Cushman

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901.
by Cushman 14y ago
They went down literally the moment our demo thing started. I swear this is because of me.
902.
by Cushman 14y ago
> ...consoles may soon become a niche product for highly dedicated, purist consumers. Isn't that the role that high-end gaming PCs fill now? It sounds like he's saying game consoles as we know them are just going to go away.
903.
by Cushman 14y ago
I never said it was the sole determiner. If you can't talk to people but you can do tech, you can do all right for yourself; if you can talk to people and you can do tech, you can write your own check. People in tech need this most -- we'r
904.
by Cushman 14y ago
In that case, I'll readily admit I was using "survival" in the hyperbolic sense of "NYC survival skills" than the literal sense of "wilderness survival skills". I'll downgrade it to "crucially significant determiner of success" if that's ea
905.
by Cushman 14y ago
One might even liken it the difference between gnawing on a stick of sugar cane and eating ice cream, or licking a rock and eating a salty potato chip :) I still haven't seen the thing that makes MSG especially sinister.
906.
by Cushman 14y ago
That could be a good transition strategy if you're worried about being compromised before all your users have logged in again, but you would still want to move them over to using just the new system when they do. It probably would be fine
907.
by Cushman 14y ago
To clarify, since your parent didn't actually misspeak-- There are actually only five main tastes your taste buds can detect. They just aren't organized by location.
908.
by Cushman 14y ago
It's true that that would be an improvement, however we try to avoid discussing things like that seriously because of the risk that someone new to the game will actually try to do it. The easy answer is to use an out-of-the-box secure passw
909.
by Cushman 14y ago
I expect you're being downvoted for your derogatory and inaccurate use of "nerds"-- I know several theater nerds who are phenomenal actors.
910.
by Cushman 14y ago
I think that's exactly what I mean by "paranoia". It's certainly true that MSG makes food taste better than it "really does", and makes you want to eat more-- as do added salt, sugar, or any seasoning for that matter. For some reason only
911.
by Cushman 14y ago
Good point, and why it's an indispensable seasoning.
912.
by Cushman 14y ago
Everyone should take an improv class, in secondary school and again in college. Like the bard said, everyone's an actor; most people are just really bad ones. Knowing how your own facial expressions, gestures, voice and words really work
913.
by Cushman 14y ago
If you're a normal human being, you're likely to notice over time that the things that you think will make you happy, when they finally happen, don't. It's just something people are really bad at predicting. If you're a normal human being,
914.
by Cushman 14y ago
I think that's the idea behind the "All Natural AC'CENT® Flavor Enhancer" branding-- they don't say "monosodium glutamate" anywhere on the package except the ingredients. I just call it supersalt . Because it's like salt, but not salty!
915.
by Cushman 14y ago
Taube's theory (about cholesterol, but I think it applies here as well) is that it's "where the light is". Things which are measurable are optimized for even if they're pragmatically pointless. So a study comes along that finds a correlatio
916.
by Cushman 14y ago
All right! Next up: MSG. Even those of my friends who know that the health concerns are bogus have a weird paranoia of MSG. I think it's a general suspicion of any chemical which makes food taste better (which somehow doesn't apply to salt
917.
by Cushman 14y ago
You're quite right, I did forget about those. I'm still not quite seeing it, though... I suppose since I'm not a console gamer I have a hard time imagining spending my time hanging out with other people while all starting at our hands. I th
918.
by Cushman 14y ago
If you're trying to avoid anti-intellectualism, I'd avoid using the term "politically [in]correct"; in the discourse of modern American politics, these words are little more than a red herring used by conservatives to snidely insinuate that
919.
by Cushman 14y ago
I'm not much of a console gamer, but I do play more than my share of PC games, and I have to ask... is anyone else really unimpressed by this touchscreen-peripheral concept, in any of its incarnations? When I'm playing a video game, I want
920.
by Cushman 14y ago
No worries, just happens to be a peeve of mine.
921.
by Cushman 14y ago
Definitely a good point. I think the thing I'm trying to get at is that those concerns apply to processed foods in general, as you point out; you take the same risk every time you eat a hot dog, or frankly any commercial meat which comes
922.
by Cushman 14y ago
> a qualified scientist raised concerns very early on with the product being approved for human consumption. He did not. I don't think you read that article very closely. "It looks like pink slime. That is what I said." Asked if he and
923.
by Cushman 14y ago
> ...fat, salt, and sugar ... contains little in the way of useful nutrition You're making a good point here, but I'd watch out for this weasely use of "nutrition". Fats and sugars are where energy comes from. Food is made of nutrition.
924.
by Cushman 14y ago
Even assuming that allowing the unlabeled sale of ground beef containing some quantity of LFTB was an inside deal, ammonium hydroxide in general is classified as GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe)[0]. In the opinion of the FDA, it's as safe
925.
by Cushman 14y ago
1. I imagine USA Today uses the term "bath" to refer to any number of things. Here's the Washington Post: "...the lean beef passes through a tube the size of a pencil, where it is exposed for less than a second to a tiny amount of ammonia g
926.
by Cushman 14y ago
1. There is no soaking. The product is exposed to ammonia gas. 2. If we don't trust the FDA to regulate based on health consequences, what the hell do we pay them for? 3. It is, in strict terms, ignorant to not know that ammonia is a compon
927.
by Cushman 14y ago
I think it was two things mainly: 1) Pictures of mechanically-separated meat (the pink soft-serve) misattributed as LFTB. 2) Hysteria around the use of ammonia, which people read as "poison" rather than "food-safe antimicrobial agent". It w
928.
by Cushman 14y ago
The issue I have with all this is-- in what sense is my DNA not public information? 1) Intellectual property in general is considered to be things that I, you know, thought of; my genetic code is the result of a physical process between m
929.
by Cushman 14y ago
1. Purchase tasty beverage. 2. Drink beverage. 3. Free bottle!
930.
by Cushman 14y ago
Okay, but are perfectly diffuse rooms really more common than perfectly absorbent rooms? Anyway, I didn't know that before today :)

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