RacfeelBudkind

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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
That's an interesting aside about humans; I didn't know. I think the simplification is justifiable for the explanation in this case, though.
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
What I'm saying is there's always something wrong with the taste of dairy cheese. Although, it's subtle, and you get used to it if you eat it enough.
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
> Do you want them to ban bacon ... Where's the line? There's a factor 30 of leeway on where to draw the line: > How many cancer cases every year can be attributed to consumption of processed meat and red meat? > about
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
> Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every d
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
> A lot of the time I feel like health food is really just a way for manufacturers to cheap out and then sell something at a premium. Probably, but vegan cheese isn't marketed as health food. > Margarine is vegan I wish.
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
> I totally get ethical vegetarianism, and appreciate that much animal abuse can occur within the dairy industry, but I don't think that's inherent . It's inherent. Cows, like all mammals, need to have given birth to prod
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
Well, there's no cholesterol at least. Edit: Also keep in mind that cheese is a processed food too. I think it's somewhat subjective whether oil mixed with starch and yeast is more processed than milk coagulated with an enzyme (re
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
In fact, in the US at least, "Cheese product" nessesarily means it isn't vegan. Vegan cheese products also tend to be pretty upfront about not actually being cheese too, because they're marketing to people who don&#x27
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
> Sometimes the aftertaste is terrible, sometimes the texture or versatility. These are both true of dairy cheeses too.
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
For anyone interested in learning about category theory, this series is very good: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
> But the real question is whether it is a _useful_ modeling language for everything. Category theory is definitely not useful for modeling everything . However, it's useful for modeling a whole lot . Categories have few axoims, a
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
Categories aren't just graphs; they have additional properties, the most important of which is composition (ex. function composition). They can also be thought of as a type algebra, like groups or rings, but again with different prope
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
> Most of the "open" states aren't any worse off than the ones who went lockdown crazy and in some cases they're actually better off when you look at spread and death. This could also indicate that states where Covid-
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by RacfeelBudkind 5y ago
On the other hand Covid-19 would have killed many more people directly if action hadn't been taken to mitigate it's spread. Probably exponentially more people, based on how viruses typically spread. In other words, the compariso