AlexeiSadeski

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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
I could care less about using metric, but don't touch Fahrenheit. Celsius (water based) is inferior to Fahrenheit (air based) for those of us whom just so happen to reside in the atmosphere instead of the sea.
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
Q: How do you know Ariely is talking dishonestly? A: His lips are moving. Oh, I must have misread the title ;)
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
Storm surge is related to intensity much more than size.
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
Excepting instances of extremely small storms, Category is in fact the second most important factor when determining the destructiveness of a storm. First most important is geography - where the storm hits. Size of the storm is the least im
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
Because most people are either closet Marxists or closet Fascists?
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
Hurricane Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane at landfall. That's pretty much the opposite of a SUPERSTORM. Much larger hurricanes have hit New England before. For example, the "Great New England Hurricane of 1938" made landfall on Long Island
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
I don't find a single one of these "reasons" even remotely compelling as cause not to do business with Amazon. Were I to run Amazon tomorrow, I would change not one of these policies.
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
I don't really care about sponsors, but for those who do, Splenda and Equal both sponsor the American Diabetes Association as well. I'd say that those two companies would much prefer for the ADA to declare sugar a cause of Type II Diabetes.
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
Sugar intake is not listed amongst the environmental risk factors for Insulin Resistance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance#Associated_R... The biggest controllable risk factor for Type II Diabetes is obesity. This finding h
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by AlexeiSadeski 14y ago
The author of this article gets so many basic facts wrong that it's difficult to take anything he writes seriously. Straight from the American Diabetes Association's website: 'Myth: Eating too much sugar causes diabetes. Fact: No, it does n