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> From what I gather, aerobic exercise... That was my impression as well after doing some research in this area a while back. Although I looked specifically at longevity and cardio…

Here's what I try to do: 1. Start with the intuition. (The big concepts i.e. for BigO trying to figure out the best, worst and average number of steps it takes to run a function as…

> until you need to upgrade, then you have months of no business value delivery and need to bring... This is not the case in my experience. I've upgraded pretty decent sized apps (…

> 1. we aren't all rich ... Its hard to discuss any of the things you mention since it all depends on what particular system you are looking at. If we constrain ourselves to the US…

> If everyone is rich, prices just rise to the point where everyone isn't rich anymore. Rich and poor are always tied to purchasing power which itself is tied to productivity, effi…

> We are social animals who evolved in small communities I agree with you. First, historically speaking, large disparities have led to revolutions and countless atrocities. Also ou…

What I think people like the author who are arguing about inequality are missing is that inequality is not the fundamental issue or put another way I think that tackling it is the …

> Every time - every single time... Just thought I'd provide some counter data here. I've built small services in Sinatra, which did not warrant the usage of Rails and never had to…

The primary utility of money is this: it is the good that best lends itself to exchanges for other goods. Its been clear to me for some time now, and I'm not alone in this, that as…

Yes. For me the greatest remaining mysteries are more in this order. 1. Nature of Life (we are still nowhere near understanding how it arose or how living organisms work in all the…

> why is it `nobody.wants.to.read` but `no.body.wants.to.write`? Made me think there's also a big difference in what nobody prefers reading vs. what nobody prefers writing.

No: Body: Wants: To: Write: - YAML vs. YAML vs. { "no" : { "body" : { "wants" : { "to" : { "write" : [ "YAML" ] } } } } } Which would you rather write?

> Usually oppressing a major marginalized group with blunt, heavy-handed approaches only serves to intensify local support. I think that is at best fragile as a general statement. …

I'm amazed at how much this person's philosophy for learning mirrors my own. Even down to the details, building habits, pushing yourself to the edge always, deep focused flow based…

> On the other hand, cost will eventually limit the parallelism side of the trend and physics will limit the chip efficiency side. Anyone working on chip architecture care to give …

Man that video at the bottom is great. I just finished up research on an image classification task in medical imaging and that tool would have helped out a lot in debugging and int…

no reason to get upset. This wasn't anything against your comment. There's surprisingly a lot of people who don't know there's around 40 million people living in slavery right now.…

> It is amazing to realize that in the grand scheme of things we are not far removed from this. With "we" you mean the "united states"? There are millions of people the world over …

> as an intentional deficiency is an interesting design decision. well, in semantics/pragmatics these discourse particles are often not deficiencies at all. They are signals with p…

> from inside EU we see it as for the people/society No we don't. Some of us do and some of us do not. You are self-admittedly in the former group, I am not. Also, just because som…

There is big difference in law and regulation between intention and real-world effects. For instance, making marijuana illegal has the intention of decreasing drug addiction and de…

> Much more plausible ... I disagree about stratification to a certain extent, that is, I only see 2 groups emerging. Here's my thinking. Highly paid service jobs will remain unsca…

> AI is kind of vague and catch-all these days, Agree. Basically all current progress in "AI" should really just be called statistics and I think there would be much less confusion…

It depends on the degree of quantification and your precise definition of software engineering, but IMHO almost all of software engineering research is minimally as quantitative as…

I can think of a couple reasons. 1. Github got First Mover momentum 2. Git preference over mercurial back when Bitbucket burst on the scene. 3. Github has many users which means it…