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by closetnerd 12y ago
Good: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20413885 "Our findings suggest that supplementation of magnesium has a therapeutic potential for preventing AD."
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by closetnerd 12y ago
It works on amyloid beta. Curious how this drug compares to magnesium supplements since there's been research showing that magnesium also effects the amount of amyloid beta.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
This really is a stupid assumption. Yes there are people who actually don't want Facebook for reasons other than privacy.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I did say that "my personal belief" is that it is my right? Not sure what your point is since I'm not going to disagree that from the perspective of the law it is not my right.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
> Road traffic accidents are something like the 10th most common cause of death worldwide. It's clearly a rather dangerous activity. I just want to note here that if you look at the same statistics in countries that have implemented
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by closetnerd 12y ago
> How would you feel about a move to regulate non-autonomous vehicle ownership more closely? Driver licensing could become much more rigorous, for example. I'm very much in favor of a far more thorough practical driver training pr
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by closetnerd 12y ago
He made that clarification because he was met with unexpectedly large audience which was critical of his statements. He was quite obviously supporting future legislation against humans driving cars: > In fact, in the distant future, I th
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I think the reason you're confused is because you're under the impression that people are arguing against the very obvious practical benefits of having only self driving cars: congestion, safety, etc. This is obvious to everyone.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I'm inclined to believe you simply based on evidence. Uber is till, by far, the choice for most. Moreover Travis Kalanick seems to have the passion for efficient transportation as Steve Jobs did for Apple products. And I suspect there
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by closetnerd 12y ago
It hasn't yet had the same impact that Apple has though.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I'm inclined to believe you.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I would have loved to see Elon Musk vs. Steve Jobs. Personalities are quite contrasting.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
Interesting what those number might mean. I expect energy consumption to be in favor of batteries, but didn't expect that much.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
> In release terms, you are not turning your store of energy into a mix of vapours, gases and particulates on every cycle This is sort of a point of contention at this point in time however. As you stated: > putting sunlight into meta
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by closetnerd 12y ago
Wondering if anyone knows if current state of manufacturing, maintaining, and disposing batteries actually is actually more ecological than using gasoline? I'm sure the potential of batteries to be more ecological and efficient is ther
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by closetnerd 12y ago
The article says that a similar issue happened a year ago with a Berkeley student and it didn't spread or anything. Very likely the situation will remain contained. Not sure if I'm ready to take away peoples right to choose just y
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by closetnerd 12y ago
This is exactly it. It's as if Hitler was uniquely vile. There is no other person's name so well known, while the person himself so unknown. I think historians are scared that if he was better known, that he might have sympathizer
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by closetnerd 12y ago
This article reminds me quite a bit about Vuejs. Its got an interface similar to Backbone but with the addition of two way data binding while also allowing you to define web components style tags, attributes.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
Good god, that'd we way too much power in the hands of a single company. They're awfully close to Googlizing the world. Which I think is theoretically the closest civilization could get to utopia. But I'm not one for utopia.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I still don't understand why people are under the impression that Uber doesn't care about its customers while Lyft somehow does. I've watched a few of Kalanick's talks and he seems like a motivated engineer who actually
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I'm saying all companies HAVE to care about your money but they don't have to care about you. Not unless you have competition. Laissez-faire
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I'm assuming you mean Uber is after "world domination"? But don't fool yourself, Lyft is the same, Uber is just better at it so Lyft has no choice but to fight back with $2.50 to Uber's $5 bucks flat. This isn'
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by closetnerd 12y ago
Unbelievably they even have a sort of monopoly over the industry by having an agreement to charge a minimum. And its illegal everywhere except here and the Philippines? The whole criminal system looks to be run by people who would have othe
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by closetnerd 12y ago
I'm quite certain that all my consumer rights are sufficiently protected by the actual bill of rights. Moreover, my concern is that these laws will give government even more oversight into the management of user data, and therefore the
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by closetnerd 12y ago
It's more than just sillyness.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
Well first it was ridiculous enough search engines were being censored when we're so against the concept of the Great Firewall of China. To console the people, they started the Chilling Effects project to "stick it to the man&quot
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by closetnerd 12y ago
Honestly, that was inevitable.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
If you're going to do that you probably wan't to commit every other business to jail as well. Might also consider committing yourself. And I'm not being snarky here. I seriously don't believe that all laws are inherently
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by closetnerd 12y ago
The competitor claimed sabotage. Spying on customers? And I agree that the one informal comment made by one of the execs was stupid. But frankly there IS a war being waged against Uber by its competitor through the media.
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by closetnerd 12y ago
Its true. I'm sure I'm breaking laws everyday. Your problem is that you assume that laws imply some sort of ethics we've all agreed to. But unless your a mindless zombie, you'd realize that quite a few laws don't ma

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