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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
This is what I don't get about the soylent thing. You can walk into any drug store or corner store and buy a few canned foods that together offer complete nutrition. How the heck is mixing a special powdered drink any easier than openi
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
What is the reality of Wu on the ground in Shanghai? Do you hear both Mandarin and Wu often, or mostly just one? Which one? I assume everybody can actually speak and understand Mandarin?
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
I drive a seven year old motorcycle and carburetors + ethanol = nightmare. A tank of gas with the ethanol admixture will often go bad enough to gum up the carbs in just a few weeks. I've had the engine stall out under me in potentially
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Holy hell is that nerd cartoon crap and sales patter off-putting. Get a designer, stat.
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Are people really worried about the difference of one hour or so on intercity trips? I kind of doubt it's that big a deal. Rock solid on time schedule adherence is the key thing, which Amtrak can't even get close to now. The other
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Why is everybody so eager to give away equity? The big reason to not have a cofounder is because 100% of a two million dollar business can be life changing. Half of that is more like a feather in your cap. Paul Graham and VC firms are looki
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
> you feel like you're amongst a bunch of half-asleep people A few months ago I was sitting in a crowded urban park. I was people watching for a bit; no book, no phone. I saw some sort of surveillance/tracking operation unfold
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
I am struggling to imagine how a guy working for 13 years in software wouldn't have years of living costs covered with liquid assets. What the heck do people blow their money on.
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
I am suspicious that they are gathering biometric data (exact body dimensions) with the scans. Collating that data with flight manifests and surveillance footage would lead to very accurate automated systems for identifying people from any
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
> management of wild stock is clearly not working So fix it. If the USN blew a few ships in treaty violation out of the water things would change quickly.
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Why is farming superior to properly managed wild fisheries? Over fishing is the problem. I don't see farming as the obvious solution. Farmed fish are loaded with toxins, as I understand it. The pollution is also a problem. Even farming
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Man is it delicious. I was sad to learn it's a bad choice.
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
White rice would keep. I think a lot of whole grains and seeds would last ages, too. I believe in the same referenced tombs they found various seeds that could still be sprouted. Really, a lot of completely dehydrated foods would keep in an
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Have you considered that Google might be lying? Many larger firms with technical employees are worried about their lack of diversity, and the relevant legal risks. They may have to bend their effective practices to mitigate this risk. Beyon
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
I thought it was a great and edifying book, but towards the end he did the same thing as in this article. He went off preaching half baked ideas about morality like a hippy. His list of bullshit jobs here is so slippery it undermines his ba
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Beer absolutely kills me. I don't think it did when I was younger, but now two or three beers will get me slaughtered on the racquetball court the next day and leave me mentally slow. But it's just beer and all the various crap in
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Using hardcore workouts as a stress coping tool is not much different from having a drink or two. You're not really addressing the source of stress. Working out hard is additional stress. It boosts cortisol just like job stress. Stress
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
I can't believe no one is talking about how this all relates to revelations from the US state department cable leaks. The cables showed that the US State Department is actively involved in advancing anti-traditionalist groups in many c
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Yak Shaving is when you start out to do a perfectly important and seemingly straightforward thing, but unexpectedly wind up having to do multiple surprising errands to achieve the goal. Yak Shaving does not refer to procrastination.
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
The hardest part was social?! Really?! I've done a couple five day fasts and the hardest part is that after day three you have an effective IQ of 65. Your body shuts your brain down and you can't think clearly. I wonder if this ha
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Starving people die from lack of protein, not low body fat. Not having read all the details, I I don't buy the story that the guy didn't eat for a year. You can't survive without eating protein for an extended period. You die
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
American society is way too polite and "sensitive" now days. Go read Mencken and Twain, and editorials in general from 90 years ago. You couldn't write invective like that anymore; people would freak out and demand apologies.
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
There's phantomjs for that. Though I've actually had the most success with perl's WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and a headless X server.
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Some of the hype about Russian population decline is overblown. Whereas people under communism formed families young, now careers take longer to establish and people tend to have kids older just as in the west. This transition contributed t
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
As I recall it Lolita is discreet with the intercourse depictions; it's never "graphic" as I gather is 50 Shades.
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Systemic inflammation stops vitamin D synthesis or utilization, and a large fraction of the US population is inflamed due to lousy diet. You could be taking tons of vitamin D and getting daily midday sun and still measure deficient if you&#
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by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
Magnesium and iodine deficiencies are probably widespread and it's not really possible to address these through modern food. Well over half the population is measurably magnesium deficient. The problem is soil depletion and modern wate