Evgeny

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Acid Trap(aeon.co)
2 points by Evgeny 13y ago|0 comments
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by Evgeny 13y ago
Don't forget that there are multiple "most liveable cities", according to different reports. Melbourne ranked world's most liveable city - again http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/melbourn
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The chance of dying makes the big difference (I guess, I don't have statistics on hand)
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I guess you could classify it as selfish under some weird definition that classifies everything dangerous as selfish No, under the definition of having loved ones who will be terribly upset in case you die or irrepairably injure yourself.
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by Evgeny 13y ago
I presume this is a spoof. Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around. Are you serious? I once worked for a company where a cat was living on the premises (belonged to the lady who was cooking lunches). That's
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by Evgeny 13y ago
Well, since we are trying to eat healthily, it just means that we'll have to eat less fat (by mass), compared to lean meat, to consume the same amount of calories. Which also means that we will need to buy less meat, which will save mo
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by Evgeny 13y ago
I went on 1700-1800 cals a day for four months http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment Semi-Starvation Period (24 weeks): During the 6-month semi-starvation period, each subject’s dietary intake
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Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.(jamesclear.com)
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For example, producing skinless chicken and leaner meats requires more work at the processing plant. I don't think meat stripped of fat is any healthier compared to eating meat as it is in the animal, and also organs, and maybe even
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by Evgeny 13y ago
Sounds like a book I will enjoy, that goes now on my reading list for 2014!
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by Evgeny 13y ago
It's hard to choose a single book, as I've read (or listened to) a number of books this year. I'll choose Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow ( http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebo
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by Evgeny 13y ago
Today, workers are putting in increasingly more hours(!)—so much so that the 40-hour week has become a relic of the past. (!) - in the US/UK, I guess, and some other countries ... I moved to Denmark recently, there are goods and bads
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If you like Astrid Lindgren, you're my friend. :)
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Quite a few people were net worse off after Soviet Union collapsed. I.e. if you had a secure job in some obscure government funded research institute, guaranteed income, free medical care and education for your kids, but now it's free
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by Evgeny 13y ago
I guite enjoyed the recent series of posts on gnolls.org "a calorie is not a calorie". I was quite convinced before that calories in has to equal to calories out for a stable weight, now I'm quite far from being sure First ar
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by Evgeny 13y ago
Actually, you'd be wrong. Consider a clinical study carried out by the inventor of bypass surgery and another doctor, in the best heart hospital in the world considered by US News & World Report. It would be so much easier if you
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by Evgeny 13y ago
It would also suggest that the murder rate would have been ridiculously low - in modern times, it's 1.2/100k. In 1831, the start of the era, that would mean that the UK had a mere 3 murders of its 13 million people for the entire
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by Evgeny 13y ago
One of his ideas is that the development of agriculture was "the worst mistake in the history of the human race"[0] contra the popular belief that agriculture improved food yields and freed people up to spend time developing scie
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Call me a cynic, but this is about the guy who went to live into the wilderness underprepared and full of noble ideas and died, either from poisoning or from hunger. Now he has his own wikipedia page and inspires people. I mean, wouldn&#x27
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by Evgeny 13y ago
I know money does not buy happiness, but sometimes I wish I had "unlimited money" to be able to do thing like that.
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Twitter Shuts Down Calgary Police’s Account During a Flood Emergency(vancouversun.com)
2 points by Evgeny 13y ago|0 comments
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How exactly does being informed about the tornado improve your life, unless you live in the area which may be affected?
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A related excellent article by Michael Pollan "Some of My Best Friends Are Germs" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-...
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Thanks to pyridoxine glucoside, B6 from cereal grain products is absorbed with far less efficiency than that from animal foods Comparative vitamin B-6 bioavailability from tuna, whole wheat bread and peanut butter. http://www.ncbi.nlm.ni
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Here's one: Gluten causes gastrointestinal symptoms in subjects without celiac disease: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224837 On a visual analog scale, patients were significantly
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by Evgeny 13y ago
You learn something every day. I was sure URLs are not case sensitive until now. While domain names are not case-sensitive, the rest of the URL might be. In our example, this would be everything that follows “.com” as in wisegeek.com/are-u
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When I was a kid, my dad explained it to me by drivers playing dominoes in the bus depot.
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I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt Took me a few seconds to process and understand who the author is.
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But also: People that I trained martial arts with, and I NEVER exchanged electronic messages with them, and I do not talk with them for 4 years now. Well, if your instructor kept emails of all students in his personal address book, and he
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I believe that if the developer's bid is accepted, the money goes into the 'escrow', which is the main purpose of the site: make sure that the developer does not go unpaid if he did the work. If the customer is not happy, there are some sor

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