> If you want to lose weight and you plan to also exercise, going low carb will hamstring you. The difference between running in the morning fasted and running after eating a single banana is the difference between feeling like you are being tortured and being able bounce around like a bunny.
A low carb diet may still contain enough carbs to inhibit the ketone generation mechanism. Was your ketogenesis active at the time? My experience of exercising under ketogenesis was OK.
In principle, the advertisers could buy Google shares and influence the company's policy towards an equilibrium that is more favourable to advertisers. If a natural monopoly is a public company, the entities that depend on this company could buy shares and bend the company's actions towards their interests. Is this happening? If not, why not?
This is typical for many developing countries. I still wonder why, while we have Facebook, Twitter, Kickstarter and so on, we do not have successful online systems that would allow societies to organize and fight corruption and kleptocracy through participative democracy, crowdsourcing legislation, crowdsourcing social innovation, and so on.
It is mind blowing to me that in a world where the internet makes it so easy to aggregate democratically the wishes of the masses, corrupt politicians that neglect the people they represent still thrive. If everybody would spent 10% of the time they spend on Facebook in order to express on a website the problems that they would like to be solved by the state and the solution to these problems that they support, the world we live in would be a much better one. I would guess that the value corruption takes away from the global economy is much higher than the value created by all of the startups that pretend to disrupt economies. Do you want to solve a global problem? Please solve corruption.
Nice to see this story. I really like having a simple phone that lasts a week before having to be recharged. I do not understand why there is no major cell phone producer having a line of simple, dumb phones that are not low end, but having a decent design, e.g. metal casing as Nokia 6300 or 6303i. I would really like to buy a simple phone having just the basic functions of voice calls and texts, alarms, a battery lasting a week, no camera or other bells and whistles, but a nice design, for around $50. Why nobody produces this? Current Nokia low end products are too plasticky, with no particular care for the design. Maybe someone can start a business for catering to this need.
I guess that those websites should serve the interests of the voters, not of the current politicians.
Why should a voter use such a website? Because his/her humble click on a Support/Oppose button could aggregate with many others' clicks and make a difference when the number of people expressing an opinion is high enough to get the attention of the politicians and of the media. The random expression of an opinion on the street influences just the few listeners that happen to be arround.
Most developed countries are democracies, and democracy means that governments should obey the will of the people. The exercise of democracy means aggregating social information, and this is so easily done now through the internet. However, the use of internet for exercising democratic rights seems very limited. Why it is so? Why people spend more time on Facebook than on a political social network where the opinions they share could have direct positive impacts on those aspects of their live that depends on government and legislation?
When considering a decision, elected officials may consult existing scientific literature, may commission scientific studies or polls on the issue, or request the public comments on their specific proposal. There are plenty of information sources to inform them. If they rely just on information provided by the richest, and which represents the interest of these richest groups, the politician's decisions will be suboptimal.
I also used Companies Made Simple. Everything was fine with them, except that if you have non-ASCII characters in your name they will look scrambled in some of the official documents. Use an ASCII transliteration for your name instead of using non-ASCII characters.
How hard is to convert to developers adults with training in other areas, but with presumed cognitive skills suitable for programming? I am thinking of people of 35-50 years old, that would be intelligent enough (i.e., there would be just a percentage of this cohort that would be fit for becoming developers), but who, from various historical and personal reasons, work in industries where the prospects are less interesting than in programming.
Are there any studies showing how the potential to learn programming decreases (or not) with age? I have looked on Google Scholar but I found nothing.
Imagine a world where all goods and services required for a decent life will be provided by AI and robots. Still, there will plenty of jobs for humans - those related to the humanity of humans. Life could become dedicated to enjoying art in various forms, and this art will be conceived mostly by humans. If people will have no work to do, they could hire entertainers. They could do jobs as a hobby - e.g., manually producing stuff that could as well be made by robots, but that other humans will buy just because it was hand made. They could enjoy experimenting with various lifestyles, effectively creating diverse subcultures, and these cultures will trade items that are uniquely developed within the culture.
Imagine a world where people could enjoy the variety of clothing that existed in the world 300 years ago and that has been now elliminated by the hustle of modern life and by a global trade in clothes. Even if they will be produced by robots, designing these clothes will remain mostly a human job. Virtually anyone could wear designer clothes, and many people could become such designers. The same could be applied to food, music, movies, and so on.
Education and corporal care would also become a large part of the economy that would hire humans and not robots. There will be plenty of niches, and people will have the time to invest in developing specialized skills, rediscovering skills long forgotten.
Eliberated by the stress of modern life, life will simply become more enjoyable.
It is probably pointless for Google to use humans to read mails, especially the mails of regular people. And it is certain that they use automated processing of the information in the mails.
A most relevant question would be: Does Google match the profiles of its mail users to high profile people, such as company managers or other rich people who can be easily found on, for example, Linkedin? If so, does Google automatically filter their email in order to predict, for example, the stock market?
I am currently using toggl (http://www.toggl.com). I am not using it for billing nor for monitoring employees, but for monitoring how I spend time. The purpose is to balance work between my several projects on which I work concurrently, and also to avoid procrastination and wasting time on distractions.
I spent a lot of time (pun intended), i.e. about half a day, on searching a time tracker that would fit my needs. I was not interested in features related to billing clients, and thus I found too expensive the services that seem to be most popular, like Harvest, whose pricing starts at $12 per month if one works on more than 2 projects. I would not pay more than $1 per month for a simple time tracking service. I needed a web application / service, as opposed to client software, since I work on multiple computers. Also, the ideal service that I was looking for would have an Android app such that I could track time when I'm not using a computer.
Toggl does all of these within the free plan, however it is somehow buggy - the Android app, the desktop app and the web service do not synchronize well and I am kind of forced to use just the web service through a browser.
I would be interested to find out about other apps that would do the job.