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nashequilibrium··on So HIIT Training has been pushed on us incorrectly
A quick intro to the paper http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/exercise/80-20-tra...

Surprisingly this crossfit paper quotes Dr. Stephen Seiler's work: http://www.crossfit.com/journal/library/10_03_metab_cond.pdf

nashequilibrium··on Apple’s dangerous game, part 3: Where do you draw the line?
Doesn't Jeff Bezos own the Washington Post?
nashequilibrium··on BuzzFeed: An Open Letter to Ben Horowitz
I'll say this for what its worth, i have been very surprised at how good their business articles are!
nashequilibrium··on A Call for a Low-Carb Diet
Hats off, i have tried keto, just couldn't handle it.
nashequilibrium··on A Call for a Low-Carb Diet
You talking about a keto diet which is high protein, high fat, limiting the carbs to under 50g or less, depending on your size. High protein, Low carb, does not reduce the carbs to such a level that it puts you in a keto state. Half a cup of mixed veg has around 12g carbs, so eating a cup at every meal with your protein will not put you in a keto state but will keep you at a low carb level. This is where most bodybuilders stay or go for 40/40/20 ration with 20 being fats.
nashequilibrium··on [dead]
At no point did the kid enter the car. You want us to believe that a teenager, starting college the next day, dove into the drivers side of the car to steal a police officers gun. Picture that for a second and if that doesn't make you laugh then i don't know what will. The eyewitness accounts make the most sense so far.

Secondly, the gunshot to the back doesn't make sense. The gunshots while his hand were up also doesn't make sense. It seems like the cop was wrong on a number of levels.

nashequilibrium··on Mobile Operators Demanding A Cut From Chat Apps
I went through it with no issues. It had some nice stats,its more developing world base but it shows how bad telecoms are bleeding,
nashequilibrium··on Google Spotted Explicit Images Of A Child In A Man's Email Tipped Authorities
"3. The NSA comment is bunk, don't make martyrs of child molesters."

This is offensive and a low blow and you know it. You know this has nothing to do with the child molester and everything to do with google processing and understanding your email data, otherwise i would have not posted this link to a tech site.

NB: You made an account just to make this comment, why?

nashequilibrium··on Google Spotted Explicit Images Of A Child In A Man's Email Tipped Authorities
Whats that you were saying about the NSA's mass collection program?
nashequilibrium··on Dutch travellers react calmly to loss of flight MH17 – “we are not America”
how many cars on the road vs planes in the sky?
nashequilibrium··on YoAuth
I just a headline today that the company behind yo released a new photo messaging app: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/07/28/makers-yo-back-new-mes...
nashequilibrium··on Dutch travellers react calmly to loss of flight MH17 – “we are not America”
I will take a car crash over a plane crash any day!
nashequilibrium··on Why Probabilistic Programming Matters
I am enjoying going through this "Probabilistic Models of Cognition":https://probmods.org/generative-models.html .Even though i am a python guy but the fact that it is written using a functional probabilistic programming language called Church, really makes it easy to follow along.
nashequilibrium··on Catalonia Fines Airbnb, Threatens to Block Locals From Using Site
It's amazing how society will always have it's shadow over you. I work my butt off to buy a home, my own piece of land but I have to ask the government permission for who to let stay on my land for a certain period of time.
nashequilibrium··on Show HN: Full Stack Python
you run a few tornado instances behind nginx.
nashequilibrium··on Where are the African programmers?
Have you looked back 300 to 400 yrs of South Africa's history before labeling all these people not African? If this is true, then American whites are not American. You can be white and be African.
nashequilibrium··on Where are the African programmers?
"The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje-Vrijstaat Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa"

This was Recognized by who? Only crazy Boers, South Africa was there before that. History books after apartheid have been re-written exactly for this reason, the apartheid regime told an apartheid version. Go and look at the differences, i have studied the history. Take your feet, visit the place, talk to the people, understand the history, don't be a "Wikipedia keyboard warrior"!

nashequilibrium··on Where are the African programmers?
What amazes me is that you so confidently post that quote without realizing how terrible your understanding of it is. This shows utter ignorance, go visit the place and understand the history. I kind of want to go on a long explanation, but its just not worth it, people will remain ignorant until they choose to educate themselves of the facts.

ps. If the Mayflower ship brings British settlers to the U.S. and they have a kid in the U.S, is that kid not American? A boer colony is just a place where early Dutch settlers settled in South Africa, just like those people arriving in the U.S. on the Mayflower.

nashequilibrium··on Where are the African programmers?
Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu Creator South African & sold Thawte to Verisign in the dotcom boom.

Elon Musk - South African, of paypal & spacex

Roelof Botha - South African, of paypal & Sequoia

Emanuel Derman - South African, of Goldman Sachs Quantitative strategies

Amazon Web Services - South Africa

Herman Chinery-Hesse - Ghana, of SOFTtribe

OffTopic - J. R. R. Tolkien - South African, Lord of the Rings

There is a lot more where that came from: http://ventureburn.com/2014/03/20-kickass-african-tech-entre...

You could go to a lot of the Compsci departments at many Universities in African countries and find a lot of good developers or potentially good devs. This is where Accenture , microsoft etc, get their devs from in Africa.

EDIT: PLZ downvote this post, my challenge to u guys is to make my Karma go to zero! You can do it guys.

nashequilibrium··on HomeKit
An ios house, connected to an ios house platform. I can imagine the conversations, i bought a Samsung home or how to jailbreak your ios home or android malware popping up on your bathroom mirrors as you brush your teeth.
nashequilibrium··on The case for eating steak and cream
Maybe in extreme cases, read this docs blog, he has done keto for a long time but i noticed he has now changed up and only does it at certain times. Also he has a lot of stuff on keto. http://eatingacademy.com/personal/actually-eat-part-iii-circ...
nashequilibrium··on The case for eating steak and cream
Keto is not meant for long-term use. You will have one miserable life if you could pull that off but i doubt you could even if u tried. It works really well for cutting that last bit of stubborn fat when u trying to show your six pack.
nashequilibrium··on Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
Why is this comment downvoted, look at the top comment, this is why i hardly set foot on HN any more, the top comment is some guy talking about a 1991 fight but its the top comment. Sigh!
nashequilibrium··on Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
Bottom Line, if this was beats by Jack Dorsey, everyone would be jumping up and down but its a black rapper and everyone is confused. The first thing everyone said was a difference in culture. My experience at a fortune 50 marketing firms let's me know right away that this is a premium brand across the globe. Their headphones are priced at such a high premium and their brand recognition as cool and worn by celebrities and top sports stars, across sporting lines from european soccer to swimmers coming out at the olympics.

Lets cut the bullshit, we all know why everyone is scratching their heads, because this is not a 22yr old hoodie wearing white hacker. Close your eyes and picture "Beats by Jack Dorsey" and u will know what i am talking about. Some fool will post how this is not true, downvote the post et cetera, but it is what it is!

nashequilibrium··on Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
"If people listen to rap music enough, they start to emulate the language, treatment and other thought patterns being drilled into their brains (it's voluntary brainwash/ thought programming really)."

I think Ben Horowitz will disagree with you, a couple of other VCs as well!

nashequilibrium··on Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
"pragmatic reader" Thank you for this, this is the type of comments I miss from hackernews. People never used to take everything at face value, there was extra rational analyses and everyone debated around these issues. The whole Snowden affair has turned hackernews into an irrational and one sided debate and people often turning a blind eye to valid comments against their stance.
nashequilibrium··on Why I Don’t Do CrossFit
This is no joke but i just couldn't help laughing! http://i.imgur.com/AoClAei.gif
nashequilibrium··on FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
This is a bit concerning as a number of non tech people but people that just use facebook, instagram, gmail ect that i have spoken to are confused. It would be nice to see a simplification so that the avg guy in the street can understand the effects of this.
nashequilibrium··on Silicon Valley Billionaire Battles Surfers Over Beach Access
I am adding the top comment from the original article by user petethexman:

As a former Coastal Commission staff member in the 1980s, I've seen this scenario played out over and over. The so-called issue of Spanish land grants pre-existing and somehow superceding laws like the Coastal Act isn't an issue at all -- land grants occurred in the early 1800s all over California, so Martins Beach isn't any special or privileged circumstance.

It isn't just a matter of the Coastal Act. What was alluded to regarding public access along the road involves what is known as a prescriptive right. Areas with a history of public use can have the right of access through prescriptive rights regardless of the existence of Coastal Act policies. Prescriptive rights have a lengthy history -- and by lengthy, I mean going back to English common law in the 1100s. The standards for a prescriptive easement involve, among other things, that the public use be open, "notorious" (which means well known and not secretive), and continuous for a period of time. Many prescriptive rights inure in a time period as short as 5 years or as long as 20. And it isn't just the coast. If your neighbor builds a concrete block wall between your back yards and it turned out to be on your property and not his (a very common occurrence), over that period of time, if not otherwise contested or challenged, it could become his property if he was to pursue that. So the impact of these decisions is widespread not just in terms of natural resources but also public usage of trails as well.

Access to the water is a right guaranteed not just to and along the coast but to any body of water -- lake, stream, pond, whatever. Article X Section 4 of the California Constitution, enacted shortly after statehood in 1850, states in part that the public has a right to access of "the waters of the state of California," that no person, organization, corporation, or any other entity can block access to the waters of the state, and that the Legislature, in enacting future laws, must give THE most liberal application of those rights possible.

Case in point: When I lived in Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California, the homeowner association there blocked public access to the lake unless you were an association member/property owner on the lake. The dam was constructed beginning in 1922 and has always been in private ownership by the association. During the drought in the early- to mid-1990s, the lake level dropped nearly 20 feet, and boat owners who didn't have docks that could adjust to fluctuating water levels couldn't launch their boats. Their solution? Not take personal responsibility, certainly. No. They had the Community Services District (for water and sewage disposal) enact an ordinance that charged everyone within the District (whose boundaries far exceeded the area of the homeowners' association) higher rates to raise $60 million to subsidize the wealthy lakefront property owners who didn't have adjustable docks -- fewer than 100 property owners, in a community with over 12,000 permanent year-round residents. This money was for purchasing water from the State Water Project through convoluted three- or four-step water swapping deals with other water districts to obtain water indirectly AND was done in a manner that avoided any approvals that could be conditioned to force public access to the lake directly.

The solution to these problems? Be vigilant. Always be vigilant. The ocean is OUR ocean, and access to the beaches and water is an integral part of the culture of California. This tiny beach, away from view, away from virtually everyone except those very few lucky individuals who live there, is important. It only takes one bad precedent, one bad court ruling, to have impacts not only on this beach, not only on all California beaches, not only all bodies of water, but to any resource belonging to the people of California, whether it be a small creek in the eastern Sierra, a forest, or a desert.

nashequilibrium··on Silicon Valley Billionaire Battles Surfers Over Beach Access
This is just so disgusting, i remember thinking about this when this guy was at techcrunch disrupt last year, acting like he's trying to make the world a better place. The tech community will stay silent because nobody wants to bite the hand that feeds them.
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