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by slededit 8y ago
“Wholesome” is not a scientific term. The food landscape is filled with pseudoscience, and whether a compound is synthesized or extracted is more of an economic decision not a scientific one.
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by slededit 8y ago
What specifically are you looking for? That synthetic foods exist? Google provides many results on the subject. You probably have already eaten some synthetic ingredients. For a real world example sugar was first synthesized in 1953 htt
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by slededit 8y ago
FYI it looks like you've been shadow banned since your first posts in the thread "A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer...". Your posts since then have been substantive so I vouched for this one. You should
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by slededit 8y ago
> There have been many, perhaps endless attempts to synthesize a wholesome food product - it would be worth a fortune. I am aware of zero successes to date and this shouldn't be the case if its not very difficult. We don't even
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by slededit 8y ago
In most cases the cat would probably come back after it had its fun outdoors. "Outdoor" cats do this every day. The main reason is its potential to be killed by wildlife, traffic, or consideration of its effects on local bird po
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by slededit 8y ago
The Ford family has 40% voting rights regardless of how many common shares are sold. No buyer would ever accept that - and the family would never give up their preferred shares. Your scenario may happen with another car company, but not Fo
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by slededit 8y ago
I wonder why they needed the laser pre-heater. I can't imagine it is that dramatically more effective than resistive heating. Even if it is, just having a longer pre-heater to make up for it would have to be cheaper. EDIT: Did a bit
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by slededit 8y ago
From what I read in Matt Levine's bloomberg column - not really. Bankers make money by being middle men, not predicting the market.
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by slededit 8y ago
Its an interesting concept. Addition or subtraction now would have to dynamically return either a zero type or a non-zero type. I suppose the type system could force you to check and handle the zero case. In reality I think it would be to
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by slededit 8y ago
I’ve noticed this too. I’ve never clicked any of them yet they keep getting recommended. My other favorite example is Netflix and WWII docs/movies. Watch just one and forever onward they will be half your recommendations.
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by slededit 8y ago
Their recruiters used it to show how cool they were - so I don’t think so.
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by slededit 8y ago
The wikipedia pages on both fail to explain why there were never built. I assume it was difficulty of manufacture but in the case of the additron it seemed close enough to existing technology that it could have been mastered fairly quickly
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by slededit 8y ago
Its been a while since I've gotten into the theory here. But ultimately an object is a set of data and mutators upon that data. The Unix model does not link the two together - where for most hardware the two are inseparable. A sound
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I disagree with the premise that everything is bytes - Harvard architecture computers more cleanly separate nouns (the data) from verbs (the instructions). There is no fundamental requirement the two be mixed although it is done for conven
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by slededit 8y ago
I'm more with Dave Cutler and think Unix's win was a sad historical accident. It worked great in a world with teletypes but is a horrible model for our world of multimedia. Ioctls are a sad blemish on the face of computing and fo
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They are world renowned for their intrusive audits/shakedowns - and that's just with their database products. Java utilities are an order of magnitude more prevalent. That's why the main cost is still going to be license co
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by slededit 8y ago
I think we're going to see a massive migration over to C# and .NET. Even if the prices were reasonable ($15,000 per processor?!) the overhead of license compliance is way too high. The major apps will obviously not be re-written but a
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by slededit 8y ago
I remember sitting a bit up front in a theatre and thinking “I can see the pixels”. And worse it was slightly out of focuse (maybe intentionally to hide them). From that day on every time I see a 4K film in theatres the low resolution bugs
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by slededit 8y ago
They are willing to take the loss because they have fleet wide emissions targets. So they will sell just enough to allow them to sell the SUVs they actually want to make - but no more.
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by slededit 8y ago
> if you are 100s of billion, I am pretty certain you're not concerned with .0000001 dollars Be careful with that logic. Salami fraud takes advantage of low precision. You need to maintain enough precision to make it not worthwhile
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by slededit 8y ago
It does trip a lot of “turn off your ad blocker” nag screens.
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by slededit 8y ago
They should have went with Water Bears. It can survive even in space. Plus they sound cute (but look scary).
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by slededit 8y ago
With the advent of regulatory law the legal codes are no longer the full story. It’s quite possible they are decisions of a regulatory body which will not show up in statute.
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by slededit 8y ago
CockroachDB at least refers to their marketing line of "almost impossible to kill/take down" and the way it scales to many servers. There are few less gross insects they could have used though like Bees or Ants.
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If there was a national scandal in the UK I can almost guarantee the coke CEO would be out placating politicians. Lip service is important in politics as is keeping up appearances. We all knew that the UK didn’t have much real power over t
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These nations feel their sovereignty is threatened by Facebook. Him ignoring them isn’t exactly helping, nor is the fact that he did submit to Congress which does the same pointless lecturing. These nations are all losing face from being s
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And yet such a feature would more or less solve the problem for a large majority of users. What you describe as terrible seems like a pretty good feature to me. If a URL is visually indistinguishable from amazon.com yet differs at the byt
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ANSI C looks pretty different to K&R C, especially in the function declaration syntax. The only difference is Fortran had its facelift just a little later.
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We’re sort of in that world with the Mac mini. Except instead of overheating we just get laptop performance in a desktop. It still has a fan though.
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This happens in reverse too. Teachers assume high achieving students will continue to achieve and give them more slack. The trick to all my "writing" classes was to simply put the most effort in the first assignment. It was pret

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