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by dgordon 17y ago
You Bar ( http://www.youbars.com/ ) does something like this for nutrition bars. People with food allergies will be particularly interested.
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by dgordon 17y ago
With 9/11 in recent memory, it becomes clear that "don't let people defend themselves because someone might get hurt" is a weak argument at best. Oh, and the scene in "Snakes on a Plane" where half the plane gets sucked out because of a few
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by dgordon 17y ago
The ridiculous overrepresentation of INTJ and INTP has shown up everywhere I've been on the internet -- not quite to this degree, though. That may have something to do with the places I go, though, since I consistently test as one or the o
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by dgordon 17y ago
Apparently, some of the difference in mortality profile is because there hasn't been a major H1N1 flu in quite a while, so older people have some immunity to H1N1 that younger people don't have because their immune systems have never faced
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by dgordon 17y ago
Considering how much just about every other quote in that article was taken out of context, I would expect that was too.
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by dgordon 17y ago
"Giving up her royalties to preserve her vision is something that no genuine capitalist, and few popular novelists, would have done. It is the act of an intellectual, of someone who believes that ideas matter more than lucre." I don't agre
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by dgordon 17y ago
"The sensitive cultural critics behind South Park captured this perfectly in their line, "this is gayer than sex with men"." I think The Simpsons beat them to that one: "You kissed a girl! That is so gay!" (said to Nelson Muntz by one of t
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by dgordon 17y ago
So the poor haven't gotten poorer after all? If you want, pick a standard of absolute wealth and try to argue that the rest of my statement isn't true.
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by dgordon 17y ago
It remains to be seen whether Twitter will actually succeed.
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by dgordon 17y ago
Who defines "need," given that you don't mean "subsistence survival?"
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by dgordon 17y ago
"(02) It has a propensity to make the richer richer and the poorer poorer." The poor in the first world are richer than the rich were for most of history. The poor in the third world are no poorer than in the past. So no.
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by dgordon 17y ago
"Smart kids just have to be satisfied with the lectures and assignments that are designed for the marginal kids." No, fuck that. Everything else that can be said on this is mere commentary.
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by dgordon 17y ago
Also, what tastes good in a single sip for a blind taste-test can be different from what tastes good when you drink a glass of it. I think Malcolm Gladwell talked about this in Blink.
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by dgordon 17y ago
Actually, prevalence of transsexual women (the accepted term for what you meant, since "women" is what they identify as) is probably quite a bit higher than that. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html does an analys
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by dgordon 17y ago
"So, your average female sporter would probably blow you away in most contests then." This is irrelevant. In track and field, elite to sub-elite high school boys beat all women ever in the sprints and field events, and even in longer dista
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by dgordon 17y ago
"After a certain age, their curiosity dies." Dies, or is killed?
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by dgordon 17y ago
"That was less true when Gates took it than it is now. Now, scores are "recentered", so you can get a couple questions wrong and still get a perfect 800." Not true, for the math anyway. You can get a few wrong on the verbal section and sti
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by dgordon 18y ago
"It might have been predetermined, but there's still an act of choosing, a weighing of possibilities, a judgment between them, and action. And those judging them later will too be able to judge their judgment, their character, and make deci
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by dgordon 18y ago
No it isn't. Everything I've heard suggests that chess players tend to peak around their mid-30s, and then you have Viktor Korchnoi, who won the Soviet junior championship at 16, was playing for the world championship at 50, and was rated
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by dgordon 18y ago
That would be the present of "capitalism."
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by dgordon 18y ago
I'm pretty sure mass murder an order of magnitude above the Holocaust is not the answer here.
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by dgordon 18y ago
But saying "This isn't reddit" will get you a few.
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by dgordon 18y ago
Someone I know is highly allergic to pineapple; eating more than a few bites could easily cause her to suffocate to death without intervention. She didn't realize this for years because she only ate canned pineapple, which doesn't affect h
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by dgordon 18y ago
I don't remember the last time I read a top-ten book, and my list of recently-read books is probably wildly different from yours, as are both from a random third person here. The Internet opens up news and alternative news dramatically --
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by dgordon 18y ago
I was thinking of the Asch experiments well before they were mentioned in the article. Notably, I seem to recall reading elsewhere that later attempts to replicate Asch's work failed, and suggestions that the particularly conformist cultur
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by dgordon 18y ago
Maybe we'd have a decent train system instead of having subsidized suburbia.
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by dgordon 18y ago
It's a reaction to the overvaluing of joke posts on Reddit, Digg, and such, no doubt.
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by dgordon 18y ago
"So let me spell out my thoughts explicitly: If success is the carrot, then failure is the stick, and I think we do our best work when we are conscious of both." I was disappointed here. This seems far too trite a conclusion for the though
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by dgordon 18y ago
I won't be the first to say here that producing and consuming, as this post uses the terms, are not mutually exclusive (and are probably orthogonal.) But I believe we choose how much of each we are. Now I need to prove this to myself. By
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by dgordon 18y ago
"Massive wealth generated in modern societies, though it tends to fall into the hands of a few (exponentially so), is generated by having a society/collective. If you have more wealth than you could ever generate with your own two hands, th

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