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by pyre 11y ago
> The whole pseudo-science around "whole food" and "too much processing" is just that. Bunk. The idea is that you want to get closer to the source. For example, getting produce from the store that was shipped from Gua
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by pyre 11y ago
I still see that in Canada, but in the US the FDA has gone after companies for improper labelling because sugar isn't juice.
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by pyre 11y ago
> BPA When BPA was added to plastics it was known to be toxic. The issue was that it was thought to be inert and encapsulated in the material. The revelation came when we found that extreme heat (e.g. in your microwave) or extreme cold (
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by pyre 11y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, that link says "holdings" which doesn't mean "buyers."
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by pyre 11y ago
I was under the impression that BC and Alberta were natural resource economies which don't deal well with a high US dollar, but Ontario actually does well with a high US dollar. Also, a high US dollar makes US out-sourcing to Canada (a
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by pyre 11y ago
> There is also something specifically weird going on with a handful of foods The food industry specifically targets the "bliss point"[1] when figuring out the formula for snack foods. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by pyre 11y ago
Doesn't even have to be at the border. If a SWAT team in the US does a no-knock entry on a residence, but gets the address wrong, do you think that they pay for any damage from their forced entry?
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by pyre 11y ago
Or you could make the title even more ambiguous by calling it a "Former Russian Ghost Ship."
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by pyre 11y ago
> both are psychic Their predictions of the future have been a bit off the mark...
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by pyre 11y ago
Note: Not all phone numbers that start with 555 are fake. In particular, 555-5555 is not reserved for fictional use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)
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by pyre 11y ago
> CMEs and EMPs I'm confused how an EMP and a CME differ. Aren't they both magnetic disturbances that affect electronics due to the fact that electromagnetism is one and the same?
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by pyre 11y ago
> Also, yes, the entire planet disconnecting for a few days is indeed a tragedy. But not at the dimension you (and the article) are describing. Disconnecting for a few days is different from "our major electrical infrastructure will
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by pyre 11y ago
This line of logic says that it is impossible for us to come to any sort of "cliff" where we are unable to smoothly transition from one energy source to another (where the possible ensuing resource wars could prevent us from ever
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by pyre 11y ago
The real "problem" with Capitalism is that the effects of the trade-offs being made are either not felt directly by the perpetrators or the feedback loop is too long that you end up in a "slowly boiling frog" situation.
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by pyre 11y ago
It's inconsistent. I've had various things denied in carry-on (e.g. jar of jam, snow globe, etc). A TSA agent even told me that snow globes were not allowed even in checked luggage, which I found out later is false. I had to fin
946.
by pyre 11y ago
I thought the idea wasn't that they were volatile on their own, but components that could be assembled into a bomb once on-plane.
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by pyre 11y ago
It just needs the MAC to stay consistent for the duration of your travel through the airport.
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by pyre 11y ago
You just quote high enough that the "discounted" rate is the real rate and the not "discounted" rate is the penalty rate. Then you're just rephrasing things (discount vs. penalty) to put a better spin on it.
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by pyre 11y ago
A one-time fee incentives them to not pay late, but once they are already late, there is no more incentive since they have already incurred the 5% fee.
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by pyre 11y ago
Should the people that wrote libsass have decided whether or not to write it in C based on whether or not you would have to install Visual Studio to get it working on Windows? As a C library, it allows linking from several different langu
951.
by pyre 11y ago
Nothing is requiring you to use these tools, but as web projects become more and more complex we develop tools to deal with the complexity. You could just as easily ignore all of this and use server-side rendering in your language of choi
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by pyre 11y ago
Less is simpler, and the canonical implementation (IIRC) is written in Javascript. Sass (now) has libsass which is a C/C++ library (meaning presumably faster), and has a larger feature set than Less.
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by pyre 11y ago
Not unless you like chasing the "latest and greatest" fad. If Sass (or Less) is working for you, then use it. If you are running into issues, then research alternatives. Both Less and Sass are actively maintained projects, so ther
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by pyre 11y ago
> in part because it's always going to be the only Ruby dependency in any of my projects. The Javascript parser never found parity from what I know. Now that libsass (C or C++ implementation) has matured, the Ruby dependency is not
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by pyre 11y ago
> none ever seem to reach the market All batteries that you use today were (obviously) prototypes at some point in time. But you don't wait to prototype something until it's a done deal, you prototype to test. Are you really co
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by pyre 11y ago
Regardless of whether it's right or wrong the narrative is more like: > Someone that's selling proprietary software is > acting like an ass, let's teach them a lesson.
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by pyre 11y ago
> But they apparently can't innovate. Why not? We should look to protect our innovative abilities, more than we protect their products. What good does our ability to innovate do, if the Chinese are there waiting at the end of the pr
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by pyre 11y ago
Well, you also don't feed people hamburgers, steak, and bacon for every meal either if your goal is to "feed the world" and "keep humans alive." That doesn't stop people from doubling down on meat at every meal
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by pyre 11y ago
I think that IMAP-serverside filtering is possible: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter I haven't really looked into exactly what it's doing though (and I'm no expert on the IMAP spec).
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by pyre 11y ago
Maybe I can clarify for the down voters because they haven't really responded with anything of substance (e.g. a comment): * In the Python world, pip replaces/supplants/simplifies away easy_install much in the same way that c

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