manicbovine

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by manicbovine 13y ago
What lunatic would bet their money on whether people will stop eating? It is a fundamental biological need and evolutionary drive. That's a tough sell for Soylent, and it has nothing to do with "critical mass". And of course
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by manicbovine 13y ago
That's not it at all. Soylent is uninteresting. Have the Soylent fans ever gone to a GNC?
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by manicbovine 13y ago
No, you're describing a number of well-established scientific fields along with basic human instinct and intelligence. Eat food. It has worked quite well for a very long time. There is nothing better to eat than food. No data analysis
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Maybe you know about this, but Plumpy-nut is pretty interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy'nut It's a ready-to-eat therapeutic food with an excellent shelf life. Aide workers give it out in famished
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Soylent really belongs on a late night infomercial for pseudo-scientific products.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Low sodium vegetable juice has 900mg per serving.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
I agree with you, but I think there is at least three related usability issues that made Google Reader less attractive to users. Namely, Google Reader required multiple tools to use efficiently. It also required users to have a basic unders
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Replace the words "drug" and "medicine" by "chemical" or "bioactive substance". You see, that's what we must talk about if we talk about legalizing "drugs". One person's drug or m
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by manicbovine 13y ago
I misstated that. For whatever reason, that community generally believes that it's a liability to have the drugs sent to a false address or PO Box. I think they're relying on being able to plausibly deny that the drugs were mailed
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by manicbovine 13y ago
> That's not liberty. That's criminal behavior that stems from criminal thinking. If government has any legitimate function at all, it's to prevent injustice from criminals and other predators. I think you're missing
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by manicbovine 13y ago
This is also a more reasonable explanation for organized crime, seeing as how criminals cannot rely on the government to mediate criminal disputes.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
But the Silk Road wasn't truly anonymous because buyers had to disclose their address to at least one person. It's surprising that so many people were willing to send their addresses to anonymous criminals who could, at any time,
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Did anyone think this could go on? It's not just about narcotics, this is about the government's ability to regulate and tax. The US government has refined its ability to tax so well that, if you make a large amount of money illeg
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by manicbovine 13y ago
What? Can you elaborate?
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Something is apparently wrong with the positions of these papers, in mathematics at least. My own papers, as well as the key papers in my field, are surrounded by unrelated papers.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
What in the hell does this have do to with the NSA spying?
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Enforcing Obamacare with NSA data? What are you on about?
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by manicbovine 13y ago
\pi is very frequently used to denote a projection or some other mapping.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
You've mentioned the Netflix DVD model a few times, so ostensibly you seek to offer some type of physical good via subscription? Netflix's DVD model worked because everybody was used to renting movies from Blockbuster. The business model al
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Thanks, I've been looking for something like Barracuda.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
I don't like the idea of monolithic email products. I wish I had the option to purchase the following items a la carte: * A polished email client with consistently designed mobile, desktop, console, and web apps. * Spam filtering and email
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Whether or not "Don't be evil" is their motto, it's clear that they've failed to manage expectations.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
... or just a standard business class laptop without a semi-powerful GPU.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
Google enthusiastically kills legacy and niche products. I'm making wild guesses, but I don't think we'll have support for XMPP clients in the long run.
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by manicbovine 13y ago
I think the chrome app is one aspect of a cross-platform solution. But what if I'd like to chat without opening chrome? I'll cross my fingers for a Hangouts API that allows me to write a standalone client. However, if chatting through a sem
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by manicbovine 13y ago
That extension is essentially broken (running iceWM), as the text input box dips below the taskbar. Furthermore, it requires chrome to be open. I don't necessarily want to keep my browser open at all times, nor do I care to use my browser a
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by manicbovine 13y ago
I wonder if someone might be more likely to donate actual money/time to a given cause after "liking" a sufficient number of items related to that cause. If so, then FB likes could be a completely valid fundraising strategy. This is a valid
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by manicbovine 13y ago
> I think I will switch back to a desktop email client for day-to-day use and only use the web interface when I'm on a different computer. I primarily use Mutt because I spend most of my time in a console. I know Mutt gets a bad rap, bu
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by manicbovine 13y ago
For whatever it's worth, it's possible to temporarily switch back to the old compose [1]. Perhaps this is well-known, but I just discovered it. [1] http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/01/switch-to-gmails-old-compos...
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by manicbovine 13y ago
A good start would be to replace fontconfig and its ridiculous XML files.

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