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If you throw out all the 'tit-for-tat' assumptions, it really makes sense. Google has an API for nearly everything. I could easily see this as a standardization approach.

Personally, I'm not effected at all between using the Google calendar website and my android based phone. I think Google's goal is to push everyone to use the API for their calander in future apps. I don't mind doing that for what they provide.

I could easily imagine that use of their API could allow for better data gathering than using the open standard.

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”.

While I'm amused (Really I am, no sarcasm!) with the extension of the fire concept - I think you're just pulling at semantics of my metaphor =)

You make a valid point - lets pull heat and temperature out of it. I'll take the whole metaphor out. If I were to waterdown the through process of ketogenic diets (which are what I'm talking about and share some things with Paleo) I would explain them as such: Insulin prevents your body from breaking down it's natural stores of energy. When you eat anything with a high glycemic index (Which is most food in the American diet) you have an insulin reaction. While having an insulin reaction, you don't burn fat stores. If you can't burn your fat stores, you don't lose weight. If you can't burn your fat stores and you run out of immediately available energy your bodies 'fire' dims (You crash after that sugar rush)

Ketogenic diets are the only diets that make sense to me, because they so easily explain the different states of weight gain/loss and energy level. I'm interested in hearing other methods of weight management.. but I really feel the ketogenic concept explains the body best.

I've seen some work contradicting him, but would be interested in seeing something refuting him.

Your phrase "Compelling anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron" seems strange. If 5 people told me they saw my wallet outside, I'd be compelled to check, by anecdote, if I'd dropped it on my way in.

Please show me your science.

Thanks for the links on the Hacker diet, the rubber bag concept sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

As for my metaphor - actually I think it holds very true to what you're saying. You pre-qualified that the fire be hot enough to overcome the dampness of the sticks. That's my exact point. Think of the water as insulin and the stick itself as the fat you want to burn. If you're consistently slamming yourself into insulin shock then you'll never burn fat, and you'll end up looking like most of America(Myself included). It takes very little insulin response to put our fire out.

No one is refuting thermodynamics here - simply stating that making the assumption that the body is a perfect machine (Or set at some guaranteed rate of efficiency) is a flawed outlook.

Taubes makes a great case for this in his examination of Native American Women and their children.

Your assumption about the laws of thermodynamics predicates that the "Energy out" part of the equation is not somehow effected by the type of "Energy in" (Adding wet sticks to a fire will not produce as much released energy as adding dry sticks or gasoline soaked sticks)

The general argument about carbs or any food with high glycemic response is that these foods are like adding "wet sticks" to the fire. There's considerable science and anicdote to support this.

If you're interested (And not simply not throwing around pithy sound bytes about physics) check out: Why we get fat (And what to do about it) By Gary Taubes (http://garytaubes.com/)

For some very compelling anicdotal evidence (That also supports some concepts of Paleo) check out http://www.reddit.com/r/keto

hurrah Linux? New Distro?

Are you the same Derek Sivers from CDBaby? I read "Anything you want" and loved it. (Well, listened to it on audiobook to/from work.)

You really care about your customers, and about people in general. I was always in a better mood just hearing parts of your story.

Thanks for a great read man (If you are in fact the same person =) )

I'll take whohears.me namecheap name - oboyledk

Perhaps i'd read the article.. if it wasn't behind a paywall.

This Kid, and he was still a kid, accomplished more and ended his life in less time than I've been alive. Both a motivator, and a tragedy.

Remember Happiness.

They mention that Hardy and Ramanujan solved P(n) - but I can't seem to find any information on their solution.

I'm not a maths person but this perked my interest - Anyone have more information?

I don't get it - What am I missing?

Anyone else remember this being posted this time last year?

As stated in the reddit thread... He's currently out and about in Virginia - So this is a staffer pretending to be him.

Sad.

They need to open this damn box already.

Not to deter you from the social standards approach, but I thought the concept of measuring comments was clever.

The problem I see is - How do you know if a comment is negative or not? Surely, you can tell, but problematically that might be tough.

Maybe swap out the "post comment" button for 2 "commit" buttons 1 that says "Positive" the other that says "negative". (This could be done a myriad of ways, but you get the point)

You could then measure a users tenancy to post useful positive/negative comments based on the average votes that type of comment receives.

posters that consistently have low average scores for their comments could lose posting rights, for a period.

Then clearly, you have not conceived to do either of those things.

Or do you often just accept the concepts of others as true and therefore beyond refute?

(Really though, the flaw in your comment is that its an impossible statement. It's like asking "If God is all powerful - can he make a rock that even he cannot lift?" total nonsense.)

The affiliate program was for people pushing content, not specifically copyrighted content. Mega made money on site visits and account premiums

This is no different then Apple making a fortune off the ipod. The original iPod did not have a great store attached to it, it was simply a device for playing MP3s.

Wonder where all those MP3s came from?

Holding Mega accountable for the users actions is like saying Apple should pay the record companies for songs that were pirated on the ipods they sold, and continue to sell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0

Played for 10min, couldn't find 1 car to jack.

Disappointment level = Huge.

(Seriously Very cool WebGL stuff going on though!)

Thanks, that's the best feedback yet. I've been looking for a "search tool" as well, I'll check out listjs

It's working for me?

It's a simple project- but I enjoyed building it. Check out a demo server at www.ha-kn.com

So being able to mimic nuanced mannerisms on reddit is now a marketable social media skill...