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by bmh_ca 10y ago
> It's not a useful attitude to be fatalistic about weight loss. Nor is it useful to promise people trips to the top of Everest on a hand glider, but that's empirically what most weight loss advice entails.
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
IMHO, The measure of successful weight loss ought to be at 7 years from the start. There are three cycles to control: 1. the hunger cycle (short, daily), 2. the hypothalamus equilibrium (aka "set-point", 6-months+ cycle, controls
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
> If nuclear scientists goof like this, it does not inspire confidence to the public and all we will end up is projects like Shoreham. To be fair, the claims were made by grad students. Good on them for experimenting, hoping, testing, a
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
I designed tko ( https://github.com/knockout/tko ) to make it easy to re-use the best parts of Knockout using tree-shaking ES6 imports. When experimenting with substituting a few modules, I've gotten it down to 4.5k
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
It looks like you could get away with WebCrypto nowadays for up-to-date mainstream browsers: http://caniuse.com/#feat=cryptography
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
I've written about this, here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/24677597/19212 , in response to the question "Can local storage ever be considered secure?", and in particular using encryption from the SJCL
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
My wife had a terrible autoimmune disease (dermatomyositis) and gained a lot of weight because she was pumped with huge amounts of steroids. So I looked into some of the biochemistry, social, psychological, and neurological factors around w
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
IAAL. My reading of the article and the terms of service strongly suggest that the author of this article is not well informed on the subject. For example, my informal and cursory analysis of the article: > Section D.7 requires the pers
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
Venus already gave evidence. The Mariner missions gave us the atmospheric observations that clued us in to the possibility of CO2 as a greenhouse gas in the first place.
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
Then you probably want an aluminium battery.
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
️ <-- Unicode heart
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
I remember an AI professor I had once asked the class to define "the number 3". The answer he chose, which stuck with me (if I recall the nuance correctly), is that the number three is: The set of all things in the universe of whi
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
> If I understand it right this is the first time an AG has been relieved for purely political reasons. I kind of thought you must be joking, since revolving AGs were a hallmark of the Bush Jr era, to legalize torture, etc. But in case n
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
The best write up I have seen on taxi medallions (and in general one of the best bits of journaliam) is this Globe and Mail article: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/sec.theglobeandmail.com/globe-dr...
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
Perhaps they should sell the rights to another developer. I wonder how that would work in the flat structure.
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
I wonder if a single fraction would have better kerning than could be achieved with the slash and super/subscripts.
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
Indeed they were all Debian based. It is my bias for familiarity — I regularly set up servers with Debian. I'll check out Fedora – Thanks for the link. I wouldn't have thought to look at it. Cheers
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
I just set up a linux desktop, first time in over a decade. It was basically a nightmare. Ubuntu-based distros (including Elementary OS, which I had hoped to try) just wouldn't find the network adapter owing to some obscure error that
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
I think the important element is the inflection. Resources go up in price as they are used. Manufacturing goes down in price as capital is recouped. The article you link shows wind and solar being cheaper than natural gas in several scen
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
> If Trump thinks it is a "hoax", why would he try to delete the evidence of their crime? The theory most consistent with Trump's actions is that his climate change-is-a-hoax rhetoric was designed to gather votes. Now tha
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
From Tessla's first-responder guide: > If the high voltage battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is bent, twisted, cracked, or breached in any way, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. DO NOT extinguish with a
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
Aside: I thought the OpenGL API antiquated, basically replaced by Vulcan. Last I gathered Apple chose not to support Vulcan and instead went with the Metal API?[1] [1] http://www.insidemacgames.com/forum/index.php?showt
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
> I suppose the assumption you make is that the death penalty is meant as a deterrent. Yes, but the assumption is not mine. It is an axiom of our criminal legal-justice system, namely: punishment deters future crimes. > My world-view
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
As a matter of interest, I wrote the most up-voted answer on Skeptics.SE, in response to the question of whether the death penalty is an effective deterrent, here: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/6164/1792 tl;
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
> US consumer law allows suing everybody in the supply chain IIRC, US consumer law requires the consumer to be the victim. (IAAL/NY, but not practicing) This restriction is called privity – the exceptions to privity are narrow, and
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
There is an alure to this. I wish the path to equivalence of productivity were clear. I'd happily pay to have well supported simple hardware that "just works" for Linux, without the risk of "find and recompile this drive
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
This makes me happy. Any rust thoughts,aside?
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
SA has $117 bn in treasuries. https://www.ft.com/content/c1569904-1c14-11e6-b286-cddde55ca...
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
Mylenation is a double edged sword. We see in judo subjects the dramatic increase in reflexes and competetive advantage after substantial practice. On the other hand similar repetition in other areas can lead to difficulty construing othe
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by bmh_ca 10y ago
I have had good luck with fastmail.com, but at $30/year for the entry-level option it sits in what you classify as the "expensive" category. For a dedicated service with keen developers and ongoing product development (yay U2

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