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by jancsika 2y ago
> Since we use seed oils in junk food, it must be the seed oils making us fat instead of how we guzzle down junk food. My low effort recollection is that seed oil memers go on about how consuming a lot of seed oil leads to inflammation,
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It's an outlier to the common case: HN'ers who have kinks but feel resigned to tacitly explore them only online. In other words, OP's action isn't orthogonal to the average HN'ers interests-- it's a healthy a
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> Its even more ridiculous that USA restaurants that pretend to be fancy put "entrees" instead of "main dishes" on their menus. I smell "epic-ism": you know the French definition proximal to your own lifetim
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> An unexpected side effect was the end of the big band era An unexpected side effect was to contribute to the shift away from big bands dominating the musical scene, during/after a world war and changing tastes in music and music
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> It's disappointing to me because the FSF could be so much more influential today I mean, open source advocacy already includes both business-friendly convenience-focused pragmatists and social-friendly, principled advocates of d
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If it's someone local or friend-of-a-friend, fine. But for rando ebay/web: is there some part of the supply chain where thousands or tens of thousands of machines hit a single point where it's scalable for, say, a software ro
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by jancsika 2y ago
> My motivation in the end was to share my personal feeling of awe, and in a way that was accessible to the parent poster as well as other readers. Then write it that way: 1. Remove the first paragraph, where you treat the OP like a chil
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by jancsika 2y ago
Well, 2015 was about 10 years ago now, and both 5 and 7 are less than ten. So how about you tell us how some of them have already done renewing at 6%+? Did bad things happen? Edit: clarification
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> The lab was able to test 705 samples which came from 296 different food products Ok > Here's a complete list of all the presently-available food samples (excluding vintage foods) we tested that exceeded a published daily intake
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> While the reality is, it takes effort to communicate and drains energy for everyone. This is a low effort take that depends on the ambiguity of language to sound true. "Drain" for the author apparently means literally using u
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> "Abandon hope all y'all (was: ye) who enter here!" I'll be the HN troglodyte who loves to build from first principles: Why not just "Abandon hope all who enter here?" Does that leave humanity open to lawsu
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> Not sure why it takes 12-to-16 years Someone with domain expertise can expand on my ELI5 version below: The parts of the brain that handle socially appropriate behavior aren't fully baked until around the early twenties.
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> Despite your opening sentence, you didn't disagree with OP. They certainly did. coliveira is saying a change in legal language opens up a contract to a reasonably different interpretation in the future. And we know it's reaso
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I think you're taking the metaphor about a string quartet as a "conversation among equals" too literally. In terms of perception, I'm not sure there's much of a relationship to a human conversation. To make things e
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So now I have to ask-- what's the health risk of eating singed pieces of egg with each breakfast?
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Can you safely get those temps on an electric oven?
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> Bonus point your fried eggs get a delicious wok hei. Ok, convert me: What is "wok hei," and why can't you get it in a Teflon pan?
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> Isn't the entire reason people pick OF over traditional porn is they get to have a personal connection with the performer? DMs, custom requests etc.? Hm... I assume custom requests would either happen realtime-- in which case it&#
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> Jones seems like a nut, but the way he's being taken to the cleaners and sued for comical amounts of money are just absurd. I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is the Jones/Sandy Hook case-- like the Fox/Dominion
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I get that for the library. But I'm a bit puzzled about the optimizations done by a compiler based on this behavior. E.g., suppose we patch GCC to preserve any conditional containing the string 'NULL' in it. Would that have a
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Sure. But as I said to another respondent, it's a much weaker claim than those which already exist in the philosophical literature. That doesn't matter if BB is just a bridge for physicists to a deeper understand of philosophy. Bu
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I think it's the other way around. Descartes/Hume are saying that to even bootstrap our understanding of reality, we have a hard dependency on sensory perception. (I mention Hume because he points out that even Descartes' s
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This seems like a physicist with no philosophical background spontaneously (heh) discovering our epistemic hard-dependency on sensory perception. In terms of philosophy, what's here that can't be found in, say, Descartes or Hume?
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> I think that trying to read political messages in Borges is wrong and disrespectful You can say wrong. But for the record, you lost the credibility to use the word "disrespectful" when you termed all philosophers as "wor
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My brain compares cities to planned suburban developments complete with their wonderful HOAs. My brain concludes that Ellen thinks we are building our computer systems in the least bad way. :)
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> My guess is that this article may get flagged, but it encapsulates very much my feelings as a younger Gen X. Ok so I'm curious about this. In the broad strokes, did you think tech would be a major facilitator to things like unioni
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What's the relevance? Are you going to embark on a "Let's Educate The Users" mission for parenting?
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> The Nissan Versa currently starts around $17k Vehicles at that price are usually crap, esp. the Versa with the CVT engine. And, at least last year, there was a shortage so that you'd be paying a few grand above that price just to
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> - Everything is just a closure (the original Common LISP object system) What doesn't fit into this particular "everything?"
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That's plenty quick enough for the Windows Start button. Zing!

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