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by jly 10y ago
I would pay $23-35 / month for ESPN, if offered. I mostly have a full cable package for this channel, and it costs a lot more than that. ESPN has a lot of junk on it these days, but they've used their popularity to secure massive
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by jly 10y ago
I highly question the claims that soylent is better for the environment. This product's primary ingredient is soy. Imagine we replaced a good chunk of the currently consumed food with this. That would require field after field of so
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This guy is obviously smart and has some interesting ideas, but unfortunately a lot of them are very disagreeable to most people. I could barely get past his rant against having a kitchen and using retail stores. I have nothing wrong with
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The biggest reason would be price. I don't know the amex payment pricing or how it differs from stripe/braintree, but cutting out the middle man has got to be cheaper. I run a small business using stripe and cc processing fees ar
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by jly 10y ago
The argument is an appeal to nature. In the context of food, though, this argument has been anything but a fallacy in the past. It's not unreasonable to question whether a single-source producer of processed food stuffs is safe for
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by jly 10y ago
I think the article actually does highlight a valid growing trend away from industrial processed foods and towards getting closer to the source for natural foods. The meal replacement industry seems to be large enough to support this produc
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by jly 10y ago
What is the fascination with soylent? It's basically a supplement food bar / meal replacement. There are a million of these things on the market, already, right, in some kind of bar or powder form?
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by jly 10y ago
I think the Netflix content is fantastic - more than enough to pay their pretty cheap monthly streaming price for. And in addition, they have a massive catalog of other content. Who cares how many IMDB top 250 they have. It's simila
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by jly 10y ago
Have you ever written a program for a 50 MHz microcontroller with 128 KB of RAM? This is a problem domain in which C is well-suited, where manual memory management is quite important. In fact, there are not many alternatives. It turns ou
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> Is C all that commonly used these days? I rather suspect that it's an unforced error to start a new project in C, and that many wise organisations are replacing buggy C software with slightly-less-buggy software in safer languages
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by jly 10y ago
I saw an interesting TED talk recently on the subject on plant intelligence, that falls along the same lines. For those interested: https://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant...
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I think after the last few years of these kinds of things coming out, the takeaway is pretty simple: be fairly sceptical of 'advice' coming out of large governing bodies and instead just be sensible. Don't eat too much food.
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by jly 10y ago
Long time v2 and v3 user - I'm happy to see them mark v3 as 'done'. It's good enough. Bugs exist, but they'll be worked on at a reasonable priority. I finally moved a new project to v4 alpha for some newer feature
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by jly 10y ago
These are two great articles and I wish we had access to this kind of tech when I rowed competitively! I'll pass the app information on to my club. This is probably why I was always faster on the erg than in the water ;)
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I just threw mine away. Great tip from the article: use crumpled up aluminum foil to clean the grates, instead.
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The point in which a rower is at in the stroke when they cross the finish line can have a hugely outsized influence on the result. During the catch, the boat momentarily slows down while the blades enter the water, and then it surges forwa
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by jly 10y ago
I appreciate your enthusiasm for this topic, but, respectfully, you are not an expert either and you're spreading a lot of incorrect information. It's clear you have little understanding other than what you can quickly google. Y
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I don't think you read the linked article. It deals with only wild bee species and their decline.
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The BBC article deals with the nearly 20k species of bee that are NOT honeybees and are NOT affected in nearly the same way by varroa, showing a clear neonicotinoid link to reducing numbers. Linking honeybee losses to this study is not acc
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by jly 10y ago
>> Is there a source you can find that shows neonicotinoids as used in the wild being calamitous for bees? Well, the BBC article plus several studies it links to are some sources to start with. Right? This article deals with non-hone
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by jly 10y ago
No feral honeybees? I can attest from personal experience down here in Texas there are a lot of wild apis melifera and many other honey bee species doing just fine without us. Maybe your definition of 'feral' isn't the same
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by jly 10y ago
Honeybees are indeed a non-native species to the US, but that doesn't mean there are not feral honeybees. They can survive just fine in the wild without us, as they did before they were domesticated, and they continue to do so as desc
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Numbers vary depending on the survey and most surveys only include maybe 1/3 of commercially managed hives, to start. Overwinter losses are probably around your number for the last several years but all-year losses are much higher. Th
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by jly 10y ago
Sport exists because it's a simple human desire to push oneself and compete in entertaining physical games and activities. I think the natural instincts at work here transcend anything invented or as simplistic as your description. Co
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If this is true, then it's likely just due to more beekeeping activity - commercial and hobby - due to the awareness of this issue and rapidly growing agricultural demands. Beekeepers tend to use annual colony losses for whatever reaso
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by jly 10y ago
I'm not quite sure what your point is. Nobody should own a house because it requires sinking too much capital into that could be better spent? While you may have some point there, that's not really realistic. I own a home and I
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Yes but this is a home, and not some generic investment. I can either live in the home, saving livings costs (rent), or I can rent it out and generate income, which will pay for the interest on the loan.
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by jly 10y ago
This is not true. They will back you off if they detect you are playing with an advantage and betting any reasonable amount. It won't take long and they are good at figuring it out, if you as a player are maximizing the edge.
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Yes, getting banned is the other obstacle. Any casino won't take long to ban anyone clearly playing with an advantage. This makes it even harder to do for the long haul, which is what you need to take advantage of the edge.
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by jly 10y ago
Well, 'consistently winning' may be a stretch. In these cases, advantage players have a small edge, but the chances of winning or losing any given hand in blackjack is still pretty close to a coin flip. You may win or lose big i

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