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richcollinson Ask HN: What Happened to the Reddit IPO?

They couldn’t coerce enough people to install the app.

richcollinson Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates

In the people that use meat’s superior satiety to stay lean, you see lower inflammation, IGF-1, insulin … etc. On a purely meat diet with loads of protein, my IGF-1 was 90, a z-score of -1.

richcollinson Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

He tricked me into working for a month without a contract and then wouldn’t answer my calls when I asked him to sign the terms we agreed upon. I had to show up and sit on their couch until he showed up to write me a check to go away. He’s a slippery character.

richcollinson Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption

There are hunter gatherers (hadza, ache, pygmies) that eat substantial amounts of honey without becoming overweight.

richcollinson Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals

On a high fat ketogenic diet, my thirst is satisfied on ~500ml of water a day. I drink much more when running on glucose, if it's really hot or I exercise intensely.

richcollinson Are continuous glucose monitors a waste of time for people without diabetes?

Lose body fat. Stopping eating refined carbohydrates. Take the Kraft glucose insulin test to see if you have “diabetes in situ” https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/services/kraft-prediabetes...

richcollinson The Calorie Paradox of Raw Veganism (1999)

You can get plenty of calories from raw animal fats. Cooking does help a lot with plants though. Also helps with infectious agents in meat and plants.

richcollinson Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920391/

richcollinson Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017)

By analyzing plant remains in the cave, Humphrey's team found that residents ate lots of a particularly sweet type of acorn, which becomes soft and sticky when cooked. They also ate wild oats and legumes. Such foods can lead to serious decay,

richcollinson Long-dormant bacteria and viruses in ice are reviving as climate warms

Cold is correlated with low sunlight, which leads to less vitamin D production:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/

richcollinson Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy

Building tools for fact-checking and helping people decipher fact from fiction will become increasingly important to keep the electorate informed

Sadly the electorate doesn't care about being informed. They seek out news that confirms their world view. Any information that contradicts their world view is deemed "fake news".

richcollinson Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

We are being made to participate in this venture via taxes.

That said, its incredibly exciting.

richcollinson What If Addiction Is Not a Disease?

A lot of formerly beneficial adaptations have become "diseases" in the modern world (sugar cravings for instance).

richcollinson It Depends What You Study, Not Where

So best choice is to probably to invest in S&P while learning to program on your own.

richcollinson Study: people who grow up poor have a harder time regulating their food intake

A twin study to look for a potential common cause between poverty and poor food selection might yield interesting results.

richcollinson SpoonRocket shuts down

It was a lifesaver for those times when it was 6pm and you didn't have dinner ready for your kids.

richcollinson Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation

Author missed option 3:

Do contract work at $250 an hour or equivalent compensation in shares at >= series B funded startups. Choose the level of risk you're willing to accept in cash vs equity. (Nearly) completely avoid politics and other office related BS. Take vacation between gigs if you like. Get a very broad variety of experiences at different companies and get a good feeling for what companies are willing to pay for should you decide to start your own.

richcollinson The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950

Are you attempting to justify this? If I ran a "harmless" experiment over a population of 100M that happened to kill 10 or 20 "outliers" should I be exempt from consequences as well?

richcollinson Secretive Bitcoin Startup 21 Reveals Record Funds, Hints at Mass Consumer Play

There is an iOS wallet that connects directly to the network that downloads the necessary info in seconds:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/breadwallet-bitcoin-wallet/i...

richcollinson The Death of Cocoa

Minor nit to give credit where it's due. 280 North had three founders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280_North,_Inc.

richcollinson Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash

If bitcoin was used as widely as the USD this would never have happened. It happened because of weak depth in the bitcoin markets (i.e. not that many people are trading it).

richcollinson Stellar

The gateways will be targeted for regulation until they are no different than modern banks.

richcollinson New York to Bitcoin Startups: Get Permission

How about this?

each Licensee must obtain the superintendent’s prior written approval for any plan or proposal to introduce or offer a new product, service, or activity, or to make a material change to an existing product, service, or activity

richcollinson Sorry, Folks, Rich People Don't Create The Jobs

Everyone is making decisions about spending their capital every day so decisions are quite distributed.

I think you meant that it works better when capital is evenly distributed. I don't know if that is true but there seems to be lots of evidence that it doesn't work well when its distribution is largely determined by who can steal the most (as is the case with the current system).

richcollinson Sorry, Folks, Rich People Don't Create The Jobs

Software developers make $100+ an hour. The jobs are there for people willing to adapt to them. You can't just wait to be handed a job that matches your current abilities.

richcollinson Sorry, Folks, Rich People Don't Create The Jobs

Sounds like you discovered an opportunity for a job ...

richcollinson Sorry, Folks, Rich People Don't Create The Jobs

They can afford it if they can create something of value that you're willing to accept in return. If they can't then that is the real problem. You have to ask why they can't create enough wealth to trade for the things they want / need.

richcollinson Sorry, Folks, Rich People Don't Create The Jobs

Nobody creates the jobs, they exist to be discovered. If you adopt the viewpoint that other people create jobs for you then your fate is not in your own hands.

People want things. If you can create something that other people want and they can create something that you want, you both have a job.

richcollinson The Economy

It seems unlikely to me that we're anywhere close to diminishing returns from technology. More likely we're seeing what happens when a system is full of perverse incentives that reward unproductive / destructive behavior.

richcollinson The Economy

Why will high Debt-to-GDP or government spending send the economy into a recession?

Do you agree that it is a problem at some point? If so then why not at current levels?