Your "facts" are wrong, or at least they date from the conventional wisdom of the 1980s.
There is nothing spectacular about "complex carbs" to make them "slow-releasing". Both potatoes and white bread have glycemic indexes much higher than the "simple sugars" you're trying to demonize. The human digestive tract is extremely effective at unchaining starches and other "complex carb" polysaccharides, and it begins at the first bite via salivary amylase.
Oh, and flaxseed has been linked to prostate cancer in multiple studies.
You may want to read nutritional research more recent than 1985.
Right, because buying the long term debt of a nation with absolutely no political will to resolve its fiscal problems is the very definition of "low risk", right?
That really worked out well for the Greek, Irish, and Portugal sovereign debt buyers.
So it's a less redundant, less mature, less documented, more expensive, 5 year late, and invite-only version of S3 that doesn't have one-click CDN enabling?
And it's built by a company perpetually embroiled in privacy and data retention scandals?
You seem to think that economic and military strength have political freedom as a prerequisitie. I can understand why you'd believe that, since the "good guys" just happened to win WW2 and launch American hegemony.
Well, 65 years is not a very long time. The Roman, the Ottoman, and the Persian empires all had arguably less free political systems than China does today, and yet that did not prevent them from dominating large parts of the planet economically and militarily.
No. The "America is doomed" folks act as if China has far more productive capacity than we do, and that when trade and currency imbalances finally correct, we will be left in a position where it's too expensive to import the things we can no longer produce.
The "America is doomed" folks act as if American culture denigrates education and intelligence to the point where "Idiocracy" is not an unthinkable future for the nation.
Competition only drives innovation to the extent that one of the competitors actually has productive capacity or intellectual horsepower sufficient to actually compete.
I'm no doomer, but I certainly don't think we're looking at merely not being "the only gorilla in the room".
Strangely enough, not at all. We have a few ec2 instances running in the us-east region, allegedly the region that was supposed to be affected. They have been up and available all day, without issues of any kind.
"They were worried about getting girls to like them and annoyed at the athletes who seemed to get all of them. I was usually dating those same athletes."
Brilliant strategy to build camaraderie with your collaborators.
Well, it's not necessarily true that RoR is prescribed for most projects. A more general statement, which seems in my experience to be accurate, is that $shiny_hot_language_popular_with_the_kids_these_days is the prescribed language/platform for startup applications.
I am old enough to remember when Java was actually in this exact role, with "legacy" web apps written in C( via cgi or nsapi ), perl, or c++/com/asp( via asapi )being seen as uncool and dinosaurish by kids who shat their pants after reading the servlet/jsp 1.0 spec.
Nowadays, I'm seeing more chatter about clojure/haskell/node.js startup technology stacks than RoR, so my guess is that the shiny new thing is moving yet again.
Well, yes, actually. For quite some time, in fact.
I learned the other day that questioning the orthodoxy of the virtue of parenthood is disallowed on HN. Suggesting that having kids is anything other than an amazing accomplishment by capable, intelligent couples is heresy.
I have not been on HN that long, but the claims that it is somehow a bastion of pure rational discussion that no other internet forum can reach, appear to be wrong.
"The 10am-10pm work culture is a market inefficiency. It biases recruiting towards people in their twenties, leaving experienced and capable family people on the table."
Having a family is a choice. If a consequence of that choice is that you will have a harder time competing with those willing to work more hours, then that ought to be one of many considerations when making said choice.
Why is is that we find it ok to preferentially hire people who work longer/harder due to some personal choices( don't watch tv, don't play xbox all day, don't wake up hung over every morning ), but we draw this imaginary line for other life choices( don't have a family to spend time with )?
Why should an employer NOT find the best qualified people who ALSO work longer hours, simply because you chose a lifestyle they didn't?
There is nothing spectacular about "complex carbs" to make them "slow-releasing". Both potatoes and white bread have glycemic indexes much higher than the "simple sugars" you're trying to demonize. The human digestive tract is extremely effective at unchaining starches and other "complex carb" polysaccharides, and it begins at the first bite via salivary amylase.
Oh, and flaxseed has been linked to prostate cancer in multiple studies.
You may want to read nutritional research more recent than 1985.