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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Email is wonderful and terrible. SMTP is pretty simple, and everyone with a static IP can run their own email server. Configuring it requires some study, but it's not too hard. OTOH creating email clients is hard. I wrote a web serv
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Of course no responsible observer (not me anyway) is recommending obsessive dietary adherence to some arbitrary nutrient ratio. Obviously optimal nutrition is not a single static point but a range and a rather broad one at that. There can&
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
True enough, life span was often short until fairly recent times. In the distant past there were many factors affecting life span, e.g., diseases, accidents, predation (by large feline species in particular), childbirth to name a few. Howe
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
"Diet" is a subject that I've studied for most of my life, and I'm no youngster. The same arguments about dietary composition have been going on for at least 150 years. There may be many opinions but for my part, I&#x27
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
If DNA is like source code, then it is really interesting the way one gene is unzipped in order to unlock other genes. Maybe it's a sort of encryption/decryption process, at the same time having the properties of a "program&q
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
After reading the article and the comments, it sure seems the subject (the "learning styles" hypothesis) arouses considerable passion in supporters and detractors. But polarization may be inevitable when the subject is at best ind
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The ancient wisdom is the practice of medicine is as much art as science. There is "evidence" supporting many practices. As in every complex endeavor, evidence is not static, but evolving constantly. Evidence is necessary but by
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I think it's going to be very hard for countries to work out how to deal with the issues. Pretty sure the Internet is going to continue to exist and provoke questions about what "national boundaries" mean in this context. Pr
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This case may be the leading edge of a huge wave with a global sweep. The sticky point may be that the locality of data is impermanent and ambiguous. In the MS case, though the data is said to be stored on a server in Ireland, it could jus
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Of course, talking about the US health care "system" is hazardous given the enormous diversity of systems within it. No doubt there are instances whereby particular "industrial" implementations function well. But there
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I'd imagine the proportion of "good" doctors might be about the same as good programmers, or good teachers, though probably exceeds the supply of "good" politicians. Point is medical care is only as good as the qual
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Practicing medicine for decades gives me some "perspective" on the subject. No one in medicine is a "miracle worker", though many of us work hard to the job responsibly. You are wrong. We do "save lives", and
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
As others have commented, the effective EOL is not really that short. FBSD 10.0 was released Jan 2014, so 10.0 will be supported for a year or so. Updating to 10.1 (when it is finalized in Q4) will very likely be painless, no incompatibil
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Well, of course not. I mean public transportation couldn't cover every section of a region, but it could serve major hubs well enough to reduce automotive use and reduce its downsides. For almost 40 years Portland Oregon has been deve
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Interesting subject. If the question is "to sprawl or not to sprawl" (that is, urban sprawl), like most truly serious questions, there's no good solution. I live in Oregon, where we have strict urban grown boundaries. Here
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
An interesting idea, a kind of gradually-open model of participation. Could work if the source or (selected part of it) is incrementally released from time to time, so at least there's opportunity for open participation if in a more s
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Sure I think something like Cover Oregon could be an open-source project. The problem is the need for expert management of the project, very much the issue in Oregon: relying on Oracle to manage the project turned out to be an expensive mi
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No doubt many researchers would agree: the food industry has contributed to the problem. Evidence points to manufacturers adding large quantities of sugars (in many forms) to convenience and fast foods as a major culprit. Physiological eff
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Sorry, should have been more explicit, but you've correctly deciphered all the obscure abbreviations. I think your questions point to the gist of the matter: obesity is not a simple problem to understand or to solve. There certainly is
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After 150 comments have been made, maybe 6 people will stop to read this. But I feel compelled to contribute a bit of what I've learned about obesity. I was the medical director of an obesity treatment clinic for 10 years, working wit