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by Femur 17y ago
My rule to stay healthy is "Don't eat anything that does not rot." This limits me to fruits, vegetables and meat (generally) and helps me stay away from processed food. It is really easy to remember too. I pick up an item at the store, as
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by Femur 17y ago
Note that this item also has been discussed in detail at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583550 Reading about attempts like this that "push the envelope" in any area just make me happy to be a human watching other humans accomplish g
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by Femur 17y ago
I went and played with the feature and I have to say that it is fairly well implemented. Kudos to Google.
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by Femur 17y ago
Note that in this case the group is launching from Denmark, so approvals and regulations are different than what Scaled Composites (a US company) had to go through.
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by Femur 17y ago
That is just plain awesome. This is the type of Hacker/Tweaker/Discoverer attitude that makes me smile from ear to ear.
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by Femur 17y ago
I would love tweaking with some stuff, but I guess it would be an extension of my current hobby of growing tropical plants. Making mango's purple, or kiwis caffeinated... I would put some serious time into a hobby like that if the resource
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by Femur 17y ago
I remember making bacteria glow in the dark in high school biology. I would be scared to death of tweaking my own genome. The prospects seem fascinating and attractive (I could make my hand glow in the dark or something) but what if I scre
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by Femur 17y ago
I meant welfare to mean cash payments to the poor as provided for in the Welfare Reform act of 1996. [1] You brought up a good point to differentiate this from food stamps and unemployment. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_Reform_A
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by Femur 17y ago
I asked my dad the same thing and here was his trick to fall asleep at night: He had a ceiling fan but no AC. So he would wrap himself in a blanket until he was soaked with sweat. Then he took the blanket off and laid on his sheet and let
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by Femur 17y ago
>it's not like these people are buying new flatscreens with welfare checks this is a very good point. I wonder if there is data around that examines how welfare checks are spent.
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by Femur 17y ago
Slightly off topic, but related none-the-less: something that has always bothered me about "necessities" is that 99% of US households have a TV [1] but at the same time, ~12% are in poverty. [2] How do "necessities" like this tie into pov
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by Femur 17y ago
Yet people did it. My parents grew up in St. Louis without air conditioning. It gets uncomfortable but is not unlivable. People live in the tropics without it. It is not a necessity.
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by Femur 17y ago
>If you pay less taxes because you do X then I still pay more taxes. That is not necessarily true (although it practice i recognize that it is true). Theoretically (and in my opinion optimally) the government could give the tax break Y
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by Femur 17y ago
GDP in the US in 2008 was 14.62 trillion. 3% of that is $438.6 billion. From TFA: >To encourage private sector investment in research, Obama said he wants to make the federal government's research and experimentation tax credit permane
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by Femur 17y ago
I am generally not interested in startups. I come to hacker news for the interesting articles and the high quality of the comments generated by the intelligent and diverse community here.
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by Femur 17y ago
We should be friends.
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by Femur 17y ago
This is a really good point; I hadn't considered that view. So on your internet machine, do you consider 'mindless internet surfing' watching TV? I also keep my work and internet machines separate.
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by Femur 17y ago
>I'm actually getting rid of my TV when I move. I highly recommend this. I've been watching my 'exempt' shows on my laptop for over a year. I'm not quite sure if i will ever have a TV again.
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by Femur 17y ago
"Time is what a clock measures." -Einstein
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by Femur 17y ago
This is so cool! I want one and I want to modify it. I would be very surprised if these do not become very popular.
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by Femur 17y ago
This is a fairly interesting look on the recent settlement between Google and book publishers. The author has a point in that as a result of that ruling, Google has a regulated (by the courts) monopoly of source in which no other company c
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by Femur 17y ago
Have you considered consulting? By that i don't mean "charge hourly to do development" but true consulting. I worked for the technical consulting branch of one of the "Big Four" accounting firms as an Oracle DBA for a few years and found t
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by Femur 17y ago
The overreaching goal, of course, is to be able to have your Reprap prototyping machine make a copy of itself. This is a great step in that direction.
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by Femur 17y ago
>This is the part I found most inviting about the whole process; the fact that it's covered by life insurance? I know! It is a pretty sweet deal. >I would expect more people to sign up for it. I totally agree. From my perspective,
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by Femur 17y ago
>OK, I guess screwing your kids out of $150,000 worth of life insurance money is a downside too. What kids?
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by Femur 17y ago
>So the question if a future technology will ever be able to stitch together a brain shredded by ice crystals is a very important one. Absolutely! There are so many variables that come into play. Lets say that a significant percentage
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by Femur 17y ago
This is probably the third submission for cryonics related articles this month. I wonder why it is suddenly becoming a popular topic. I personally am signed up to be preserved at Alcor (I am the 830-somthing person to do so). I am happy t
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by Femur 17y ago
I completely agree that total compensation is paramount. That is why i said "Next to base compensation..." I take both into consideration.
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by Femur 17y ago
I did something similar to this last year as a satire. Whenever I had a bowel movement, i would update my twitter with my cell phone. http://twitter.com/EricIsPooping
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by Femur 17y ago
One option not listed is 401k match. Next to base compensation, that is the metric I am most interested in.

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