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reedjosh
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reedjosh
4y ago
You're sure fun to chat with.
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reedjosh
4y ago
Checkout this book: https://thebigfatsurprise.com/ Looks like the NHS is behind the times. In the US they've removed statements like the one you linked to. It's becoming scientific consensus that saturated fat doe
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reedjosh
4y ago
We eat unnatural amounts of polyunsaturated oils today. You have it completely backward. The amount of vegetable based fats consumed 100 years ago was significantly less. It wasn't until chemical extraction was introduced that we could
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4y ago
There is soooo much land that cows graze on that can't really produce crops. Space isn't an issue caused by meat consumption. Further cows often eat the parts of crops we won't like corn stalks. Cows and other ruminants are k
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reedjosh
4y ago
Again assuming a solution is even needed when birth rates in first world nations is already low.
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4y ago
I find it funny that I agree with you in some ways that others might not. For example, I agree people should ditch the dumb super hero movies and do something better. Maybe garden or learn to weld or something. But I completely disagree wi
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reedjosh
4y ago
No joke
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4y ago
Gross.
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4y ago
This! ^ Tech companies are all subjects to the government in which they operate. They have become spies. The real terror is when you can't buy chips that don't spy on you.
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> So the government will clearly help out here. The government is probably part of the driving factor in building this system. The government probably doesn't want Wikileaks type material to be rendered. There are _so_ many ways the
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4y ago
But you could work around it at the software level. With this tech stack, you wouldn't be able to.
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But you can install your own OS. You can't disable this tool via another OS. Particularly now that heterogeneous computing is making it big, video decoding can easily just be made not to work unless this tech stack okays it--regardless
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4y ago
But at least you could load your own OS. Chip manufacturers could even decide that nothing good happens on open source operating systems, so you're now only allowed to run Mac or Windows operating systems. The point is really that they
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reedjosh
4y ago
But XMR is private?
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reedjosh
4y ago
> ...understanding of kinetics of мetabolic system probably better way forward. Completely agree.
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reedjosh
4y ago
I wanted to build computer chips, but CS pays so much more.
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reedjosh
4y ago
But cheese is probably healthy anyway. It's milk minus the sugars.
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4y ago
> For whatever reason a lot of people keep betting on a pivot. At some point the US has to print to outrun its debts. There will be a pivot.
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4y ago
It's really just that “money printer go Brrr” globally. All of the world's central banks are printing like mad. Both the EU and Japan both have negative interest rates atm.
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4y ago
Fair enough...
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4y ago
Seriously! Grains, sugars, and alcohol are pretty much no-nos if you want to have teeth when you're older. I've had a dentist comment on how he wished he had so few issues. I brush like once a day just for hygiene/bad breath
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4y ago
The Davos people are less capitalists and more socialist monopolists. The leverage government to entrench their own business. At this point they are uber rich and believe most people are about to be completely replaced by machines. Thus, th
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4y ago
> The continued life expectancy of humans seems to show that any harm is very small Life expectancy is a bad measure for two reasons. 1). The major bump in life expectancy of the 20th century is largely due to the number of infants that
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4y ago
Python and Pandas are absolutely excellent until you notice you need performance. I say write everything in Python with Pandas until you notice something take 20 seconds. Then rewrite it with a more performant language or cython hooks. Deve
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> This is an existential level threat more relevant than climate change by a large factor I agree, but the wealthy rulers that meet at Davos believe the opposite. They generally believe this sort of thing is a double win. The population
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> the idea of legislating morality as counter to the basis of their religion And this is what I've been finding lately as I've been reading and researching the bible.
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> because they have less premarital sex. I think you make fair points, but I would guess here that the reality is not less pre-marital sex. It's probably more, it's just sex with birth control.
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4y ago
Pretty sure the parent comment was just missing a /s
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Hey! Awesome reply. I'm pretty much anti-abortion myself, but draw the line at your point. So, I'm practically pro-choice. > it is the government's job to enforce Which is where I say we stop on the whole abortion thing. S
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> PoS is more resilient to 51% attacks of this nature than PoW is. Pretty sure you got that backward.
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