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by 09bjb 10y ago
Darn, internet info foiled by more internet info...
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Games are absolutely more immersive, engrossing, and addictive than they used to be...and designed to be so. It's a higher-grade drug, if you will.
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Like marry into money? If that's your point, it's not going to be valid much longer the way things are going, with women dominating more and more of the middle- and upper-middle-class jobs (glass ceiling problem notwithstanding).
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Owning your own home has never been an optimal investing strategy anyway--consider index-based investing instead. Play with a compound interest calculator and see where you can get with 4-10% interest each year.
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Agreed. Don't count on government sponsored health insurance or Social Security.
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There are more cells in a body than stars in the universe; I'm under the impression that the first CRISPR therapies will be on early-stage embryos where the number of cells is still manageable and we can feasibly edit all of them. Wou
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:) I'll bite. "Seconds" is not nearly long enough for me to be confident there are no adverse effects. Deleterious effects from monkeying with genes can take years or decades to show up (via increased risk to certain cancer
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Seconded.
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Or...develop a decent, trusting relationship with your local farmer and ask them about their practices.
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My suspicions are only getting worse as I click through some comment history. Really? The debate on GMOs is the _only_ discussion on HN you want to partake in?
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Agree here. Definitely some comments in this thread that look suspicious...only because Monsanto already does this on a closely related platform :) Hi Guys! Thanks for tuning in!
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With enough money you can distort the results for decades before the truth comes out. The sugar industry and tobacco industry spring to mind as examples of vested interests completely owning the narrative in spite of a growing body of incr
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It _should_...until the pests attaching the crops develop resistance to the chosen combination of agrichemical/genetically-induced resistance to said agrichemical. Here's a 2010 article--it's gotten significantly worse since
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Wow, never read anything before by Taruskin. What a combination of sensational prose and command of musical and political history. I'll be seeking out more of his work. Here's a primer for anyone interested: http://w
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Huge +1 on The Book: on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. I keep re-reading that book hoping that I'll be able explain things half as well as Watts does...never seems to work but I still venerate this book. I cried when I read h
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All the arm-balance poses and handstanding are dependent on grip strength, at least to do properly. Maybe I'm conflating finger/forearm/wrist strength with "grip", but they sure feel related. The crow pose and han
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Try Kerrygold, 100% grass-fed and grass-finished...or the U.S. equivalent. You'll never go back.
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Yep. Although given the current trends, we'll soon be able to say the same thing about a $3 Belgian-style and a $30 Belgian-style.
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Agreed. After $30-50 dollars, you're paying for something other than "higher quality" when you pay more. Collectibility, brand, etc...but for $30/bottle a winery can afford to sort every grape by hand, etc.
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Uneducated drinkers wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Once you've tried enough wines, the difference is obvious and nobody debates it anymore. If you drink beer, it's not much different than mistaking Coors Light for
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Lol, can confirm. I know this won't appeal to our lovable cadre of HN contrarians, but there is a major difference between most high-end bottles and anything you can get for $8 and under. That's not to say that those $40-and-up
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It built most of its decision model by playing itself over "trillions of hands", according to Prof. Sandholm. You could almost think of the nightly reviews as a similar process to a human sleeping: we benefit from memory consolid
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by 09bjb 10y ago
I'm glad someone is bringing this up. I see so many "X job getting automated, jobs are lost, oh no!" portrayed as some novel scenario where jobs are automated and no new jobs are ever made. Automation of routine jobs has be
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Yep. Beautifully wrought confirmations of bad hypotheses. After this election I'm taking anything stats-related on 538 (most everything) with a huge grain of salt. Can't stand another "Here's why the numbers show Hill
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Not true. The senate has already voted down the pre-existing protections plan, letting young adults stay on their parents' plans, and keeping contraceptive coverage. American's don't follow the actual machinations of the sen
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Given that the primary function of a physician these days creeps ever closer to " drug prescriber reacting to acute symptoms", this is just dripping with irony. Say no to drugs indeed.
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No; I would argue that near-perfect food already exists. That's an opinion, but one I've come to through what I think are logical, reasonable precepts. The very limited upside of ag companies (or startups like Soylent for that m
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You're right; "GMO producers generally don't respect the environment, and that behavior may extend to their products" is an opinion, not science. It's up for debate. As is "near-perfect food already exists an
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> but the problem is that I far too often see the illogical/irrational FUD of anti-GMO being the strawman used by pro-gmo people against the more reasonable and scientific anti-gmo arguments, which seems to be intellectually dishone
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by 09bjb 10y ago
Good spot. A lot of my skepticism of this industry revolves around the repeated, rampant careerism within it.

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