He's right. I'm done here. Good bye.
Readit NewsdoublesCs commented on Why I stopped reading HN (2010) sealedabstract.com/rants/... · Posted by u/obilgic
Your comment reminds me of this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/zackkanter/status/130493861651941...
The cognitive dissonance humans are capable of is amazing. To actually say “We would never allow that in our town.” in the pejorative while flying back from a trip specifically meant to learn how to be like another town.
If you’re not going to act on an author’s central point, don’t try to do any of the other parts (they’ll probably actually be harmful). If you’re not going to copy the central parts of something successful, don’t bother copying the other stuff.
The recipe for success of Silicon Valley is pretty straightforward. It has great colleges, great weather, and weak noncompetes. So people go there to start companies. And now it has a compounding cycle of attracting capital, founders and talent (recent events aside).
But a government employee from Boston can’t say that, cause they can’t do shit about it. It’s not like they’ll fix the weather or the noncompetes (too many entrenched medtech companies to change that now).
So they’ll say “they have accelerators!” and open a city sponsored accelerator and maybe some successful company will pop out in the next ten years.
> Perhaps the other 90% work for the government.
What a poisonous attitude.
doublesCs commented on When we lose weight, where does it go? theconversation.com/when-... · Posted by u/allthebest
This is the correct answer.
There's no such thing as conservation of mass, mass and energy are convertible into each other. But in the real of chemistry that conversion happens on a ratio of at most 1e-7, so when it comes to the human body we might as well say that the weight that goes in must equal what comes out, and that's close enough.
Typo. *in the realm of chemistry
doublesCs commented on When we lose weight, where does it go? theconversation.com/when-... · Posted by u/allthebest
But you still have the two hydrogen atoms, before and after. They are matter. Tiny (really tiny!) differences in weight don't change that.
I guess when you said "conservation of matter" I interpreted that as meaning "conservation of mass", seeing as we're talking about weight loss.
doublesCs commented on When we lose weight, where does it go? theconversation.com/when-... · Posted by u/allthebest
In biology, there is conservation of matter. Geology, too. Everywhere, really, except in atom-smashers, stellar cores, and nukes.
No, this isn't true. There's no conservation of matter anywhere. If you take 2 hydrogen atoms and weight them, then bond them together in a hydrogen molecule and weight that, the molecule weights less than twice one hydrogen atom.
doublesCs commented on When we lose weight, where does it go? theconversation.com/when-... · Posted by u/allthebest
Chemical bonds are on the scale of eV---the cost to liberate an electron from a hydrogen atom is 13.6eV, for example. So the best you can hope for, in a chemical reaction, is a change in mass of the scale of 10s of eV / c^2.
In comparison, a single proton weighs 938 MeV = 9.38e+8 eV. So the fraction of the mass that is converted into energy is on the scale of 1e-7.
This is the correct answer.
There's no such thing as conservation of mass, mass and energy are convertible into each other. But in the real of chemistry that conversion happens on a ratio of at most 1e-7, so when it comes to the human body we might as well say that the weight that goes in must equal what comes out, and that's close enough.
Because it's a non issue and not enough customers care.
I don't buy Apple precisely because of their golden walls and not being able to install custom apps.
I consider Android to be good enough though, and I use most of the pre-installed apps from Google.
Another law from the EU which will make it even harder for a competitor to come up.
Can you spell how exactly this law makes it harder for a competitor to come up?
Because if you don't, you'll sound like you're just parroting the generic (and generically false) old "regulations are bad for business".
They all require certain ID verification beyond some balance. Bitmex doesn't, which made it popular by US customers. Also, all of them are terrible for creating a synthetic USD while Bitmex is pretty darn good for that.
Would you like to discuss what makes a syncthetic good or bad?
I seem to recall a booking agency made roughly on average 10 dollars a seat for their most profitable airlines.
Airline standards are the direct consequences of vote with your wallet. No matter what some claim, 99.999% of people will buy the cheapest ticket possible.
> Airline standards are the direct consequences of vote with your wallet. No matter what some claim, 99.999% of people will buy the cheapest ticket possible.
For the airline industry, yes. This isn't true in all industries.
Just link the goddamn article