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mariorzon A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline

Hunger should be correlated with calories expended, our metabolic system is homeostatic. the unnatural consumption of refined carbohydrates, and in such large quantities, is what is causing the Diabetes II epidemic and widespread obesity, both likely symptoms of the same disorder.

mariorzon Personal info of 93M Mexicans exposed on AWS

The database is given to parties so they can audit if people live where they are voting, or even if they live for that matter. Not giving them access is not an option, if you want the continue having a voting system that does not require trust, as the mexican voting system was designed to allow.

I agree that the database should be made public for all citizens, as it currently stands, only parties registered for elections get a copy, and no doubt use it for their campaigns. This puts people outside of the party system in a disadvantage against the parties, particularly relevant for things like citizen initiatives.

mariorzon The Plan to Give Every Cellphone User Free Data

I would love to see the numbers on this. It's not clear the plan would incur costs for operators unless there is no room left to optimize their use of the allocated spectrum. The article also lays out the argument for a value increase in the whole network (granted not limited to each operator) that could offset any costs. Even with inescapable costs that would be factored into the spectrum bids, why would it no be preferable for that value to be transferred directly to the public, in the form of free internet access, than to have it flow into governments for indirect redistribution?

mariorzon The Plan to Give Every Cellphone User Free Data

A lot of people here are saying that asking for a plan like this is like asking for the proverbial free lunch. Cellphone companies operate over a public good. Regulatory requisites for spectrum allocation, as something like this could become, should not be thought of as a free lunch. A free lunch (for operators) is to manage the spectrum in a way that does not maximize public interest.

mariorzon David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

Submited title was: "Every household in England obliged to declare whether they want to access porn".

mariorzon A CP Solution for XKCD NP Complete Restaurant Order

Some time ago I wrote a wrapper for PyGLPK and used the same problem as example:

https://github.com/mariorz/pytorovich/blob/master/examples/x...

mariorzon Fear, senseless violence, and shitty drugs

> "mostly I wanted to score some bragging rights with you Scarface-obsessed gringos"

I think that is one sincere line to keep in mind when reading this post. The part about municipal cops in Monterrey taking anyone caught with "non-zeta drugs" to "las zetas" (sic) for killing would stand out as pretty a ridiculous fabrication for most people there.

mariorzon Facebook acquires Instagram

path seems to be experimenting with in-app purchases for additional photo filters.

mariorzon Twine: Listen to your world, talk to the Internet

twitter has private messages and comes with an ecosystem of apps with notification systems for pretty much all mobile devices.

mariorzon Alternatives to GoDaddy

I've been using this for a while, the site is beautiful, simple and fast, it's like the anti-godaddy in the best possible way. the online support is also some of the best I've experienced. really great job guys.

mariorzon Startup Workaway: 20 founders. 10 days. 1 beach house in Costa Rica. Apply now

I have a feeling there may be more people interested in doing the reverse of this: Startup Workaway: 20 founders, 10 days, 1 house in Palo Alto.

mariorzon The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket

that does not explain why the terrorist would then try to introduce the burqa to the US, so the whole theory is rather pointless. seeing where he travelled to, it would be quite logical to assume the burqa is just a case of a tourist bringing home a souvenir.

mariorzon MIT Video lectures - Introduction to Algorithms

why would this ever get downvoted? a link would be nice though.

mariorzon How Twilio screwed us over

the features were not clearly marked as unsopprted. there were even price quotes for international SMS.

mariorzon How Twilio screwed us over

Hi Jeff, I had the same problem. It was not very clear from your pages or FAQs that international SMS was not supported. Now I see it's been made very clear in this page http://www.twilio.com/faq/international, that's great, the previous message was confusing to say the least. FWIW I complained about this on the getsatisfaction forums some two weeks ago http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/international_sms-1...

Fortunately I don't have a live app that depended on your service, so all it cost me was $50 deposited to start playing around.

mariorzon What Craigslist's "Adult Services" Decision Means for Free Speech

yes, but the section isn't "prostitution". there are legit adult services in those sections as well.

mariorzon What Craigslist's "Adult Services" Decision Means for Free Speech

They go "out of their way" to segregate the ads? isn't it just the users posting their ads to the corresponding section?

mariorzon Ask HN: Is a free plan worth it or not? Trying to figure out our pricing

link that actually lets you download the pdf http://downloads.businessofsoftware.org/dontjustrollthedice....

mariorzon Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

>But I know enough not to feel comfortable commenting on this in a public forum.

why?

mariorzon Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All

> he does actually provide content in this article, that a newbie like me can use and put at profit (wich i did when the article first came out).

what could you possibly use from this article? if you're really interested in learning stats concepts and tools you can be better served by blogs with actual content.

here's a good one: http://incanter-blog.org/

mariorzon Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All

the comment requires no further argumentation. what could anyone take away from this article? "most programmers are idiots, zed shaw is fucking awesome" and "SD is important yo!". this isn't HN material.

mariorzon Nexus One

yes awesome! since your fingers don't get any smaller, maybe that's why they decided to put a trackball on a cell phone. perhaps there will also be a separately sold stylus.

mariorzon Merry Christmas & a very happy 2010 HN

Karma whores!

mariorzon Awesome new (relatively inexpensive) Brain-Computer Interface

but they don't seem to be doing that since "expressive" is one of the detection aspects they mention.

mariorzon Awesome new (relatively inexpensive) Brain-Computer Interface

i'm dubious these things can accurately interpret anything more than face muscle tensions, eye-movement if that. which are common noise sources in EEG recordings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography#Artifact...

anyone have some anecdotes otherwise? the demos on youtube are not really satisfying.

mariorzon EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced

i always marvel at how your comments continue to get upvoted.

mariorzon Sugru - hack things better

so kind of like epoxy puddy: http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/injoy365/product-detai...

http://www.lareynademesones.com.mx/catalog/images/K02-002.jp...

mariorzon Do you understand this first-grade child's homework?

maybe if either side was complete.

mariorzon Do you understand this first-grade child's homework?

just change the arrows into equal signs and it looks pretty clear, though i'm not sure if a first-grade child is more familiar with that notation. anyway this homework is part of a larger lesson in which almost identical exercises were solved ad nauseam. unclear textbooks isn't really one of the problems with education at any level. also: flagged.

mariorzon If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible?

>As far as a restaurant is concerned, why would they really care? It might annoy customers, but as long as the tables are still filling up, I feel the restaurant is more than happy, because they're still making the best of their available resources (tables and wait-staff).

It's scalping. It raises the cost of a dinner in the restaurant without additional gains for them. Obviously restaurants would not go this.