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by ggreer 9y ago
A couple of points: 1. The percentages you cite aren’t useful on their own, as one also needs to know how often each kind of food is consumed. Only then would we know the relative risk of eating each kind of food. 2. Most food plants are gr
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by ggreer 9y ago
I assumed "clean" referred to the fact that lab-grown tissue would have a much lower risk of disease. Animals have digestive tracts full of bacteria, and farms aren't exactly pristine. Every year in the US, meat-borne pathoge
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by ggreer 9y ago
> I think it's foolish to assume that some novel and highly processed food item is going to be safer than something which we've been eating for thousands of generations. It's not that processed foods are particularly safe,
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by ggreer 9y ago
If fake meats had come first and animal meats were just now coming to market, people would make similar arguments about health effects... and they'd be warranted. With animal meat, one has to worry about salmonella, e. coli, staph, and
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Reckonings; a Rent Affair (2000)(nytimes.com)
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by ggreer 9y ago
> Pure BS. Newton wouldn't be able to publish through a modern Harvard because nothing would be new. It's a thought experiment. Hypothetical modern-day Newton would have some hypothetical novel discovery. > Instead, he kept
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by ggreer 9y ago
The name conflicts with https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit Though IIRC, Apple's UIKit came out a year after the web UIkit.
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by ggreer 9y ago
You aren't worried that Airbnb's net will catch innocent people? For example: Journalists covering the rally, or counter-protesters.
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by ggreer 9y ago
From Gizmodo's summary[1]: > Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted. It's unclear whether Gizmodo removed the links or whether the leaker did. Either way, I bet some of those links were to research or summaries of
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by ggreer 9y ago
First of all, are Murray's claims true? That's the important question. That article gets some things right, but it seems to imply that Murray is racist even if his beliefs are true. Second, if you're going to use that article
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by ggreer 9y ago
I found https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi... but: - It reads like a hit piece, in that it states facts that are technically true but designed to mislead. For example: It says "Murra
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by ggreer 9y ago
Before Scott Alexander started http://slatestarcodex.com/ , he wrote this post http://squid314.livejournal.com/323694.html : > I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be this: "If we can apply an
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by ggreer 9y ago
I realize this is getting off topic, but can you explain why you think that, "All available evidence strongly suggests that Charles Murray is in fact a racist"? I've read The Bell Curve and listened to a debate where Murray
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by ggreer 9y ago
From Gizmodo's summary: > Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted. I'm guessing the author did link to studies (or at least summaries of studies), but these were removed by Gizmodo or the leaker.
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by ggreer 9y ago
You need an iPhone to activate and sync data to an Apple Watch, but the watch retains many capabilities when disconnected from the phone. It will pair with headphones, join wifi to fetch emails, and play music. I use an Apple Watch Series 2
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by ggreer 9y ago
As I said before, that's in the 10th paragraph of the article. The first line people read is: > A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E. It's incredibly disingenuous t
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by ggreer 9y ago
Playing football is almost certainly bad for your brain, but this article does a terrible job of making that case. The doctor in charge of the study says as much: > The set of players posthumously tested by Dr. McKee is far from a random
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by ggreer 9y ago
That's exactly what I do on my personal website. At the bottom of every page is a button which inverts the color scheme to white text and black background.[1] It sets a cookie, so the setting should persist across all pages. 1. e.g. s
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by ggreer 9y ago
I use a MacBook, a ThinkPad, and an iPhone.
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by ggreer 9y ago
> Pure black on white has been discussed many times. While it satisfies min contrast requirements, it feels unnatural, and again, hard to read, causing eye strain… I completely disagree with this. Consider the failure modes of erring in
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by ggreer 9y ago
As with most nootropics, Gwern has done the research.[1] Summary: creatine probably doesn't do anything for cognition. It might help some vegetarians. 1. https://www.gwern.net/Creatine
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by ggreer 9y ago
Or a full-fledged API so that anyone can write a Slack client. Currently, anyone who wants to write a 3rd-party client has to use the IRC bridge. That doesn't have the same capabilities as Slack's client.
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by ggreer 9y ago
The underlying technology is far more general than than you think. In addition to playing Go, it has already been used to play video games[1], diagnose diseases[2], and make Google's datacenters more efficient.[3] 1. https:/&#x2F
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by ggreer 10y ago
I agree that the first amendment doesn't apply in this case, but the "fire in a crowded theater" analogy is only used by people who aren't aware of its origin. The phrase was coined by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in WW
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by ggreer 10y ago
Pivotal Tracker. First, it's slow and bloated. According to Firefox's dev tools, the main project's page takes 15 seconds to load, transferring 3.6MB of data in 62 HTTP requests. This is with a 2015 MacBook on a 150Mbit conne
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by ggreer 10y ago
That's correct. In a case with a surviving victim, the victim is almost certainly going to take the stand. The 6th amendment to the constitution contains the confrontation clause[1] which says, "…in all criminal prosecutions, the
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by ggreer 10y ago
Satellite ISPs have low data caps and/or charge a lot per GB of transfer. Avoiding unnecessary downloads seems like the correct behavior in this case. I think the best solution would be an optional http header. That way, the server cou
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by ggreer 10y ago
Isn't that a good unintended consequence? They built out infrastructure which attracted lots of people & jobs. Today, SoCal is home to world-leading firms in entertainment & aerospace. They also have top-tier research and educa
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by ggreer 10y ago
> The best battery that money can buy, for two of pretty much the most important applications (can't elaborate further, sorry) was only made from ~2012 until ~2014. A lot of really expensive things that need that battery are now run
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by ggreer 10y ago
> We were told by the Very Smart People that we had to invade Iraq, because otherwise the Islamists would consolidate control over the region. We invaded, and not only did we not prevent that outcome, we actually caused it. This is inc

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