed a gene spreads through the population is proportional to the log10 of the population size. If you increase the population 1000 fold then you get 1000 times the rate of evolution. Because the human population has grown so much since the invention of agriculture the rate of human evolution over the last 10,000 years is more than than the preceding million years.
Being held accountable to metrics will incentivize some behaviors over others. It's not surprising that when Arts and Phys Ed are not on the test, they are dropped from the curriculum. I think student, teacher, doctor and patient happiness should be one of the key metrics that is measured and reported along with test scores and mortality rates. That would incentivize schools and hospitals to take a more balanced approach.
I think it's important to ask the question, but I don't see those answers as convincing. For one thing, a correlation doesn't have to be perfect in order to be meaningful, and the correlation between democracy and the welfare (politically, socially, physically, ecoomically) of citizens seems very strong.

> Singapore and Hong Kong

Singapore and Hong Kong are cities, and in many ways not comparable to nations. Also, both are more democratic than most comparable places in East Asia.

> there's very good correlation between the Corruption Perceptions Index[1] and the list from the Human Development Index[2]

I believe democracy is widely considered to be important to controlling corruption, but I don't know if that's backed by research or is just a widely held assumption.

Also, much of what you write seems focused on economics. For example, I don't think anyone sees the Saudi people's political rights, religious freedom, or the well-being of women there as very good.
Yeah, it sounds like you've had some really bad luck with hardware.

Since you asked, for what it's worth, I invariably run Debian-based distros. I haven't touched Ubuntu since they decided to get weird with the interface. This laptop is a ThinkPad X61T running Linux Mint + Cinnamon, which is only "okay" - little laggy at times but it works fine. Surprisingly, the fastest-feeling, stablest, easiest-to-use machine I have is... the ancient EeePC. Standard Debian + MATE desktop. The thing about Debian is, if you can put up with somewhat out of date software, is it just does. Not. Break.

I don't really understand where your problems with multiple monitors come from. I just plug 'em in and they work. It's been a while since I had a desktop with an NVidia chip - all my laptops have Intel graphics - but NVidia's self-extracting installers have always worked for me (although they're built against the kernel so you might have to re-run them every upgrade).

I've had the repository problem you describe, long ago - the UK repos were being weird so I switched to France, which worked fine. Nowadays though all you have to do is use
http://httpredir.debian.org/, which will always serve you the file from the fastest place it's available from. Never had an issue with it.

I guess I won't deny that it can sometimes be a hassle getting things working just right on a fresh Linux system. But at least you only have to do it once.
I think Atmel's and to a lessor extent Microchip have a real problem on their hands with the proliferation of low cost low power ARM based microcontrollers. And also getting squeezed on the higher end by Linux capable processors.

Where I work when confronted by the need to move away from AVR Mega parts due to cost instead of going the xmega route I punted us over to a low cost ARM micro. That was three years ago.
I've been reading about zippers lately and their use in functional programming to allow update of immutable data structures. Does anyone know if ideas like this have been developed for use with blockchains?
Humanity isn't an actor with a will. It doesn't "do" anything.

I was referencing the superiority of AI minds to biological minds. Humanity not a thing which possesses a mind.
"Economic inequality may be caused by good things, but it is still bad"

I think you're still making the same error as those primitive responses, because you're making that statement without qualification.

I suspect you don't realise how extreme your statement is percieved with the lack of qualification.

If one farmer works harder than the guy next door and becomes richer as a result, how is that bad?

If someone earning more than the median gets a payrise, they're contributing to poverty as defined in some countries.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
Administrative bloat and overhead. You need ever so many people to help ensure you are complying with all the standards.
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What's wrong with this audience? This dude is hilarious and they don't laugh.
As a Norwegian, my first (and so far only) trip to the US was in the (northern hemisphere) autumn of '99, for an Allaire developers conference in Boston.

My first impressions when landing at New Ark airport was one of being flabbergasted by how utterly fat so many people were. In 20 minutes I very likely saw more grossly fat people than I had seen in the previous year in Norway. For me it really was the most bizarre thing.

Now in my early 40s, my memories are vague on this matter, but I'm pretty sure Coca Cola and the likes were completely banned from my school canteens. There just wasn't that much junk food to be had either. I mean in general ... as for the schools, forget about it. Pizza would be a very special occasion.

Whatever the US were doing, it was doing it completely wrong.
Ironically I think smaller local issues are often harder for the wealthy to influence than bigger national issues. As a concerned resident I can probably actually talk face to face with my city representative, and share my concerns about a project like this. I have pretty much no chance of meeting face to face with my state representative without cash or some other means of influence. The councilor probably also has significantly less need for campaign donations from rich benefactors than a national representative. And finally, local representative are most likely making decisions that affect them pretty directly as a resident, whereas national representatives may often be making decisions that have widely dispersed or no direct personal impact.

These are all reasons regularly brought forth by Libertarians and Republicans who prefer that centralized government entities defer to local entities as much as possible.
Are cities the new countries?
>Glacier is designed with the expectation that retrievals are infrequent and unusual, and data will be stored for extended periods of time. You can retrieve up to 5% of your average monthly storage (pro-rated daily) for free each month. If you choose to retrieve more than this amount of data in a month, you are charged a retrieval fee starting at $0.01 per gigabyte. Learn more.

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It's certainly not unreadable, although to be fair, it's nowhere near as clear as it should be.
How about breaking it down by nation in an attempt to show how lopsided certain economic systems or legal frameworks are vs others? That would at least seem to provide a more complete view of the potential problem.

I'd also be interested in seeing a break-down per nation regarding wealth distribution in order to measure what appears to work and what does not from an economic/legal framework.
Thats definitely one of my favorite books. If anyone is interested in Bulgakov, "Heart of a Dog" is another book to read. Perhaps, even wittier than "Master and Margarita".
With the tougher cuts of meat, have you tried sous vide cooking? Recently got my own small sous vide cooker and have fell in love with being able to prepare the next weeks meals and freezing them. Things like steak, pork and lamb when defrosted and reheated for 15-20 mins in the sous vide don't seem to lose flavour after initially being cooked already. Bought-frozen fish like salmon taste much better too before searing the skin in a non-stick pan.

It's been a god-send being able to pre-prepare meals on a single day and only needing to do 20-30 mins of actual work for each meal (incl preparing veggies/salads) - and not ending up with stir-fry or single pot slow-cooked meals (which I still occasionally make because mmm..).

I'd usually end up buying meals because I didn't want the same damn thing again, now I get to prepare all sorts of different meats on Sunday for the following days. Everything from fried chicken, duck breast and steak to pork belly, chuck roast and salmon (usually cook fish on-the-day because it's pretty fast).
I think Chinese are even worse: they not only "live to eat", but also talk, think, write almost only about food. Especially true in Sichuan: there food is the only conversation topic available. In Beijing it is possible to talk also about other things, like politics.
It's interesting to note how the styles of Russell Okung's article and PG's response are so different. Okung draws analogies to sports, men on hills, uses rhetorical questions, and talks about dreams and compassion. It's impassioned. PG's response is a cold deconstruction. A implies B implies C, but B is not true hence the argument is false.

Personally I love this style of argument and wish more people would argue in this way, but, anecdotally, people often think you're an asshole when you do. Maybe it's because you miss out on nuances that you find irrelevant to the central question, but that others feel are very important. Maybe it's just a generally unappealing way to be convinced of something.
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I think it's helpful to keep in mind, when deciding on our "individual" takeaways from this article, that our DNA requires nothing more of us than that we stay alive long enough to reproduce and pass it along...

The earliest humans likely ate whatever was immediately available to stay alive...some survived doing that and they became your ancestors...some died doing that, their DNA with them...

If you doubt that just observe babies when they first become ambulatory (start crawling), and come to your own conclusions--babies put a great number of things into their mouths to "try it out"...

We think about past humans, and ponder the dietary choices the fossil record indicates they appear to have made...

Is a diet that kept them alive long enough to reproduce a diet that has the potential to keep us feeling well into our 30s-50s, or to keep us alive well into our 60s-90s...?
"This book is targeted towards at least somewhat experienced developers (in other words, it is NOT “how to develop your first program” book with IDE screenshots and copy-paste examples). If your game project is your very first programming project – you’re likely to have difficulties understanding this boo"

After spending sometime around people that want to become indie developers, I cannot emphasize this enough. Please do not try to make an MMO as a first game.
> If you attack economic inequality, you're indiscriminately attacking both the good and bad causes.

Graham keeps returning to this point, which is a little silly. His class owns and controls the corporate media, which decided to frame this general issue as one of economic inequality. Then Graham castigates the strawman his class put up as being not focused on the right thing.

There are those of us who work, and then there are the heirs who parasitically expropriate the surplus labor time of those of us who do work. It's as simple as that. Workers periodically fix the problem - as they did with Charles I, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and Nicholas II and his family. As there are still classes, the workers and the parasite heirs, this problem still exists, but I'm confident the problem will eventually be fixed permanently and the parasites will be eliminated as a class.
As a slight counterpoint to this, I was born and raised in small villages in Normandy. I had good food in elementary school and high school. A bit on the oily side but still freshly prepared, relatively healthy and actually better and less oily than food I later had as an exchange student in the US.

In middle school though, I had truly awful food. More than once the yogurts we were served were past the expiry date and we had a few cases of food poisoning. As a kid, I disliked the food so much that I usually just skipped lunch (I would go to the cafeteria because I had to and would just eat the bread and maybe the yogurts if they weren't expired), not good for growth...

The problem of preparing fresh food for students is that it relies on having a Chef who is good at his job and organized enough to manage the food stocks and expiry dates.

Also as an additional nitpicking, according to the article:

> Contrast all this with France, where vending machines are banned on campus

This is recent (2005 apparently) and that certainly was not the case when I was a kid, we had vending machines both in middle school and high school. Additionally to this, in high school, we had a bakery selling fresh warm pain au chocolat at 10am (not healthy but certainly delicious)
Also in Australia, and its not that black-and-white in my understanding:

This is known as "Format Shifting" — taking one copyrighted medium and converting it to another. In Australia, you are explicitly not allowed to do this with CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays.

You are only allowed to keep a digital copy if you continue to retain the original — a backup. If the original is lost or destroyed, your digital copies must be discarded.

For example, you can rip a CD and put it on your iPod, or computer, as long as you continue to own the CD. The issue here is that in both cases you also control the device you are copying it to. You don't control but rather lease space on Amazon's servers — so it introduces a grey area on whether you are allowed to backup to such places and whether putting data on those servers constitutes distribution of the copyright material.

Realistically, none of this is black-and-white and Amazon could flag it as infringing content and remove it just to cover themselves against DMCA complaints anyway. This is true in both Australia and the US, regardless of the differences in copyright law (Australian copyright law offers far fewer protections than the US, incidentally) because both having similar DMCA laws.
Amusingly, they did not bother to measure the actual results of fitness in these populations. Do these areas demonstrate a marked reduction in cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes rates, etc?
Depends on your budget. If you don't have $150 disposable income to blow on a screwup, it's an expensive mistake.

It's like getting a parking ticket for parking somewhere you've unknowingly been parking illegally for years. Yeah, if you average it out, it's cheap. But having to stump up the cash still hurts.
Your estimate is 1%. It's a good prior.

It's not the actual probability of an adverse side effect.
>US schools have among the highest per-student funding in the world.

We actually looked at this in comparative econ, and I believe that the statistic is misleading, at least if it leads us to conclude that teacher quality should be higher in the US. You must correct for the alternative jobs available to the type of person who will become a teacher. In the US, since per capita income is higher, people who are deciding whether to become teachers or not will have to be offered higher salaries in order to do it because the alternative is more attractive, so the fact that per-student funding is higher in the US is actually the least we should expect, not some surprising statistic.
Here's a thought. Suppose we had a search engine which tried to figure out the sources behind an article. Build a tree which represents the provenance of the statements in the article, tracing them back to their original sources. Like Wikipedia style, but automated. IBM Watson might be able to do this. The goal is to track facts back to their original source, and identify what's new in each article.

The search engine could then discard most derivative articles, even if they'd been reworded. It's a form of automated curation, based on content, not attention.
I think I might be underpaid
I'm an engineer in SF with 3 years' experience in primarily Python and Django. I make just a little over $100K, but I've been told by multiple people that I could/should be making more.

What range should an average engineer with my experience level be making on the open market in the Bay Area today?

My employer is large enough that I'm sure they can afford to pay market rates. What can I do (besides leave) to get up to market rate?
This is clearly false. OpenAI would not exist if Sam Altman and Elon Musk were not worried about AI.
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I think the confusion is around whether "like Larry Page and Sergey Brin starting the company you use to find things online" is a good thing. It's easy to read this as not just "[starting this company]", but "[starting this company] [and growing it into a huge success with mixed benefits for everyone]." I.e., Russell Okung or others might read that in terms of what it implies; but Google by itself neither furthers nor reduces global income inequality to my knowledge. That's not one of its priorities or missions.

But starting it! Starting it was key. And "income equality" was key to starting it as it is to starting most companies. Is the original wording wrong in PG's essay wrong? No, but it's easy to misread unless it's emphasized. E.g., the desire for "economic inequality" as a catalyst for starting companies is great. It can be hugely successful and useful in many ways.

But as soon as a large company has shareholders etc. one of its primary goals is to maintain capital for itself, which is generally speaking in favor of income inequality in more negative ways for the general public, one could argue.

Russell Okung's point at the end is I think actually built on teasing apart this conflation: "I urge you, Graham, along with the rest of the community, to return to your first love. Build people up."
The thing I am always amazed by people who developed metrics is they never seem to stop and think how the metric will be gamed and then take action to prevent this. It should be part of the development of any new metric to have a "evil" team work out all the ways the metric can be gamed so this can be blocked.

For example, it should be impossible to "teach the test" other than by teaching broadly the underlying concepts being tested. A well designed test will touch on so many concepts that only a education that is broad will work.
>Wealth is opportunity and political influence.

While the political influence of wealth is obviously bad, I think it is a small factor in comparison with economic influence.

The amount of industry attempting to satiate your desires is proportional to the amount of money you have. Hence the huge disparity between the number of BMW ads on primetime TV and the number of people watching primetime TV that could ever conceivably afford a BMW. The GDP of many countries could be repurposed entirely to serving the desires of the wealthiest few and still not exhaust their purchasing power. In theory, Bill Gates could purchase the entire output of any country smaller than Oman for a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

This is a factor that globalization proponents don't deal with successfully I think. When a country is isolated, it is only the disparities of wealth within the country that distort the production of the country. Once a country enters global trade it is exposed to many orders of magnitude more of difference in purchasing power.

All of the optimality results in economics assume that the current distribution of wealth is optimal (or at least exogenous), hence pareto optima and not any other type. This factor deserves more thought and discussion.
Technically, yes. I realize I sort of contradicted myself there.

Paywalls vary in terms of aggression and the nature of the content they're protecting.

For example, WSJ's paywall is extremely aggressive and the content it protects can be found from other sources for free. Most of the time you can go over to the New York Times or some other publication and get the same story for free, because NYT's paywall is a lot less aggressive. Even so, if you subscribe to either, you're still going to get a bloated page filled with stories that can probably be found elsewhere.

Something like Natilus on the other hand, has a very non-aggressive paywall, it's devoid of ads and bloat, has a clean design, and the content is sufficiently niche that you'd feel like you're getting a real value for your money while supporting a unique publication to boot.

So, a paywall may be idiotic depending on why and how it's deployed I suppose.
Why is it strange to think that over-eating is could be considered problem?

One might better phrase it as "today, many humans have the ability to consume as much as they wish of many kinds of foods, a situation somewhat unique to evolutionary history and many problems seem to stem from this". I think a fair portion of nutrition experts think this. I don't know if it's a majority but as the article mentions, consensus is hard to find and just about any opinion is hard to support.

And you seem to recommend something closer to the cranky fringe as an alternative to a decent article whose main message seems to be "very little is uncontroversial"
Not just that, but why wouldn't ads start using your bandwith for this sort of thing ? Do you get a legal claim for your bandwith costs (especially on mobile) against the site owner for doing this without your permission ?

Do you get a claim against your browser maker ?