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by gralx 8y ago
> If I asked you which company had the fewest breaches, or where you feel your information is safest — what would your answer be? And so, it’s no wonder that Google Cloud leads and will continue to lead in this area. Meanwhile, in other
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by gralx 8y ago
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (FTFY) "Manufacture of consent" is the Walter Lippman term they named the book after.
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After reading about your personal experience, I felt some nagging doubt. I went back to my database to see how much my food would weigh if I set the protein ratio of my diet to 1.4g/kg body mass by increasing the protein-rich bean and
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by gralx 8y ago
> It's not hard to meet that protein goal given the corresponding calorie requirements Just to reiterate the scope of this, it's easy to get sufficient protein from plant matter if your protein requirements are nearer the conse
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by gralx 8y ago
I made my assumptions plain before making the first statement you quote about micronutrients, and I have no problem if you disagree with those assumptions. They're arguable. I used conservative sources for my database as a way to minim
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That page uses the same source I do, which is the USDA's databases. The USDA gives a protein mass fraction of 0.0196 for baked potatoes.[1] Since 60kg*1.4g/kg/0.0196=4386g a 60kg powerlifter would have to eat 4.3kg of
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by gralx 8y ago
I didn't say choline cannot be gotten from vegan foods. I'm saying, rather, that I was conservative in my sources for daily recommended micronutrient amounts, and the amount of choline those sources recommended were impossible to
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Thanks for the links. Note how obtaining all of one's choline from its most concentrated plant source, roasted soy, still requires eating two and a half cups of it daily. Though I suppose that can be done, eating two coffee mugs of soy
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I looked seriously at veganism after reading a WHO report that attributes 13% of world greenhouse gas emissions to animal farming. [Strike that. The figure is 18%, and the source is a 2006 FAO study sponsored by the World Bank and the Europ
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I second vimtutor for the interested. This Vim help page is indispensible to those who aren't: :help index Every Vim shortcut is there and organized.
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Mind elaborating a bit? I've been planning to learn Perl specifically "for crunching through lots of data", like multi-GB databases, and Python for other scripting tasks. But a few days ago I learned that Ken Thompson co-wrot
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Pundits and editorial staff sensationalize. Investors collectively behave like a "drunken psycho". Neither are of themselves bellwethers of a company's future success. We might instead point to facts. Major tech companies are
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The problem that Harold Bloom frames in his 1994 The Western Canon is that with a finite amount of time to read, we ought to choose wisely. A good literary critic helps with that, and The Western Canon is a great example. https:/&#x2F