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by umberway 10y ago
Butter is good for you provided you don't fry with it. If overheated it supplies more than the usual amount of inflammatory compounds. Instead, fry with ghee (clarified butter) or tallow.
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by umberway 10y ago
Repetition of a true message to a variety of audiences may be valuable because one gains a better understanding of the common misconceptions and opposing arguments. Which leads to subtly improved arguments and rhetoric. Also there's al
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by umberway 10y ago
Having heard this idea many times I remain unpersuaded so far (!) because I haven't heard an explanation for it. Anyone know one?
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by umberway 10y ago
The principle battle with printers as I see it is getting them to accept a third party print cartridge.
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by umberway 10y ago
The idea is to give companies an incentive to make tough stuff by increasing their revenue for such products. But let's do both!
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by umberway 10y ago
'7. Pity the readers' follows from the curse of knowledge , namely that's it's hard to imagine what it's like not to know what you know. This applies in novels as much as in technical writing. For example, descript
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by umberway 10y ago
I agree. Yet scientific and/or moral discussions of depression and other mental disorders are becoming increasingly taboo.
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by umberway 10y ago
It's about shared negative emotional experiences, of which their are more when one is young e.g. school, leaving home. It follows that if you wish to befriend adults you need to share a rock climbing accident, get stuck together in a
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by umberway 10y ago
Increase sales tax on status/luxury items. Decrease sales tax on long-life products.
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by umberway 10y ago
Yes, more than that: if robot cars could be made incapable of hitting pedestrians, then children might start to roam again. It would be a marvellous unintended consequence...
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This is the common sense view. But I think it's mistaken, which is what makes the article surprising and interesting. People can learn and adapt to alcohol consumption and use it to get more work done, especially unpleasant work, jus
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by umberway 10y ago
Prediction: in the distant future people who want to join an organisation will be evaluated by how interested they are in the work.
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by umberway 10y ago
Jan 2016 interactive map of worldwide border walls and fences: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/01/daily-c...
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by umberway 10y ago
And now CRISPR technologies are being developed I trust that in addition to eliminating Huntington's disease, Tay-Sachs, Fragile X, and what have you, we will fix the GULO gene so that our bodies can recommence Vitamin C production.
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I agree. The best that can be said is something about communication of information between different parts of the brain. But my reason is more fundamental: we don't understand what consciousness is yet. Hence we can't know what qu
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Yes, it has to be a familiar route so that you are relaxed and undistracted by navigation, e.g. Darwin's Sandwalk: https://goo.gl/y61qvc
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by umberway 10y ago
It's complicated. If I gave an obese person a bag of sugar or a kilo of lard she probably wouldn't enjoy these things. On the other hand some folk can eat luxury foods regularly without ill effect. It depends on personality and in
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by umberway 10y ago
The 'facts' that I referred to are the results of correlation studies as published in science journals. The diets you mention are mainstream fads. You're right, though, it is frustrating! My personal opinion is that it is t
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by umberway 10y ago
Nutrition, medicine, psychology are beset by empiricism : trying to find facts without having theories to support them. Journalists then make hay with the results, hinting at conclusions and advice for the public, using the authority of Sc
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by umberway 10y ago
The ability to do anything well co-evolves with finding good reasons to do it. In the case of writing it would be having things you strongly desire to write about.
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by umberway 10y ago
I'm more humble than they are!
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by umberway 10y ago
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6894316-never-trust-an-exper...
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by umberway 10y ago
Yes I'm sure this sort of thing will happen however I imagine the overall social consequences would be beneficial. Children are highly confined at present and the ability to roam and talk to different people, walk to school, etc, has b
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by umberway 10y ago
If and when all cars are computer-controlled another consequence may be that children will be free to roam about. This assumes that those same cars are built to be incapable of hitting pedestrians. Is this possible?
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by umberway 10y ago
Yes, the ability to direct one's creativity is valuable and a hallmark of freedom. But the direction, if it is to be fruitful, is determined by what one finds genuinely interesting. This is in turn an impersonal property of those new i
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by umberway 10y ago
>Queen's head is stamped on the back of our coins Exactly. She's a symbol :-)
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by umberway 10y ago
It seems to me (as an outsider) that people in the U.S.A. now more than ever judge the President for what he symbolises. Perhaps this explains the power of constitutional monarchy (not advocating one system over the other; just an observati
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By 'hard' problem I mean that it has depth, not that it's unpleasant. A stream of easy problems could work but it's less reliable because when there's a dry spell then outcome (1) will be scratching at the door. &
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This is a tricky topic because a free and creative person is mostly acting spontaneously so he cannot predict where his attention is going next. Go figure.
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by umberway 10y ago
It seems to me that basic income could make me either (1) fall victim to depression, addiction, or some other mental disorder, or (2) find a hard problem to work on which keeps me occupied and satisfied for a lifetime.

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