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by AlanSE 5y ago
Plant fat sources like peanuts, avocados, olive oil, etc. have a lot of fat, and this includes a lot of saturated fat. In the idea that it exists in lower portion? Is the problem really saturated fat itself, or the type of saturated fat...
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Fascinating subject. I also just want to mention why it makes sense that people SELL put options, in addition to buying them. If you sell a put option, then you have the obligation to sell in the future at the fixed price, regardless of the
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I read the topic and thought "oh, this sounds like fun, I want to play" Then I played it. Kudos to the creator. I really do hate it.
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by AlanSE 5y ago
But the rarity leads to intensive mining and human rights abuses. There's a good kind of rare (like say, an original painting, bought from the artist) and a bad kind of rare. Sentiments can change. Diamonds will not become unemotional,
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I think it would be good to re-package this information, but for me, the critical thing that stuff like this accomplishes is comprehensiveness. You have to go through so many classes at school just to have all the knowledge base covered at
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Ah yes, the old single family housing issue. I painfully remember a moment from the 2020 election cycle where CPAC or something had someone, amid much other nonsense, framed Democratic opposition to single-family zoning as ruining our way o
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I'm extremely sympathetic to this view. Habitat destruction is the #1 or #2 way we're screwing over the planet. However, this looks like an area where environmentalists risk getting themselves into trouble. Global warming is a def
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by AlanSE 6y ago
I suspect that modern processors are closer to quantum limits than what neurons are.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
You comments have prompted me to start reading the book The Deficit Myth. I am looking into this because people I respect are saying things that surprise me. I abjectly disagree with your sentiments and the core points of the book, so far.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
The Federal government pays interest on T-bills with tax revenue. I don't understand why people give me resistance on this. The higher the debt is, the higher the interest payments are. Taken to its logical extreme, why bother collecti
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by AlanSE 6y ago
But is inflation a realistic debt-reducing tool in the modern economy? Inflation rates are very low, particularly when considering the debt load. We could quite simply increase the target inflation rate from 2% to 4% inflation, but this wou
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by AlanSE 6y ago
There are people who will stop buying kinds of lettuce after seeing news stories about these recalls. I mean stop for months. I agree, when a recall happens the store should pull them from the shelves, and consumers shouldn't have to w
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Companies are already selling LED growing units for inside the home for food (like aero-garden). The interest is there, what's missing is for it to make significant inroads into the grocery/restaurant food chain.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
I'm very excited about this. This isn't going to replace farms anytime soon, but there's a pretty solid economic niche for it within the food choices that customer preference justifies today. The best argument for this method
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by AlanSE 6y ago
The opening of PlanetES is actually funny. They show a ton of historic rockets, even suggesting a progression over time, but then it hardly makes it to the then-present day of 2003. It's like "over time, rockets got bigger, and th
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by AlanSE 6y ago
It was extremely good for its time. For instance, the creators asked scientists to estimate the efficiency of solar panels at the time, and computed the area needed for the space stations they drew. Truly incredible that they went to these
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by AlanSE 6y ago
> Also, there is reason why agrarian societies pushed away hunter gatherers - it is just easier to stay alive and healthy. No. Agriculture exists because it supports more people per unit of land than what the traditional way of life did
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Truly asymptomatic spread is not a major driver of infection. There are been some major public relations problems when an organization said this, and were mistaken to mean pre-symptomatic, but the science is pretty clear. We used to think t
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by AlanSE 6y ago
> If they find an issue along the way, they make a note of it and come back to fix it. Or they might fix in as they go. One consistent tension is that the old-hand developers have a "mental issue queue" that is enormous, but wi
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by AlanSE 6y ago
I will concede all those points except for the last one. > Starlink, the NASA Moon program, commercial sat buissness, SpaceX Mars Plans, SpaceX Space tourism and so on. A cheaper vehicle always has more usage. Go back to basic college Ec
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by AlanSE 6y ago
I find myself using my Android phone a lot more when on Linux... just because I have to practically work around some things, because I don't have all day to debug non-essential tasks. For instance, I upgraded Fedora from 32 to 33, and
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Starlink doesn't need Starship. It works right now and the current SpaceX vehicles are sufficient for what it does. Maybe you could talk about Starship as a means to increase the total receiving area, number of satellites, and thus tot
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by AlanSE 6y ago
You're right. I've felt a little bitter about the messaging ever since March. From the get-go, there were articles pointing out the numerical reality that it would take 10 years to reach herd immunity with a curve flattened to mat
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Yes, and was very centrist. I don't think the changing media landscape can be disentangled from this, which is a trend happening for unrelated reasons. If the only thing happening was urban concentration, then the mathematical predicte
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All job growth was concentrated in the service sector, and they tended to not be good jobs. The ethical issues with this were apparent well before 2019. There needed to be a change in individual preferences, as well as attention to lack of
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by AlanSE 6y ago
> Las Vegas is Open! You can fly there, stay in a hotel, gamble, eat, etc... but yet Vegas has tons of closures. People just don't want to go there right now for business or pleasure. Singling out these re-openings misses the math o
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by AlanSE 6y ago
To me, the most relevant difference between then and now is the looseness of the union. It makes sense that all states get an equal vote... only when the votes don't really matter. If California broke up into 5 states, they would get 5
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by AlanSE 6y ago
The whole electoral college is non-intentional gerrymandering. The candidate with fewer votes has been winning since 2000, and winning with a wider and wider vote margin. A major political goal should be getting the National Popular Vote In
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It's the same virus no matter where you are in the world. Weekly new cases (per capita) is the best metric for how likely you are to get it when you step outside.
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This has been covered again and again in other comments. Thermal power plants dump heat into oceans today. The data center is much more efficient than a counterpart on land. Ocean life and coral reefs are in danger due to temperature rise a

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