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by sleavey 7y ago
The high temperatures used to fry foods accelerates oxidation. Repeatedly using the same oil to fry foods at high temperatures (such as in factories and restaurants) leads to greater oxidation. Long shelf life food often has oil or was frie
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by sleavey 7y ago
I'm not an expert, but I think rancid oil is oxidised oil and thus acts like any oxidised chemical: it tries to steal an electron from somewhere else, including inside our bodies - "free radicals" - which can damage things li
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by sleavey 7y ago
Wow - great tip! I'm always annoyed when sites disable it.
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The thing that really irks me about seed oils is that humans find it difficult to taste when it's rancid. I wonder how many of the long shelf life products filled with sunflower oil are actually rancid, or how many fast food restaurant
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by sleavey 7y ago
I guess this study gives credence to the relatively old idea that modern bad health (chronic inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, dental problems, etc.) is driven by the high levels of carbohydrate and linoleic acid (omega 6, found in lar
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by sleavey 7y ago
I just figured out a weird trick to read the page on Firefox without the sign-in/register popover: open the page in reader mode and refresh. It seems the popover appears only after page loading has finished, before which the full artic
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by sleavey 7y ago
Plastic tea bags aside, I was shocked to learn that many paper tea bags still use plastic glue [1], which can contaminate compost. [1] https://www.countryliving.com/uk/create/food-and-drink/news/...
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by sleavey 7y ago
Semi-related, pedantic remark on the title: in British English we commonly use the word "programme" in place of "program" for e.g. TV programmes and concert programmes. However, even in British English the correct form f
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by sleavey 7y ago
It's funny how the prototype search engine page linked by the document (google.stanford.edu) now presents Stanford's GSuite instance, i.e. the suite of collaborative tools Google have since produced with the income from the search
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by sleavey 7y ago
Their website is now just an ad vehicle too. Giant videos that take up half the screen even when you scroll past them and don't watch them? Yep, I'm leaving.
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Heads up: when Facebook asks you to give them your phone number to "prevent you getting locked out of your account", they really just want it so they can identify your other profiles in datasets they've bought/own (e.g.
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by sleavey 7y ago
I was just thinking of how best to do journaling in an encrypted way and figured pass might work, but then I realised it probably isn't easy to search across notes. Have you found a way to do that that doesn't involve just dumping
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by sleavey 7y ago
You can even provide boiled eggs plastic free. In the UK and Germany I've seen eggs painted with a special paint that seals the cooked egg and lets you keep it outside a fridge for weeks.
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by sleavey 7y ago
I guess you could make it more intuitive by thinking about the system in terms of the units of your feedback (e.g. force on an actuator like a bicycle handle bar in your example) rather than the deeper, underlying physics. In the end it doe
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by sleavey 7y ago
That if we wish to control some figure of merit, such as the average global temperature or sea level, then we must understand which variables influence them.
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by sleavey 7y ago
One absolutely crazy problem, at least in the UK, is that supermarkets sell pre-packed fruits and vegetables cheaper than the equivalent weight loose. I can't think of any logical reason why.
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Possibly, but if the public were really to be trusted to make decisions on national sovereignty they should not have been asked to decide between the status quo and some abstract, undefined future outside the EU. One of the biggest problems
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by sleavey 7y ago
Indeed. A recent poll was quoted on yesterday's "Any Questions?" show on BBC Radio 4 by a Brexiteer, which apparently asked the public "should MPs represent their own views or those of their constituents?". Some sma
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by sleavey 7y ago
> just look at how they treat their own constituent countries such as Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales Don't forget England. Brexit is basically just an English nationalist idea. Ironically, if the UK had devolved more powers to
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by sleavey 7y ago
You joke, but asking the uninformed public to vote on such deep constitutional matters was what got the UK into this mess. Barely anyone in the public was qualified to give their judgement on the merits of continuing inside the EU versus th
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by sleavey 7y ago
A peculiarity: the "south east" is the area most typically associated with the Conservatives and their voters, who have been in power for the past 9 years and who have driven most of the Brexit rhetoric. The south east is also nea
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by sleavey 7y ago
These minimum guaranteed income ideas are really interesting to me. It would remove a lot of the ritual humiliation we put benefit claimants through when they are desperate and often feeling worthless before we push them to sell themselves
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by sleavey 7y ago
I specifically said I want to pay more as long as everyone else in my position also pays more. I also don't want hospitals to have to rely on altruism, they should rely on tax.
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by sleavey 7y ago
I don't get this "location penalty" idea. We have the internet. Businesses already operate globally without the need to constantly fly upper management around the world. The problem is that the talent live in the south east b
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by sleavey 7y ago
Why not tax the merely rich too? I'm probably going to be one of them in a few years. I want to pay more tax to help benefit the society that let me get to where I'm going, but I absolutely want everyone else in my position to pay
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All of the main parties in the UK keep skirting around the start of the solution to "rebalancing" the economy: massively increased taxes on the rich to pay for the required investment. This is not a new idea; low taxes for the wea
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It seems to me as someone with no experience of designing aircraft control software, avionics or anything to do with planes, that the entertainment system should be on a physically separate network to anything safety critical. Like, differe
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by sleavey 7y ago
Argh, sorry I missed that, I skipped over the intro and looked at the examples. EDIT: to be fair, this sentence was added today [1]. Not sure if it would have been there when I opened the tab earlier. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by sleavey 7y ago
One example of a large code base that uses this is WordPress (PHP).
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> Jobs board for people with psychic problems. High employment opportunity I think this has a different meaning to that intended! Did you mean "psychological" problems?

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