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by pakitan 9y ago
> It's not something you can order from Amazon. No, but apparently you can order it from a chemist. A russian banker and his secretary were killed in 1995 by the banker's business partner. With that said, blaming Mossad for th
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by pakitan 9y ago
Well, I didn't say the Inuit live long lives. In fact I haven't been able to find data how long do they live when in their natural environment on traditional diets. But I suspect they don't live that long as it's a harsh
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by pakitan 9y ago
Our small intestine is long, compared to the colon, precisely because we've evolved on meat-based diet. By the time the "meat" reaches the colon, there is barely anything left because the nutrients are absorbed by the small i
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by pakitan 9y ago
> how do you propose to measure long term mortality rates in a direct feeding study? Simple, lock lots of people in a building, feed them the same thing for 50 years and then measure :) That's impossible, of course, which is why I t
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by pakitan 9y ago
> mechanistic studies involving direct feeding & measurement I believe that's the fancy terminology for "We fed people with substance X and blood marker Y went up", correct me if I'm wrong. How is that in any way
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by pakitan 9y ago
That same site has published a response from Jared Diamond: http://www.marklynas.org/2011/09/the-myths-of-easter-island-... It seems far from established that the ecocide is a myth.
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by pakitan 9y ago
Someone said that's the solution to Fermi's paradox - every sufficiently advanced civilization eventually spends all its resources on cryptocurrency mining :)
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> Just because growth isn't "infinite" says nothing about how far away we are from reaching the limits of the planet. And just because Malthusians have been wrong for centuries, doesn't mean they won't turn out t
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by pakitan 9y ago
The purpose is not to prevent bank run. People had plenty of time to run if they wanted. The purpose of stopping withdrawals is to make sure people don't take advantage of any bugs that are still present. Like the poster here who repor
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by pakitan 9y ago
OK, I can understand how it can be taken the wrong way but for the record it was a nod to the "white savior complex", rather than an attempt to insult Kenyans.
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by pakitan 9y ago
Whoa, eliminating poverty entirely...that's a leap almost equivalent to a hyperspace jump. I've seen actual economists, proponents of UBI, making much more modest assumptions. At the very least rents and house prices in poor neigh
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by pakitan 9y ago
> Very heart warming article, glad to hear about empirical evidence that basic income leads to fruitful, productive lives. But of course it does because there is a Big White Friendly Brother supplying the money. If it was coming from Ken
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by pakitan 9y ago
University of London: https://london.ac.uk/courses/computing-and-information-syste... It's the cheapest I've seen - less than $10K total for the degree.
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You can easily see how well the reality matches your forecasts by going back to 2007. Did the masses of unemployed people seem happy to be freed from the burden of "overspending"? > how about a stable money supply with very low
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by pakitan 9y ago
When someone says "no one buys anything", deflation proponents always twist that as if it's meant literally. The economy doesn't halt when there is a deflation. It just slows down, people buy less, then, because of the l
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by pakitan 9y ago
You may be correct from a strictly technical point of view but then "digital currency" becomes a meaningless term. After all, one could argue that USD is a "digital currency" as well, given that cash transactions are a m
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by pakitan 9y ago
He was active and quite helpful but after the last creditors' meeting (when it was officially announced that any surplus will go to shareholders) he deleted all his posts in the mtgoxinsolvency reddit. He claimed it was because of abus
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by pakitan 9y ago
I have a similar experience - after a redesign and significant improvement of page load time, the bounce rate and few other metrics improved but conversion rate stayed almost exactly the same. Kissmetrics are probably measuring this across
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by pakitan 9y ago
Kickbacks/bribes are absolutely despicable, there is no argument about that. I'm just against some elaborate set of rules that is going to regulate what doctors can prescribe or not. These decisions should be left to the doctors&#
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by pakitan 9y ago
The cigarette warning labels are working just fine. The point is to warn people of the dangers and practically every smoker is already aware of those and yet they choose to smoke anyway. That's perfectly fine in my book - as long as on
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by pakitan 9y ago
Fast forward 10 years. Top story on HN is "I'm in excruciating pain and my doctor is refusing to prescribe me a painkiller because he's afraid of losing his license". Top comment: "This is ridiculous! Why are all th
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by pakitan 9y ago
Why does the number matter? Lots of people here (including the person I was replying to) talk about the "right thing" to do, not about military power. If it's the right thing to allow for millions of peoples to secede, why is
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by pakitan 9y ago
That's not how referendums work. Are you saying that if tomorrow you and few buddies decided to set up a new country, on a land you own, via a "referendum", the government should just go with it?
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by pakitan 9y ago
Europol's function is basically just coordination of the police forces in EU countries. It's not even close to a federal police force.
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by pakitan 9y ago
Can you please read again the wiki article on what the gun's capabilities are and where it's deployed, as I don't think we are talking about the same thing? First, masses of innocent people don't usually charge at border
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by pakitan 9y ago
Looks like an amazing piece of tech, I'd totally work on that if they would let me anywhere near it. Why should I be ashamed of working on something designed to protect a country's border? Yet, I'm probably supposed to feel p
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by pakitan 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the numbers aren't plausible. I feel at my best if I sleep about 8-9 hours. Maybe I can cut half an hour and still do well but sleeping only 6 hours every day guarantees I'll feel like shit all the time and I&
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by pakitan 9y ago
> If we open the pandora box of consent under 18, we will have to tread very carefully. In my country age of consent is 14. There is no pandora's box, there is no widespread abuse of teen girls and children being raped. Only ones wh
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by pakitan 9y ago
That 1200kWh figure doesn't make any sense. It says that "edible tissue" excludes water content. Each kg of tomatoes has about 950g of water. That means 60kWh per kg of tomatoes, which will cost about 5 EUR. You won't be
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by pakitan 9y ago
Yeah, I was wondering about that. Some of those farms look like they have million(s) dollars worth of equipment and infrastructure. And farming isn't exactly a high-margin industry so starting a new farm must be quite a risky venture.

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