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your comments are so nonsensical that I doubt you'll ever have the "problem" of paying taxes that you fear

Like Joe the Plumber, in this guy's imagination he has to deal with the burdens of a progressive tax system. Reality is a different story.
I think it's irresponsible to recommend a diet to people that has little to no scientific support for the kinds of effects that you promise or imply: weight loss, improved physical and mental health, and longevity

Well, I'd say there's sufficient support for the "weight loss" bit since pretty much any non-crazy dietary restriction will lead to weight loss if it's maintained. As for other effects -- well, losing eighteen kilograms of fat ought to have a pretty positive impact on your longevity, and I can easily imagine it might decrease your anxiety too. I'm quite unconvinced about psoraisis and eczema, but... hey, he was quite clear on the fact that this was only anecdotal evidence with n=1.

As for why it's different to other possible dietary plans, I don't think it is, though it's potentially easier to get a balanced diet with a sensible caloric deficit from paleo than from veganism or raw food or Atkins.
There are indeed people who will argue (with varying degrees of vehemence and research/evidence) that high fructose corn syrup is worse for you than sugar. However, some folks, myself included, simply think that high fructose corn syrup tastes (and feels) disgusting.
The apartment analogy is a very poor one for this argument, especially when one would theoretically continue living in an apartment while they stopped paying for it.

This author, Fred Stutzman, clearly stated he quit using the service sometime between "last year"(2008) and March of the following year, 2009.
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Firefox:

Web Developer Toolbar,
Firebug,
DownThemAll!,
ColorZilla

Frankly, all I ever use Firefox for anymore is testing/development and big or multifile downloads (DownThemAll! is kind enough to autosuspend and resume with the often wonky wifi I'm usually connected to).

Chrome:

Web Developer Toolbar,
Readability,
Flash Blocker

The version of the Web Developer Toolbar for Chrome is extremely limited, but it fills a few holes in the built-in developer tools. I'd love to have a download manager comparable to DownThemAll! for Firefox, but the Chrome API prevents most of the features I like from being implemented. Oh, well.
You're going to make them tuck in their t-shirts? Seriously? Unless you are getting actual customer complaints, that just seems like a stupid power-tripping way to ruin morale.
If you consume something out of the ordinary, your body is not used to digesting it. For example, the necessary enzymes and bacteria are not likely to be in large supply. Also, you may be hyper- or hypo- sensitive to neurotransmitters (like dopamine) that are released in reponse to the chemicals that are unusually present in the foreign food.

Cut out vegetables from your diet, for example, and you will experience serious intestinal distress when you reintroduce them.
My fiancee has a 10 inch netbook that she got back in 2008. She only needs it for casual browsing from the couch, and writing email. She's been looking for the right tool for the job for the last few years. She started with a Nokia n800, but she said the browser was too slow and it "wasn't a real browser". Then she got a Viliv S5 (running Windows XP) but she didn't like having to use a stylus. The netbook was fine, but needs to be plugged in now that the battery is old, and it overheats. Then we got an iPad as a gift, which she likes, but she doesn't like that it doesn't have Flash, and since it's the WiFi only version, she has to carry a MiFi around too or tether it to her phone and at 10 inches it's bigger than any of her purses and too heavy to hold for long. I've caught her several times putting it down and picking up her HTC Evo to just browse using that.

I think that if anything will truly kill off the netbook, it will be something in between an iPad and an Evo. Maybe that 7 inch iPad will be it.
By way of being nitpicky: there is no jab at entrepreneurs here. The two named classes of undeserving rich people are financiers and law firm partners and I put it to you that a less value-creating lot relative to compensation could hardly be found in American society.

Law firm partners, really, are a paradigmatic example of surplus value extraction: law firms get paid by people who produce things to play negative-sum games on their behalf. And while I think it's very wrong to say that all profit is an extraction of value from labor, you could hardly find a purer example of value extraction than a law firm associate being paid <$100/hour and billed out at >$300/hour...
"The popular tendency to emphasize vegetables and/or fruits in diet holds a lot of commercial appeal...but it's a form of feel-good bikeshedding."

As I understand it, there is a good bit of science supporting the healthfulness of fresh fruits and vegetables (but not necessarily the processed fruits you referred to).

For example, the Healthy Eating Pyramid recommends a diet based on the latest scientific research and notice how fruits and vegetables are emphasized: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-...

Also the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute of Cancer Research published Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective which found much evidence in favor of fruits and vegetables for the prevention of cancer.
I don't think it's social circles (although, that might be a by-product), rather parkinson's law kicking in at all levels.

The people I know making $70k don't feel rich–but that might be because they are married with kids. If the people you know are single, I could see how that would be different.

It's weird–I'm half-way between 70k and 300k now and I feel above middle-class but definitely not rich. We live modestly but have 4 kids and travel a lot.
Sorry I don't have time to find all my links as I am at work on my lunchbreak but here are a few.

Weight Loss
As the Paleo diet is by nature pretty low-carbohydrate:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0708681

Longevity:

Cancer Patterns in Inuits - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18760245

This William Lands paper - http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/83/6/S1483.pdf

Medical Establishment:

Good Calories, Bad Calories goes deep into the reasons why the medical establishment considers saturdated fat, cholesterol, red meat unhealthy. Have a quick skim of the cliffs notes.

Dr Barry Groves - Cholesterol Myth - http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/cholesterol_myth_1.html

More Sources:

Stephan Guyenet - B. Bio Chemistry - http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/

Dr Michael Eades - http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/

Dr William Davis - Cardiologist - http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/

Robb Wolf - Research Biochemist - http://robbwolf.com/

Prof. Loren Cordain - http://www.thepaleodiet.com/

edit: formatting
An article with accompanying paper link that makes a similar point. With a little epidemiology thrown in to boot:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/straight-ta...
maybe so. But even without the relationship you describe between what you pay and what you get, a progressive tax system still maximizes the government's income vs a poll tax.

I'm just pointing out that even before you get to talking about what's fair or what's right, you simply could not support a government as expensive as ours on a poll tax. - so there is a reason why we have a progressive tax rate that has nothing to do with perceived fairness.
Well, based on his salary, he's probably been in the workforce for 10 years, he voted 10 years ago and he should've been paying attention.

We just witnessed one of the greatest free rides in world history, and this guy was a passenger - I'm not exactly brimming with sympathy.
Don't pass off other people's speculations as facts and then quote Wikipedia as if there is a reliable source in there that backs up what you are saying.
Really? I can link you to about a million CS papers that do not mention formal math. And incidentally, this work is easy to apply directly to my day-to-day work as a practicing programmer.

(Some would say that means it's not academic enough... but you get the "Dr." title, so...)
care to elaborate about strong backend ?
are you referring to the system architecture (DB, site responsiveness, PHP vs Ruby, etc.) ?
I'd focus on building a followers list (email list, facebook fans, twitter followers, blog subscribers).

Then when you speak with businesses, you tell them how many people you can contact, it will help them accept to offer a greal deal for your launch.

Affiliates might also help building that list.
Who knows what the money will be used for? Take current budgets and extrapolate X years into the future -- this is federal income tax we're talking about so approximately 2/3 defense spending and 1/3 federal domestic discretionary spending. That's what it'll be used for.
Rebranding proves to be more difficult in the information age. Everyone knows about this name change since it is being reported everywhere and it looks like an admission of guilt.
A flat tax is compelling because it's more efficient, easier to deal with, and ostensibly more fair. However I don't see how it helps at all with tax fraud.
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I guess that could be the reason. It does strain credulity, though, that our bodily systems would be so brittle in this case. It reminds me instead of religious adherents, who, when faced with the misfortune of a fellow believer, blame the believer for not believing/praying/trying hard enough.
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Err, yes. That is a Canadianism that I never notice when I type it.
Yeah, I do know mostly single people making $70k. Some have families, but I can mostly think of reasons why it makes sense to me that they'd still feel well-off. A few live in generally poorer areas; e.g. someone making $70k in Fresno or Fort Wayne is doing well by local standards, and even though they have families to support, they're surrounded by other people who also have families to support who make closer to $50k. A bunch of the rest are immigrants, whose norms are calibrated by a lingering sense that the U.S. is absurdly rich any way you slice it, and that their lifestyle is quite nice compared to family back home.

An interesting case are the locals here in Santa Cruz who don't work over the hill in Silicon Valley. There aren't that many good local jobs, and my sense is that the people who make $70k whose social circle is mostly other non-commuting locals feel well off, despite the fact that it's a pretty high-cost-of-living area--- because they know lots of surf bums, coffee shop employees, and people who have to commute from Watsonville because they can't afford to live in Santa Cruz or Capitola.
One of your previous comments is, I think, one of the most succinct descriptions of why I'm planning to leave CS academia. (That said, CS academia has been pretty good to me.)

"While amazing, groundbreaking research is possible in academic computer science - the general lifecycle of research is some irrelevant poorly made prototype that ignores any number of real world concerns and leads to a couple of uninspired papers that noone reads."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376259
(replying to myself)

One point I'd make to up and coming entrepreneurs: taxes aren't going to be the burden you fear. When you're growing your company you'll pay relatively little personal or corporate income tax.

Personal income tax will be relatively low because most entrepreneurs would rather reinvest in their business than buy a $20,000 watch.

Corporate will be relatively low because you won't be sitting on the cash, you'll be hiring people, spending on infrastructure or advertising and otherwise growing the business. This means your annual profits will be tiny.

The vast majority of the value you accrue will be in the business itself, and you won't have to pay on those gains until you liquidate.

Frankly, I think these discussions are bad for HN not because it's a bad idea to discuss politics or economics, but because nearly everybody on this site would get more value from an article about marketing, productivity, coding, testing, launching products, or any other topic that can actually help an entrepreneur build their business, today.
> I hope I don't need to point out that fructose is a perfectly natural sugar and is the predominant source of sweetness in apples, pears and many other natural foods.

Yes, in nature though it's generally package with a dose of fiber which slows down its absorption. Being natural doesn't make it good.
FWIW, I loved the Hardy Boys and I've turned into an avid reader... at least for a 20 year old. The books are what they are, and if you're looking for any sort of depth, you're unlikely to find it.

I think the Hardy Boys books do two things well: 1.) sell 2.) get kids interested in reading

No harm there...
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I'm not as worried about sneaky things on the client side as I am about what they're up-front about. The URL bar sending everything I type upstream, for example. And I can turn my phone off any time I might be worried, in much the same way I can avoid using Chrome when I might not want to give Google data, which happens to be always.

To sort of explain, the whole concept of "privacy" as Google sees it is a little creepy to me. I realize that I may be overly cautious or paranoid, but I don't see any comforting counter-examples. I got rid of my Android phone on discovering that I couldn't have contacts or calendar entries that didn't get sent to Google in one form or another, and the Google Maps application wanted me to agree to allow location data* to be sent upstream even when I wasn't using it. Eric thinks we should just change our names. None of this sits well with me at all.

Even if they have no intentions of misusing data (which is stretching it), what they retain is still subject to subpoenas, leaks, hacks, or willful violations like Google Buzz (arguably unintentional) or the case of their SRE David Barksdale. Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead, etc., and machines and the people who operate them have not had a good track record on safeguarding other people's data.

* The application did specify that the data collected would be "anonymous", but didn't say how that was ensured. Between Google's skirmishes with the EU over how they "anonymize" their search logs (spoiler: they don't, last I checked; they keep the cookie-tracking data and scrub the last octet of the IP) and their recent privacy issues with two different SREs don't inspire any confidence.
I read a book a few years ago called "Pure, white and deadly" by John Yudkin (first published in 1972) that still has an incredible amount of relevant information in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yudkin

The main issue tends to come down to the mass production of food for consumption, and the market effects / economies of scale that it creates - the input to the digestive system changes rapidly, but the machinery is limited by the rate of human evolution.
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I think it's 150 ft^2 (or the closest round metric equiv, it's been a while since I worked professionally with the building code). This practice does not give you the land you're "taking care of", unlike other forms of taking care of land which will net you free land (like "accidentally" mowing the lawn of a piece of government property in a township).

In general this a "permitted" act. Set up a shanty town and they will just send in the loggers with a GTFO in 60 days note. Also Canadian judges aren't very legalistic, they will look at the spirit of the law more than weasel words, so setting up a giant shanty town is probably a bad idea, but some people push it with 4 or 5 closely packed "hunting shacks".
I tried Rapportive with Gmail... I wanted to love it, but I couldn't.
It makes sense for FB to want to control the distribution channels, and given their size and the importance of mobile, doing a FB phone is a plausible strategy. Considering the games that go on with some manufacturers (Apple) and the various carriers, FB should be concerned about its weak hold on the mobile channel.

Whether that means FB branded phones, deals with carriers for preferred placement or access, or something else is hard to say.
Just a note: MAC addresses are usually stored right on the device itself. There is a function in the driver code or deep in the networking stack that allows you to change the hardcoded MAC to another MAC of your choice.
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The idea that a paleo diet will make you healthier because it's what we evolved to eat is bullshit.

Firstly, it assumes that we haven't evolved since modern agriculture, which of course we have; people with ancestors from areas with grain harvesting have more copies of the amylase gene, which produce enzymes that help us to better digest calories.

Secondly, it assumes that the "priority" of evolution in paleo times was to optimize our health in our current environment. It wasn't. Our hunter and gatherer ancestors were starving; we were optimized to extract every last calorie from our food. So when simple starches like wheat came around, we evolved to have more copies of the amylase gene - something that does not help us today.

The paleo diet works precisely for the opposite of the stated reason. These are foods that our bodies are not evolved to perfectly digest. Uncooked foods are far enough in our evolutionary past that people on raw-only diets consistently lose weight, even if they eat a lot. If they were on the savannah they would die.

I'm not saying the diet itself can't be great, just that the entire article could be fodder for Penn & Teller.
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It already exists: RFC2369 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html
That is pretty awesome, I took a building science course while studying structural engineering and I learned a ton about R values. There are these crazy building blocks with just astronomical levels to the point where it is silly. They don't even consider the numbers comparable because the ratio of heat that you lose when you open and close the door more than makes up the marginal difference.

As for the original point (free land!) I plan to build a very small cabin up north, but I really would prefer easy road access and electricity so I've ruled out the federal land route, at least for now.
"We should look down upon those with below-average incomes as jerks who aren't working hard enough to pay their share."

In a distribution as heavily skewed as US income, "below-average" would probably be around 80% - 90% of the population. Perhaps you meant 'median' or something else other than 'average'.
My office has a few pool tables, foosball, and some high-end gaming PCs. These things are nice, and I enjoy them, but I've worked where I work for almost four years because the pay is excellent and I enjoy my work. To me, money and job satisfaction are key.

Unlimited coffee doesn't hurt either.
Flash is faster, better, stronger than HTML 5 on phones?
>The problem in big organizations is that different folks are worried about different things. That's why they keep making and giving out lists of stuff for people to do -- they don't want you screwing up. If you have a hundred teams and one of them takes down production for a day, I can guarantee you somebody is going to make a list of how-not-to-do-that-again, like it or not.

Why is it a problem to make procedures to avoid making the same mistake twice? In terms of "[taking] down production for a day" I'd prefer to make permanent changes to my systems so that I don't have to rely on procedure, but for those things that I can't or won't fix with more code or automation, making and following procedures to avoid e.g. unplanned service outages seems perfectly fine, even advisable?

Of course this ignores the specifics of each individual situation, although I am having trouble imagining any product that I'd want me or my business to depend on that is also known to fail with any great frequency. (Even my home broadband Internet connection, for example, hasn't failed more than once or twice in the past year, and they have a veritable monopoly.)
Except Fructose is (for all studies that showed any link) the worst sugar health wise (breaks down quickest, monopolizes certain pathways in liver, links to diabetes etc)

They called it HFCS because fructose=fruit=good for you.
Now that people think HFCS=plutonium it's renamed natural healthy happy corn sugar.
Didn't we used to grow mostly wheat out there?

And before that, all kinds of grass.
No.. Unfortunately, they don't.
from my article: "The particular content provider whose copyright I matched chose the draconian block policy. That's certainly not Google's fault, but I guess you could say I'm Feeling Unlucky." No, I don't think I missed that point.
I was thinking the same thing myself. I'm unsure why a person who considers having arguments a vital part of his life and is "very, very careful" with his time would spend a month writing an article nobody can comment on. He's surely not coming back the HN to read the comments.

Tell me again why I should care about this article?

EDIT: FWIW I did enjoy reading parts of the article. I thought the writer has some thought-provoking things to say. I like his ideas about what make a bad argument, and I like his ideas about the importance of interacting with people who don't think like you. I just have a problem taking people who say one thing and do another seriously.
In http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/go-that-way-really-... the video clip wasn't just "bedazzling", it was the entire central thesis of my opinion piece. Ditto for this upcoming one (not published yet). I'd also advise you to check out http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materia...
This covers quite a bit very thoroughly. Good to have in your collection.
>One point I'd make to up and coming entrepreneurs: taxes aren't going to be the burden you fear. When you're growing your company you'll pay relatively little personal or corporate income tax.

That's an extremely important point.

I tell people: If you want to help startups, the tax rate does not matter hardly at all. While you are still a 'starup' you will pay very little in taxes, just 'cause you will make very little money that is not re-invested. The tax complexity makes a huge difference, though. Now, I'm sane so I pay an expert to deal with that sort of thing, but a complex tax code is worse than the costs of paying another expert.

A complex tax code, first, massively increases my risk. I know two people who will likely be in debit for the rest of their lives because they tried to do their taxes themselves while running a business. Now, I've got a professional, but there is always a chance they will screw it up. I'm on the hook for the money, no matter what. I can get out of my building lease and loans through bankruptcy, but tax debit is forever.

Next, a complex tax code makes it harder for me to plan out how to allocate my resources. With a complex tax code, it's often more profitable to play accounting games than to actually build something people want more efficiently than the competition, and I think that impoverishes us all.
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