cheese_goddess

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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
That alone should help to see why it's all a completely absurd idea.
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
No, that doesn't work as you say and it's not a matter of accepting philosophical positions. That's because the EAs are not making a philosophical argument but a mathematical argument. And if you think their maths are right t
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Btw, I'm arguing that the EAs' maths is wrong and you, and others here, are arguing that it's sound. So I have to ask you, and the rest who think the EAs' maths is sound: have you, or are you planning to donate your kidn
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Edit: I need to learn to summarisy my thoughts better. What I'm saying below and above is that the expected value of live kidney donation to society is misapplied to calculate the value of live kidney donation to the donor. We tacitly
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Good heavens, of course I wouldn't presume to question the wisdom of statistics ! I'm just saying that the way the statistics are used doesn't make sense.
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
No, your comment is not clear at all. I read it again. Here's what it reads like if I replace "this" with the sentence that comes before it: From an expected value perspective, one person donating a kidney is like 1/4000
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
The calculation is "not making the donation would have meant he valued his life at 4,000 times that of a stranger". That doesn't follow from the "expected value perspective". The "4000" is swapped, slight-
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Maybe I'm being unfair. I would feel more charitable if I saw a concerted effort to warn potential living donors of the risks they get themselves into. There is virtually no such effort and I believe this leads at least some well-meani
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
> "4000" is not the number of others lives saved by donating one kidney. Why did you leave out the "For example" preceding that sentence in my comment? Leaving "For example" out completely changes the meanin
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
> These folks are saying they see an opportunity to save a life at very low risk to themselves. No, that's not what they 're saying. One says that "not making the donation would have meant he valued his life at 4,000 times
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
> I mean, it's pretty obvious that the expected additional kidney cases per donation is less than 1. Why is that the important number to take into consideration, rather than the number of transplants with a living kidney donor per d
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
> Quoting scientific studies that show the risk of dying as a result of making a kidney donation to be only 1 in 4,000, he says that not making the donation would have meant he valued his life at 4,000 times that of a stranger, a valuati
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
> came across some stats on how safe it was to donate and it totally changed my picture. I thought, 1/3,000 risk of death in surgery is like sacrificing yourself to save 3,000 people. I want to be the kind of person who'd do th
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
This article ommits the most important details: what are the (average) temperature, and relative humidity in those grottos? You need around 15-17°C (59-62.6°F) and 75-90%, respectively to age cheese. Incidentally, I think it's the same
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
That's the way to do it :P
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Make (more) cheese, I guess.
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Does turmeric’s reputation translate into real health benefits?(theguardian.com)
3 points by cheese_goddess 4y ago|0 comments
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Taste and Flavor Roles of Sodium in Foods: A Unique Challenge to Reducing Sodium(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
6 points by cheese_goddess 4y ago|0 comments
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
You also need a :cheese_emoji: to please the cheese_goddess :P
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Right, so I guess the video is evidence that the producers of Comté were trying to establish an identity for their product, separate from Gruyère, but consumers, as usual, used brand names as product category names. That's very common.
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
That is the fast way. Normally it should be aged when it's still a head of cheese and not a slice in someone's fridge. Far as I can tell that takes more than a year, just because it's such a big head of cheese. The advantag
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
We are definitely not the only mammal to drink the milk of other species. Cats and dogs happily do so too, at least the ones where I live. Incidentally, we are, actually, the only animal who drinks the juice of lemons. Maybe we should stop
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Parmesan is cow's milk cheese. You're thinking of Pecorino Romano, which is made with sheep's milk ("pecorino" is Italin for "from sheep").
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Until 1976, are you sure? This docu shows "Le Fromage de Comté" and it's dated 1927: https://youtu.be/icu-oMerROI One of the legends points out the similarity with Gruyére, but it still calls the French chees
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Try aging your supermarket-bought cheese (the non-AOP parmesan and gruyere). You can do so in your kitchen fridge, but stick the cheeses in a small plastic container with a tight-fitting lid because they need high moisture (at least 70% - a
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
> We can outsmart, and have repeatedly outsmarted, all sorts of potential disasters. We are so smart it took us two hundred years to realise we are creating a disaster ourselves, and we still can't figure out how to stop it. Because
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Number crunching: why ultra-processed foods have a calorie problem(theguardian.com)
2 points by cheese_goddess 4y ago|1 comments
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
Your link [1] is about iron deficiency in toddlers, not any other stages of life and that can be misunderstood by reading your comment. It is also about drinking milk (and more specifically cow's milk) and not about eating "dairy&
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by cheese_goddess 4y ago
> There are small farmers all over industrialized countries who have no problem drinking raw milk (most of them probably, because the machines are expensive). I know this is threadomancy, two weeks later, but - how the hell would you kno
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Millions of tonnes of dead animals: the growing scandal of fish waste(theguardian.com)
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