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by jensen123 11y ago
So, I was thinking about reading some books on evolutionary psychology the other day. About how men prefer good looking young women, and how women prefer powerful/rich men with high social status and to a lesser degree tall and muscula
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by jensen123 11y ago
Interesting, and impressive. However, I'm wondering if this kind of thing is suitable for backups? A while ago, I read that SSDs can lose data if they're stored too long without electricity connected.
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by jensen123 11y ago
I love the taste of kimchi, too. It's just unfortunate that it has such a low PH. I wonder, how is the dental health of those Koreans who eat so much?
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by jensen123 11y ago
I seem to remember blinking text, animated GIFs, slow-loading Flash and Java applets back in 1995, although I'm not sure if things were ever as bad as it is now. Then I guess around 2005 web design was generally quite good. And lately
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by jensen123 11y ago
I'm not a history expert, but wasn't it basically the industrial revolution that made the city important? Before then, most people were farmers, and the cities didn't matter that much, no? Ok, so how do the latest technologic
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by jensen123 11y ago
Most modern computers come with a non-free BIOS etc. I wonder if this bill could be used to order companies like Intel and AMD to make changes to that proprietary code? When I first heard Richard Stallman talk about a free BIOS, that sounde
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by jensen123 11y ago
> As a thought experiment: What would the repercussions be if Apple did pull iPhone sales out of the UK? > I'd guess that there would be huge complaints from the populace. Probably. Most people seem to care more about the latest
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by jensen123 11y ago
> The public, though, is largely against these mass surveillance programs Really? That's not my impression. I remember after September 11 - most Americans seemed more than happy to give up their freedoms and privacy in order to figh
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by jensen123 11y ago
I don't think most people would have a problem with this kind of thing, just like they don't have any problem with giving up their privacy since "they have nothing to hide". I hope I'm wrong.
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by jensen123 11y ago
Maybe you should explain why.
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by jensen123 11y ago
I find it interesting that many people look at governments differently than they look at say grocery stores or auto mechanics. If a grocery store or auto mechanic is charging too much or providing poor service, I would go to another one. Wh
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by jensen123 11y ago
I'm a bit near-sighted so I prefer having my monitor somewhat close. That's especially true with a laptop, since the screen is smaller. However, if you're not near-sighted, then I suppose a MBP that opens to 120° might be fin
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by jensen123 11y ago
I recently bought a third generation Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon. It had a very annoying fan, which made it unusable for me. It wasn't very loud, but it was a high-frequency sound which made it annoying. Eventually, I got myself a Lenovo
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by jensen123 11y ago
I agree with you that Apple hardware is generally much better than the competition. However, there is one thing that really bugs me about Apple laptops - they don't open 180 degrees, which make them somewhat impractical to use with a s
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by jensen123 11y ago
"Researchers found that code written by women was approved at a higher rate (78.6%) than code written by men (74.6%)" That's not much of a difference at all. No numbers are mentioned for when women hide their gender versus wh
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by jensen123 11y ago
I currently have 2 computers with SFX power supplies. One is a 300W from Silverstone and the other is a 350W from Be Quiet. Both of these are quiet. I suppose if you need lots of power (like 500-600W), then the smaller fans on the SFX power
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by jensen123 11y ago
I don't think our democratic society is very good for gifted/talented people. Democracy is kinda like 1 human and 10 chimpanzees living together, with the chimpanzees insisting that everybody are equal, and threatening violent san
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by jensen123 11y ago
I can see some similarities between the Cerberus and the NCase. However, the Cerberus supports mATX motherboards but the NCase only mITX boards. There are also some other differences, such as the I/O stuff on the front of the NCase. So
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by jensen123 11y ago
Finally an mATX case using SFX power supplies! Having to use the big ATX power supplies have been annoying me for a while now.
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by jensen123 11y ago
> this nonsense is creating an asinine, infantilized generation: easily manipulated, desperate for social acceptance, incapable of independent thought, and entirely beholden to the whims of mainstream society. As far as I can tell, most
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by jensen123 11y ago
All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?
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by jensen123 11y ago
Car free city centers sound like a good idea. I wonder if the success Ljubljana has already had is making them arrogant and foolish, though. That "zero waste" strategy sounds like extremism to me. I'm not saying recycling is
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by jensen123 11y ago
I wonder how long it will take before we'll see more studies on dairy and IGF-1 and how they affect cancer. I seriously doubt that it's a coincidence that the Nordic countries have some of the highest cancer rates in the world, si
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by jensen123 11y ago
Huh, that doesn't make any sense to me. Smaller houses would make cities more walkable/livable and thus be better for people's health and the environment. Do people want those kinds of laws in order to protect their "inv
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The end of politics: Cities, social networks and loneliness in the 21st century(futureurbanism.com)
17 points by jensen123 11y ago|13 comments
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by jensen123 11y ago
I think it's really impressive that they were able to build a house like that for only 20K. The article mentions zoning laws and size requirements, which I found odd. Do many places not allow houses below a certain size to be built?
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by jensen123 11y ago
> Why not rent a flat instead? Flats usually suck because you have noise from neighbors. Of course, you can build flats with better sound insulation, but that obviously costs more, although I'm not sure how much more.
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by jensen123 11y ago
So I guess the concern "that data sharing would require them to commit scarce resources with little direct benefit" is just a pretext then. Obviously, just putting some data up on a website is cheap.
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by jensen123 11y ago
I read an interesting interview a while ago. Among other things it mentions that "The beta-carotene that is produced synthetically is a single isomer -- a very straight molecule called "all-trans" beta-carotene. Beta-carotene
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by jensen123 11y ago
If the sun is very low in the sky, no UVB radiation will reach you. The body needs the UVB radiation in order to produce vitamin D. I think a general rule of thumb is that if your shadow is longer than you are, then there is no UVB.

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