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leobabauta

100 karma · joined February 25, 2013

Creator of Zen Habits. Vegan, dad, Zen Buddhist.
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leobabauta··on Crystal Ball
Digital, yeah? https://youtu.be/KuTSAeFhdZU
leobabauta··on Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Trump's flagged tweets
It means it wasn’t good for their adverts.
leobabauta··on Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym
They might walk 10 minutes from home to the train station platform, 10 minutes from the station to their office, and 10 minutes to lunch. Then reverse all of that for an hour total. Sometimes it’s a 15 minute walk, so that would make up for those who only have to walk 5 minutes.
leobabauta··on Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym
I will let you work out for yourself why that sounds condescending.
leobabauta··on Vegans More Likely to Break Bones Than Meat Eaters, Study Finds
For a lot of vegans, the question isn’t so much what diet is best to thrive on (it’s clear that humans can thrive on a lot of diets), but rather, “What diet is most compassionate.”
leobabauta··on Patrick Collison's Questions
Can you say more about the steelmanned buddhism questions? I'm interested but not clear on what you're pointing to with the term "steelmanned buddhism" or what important ways you think it might be wrong about.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm familiar with the idea of steelmanning, but not what set of buddhist ideas you're pointing to with the term "steelmanned buddhism".

leobabauta··on Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
I think this is a great project for a 15-year-old. My own son did something like this recently, and loved it. Let's encourage that.
leobabauta··on Words that don't translate into English
It's very rarely used to convey the literal act. The link you posted is an exception, and is noteworthy exactly because of that. When the word is used, it's almost always meant to convey the feeling.
leobabauta··on Doing more than 40 push-ups shows you’re 96% less likely to get a heart attack
But the study also measured cardiovascular fitness via treadmill and didn't find the same correlation.
leobabauta··on How to Make Vegan Butter
Evidence?
leobabauta··on Quora collects $80 million in funding
I also really dislike their model of making you sign in to see more than one answer. Annoying your potential users is a bad policy.
leobabauta··on Should the web be personalized?
This is a pretty spammy link.
leobabauta··on Vegetarians Less Healthy, Lower Quality Of Life Than Meat-Eaters
I didn't say Americans are superior at being vegetarian. I said they're a much larger group with a longer culture of being aware of issues like B12, etc. That's factual.
leobabauta··on Vegetarians Less Healthy, Lower Quality Of Life Than Meat-Eaters
> The original (peer reviewed, etc) research was submitted in liu of a journalistic news story for increased submission quality.[1] The conclusion of that research reads: >"Overall, our findings reveal that vegetarians report poorer health, follow medical treatment more frequently, have worse preventive health care practices, and have a lower quality of life."

Actually that's not what the research concludes. You left out "Austrian adults who eat a vegetarian diet". That's different than American vegetarians, who are a much larger group with a different and longer culture of being aware of issues like B12, etc.

leobabauta··on Vegetarians Less Healthy, Lower Quality Of Life Than Meat-Eaters
There's also a large body of research that contradict the findings of this study, just fyi. Just one example (there are many more):

http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/june2013/06102013vegetari...

leobabauta··on Vegetarians Less Healthy, Lower Quality Of Life Than Meat-Eaters
Only 0.2% of the interviewees were actually vegetarian. It would be hard to generalize based on such a small group.
leobabauta··on Where The Puck Is Going
Yeah, I'm talking about things like Genius playlists, or Google Now, where the computer's algorithms can figure out what you need without you needing to organize.
leobabauta··on Where The Puck Is Going
It's interesting that when we think "post-touch" we still think about files and folders ("move the folder where I'm looking"). Maybe we won't need to think about organization -- the computer can handle that, and just play the songs we want, pull up the project we want, play the video we want.
leobabauta··on Uncopyright
Yes, you have my blessing to do this. In fact, numerous people have sold my blog posts in the form of ebooks on Amazon, with my name on it, without giving me any profits. They've also scraped my site and put ads on it. It's hard for me to be any clearer: I don't own my work, nor do I attempt to control it.
leobabauta··on Uncopyright
Yep! And people have done this. I am not bothered by copying, but rather hope that some of the copying will go to building something better than just a copy. After all, nothing I've written is original, but built on the ideas of others.
leobabauta··on Uncopyright
Believe it or not, I have a thriving business where all the products (books and courses) are uncopyrighted. People will still pay for uncopyrighted works. I'm only one of many examples.
leobabauta··on Uncopyright
I charge for pretty much all my products, including books and courses (except the blog, which is free). They are all uncopyrighted. Somehow, I still make a living.
leobabauta··on Show HN: Live London bus departures from multiple stops
Could someone hack one of these up for San Francisco (Muni and BART)? Or is there already one? I use 511.org but it's not great.
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