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rusabdon Americans are eating less beef

The consumption could be cut in half if we start eating the whole animal again. Eating just muscle tissue is so wasteful.

rusabdon Eating less and more than needed on alternate days prolongs life (2006)

Just buy strips and check yourself. You might need much less time

rusabdon To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls

O-Bahn might work quite well - combining benefits of rail and buses...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

It's fast, comfortable and those buses are able to collect passengers in suburbia.

rusabdon New elephant study shows catastrophic decline in Africa

meantime, people are hunting mammoth tusk

recent report (Russian):

http://www.currenttime.tv/a/tusk-hunters/27948066.html

quote: ``Оборот слоновой кости тщательно контролируется, поэтому особым спросом сейчас пользуются бивни мамонта '' The ivory market is tightly controlled therefore mammoth tusk is in high demand right now

quote: ``Этот 65-килограммовый бивень только что извлекли из вечной мерзлоты. Впоследствии его продали за 34 тысячи долларов.'' - This 65 kg tusk was sold later for 34 thousands dollars.

old report (2013 English): http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/125-mammoth-tusks/...

rusabdon Google recruitment mistakes: part 3

we sourced all our candidates through https://lispjobs.wordpress.com . Given hard requirement of relocation to Australia Adelaide that was very efficient and pleasant experience.

We also tried recruiters and stackoverflow. One recruiter was very good at selling himself to upper management and was pushing unqualified engineers into our throats. Stackoverflow was less targeted than lispjobs blog, but much better than typical recruitment company.

lispjobs was so good that another our practice of flying candidates in to spend a week of hacking together after brief phone screen wasn't that expensive at all.

rusabdon Amazon Vehicles

costco doesn't show members tje prices. You will be referred to the dealership where they give you the pricelist. I've done this once and it saved me a lot of time.

On other hand you can always ask for "costco" price in the dealership, would they honor it I don't know.

rusabdon Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising

You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp ?

rusabdon Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising

British concentration camps predated Nazi's

rusabdon Marissa Mayer’s Payday

I was upset. No point

rusabdon Marissa Mayer’s Payday

rusabdon I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court

Technically part of Kazakhstan is in Europe

rusabdon Google: Symantec antivirus flaws are 'as bad as it gets'

"Doctors are gentlemen and a gentleman's hands are clean" again

rusabdon Startup will help landlords and employers mine intimate data from Facebook

Is there service which shows which companies use such Facebook data? I would pay for that

rusabdon We Hired a Blind Coder

I was hired by blind developer once. He didn't discriminate me by my sight.

rusabdon Some Lost Superstitions of the Early-20th-Century United States

Fascinating, the very first superstition is very close to one Kazakh superstition that stepping over child prevents his/her growth.

rusabdon Panama Papers Reveal How Wealthy Americans Hid Millions Overseas

Spending tax affects mostly poor as they spend all their income. Rich spend more in absolute terms but still very little compare to overall income.

rusabdon Disadvantages of purely functional programming

TCO eliminates some types of recursion. Not all of them.

rusabdon How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War on Google Plus

Those points are not mutually exclusive

rusabdon Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

It's easier than someone might think. If you avoid food that contains ingredient list as a general rule scrutinizing the rest would be not such a hard work

rusabdon 90 percent of everything is crap

Crappy law then?

rusabdon An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage

reminds me this sci fi story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon

``The operation is a success, and within the next three months Charlie's IQ reaches 185. However, as his intelligence, education, and understanding of the world increase, his relationships with people deteriorate''

rusabdon Graph Databases 101

Virtuoso

rusabdon How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented

I think this article is less about "normal" and more about "average" person. The history of normality and curing/fixing abnormality has been dissected by Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" and "The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception".

rusabdon C++ is a hack

There is much larger and older list:

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

rusabdon The disintegration of the parent-child bond

What happened to that Greece btw?

rusabdon A Backyard Fight Club as an Alternative to Gun Violence

Honour

rusabdon A difference between Haskell and Common Lisp

Having worked on one of the largest common lisp projects I have to say this is spot on. And monolithism it's not just visible on level of functions it's visible on higher level. Common lisp nudges you to write monolithic applications and it's crucial to keep many details in one head (in case of big project - many heads).

Also I think Clojure is scheme, so overall approach is different.

rusabdon Is Python strongly typed?

I like this one http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/

rusabdon Is Python strongly typed?

yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Typed_lambda_c... ``From a certain point of view, typed lambda calculi can be seen as refinements of the untyped lambda calculus but from another point of view, they can also be considered the more fundamental theory and untyped lambda calculus a special case with only one type.''

rusabdon Is Python strongly typed?

Python is strongly typed with one type

This article about CL but it's applicable to Python as well:

http://xach.com/naggum/articles/3284289178877169KL2065E@nagg...