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by npsimons 6y ago
I switched to a whole food plant based diet after reading "How not to Die", and I believe it's served me well during the pandemic, cooking for myself and hitting my micronutrients pretty much every day. I check using cronomet
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> It sounds rather like customers get source access. Technically, you could provide binaries and a GPL license, then provide source code when verified customers (eg they send their receipt/license number with their request) ask for
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'Charlie sink'
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On top of this, I feel that part of traveling is expanding one's awareness and empathy, something the world could use much more of. It really does give perspective to "walk a mile" in someone else's shoes.
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I've never done a trip this long, but I have to say I like your idea of traveling by land, especially by bicycle. I'm reminded of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and his commentary of "being in the scene
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I consider myself fairly well versed (at least breadth-wise) in programming languages and general IT, and I'm still surprised at least once every six months when something crops up I've just never heard of before. The two most r
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Half the battle is "beating requirements out of users" as I like to put it. This bullshit of trying to bait people into lying is just wasting everyone's time. I hope it leads to them ruling out a lot of really good candidates
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"Oh yeah, that C octothorp language, I've heard of it."
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> What I want to say here is that C++ is really hard, and that there are a million subtle things that one simply has to look up instead of making educated guesses. I don’t think people appreciate this difficulty enough. Very much so. I t
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I'm not going to defend his actions, and I won't claim I would have done any better, but I can empathize with the feeling. When you are called out, even when you are clearly in the wrong, your first reaction is defensiveness. I kn
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Very illuminating reading. I'm particularly fond of these closing lines: > pay careful attention to what you’re afraid they’re going to write, and why you wouldn’t want it to be public. Then apply some rational thinking. This is pre
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> School is not about teaching and education, it is about training obedience, apathy, resignation and of course baby sitting. It is an institution from the 19th century, developed for a society of farmers, factory workers and dutiful dro
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Second Chomsky so hard. He's so right, in all the painful ways that people don't want to hear because it questions their cherished bedrock beliefs.
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> So like Churchill's assessment of democracy, public school remains the worst form of education except for all the others. Is it though? We have records (sometimes questionable, due to bias) of different forms of government, dating
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> I think the pandemic has shown us just how much school sucks, and how ineffective and incompetent the political system behind it truly is. It's a tool to condition people to become obedient little serfs who don't question aut
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I'm still very happy with the fact I went to a university with no sports teams and no frats or sororities.
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I'm 42, jocks versus nerds was still a thing in the 90's, can't speak to after that. I hope and would like to believe things have gotten better, but that's probably only on the social fronts (less social division between
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This. I mean, if the prison lite that is school (love that term) is better than a child's home life, doesn't that speak to deeper issues? Maybe GP should try not to excuse the stories from the Hellmouth[0] that is school by sayi
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> Ruining the planet for ephemeral bits. I mean, this has been happening since waaay before BitCoin was a gleam in anyone's eye. You want to take that tack, you start to sound like a Marxist (not that there's anything wrong wit
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Emissions from production are miniscule compared to emissions from use: https://youtu.be/K9m9WDxmSN8
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Your math is backed up by others' math: https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM https://youtu.be/K9m9WDxmSN8
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Battery longevity is getting better; I need to find sources, but last I heard is with new cooling technology, they are starting to put lifetime estimates at 500K miles. As for the tradeoff of new EV versus used ICE, the numbers in the video
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Going to need to see numbers to back these claims; what I've seen says otherwise, granted the breakeven point is different depending on where you live: https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM
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Another big difference: I can fuel my EV at home with my solar panels. Can't do that with an ICE vehicle. I bicycle commute to and from work (before the quarantines, and now I'm moving to 100% WFH), as well to get groceries and ot
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> So a bad diet can definitely kick your microbiome out of whack, but I don't think that's the only cause. True, but I think it's just one of those truths people know but don't want to hear: a baseline of good health
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Well, I'm regurgitating a Dr. Greger of https://nutritionfacts.org , who is constantly reading studies and papers to get to the bottom of dietary science. You're welcome to spool through his hours of video on YouTube on
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> (Also even if we take the best studies at face value the relative risk differences are ridiculously low between diets. [At least as far as I know.]) See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. I'm willing to bet that just li
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I just remember a while back fecal transplants came up here (and other forums I frequent) as a "treatment" for obesity, as they found different gut flora between obese and healthy weight populations. So many people were thinking t
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> Hacker news is one of the places where I often value the comments more than the linked articles themselves. But wow. This thread is full of pseudo-science type reasoning. It's been this way for years. HN is really quite good when
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I'm curious if you could get the same effects by changing your diet, and what that diet is. I suspect this is at the bottom of all gut microbiome "problems", and furthermore that any fecal transplant will only have temporary

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