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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> Did cavemen make bread? Yes. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/humans-feas...
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> leaving excess sugar that will be converted into fat De-novo lipogenisis from sugar in practice does not happen humans. If you do something goofy like keep dietary fat under 5 grams and eat hundreds of grams of carbohydrate some monou
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The report had a weird take that the caffeine must be tricking the bees, to their detriment. More likely is that the bees recognize that caffeine is good and healthy. The body of research on caffeine's vitamin like health benefits is e
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The college admissions system has encouraged the arms race mentality. The SAT has been repeatedly reworked such that test prep works better. I really doubt involvement in the summer activities they apparently value indicates anything about
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
What Ebert did for the most part was accurately say whether or not the masses would find a film enjoyable. He was very good at his job. A film critic should aspire to do more. He should be critical and hopeful educate the audience on some
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Ebert was an idiot and an idiot's reviewer.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The only way Rotten Tomatoes is useful is if you look only at the negative ratings. All kinds of horrible schlock that has mass appeal gets "certified fresh." But isolating negative reviews: If idiots dislike it then it's pro
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The think to do is find a few reviewers who resonate with you and keep tabs on them. I mostly just see what Armond White tells me to see.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The pants are cut for squishy office drones. It's for guys carrying an extra 12 pounds who still want a modern tapered cut. The quality is pretty much standard disposable American clothing, that is to say a pair of pants will be visibl
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
You got a small fine. At no point were you at any risk of facing incarceration. You were also probably doing something stupid and very annoying like stinking up the floor in a dormitory. This illustrates how the drug laws in practice work.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
You don't get it. Those people get hit with narcotics charges because the cops and D.A. know exactly who they are and the long list of other crimes they've committed. People who simply use or sell some marijuana and that's th
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Every time I ever got high on weed I felt lingering effects for about three days. I've never experienced this with anything else. It always seemed to me that people who smoke weed a couple times a week or more often might be slightly u
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
That simply doesn't happen in America. Cannabis is de facto legal throughout the USA. I repeat: marijuana is in practice legal in America, and all these people talking about drug charges ruining lives don't know what they're
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Instead the DINKS (Dual Income No Kids) are running minorities out of their neighborhoods by bidding up the price of the land. Uhh, that's pretty much the plan. The landowners in places like SF and DC want to watch
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
I would say Indian humans are different from Occidental humans. Large cities in the West have generally been population sinks over the centuries. People move to NYC or London and don't have two kids. This isn't a new pattern. For
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
To be fair Japanese writing is insane and they know it. It's far too difficult.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Prohibition on charging interest makes perfect sense in a zero growth economy. Economic growth was effectively zero per capita for almost all of human history before the industrial revolution. Wealth amassed from charging interest in a zero
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The lenders of yore would drag you into a legal status of debt peonage, a form of slavery, if you couldn't make payments. The old loan sharks would break thumbs and legs. As long as it's very easy to declare bankruptcy and walk aw
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Doesn't gerrymandering mostly carve out a lot of districts for black congressmen who otherwise wouldn't have districts? I think that's kinda what it boils down to in America. There are conservative areas adjacent to and mixed
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
One expert discovered this new neat social hack: hanging out in person. Kidding aside, I prophesize that the next really big, impactful American political movement will not have a web page or twitter/facebook account or forums. The int
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> For some reason Wouldn't 99% of people see GPL and move on?
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The single largest weight in SBIR award evaluation is previous success in commercializing SBIR funded technology. It's a blatantly ridiculous catch-22.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Nothing compensates for the absurdity of spending over $3K for one.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> one process per core, each locked to a single core; use locked local RAM only (effectively limiting NUMA); direct dedicated network queue (bypass kernel); direct storage I/O (bypass kernel) I have no idea how to do any of these th
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The prices on ebikes are still ridiculous. They cost more than a lightly used 300cc motorcycle that can go 100 mph and sips gasoline.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
You measure with an IQ test. They work very well. The longevity-IQ correlation is robust.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
A whole lot of these epidemiological results largely boil down to IQ. You see it over and over again as the missing factor. People with higher IQs drink more. High IQ is independently linked to better health and longer lifespan, almost cert
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
You can't park one of these anywhere near an urban area with jobs. They do nothing to alleviate housing affordability. In semi-rural areas without jobs housing is already dirt cheap, so they're of little practical use there either
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
This is why I live in a van down by the river.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Trailers and prefab houses have existed for many decades. Why is now the time?

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