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by theorique 10y ago
Could a private citizen following a dietary protocol actually be sued for infringement of a patent? Seems absurd, not to mention highly unenforceable.
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by theorique 10y ago
Trump's campaign is run by a white supremacist (CITATION NEEEDED)
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by theorique 10y ago
Curious: which specific high-fat / low-carb plan did you follow? I'm planning on starting such a lifestyle change and wonder which ones work well.
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by theorique 10y ago
There have been several documentaries about this issue in the past few years: - Sugar Coated (2015) - That Sugar Film (2014) - Fed Up (2014) Some of the authorities who are found in these movies are: Robert Lustig - Professor and pediatric
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by theorique 10y ago
Maybe there's an assumption that this means commercially prepared fried foods, which may use soybean oils that aren't cleaned/changed regularly? Makes sense. I'm not sure if you were implying this, but both ends[1] of
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by theorique 10y ago
I like the optimization, I don't like the fact that then the next rider will start calling the driver asking where he is/why he's going this direction/why he's taking so long etc. That's barely different from
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by theorique 10y ago
News sites in particular are big offenders. I don't need a new app for every two-bit small town newspaper. I have a couple of major ones (WSJ, FT), but if you think I'm going to install the app for your minor newspaper because Goo
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by theorique 10y ago
Wow - I stand corrected.
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by theorique 10y ago
So if one of your closest loved ones were threatened by a violent criminal (in a home invasion, for example), you would actually allow yourself and/or your loved one to die rather than commit an act of violence that eliminated the thre
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by theorique 10y ago
You are also told to fight back if they go from threatening your wallet to threatening your physical well-being. Many places will actually send out the authorities to search for and imprison muggers after you report them. You are definitel
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by theorique 10y ago
In American schools violence is often institutionalized. Teacher beat children, children get used to violence. Has this been permitted within the last 50 years? It definitely happened in the 1960s and earlier, but corporal punishment has
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by theorique 10y ago
I'm sure that a price increase in land results in a "rising tide" effect for all homes, but because someone is willing to spend 64M on a mansion, does it mean condo's should be worth more too? It has a cascade effect -
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by theorique 10y ago
"We're into changing the world - we don't care about petty things like money " (CEO who owns 25% of the company)
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by theorique 10y ago
Rephrased another way, relatively few voters actually (1) register and (2) vote in the party primaries. These registered voters apparently represent the "most politically involved" 10% of the overall population. (It's also so
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by theorique 10y ago
I wonder what people's thoughts are about a "crying wolf" type of phenomena developing? What if people just started shrugging their shoulders, and saying if I support Trump and that's fascist, then I'm a fascist, o
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by theorique 10y ago
Boston is building like crazy. So the inventory problem is getting solved, to some extent. Part of the challenge is that almost all of the new inventory is at the upper end of the market: studio apartments at $3000, and going up from there.
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by theorique 10y ago
In my experience, after my Bluetooth devices are paired, they seem to be rock solid. (I know - YMMV, "works on my machine", etc.) Where things have gotten the messiest for me is when you connect multiple devices and the system has
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by theorique 10y ago
Generally the term "affordable housing" refers to living spaces (apartments or houses) that can be rented or purchased by people or families who earn less than a specific benchmark.
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by theorique 10y ago
The "trouble" group is the result of splitting them out. You don't end up with a whole room of problematic kids and a couple of misidentified gifted kids when they are mixed. It depends on the specific kind of "trouble
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by theorique 10y ago
low risk profession It can be, for teachers in comfortable suburban schools where the students are generally well behaved. For teachers in dangerous, urban schools with severe disciplinary and even criminal issues (gangs, violence, drugs,
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by theorique 10y ago
They can , but experience suggests that it's a high-risk situation: risk of one or both people misunderstanding or poorly communicating their intentions, risk of one party "trying something" and crossing the line with the ot
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by theorique 10y ago
(which many attribute to the Jewish work ethic) Ashkenazi Jews also have an average +1SD IQ advantage that has contributed to success of Jews in cognitively demanding fields. See, e.g., Harpending's work http://web.mit.edu
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by theorique 10y ago
Competition with bike messengers in the case of same-day wet-signature document delivery. Very big demand among legal and financial firms within major cities.
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by theorique 10y ago
The old British comedy "The Wrong Box" tells a story about a tontine and its consequences.
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by theorique 10y ago
The Swedish power metal band Sabaton told the story of this incident in their song "No Bullets Fly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02g4-XT_VU
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by theorique 10y ago
How can you assess a student who doesn't participate in assessment? It's not a moral judgment of the kid, but an observation that he didn't do the work that was going to be graded. Or should the teacher award a subjective gra
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by theorique 10y ago
This is creating an arbitrary line where the writer is saying (gestures here) "THIS is okay', but (gestures there) "THIS is not okay". But since comedy is all about surprise, misdirection, and transgression, all that the
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by theorique 11y ago
Whatever decision the conference leadership made, it would offend someone. Apparently, making women and minorities decide whether Yarvin would be permitted to present was too much for some, since it put the onus on those "oppressed&quo
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by theorique 11y ago
"maybe I'm missing part of the equation" You're not. The main issue is that Moldbug writes in depth about controversial things, without including enough Leftist bromides like "Hitler was the worst" or "s
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by theorique 11y ago
Good job LambdaConf. Disregarding irrelevant political views and focusing on the technical content is what every conference should do. It's too bad that this is less common than it should be.

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