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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
But most anti-cholesterol diets lower animal fat intake, not dietary cholesterol intake. Is this supposed not to work? I had high cholesterol for years, I didn't take it very seriously because I'm otherwise healthy and I was eatin
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
"I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our p
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
The thing is following a feasible set of milestones to actually achieve the goal of reaching Mars and surviving there. The current romantic view of stuffing a few people on a spaceship with vegetables and sending them there doesn't see
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Even if we ignore the financial cost, we are nowhere near being technically able to build a self-contained environment. We have never done it in Earth's orbit, or in the Moon, or in Earth. So the problem with sending people to Mars is
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
The difference is that pioneers in the past had been able to survive in boats for long periods of time for thousands of years. At the moment we aren't able to keep a self-sustained environment on the Earth orbit, which is relatively ch
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
I am not sure what you trying to pointing out. Current people in space are being re-supplied from Earth all the time, and they aren't completely our of our gravity well, so the energy required to get stuff there is lower and still very
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
So how is a quiet ego measured? I understand those four facets in the article are supposed to correlate with the quiet ego, so it would be interesting how the loudness of your ego is measured before those 4 questions. Otherwise is seems lik
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Why would anybody click on a video on Facebook? Chances are you will end up with some strange Facebook App installed which will fill your profile with spamy garbage. Most people I know avoid clicking anything on Facebook that isn't par
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Better to think about it and end up being wrong, than just having blind faith on Father Progress protecting us forever. Just because one Malthus was wrong once doesn't mean that no Malthus will ever be right. The problem of progress is
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
That can bring difficulties, as far as I know the commutative property is a fundamental property in many algebra systems. So it's one of the few assumptions from where everything else builds up, not sure how would you go about explaini
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
It's still a complicated approach without proper material or teachers to orient you. There are "obvious" derivations that may be possible to produce by most people by putting a couple of hours on it, and then there are other
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Really I've seen so many terrible psychological experiments that spawned huge articles that I am not taking any of this seriously anymore. I don't doubt that we will get somewhere at some point, but it's very clear that at th
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
I think that depends what kind of introvert you are. I like big open offices because I feel "anonymous" there and it's very easy for me to disconnect from what's going on around me and do my own thing for hours, and then
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
I think it's very unlikely that we will see in psychology or economics any kind of progress like what we saw in physics. In physics anything new that we learn doesn't change the experiments at all, that is we can't ignore phy
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Yes, I really enjoyed the article but I am not sure what was the conclusion. Should we respect the laws of economic theory even if they have no empirical influence in the real world? Or was Krugman just acting on faith and he was finally co
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
>At least many Marxists "only" claimed to have Scientific Truths.) Marx was probably using the German word "Wissenschaft"[1] which is not the same as modern empirical science, it's means something like structured
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Yes, some people take the approach that because one guy called Malthus was wrong before, things can't turn really bad ever. Never understood that kind of reasoning. Seems like plenty of people even if they don't believe in Father
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Is the percentage of women in STEM low in all STEM degrees in the US? I'm Spanish and math and chemistry usually have a 50/50 or >50% of women here. Not sure if those are considered STEM at all in the US.
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Yes, basically that money was used to bail out irresponsible lenders. Now, Greece were irresponsible borrowers, but the bailouts basically solved none of their problems, they were just delayed a few years, and here we are again. Now for the
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
It's quite funny to read something like this, coming supposedly from a startup founder, a very market competitive field. The kind of adjectives he uses for employees as soon as they start acting like they are in a market too, it's
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Yeah, most of the people that are against the referendum seem to follow some kind of reasoning like: "Syriza should take the decision by themselves so that when everything goes to hell only they are to blame and not the Greek electorat
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
I am not sure if the concept of working class and proletariat as the revolutionary subject is useful anymore, specially when many of the new members of the so called working class may not be able to get a job in their whole lives, depending
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Trans fat will still be legal to buy, it just won't be labeled as food or sold in food stores.
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
You can probably still buy trans fats, if you really want to eat it. You just won't find it in food shops labeled as food, because it's not safe enough to be considered food.
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
The thing is, there is no guarantee that by doing nothing things will be better than by doing something. We no longer believe than nature is somehow an eternal system that humans disturb. We know there have been huge catastrophes before wit
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Yes, it's not 1989 anymore, people shouldn't have to rely on soap opera caricatures to learn what English literature experts think, how smug they are and how they are the natural enemies of physicists and scientists somehow. I am
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Now the markets speak instead of the gods.
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
I find the atmosphere in a room with 2, 3 or 4 people far more oppressive that a room with a 100. Probably something to do with being able to ignore people when they are a multitude, but things getting too personal when it's a small gr
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Peaceful, but economically disrupting resistance.
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
>We generally attribute the success of the civil rights movement to peaceful drives like those led by MLK and Gandhi Gandhi protests were peaceful, but disruptive of the normal functioning of the Colonial State, like for example the Salt

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