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Diet drinks and possible association with stroke and dementia(newsroom.heart.org)
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I couldn't help but think of this, from Viz (a puerile but hilarious adult comic book from the UK). https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm5j-56CYAAZ5GT.jpg Also, perhaps appropriately, you missed a 'd' from your
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This might be a stupid question, but is it possible to monetise a website successfully using entirely "dumb" adverts with no ad networks involved? I mean ads which are simply an image inside an <a> tag. Presumably this is ho
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Thanks very much for your comment. I hope you go and do it soon. I'd love to hear about your experiences when you do.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
>"I'd rather cut my toenails with a rusty butter knife than write the paper." (Okay, perhaps that's a slight exaggeration.) This totally describes me. The line I quoted resonates because sometimes the idea of a boring
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I guess you're right. It makes me wonder how many of own opinions might just be subconscious grabs for attention, even when I believe they're rational and carefully considered. It is a little unsettling if you think about it for t
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Similar to your point - with some conspiracy theories I get the emotional reasons for believing in them. Global warming denial, 9/11 was done by the government, etc. I get that on an emotional level the reality is pretty hard to handle
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Isn't that basically a good thing though? I'm not wishing for humanity to die out, I just think that the best way to minimise net human misery is to have a smaller population. If it's happening naturally then all the better.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
>Having more kids in western cultures contributes significantly. I wonder how much longer before the idea of limiting people's reproduction is on the table. Someone who never has kids can probably drive a Hummer and spend every week
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is an awesome idea. I remember reading about kite-based propulsion systems for large ships a few years ago, do you see any overlap with that area? How do you deal with the possibility of the kite breaking free of the tether, or breakin
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I didn't know that some domains were penalised. The ranking system seems very strange sometimes, so this might explain it. Is the list of penalised domains made public?
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They're made out of meat http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
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by J-dawg 10y ago
That was my first thought as well. Look out for more "[unpopular group] uses [encrypted service] to break the rules" articles coming soon.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Paul Graham's "Submarine" definitely comes to mind. The suit is back!
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by J-dawg 10y ago
That's very true. I've noticed that optometrists generally don't actually ask me to read out the letters to prove what I can see. They usually just use it while making incremental changes to the lenses and asking "which
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by J-dawg 10y ago
It was a standard determined by Snellen, the inventor of the standard optometrist's eye chart. [0] Snellen defined “standard vision” as the ability to recognize one of his optotypes when it subtended 5 minutes of arc. Basically each
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Those are very, very cool, and I'm sure they are a huge technical achievement, but they don't really deserve to be compared with "jet pack" style craft. They have no takeoff or landing abilities at all.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
The "Flyboard Air" is also interesting [0] (and almost definitely not a hoax!). The inventor was recently in the news [1] saying he would have to leave France because the aviation authorities were cracking down and limiting his ab
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by J-dawg 10y ago
What worries me about LASIK is that there is no agreed definition of what constitutes a successful surgery. I see adverts with claims like "98% of our patients see 20/20 or better after surgery". I feel like this is disingenu
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by J-dawg 10y ago
How could I forget! Thanks for pointing this out. Personally I'm surprised that there isn't a lot more anger from English taxpayers about this. It would be very interesting to see whether an independent Scotland could continue thi
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> whereas in Europe it's normally free While we're correcting misconceptions, in the UK it's most definitely not free. But I believe it's still a lot cheaper than the US. The universities are capped on the fees they
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by J-dawg 10y ago
The ranking [0] is absolutely fascinating, and contains a lot of surprises. Who knew that Mexicans work 500 hours a year more than the Japanese? I wonder if the data is being skewed somehow, perhaps by different cultural norms around women
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Not to disagree with the parent comment (because overall I prefer the European way) but we do have it worse in some ways. Salaries for professionals are markedly lower, we live in much smaller houses etc. I get the feeling that when you&#
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I find it interesting to consider ideas like this, even if they ultimately turn out to be unworkable.
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At some point we're going to need to stop doing that, hence the need for alternative ideas.
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What if the jettisoned objects were autonomous aircraft that could land accurately at a specified location?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Speaking as someone with no aviation knowledge at all this seems like an awesome idea. The plane could take off with battery packs slung under the wings which are jettisoned and become drones, gliding down to a depot. I'm now waiting f
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by J-dawg 10y ago
> I've met a 17 year old who built a wordpress website that generated $10K per month after just 6 months (though it already had tons of traffic in the first month) and couldn't write a single line of code. I've heard of hu
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> as if the purported problems that women face are only substantial once it can be proven that all women are worse than all men. This is a total misrepresentation of what I'm saying. I'm more than fine with women being helped.
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It's almost as if companies don't really care about fairness and instead care about aligning themselves with the issue du jour. Imagine that!

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