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by thras 17y ago
Traditionally, poor people who couldn't afford meat have been much worse off health-wise. And the biggest health decline in human history occurred when we switched from hunter-gathering lifestyles to farming (see Jared Diamond). Further, th
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by thras 17y ago
You'll be eating 2 grams of carbohydrate for every gram of protein that you get that way. Sure, getting your carbs from beans is not nearly as bad for you as getting them from sugar, but there are much higher quality, and more expensive, pr
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by thras 17y ago
Too many carbs, not enough protein and fat.
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by thras 17y ago
The above poster has a valid point. He thinks that rather than making millions of single-purpose plastic bags and then going through an expensive process to clean up after them, we should instead not produce the plastic bags in the first pl
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by thras 17y ago
The problem with overpopulation is that we generally need more kids from the sort of people that worry about overpopulation, and fewer kids from the sort of people who don't. Instead, we get the opposite. Graduate education is the world's m
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by thras 17y ago
Do you think for a second that Apple shipped an important part of their iPhone platform without a contract guaranteeing the service from the third-party provider? Google is almost certainly required to keep providing its map content to Appl
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by thras 17y ago
The real power of Focus: http://www.amazon.com/Deepness-Sky-Zones-Thought/dp/08125363...
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by thras 17y ago
I wouldn't worry. Whites are going down the crapper pretty fast too. Take a look at this chart: http://blog.american.com/?p=714 Marriage is for wealth-preservers and wealth-creators. That's not the direction that society is trending.
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by thras 17y ago
People who have to invest substantial effort into using one or the other care. The author's point seems to be "invest time in both, and use the one you like." Well, no shit, fucktard.
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by thras 17y ago
That's the best damage control they can come up with? I realize that Bezos probably thinks he slumming when he delivers a personal apology, but I'm less impressed with Bezos than Bezos is. I would have liked an explanation for what happen
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by thras 17y ago
Here's a 10x better question: Why did Southerners get so much fatter since 1970? This is new. And there are lots of reasons to think it's not an epidemic of pleny: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=2121...
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by thras 17y ago
Do you really consider it a train wreck? There seem to be some useful new features. The tragedy, in my opinion, is that we don't have more to show from a decade's work by so many brilliant people. C++ is straitjacketed by ISO standardizatio
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by thras 17y ago
I really like C++. I use python, I use ruby, but I don't enjoy either of them as much as C++. They feel "dumbed-down." And the speed has been nice many times. I feel that one of the things really holding C++ back is its development model. T
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by thras 17y ago
They just did another GPL release to integrate their Live tools with Moodle. I think that somebody decided to change policy.
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by thras 17y ago
Indeed. It did contain a non sequitur statement or two. I was stating opinion, not conducting a logical proof where every statement logically implies every other. Hence the lack of footnotes, etc. Were I trying to set forth evidence, my pos
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by thras 17y ago
Not these phones. Recall that you're also signing up for a two-year contract with AT&T. So about $2000 over two years.
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by thras 17y ago
Evolution is nasty. Racial equality requires genetic engineering. We'd all like to live in a world where mathematical ability wasn't limited by genetics, a world where every child had the potential to be the next Einstein. We don't. The onl
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by thras 17y ago
You use different nerves for different types of speech. It's possible that it's entirely physiological. Certain triggers cause a particular nerve spasm, and this disables his voice for a bit. Apparently, whatever the triggers are, don't inv
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by thras 17y ago
It's surprising what people are impressed by. A lot of people were impressed by Bush's speaking ability -- something that even as a conservative I never understood -- and a lot of people are impressed by Obama's. Personally, I get annoyed b
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by thras 17y ago
Cocaine and hookers.
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by thras 17y ago
Yes. Neural degeneration is my preferred explanation as well. Not the sort of thing people like to think about, though, so I doubt the theory will be too popular.
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by thras 17y ago
Evolution, baby. You try hunting a mammoth with a BFF instead of your pack.
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by thras 17y ago
"Develop something, anything, quickly, cheaply, and get it out to the right users. They will instantly give you feedback.... It's just that the process of depending upon blueprints before you get started never worked in the first place." Fu
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by thras 17y ago
The people who spent on credit were the bright ones. There is no way that we are going to get out of this without substantial debt moratoriums. Debt servicing is just too big a fraction of the economy. The debt moratoriums will be either ex
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by thras 17y ago
Our users didn't install Firefox in the first place. We did. And we have to update it. It's damn annoying.
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by thras 17y ago
If you're running as a user with administrative privileges, as I believe I already pointed out. Our users don't, since they run on multi-user boxes.
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by thras 17y ago
It's only a problem if your time is valuable and you are interested in running a reasonably secure box. My time is way too valuable to be used to read bugtraq and hunt down security patches for every piece of custom software I have installe
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by thras 17y ago
Because then you've just landed yourself in update hell. You'll need to take care of Firefox updates yourself instead of letting the distribution packaged update system take care of it. This is a real problem with running Firefox on corpora
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by thras 17y ago
So, your post can be summed up by: BSD people don't think that the GNU people should use the word "free." Uh, yeah.
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by thras 17y ago
http://twitter.com/a_williams/statuses/2619971319

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