leobabauta | 12 years ago | 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.
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leobabauta | 12 years ago | on: Should the web be personalized?
This is a pretty spammy link.
leobabauta | 12 years ago | 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 | 12 years ago | 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 | 12 years ago | 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 | 12 years ago | 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 | 13 years ago | 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 | 13 years ago | 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 | 13 years ago | 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 | 13 years ago | 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 | 13 years ago
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 | 13 years ago
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 | 13 years ago | 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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