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by dejb 16y ago
>> Dude that is a really ignorant and insulting thing to say. >Why? You obviously have absolutely no idea of the range of reasons people have for being vegan do you? Here are a few - Visceral disgust at the though of consuming a
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by dejb 16y ago
So the basic conclusion of this study is 'The evidence surrounding veganism appears to be mixed'. And further 'Overall, veganism is healthier than an omnivorous diet with respect to chronic diseases'. Did you manage to read these parts? Wit
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by dejb 16y ago
Dude you've mostly just stated a bunch of unsubstantiated opinions which I assert are factually in error. You specifically mentioned 'there is no shortage of research that show it can harm the infant'. If there is no shortage of this resear
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by dejb 16y ago
If one single story like this can challenge someone's confidence on their veganism then obviously they are quite insecure about their position. Similarly if one single story like this is given such a high level of prominence (was top on HN
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by dejb 16y ago
> It's interesting how strong peer pressure is in groups like vegans to continue to press someone in to a lifestyle that clearly is not to their best interest. Given the levels of obesity in developed nations you could argue that just a
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by dejb 16y ago
If a link to google search is what you think passes as debate then why not also check out http://www.google.com/#q=debunking+evolution The standard of debate is likely to be at a similar level. If you actually have an confidence in any of
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by dejb 16y ago
Swapping 'built with adapted' doesn't avoid the naturalistic fallacy. Just because we have adapted to cope with something doesn't imply it is good for our current circumstances. Any source of calories would have desirable for our early anc
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by dejb 16y ago
> The point of the story is that not everyone can do a Vegan diet and still be healthy. When you hear a story about how some substance 'cured cancer' do you instantly conclude that the claims are necessarily correct - even for the cured
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by dejb 16y ago
> I never expected this post to get so much attention. There is nothing more popular than an anecdote that appeals to people's pre-existing biases. Unfortunately there will be many for which this one story will provide the same weight o
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by dejb 16y ago
I don't think a 14 year old web business counts as a startup... but it's paying the bills. I only returned to it 4 years ago after an long um 'sabbatical'.
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by dejb 16y ago
> You said main environment. I am a developer. So did you actually think that I was making a point about you specifically? That brings egotism to new levels. The point I was making was an analogy (hence the use of the word 'like'). It w
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by dejb 16y ago
> It's specialized computation No it's not. The whole purpose of having an app store is to make it more general purpose. Why should anything be 'off limits' just because the device is small? Why is this not obvious to you? > The iPh
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by dejb 16y ago
> there seems to be a legitimate point in here about the difference between consoles and ordinary computers I still can't for the life of me understand why any self respecting geek would cheer on the 'console' model as the future of mob
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by dejb 16y ago
> I see Android and iOS relating very similarly to Windows and OS X. Actually I think the comparison Gruber makes of 'PC vs Console' is more accurate.
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by dejb 16y ago
I can't help but notice this tends to paint 'ordinary' people as somewhat sad and deficient. Imagine the story was written in the same manner, but in praise of physical coordination/agility instead, and you can see what I mean. Perhaps it i
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by dejb 16y ago
The causation could easily be in the opposite direction. People engaged in boring/unhappy activities are more likely to let their minds wander.
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by dejb 16y ago
The flip side of this is that a large number of Jewish people in Germany maintained their clear cultural separation for around 500 years even though the 'looking different' aspect seems to have diminished over time. In retrospect you'd hav
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by dejb 16y ago
> I would have thought it was a great way of letting both parties know they have a similar sense of humour That's assuming that the authors knows that they both actually do appreciate this type of humour. I'd think that if they had that
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by dejb 16y ago
> Once a month is pretty mild. Yes but I think that drinking 'to blackout' > 'binge'. Intuitively one would think that if you can't remember things that happened the night before, then you could easily be damaging some memory system
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by dejb 16y ago
You are being sarcastic.
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by dejb 16y ago
> This is additionally confounded by the fact that British people really do mean "sarcasm" when they say "irony." I've never experienced this in actual conversation with British and/or other non-US English speakers. But the internet def
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by dejb 16y ago
Actually I think 'Unfortunate' would have been the appropriate word in that song. Most of the situations described don't involve any direct negation of the protagonists intentions. The only possible qualifier is 'Mr. Play It Safe was afraid
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by dejb 16y ago
There is an apparently dwindling minority of people who would consider this to be sarcasm and not irony. For these few, irony is never merely logical negation. It necessarily involves unintended and opposite consequences flowing from the pr
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by dejb 16y ago
> There is nothing inherently more healthy about a vegetarian diet than a non-vegetarian diet. Can you provide a reference for this totally unsupported assertion? There is a wealth of evidence that contradicts this statement. Here is a
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by dejb 16y ago
Cool. Now in XX years time, after all my expressed opinions are proven to be correct, I can fire up an intelligent program to try to track down everyone who's ever dis-agreed with me and say 'I told you so'.
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by dejb 16y ago
I would argue that smoke is, by definition, a pollution of the environment, even for smokers. So I should have omitted the 'else' and just left it at 'everyone'. If people knowingly volunteer to expose themselves to it then it should be the
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by dejb 16y ago
I wonder if they'll enforce the ugly requirement to 'Stop the the beautiful people from wrecking it'. I can just see their next headline about someone being kicked off the site for being too hot.
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by dejb 16y ago
> I'm sick of this nanny state bullshit. People have been sick of smoke for years. It was never sustainable that a minority should be allowed pollute the environment of everyone else. Any politician who campaigned to bring back smoking
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by dejb 16y ago
OK now I see, Thanks. It looks cool. Now we just need somebody to create a Linux that runs in a stomp box.
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by dejb 16y ago
I play guitar, work on linux servers all day long and have professional knowledge of music software... and I can't understand from your description what this actually does. Is it a plugin, host or controller? Does it require other software

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