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by splat 11y ago
> If all the food producers decide to use the same cheapest ingredient, what help does labeling provide? But in what world is that true? In any grocery store you can get food that is organic or non-organic, GMO or non-GMO, with sugar or
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by splat 11y ago
Ne, bedaŭrinde mi ne tre familiaras kun la esperantliteraturo. Ĝi ŝajnas interese, tamen! Se vi volas pli facile legeblaj libroj, mi rekomendas Faktoj kaj Fantazioj de Marjorie Boulton. Ĝi ne estas tro malfacila, sed tre amuziga!
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by splat 11y ago
It's not often mentioned as a reason to learn Esperanto, but the literature of Esperanto is really quite wonderful and makes learning the language well worth it. I've only read a handful of books in Esperanto so far, but it has b
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by splat 11y ago
> The nexus with reality of that "100 mile" figure is that it represents the limit of the distance at which the USG can establish a permanent checkpoint --- at which CBP is allowed only to stop people who have actually crossed
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by splat 11y ago
I imagine buses would be much cheaper and more prevalent when you don't have to pay for a driver.
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by splat 11y ago
It is very much the prosecutor's call to make. Prosecutors aren't (at least in theory) supposed to charge the accused with as many crimes as possible. It is the job of the prosecutor to ensure that justice is served, whatever th
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by splat 11y ago
Website seems down, so here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vXdZ-Ls...
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by splat 11y ago
I would argue it's more a vestige from Protestantism. The Catholic Church has always been fine with alcohol. There's been a lot of theological debate among Catholics about marijuana recently and and least some have concluded tha
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Rand Paul's Internet Army(politico.com)
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by splat 12y ago
Small nitpick: the Trappists are not the only Western order that practices the "vow" of silence. There are a couple of other orders which are smaller than the Trappists: the Carthusians, the Hieronymites, and the Monks of Bethele
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by splat 12y ago
There is, in fact, quite a science of producing foods that have pleasing tastes. They call the optimum combination of flavors the "bliss point": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-e
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by splat 12y ago
My understanding was that the claim was that the 10,000 hours rule was a necessary but not a sufficient condition for mastery. So any world class golfer will have played for at least ~10,000 hours, but not every golfer who has played for a
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by splat 12y ago
When writing factorials you would want to write (9!)! since 9!! is actually a different operation (the double factorial). 9!! = 9 x 7 x 5 x 3 x 1, so 9!! is less than 9!.
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by splat 12y ago
I've started using a semi-random method. I pick a category, take a random page, and then pick whatever book I want from the twenty books on that page. I've enjoyed it so far. It gets me to read books that I may have put off for
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by splat 12y ago
Super cool! It would be awesome to see something like this for books and movies, too!
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by splat 12y ago
I don't know. I personally see it as being more like going to watch a pianist perform. Sure, I can play a piano piece and it will be good fun and a fulfilling experience. But a professional pianist who has devoted their life to the
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by splat 12y ago
As a side note, "Agua de Culo," one of the brands offered during the Penn & Teller experiment, translates as "Ass Water."
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by splat 12y ago
If you squint, some of those districts look like Julia sets. But I guess that if you were selecting districts that have low compactness you would necessarily be selecting for districts that look fractal-like.
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by splat 12y ago
True, but the expenditures of the Vatican are only ~$300 million [1]. The Vatican doesn't just spend money from other countries. (The only exception is Peter's Pence, which is an annual collection taken up in late June where Cat
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by splat 12y ago
Yes, that's correct. However, the difference in damage that that will do is still not clear. It's possible that skin tissue is more susceptible to damage than other kinds of tissue. (Or perhaps it's less susceptible.) Mor
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by splat 12y ago
There's still a difference between the kind of radiation exposure that occurs during a flight compared to during a screening. My understanding is that radiation exposure during a flight is due to cosmic rays which are equally likely t
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by splat 12y ago
The Esperanto translation the newspaper provides is fairly literal: "Ho! Vi kaprido!" "Kapro" is the Esperanto noun for "goat," and the "-id" suffix means "child." So it is translating &qu
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by splat 12y ago
Here in Ohio towing fees are regulated by state law. Some towing companies were trying to get around the maximum fees they could charge by tacking on an extra "administrative fee" just because. Fortunately a judge recently ruled
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by splat 12y ago
Just be careful about botulism! You can mitigate the risk by straining the oil or keeping it in the fridge.
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by splat 12y ago
Sorry I misinterpreted your question! Just a little background -- the reason symptoms-based works is because it's only possible to conceive for ~12-24 hours per cycle. The uterus can sustain sperm for a period of ~2-5 days, so if the
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by splat 12y ago
The perfect use failure rate for symptoms-based fertility awareness is (according to Wikipedia anyway) 0.6% per woman per year. (So, 1 woman in 167 per year.) The typical use failure rate is 1.8%, or 1 woman in 56.
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by splat 12y ago
Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive comparison of ~30 different birth control methods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_met... It lists both the perfect use failure rate and the typical use fai
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by splat 12y ago
There certainly have been similar approaches in Western Christianity. An explicit attempt at synthesizing Buddhist philosophy with Christianity was made by the Catholic monk Thomas Merton back in the 1960s. Moreover there has been a long
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by splat 12y ago
This looks really cool! As a classical music fan, the one feature that I've always wanted but have never found is the ability to link several tracks together. Often times classical CDs break up a single piece into multiple tracks, so
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by splat 12y ago
Bush actually campaigned on a "humble foreign policy" in the 2000 election. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_presidential_cam...

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