photophotoplasm

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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
I have a Nokia 1800. Does calls, SMS, alarms, calculator, has a flash light, and keeps its charge for about a fortnight. I'm sure smartphones are good for a lot of people, but I haven't found the need for one personally. Anything I could do
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
> I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front. Me too. The earliest writings I know of are Paul's letters and possibly the D
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
I've read a few non-canonical writings from that time (I'm a Christian). The most interesting orthodox writings are probably the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas. Among the unorthodox writings, probably the Gospel of Thomas and the Sophia
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
It seems like a deceptively easy way to solve global warming. Anyone see any holes in it?
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
DDG also has its own crawler which iirc they plant to eventually switch over to.
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
http://forums.majorleaguegaming.com/topic/209781-a-corkscrew... For when you wake up a bit.
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
> How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? So we're just assuming it will?
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
$20 per person per day? That's massive, even for Australia. What are you eating?
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
I think there is also some concern that the Coles/Woolworths duopoly is driving prices up. I usually avoid big supermarkets, but I haven't noticed any significant difference in price when I have visited them.
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
Yeah, there was something in the paper this morning about food prices inflating. If it's any consolation, the price of consumer electronics, furniture, and clothing have deflated at an equal rate. :)
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
It's not true, but I don't think it's disastrous or anything like that. Saturated fat is practically impossible to cut out completely, and our body can produce it anyway. The more dangerous belief IMO is that fat in general is bad.
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
Food and Agriculture in Australia and New Zealand isn't as heavily subsidised as it is in Europe and America. That's one possible reason.
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
I was considering organ meats at one point, but unfortunately there's a bit of an ick factor to get over when you haven't been raised on the stuff. (Saying that, I used too eat liver as a child.)
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
Haha. $3.00 is how much one flat white costs at the local cafés. Guess I should have mentioned that I'm not downing 10 or 20 cups of instant coffee per day.
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
I live on ~9AUD per day, AUD being roughly equivalent to the USD. $3 of that goes towards a coffee, $3 goes towards meat, and the other $3 goes towards vegetables and other foodstuff (rough estimates). The only issue I have is that most of
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
Yes, but farmers in America generally aren't content with living on the same income as a farmer in India, so we need to pay more.
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by photophotoplasm 15y ago
> 6. Keeps saturated fat to a minimum In case anyone's interested, this recommendation is long outdated. You should be keeping trans fats to a minimum and trying to increase your polyunsaturated fats, but saturated fat is neither here n
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
I can also see some disadvantages to ceding your sovereignty to a not-entirely-democratic supranational bureaucracy. Hopefully it all works out for Europe but I hope to God my country never goes down that route.
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
As tempting as having my mortgage paid sounds, I don't think I could do it. I do sort of take pride in my home, and turning it into a giant ad would just feel like I'm cheapening it.
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
I have trouble believing even "normal people" will want to use the tablet for anything except casual use. The desktop computer's monitor/keyboard/mouse setup is too efficient to be fully replaced by the touch screen. Not saying that tablets
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
I'm surprised by how much difference add-ons can make. Here's to hoping this will inspire some changes for the better.
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
> Check the "new page" and vote up stories you like. I know very few people do this, because I find good stuff overlooked there all the time. This is the biggest one IMO.
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
> I feel they have a real-estate bubble of incredible proportions. It's bad, but I think it seems worse than it is. Reason is that in East Asia buildings that have been lived in are considered "used" and therefore less valuable than a n
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
Horses for courses, and all that.
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
> MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing This doesn't surprise me, to be honest. Organisms have evolved to be fit enough to survive, and efficiency above a certain level might not affect an organisms fitne
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
> The implication of the app in question is that if you are gay you are some kind of diseased freak that can be "cured". Well, the organisation that created this app explicitly believes that. There's nothing implicit about it. But it's
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
> I have to respectfully disagree. I'm glad they got rid of this stupid app. It's simply hate sugar-coated with psuedo-science. If it was hateful, I agree. But I don't think the article even says what the app does, so how do we know tha
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by photophotoplasm 16y ago
It didn't deserve to be removed in my opinion. It wasn't hurting anyone by being there. That being said, I can understand why Apple did remove it, because it doesn't make any business sense to enter a PR war over the relatively miniscule am