kandu

> 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.

Please solve corruption. Corruption is a social issue that could be mitigated by using online media to catalyze critical mass for acting against 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.

What kind of radiation does it use for sensing (infrared, ultrasound, visible light, ...)?