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by zdean 10y ago
If the end justifies the means, then I think it's irrelevant whether the change causes demand to be met so long as more people get the organs they need. On the other hand, if you don't believe that the end justifies the means, the
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by zdean 10y ago
If we've moved from opt-in to opt-out, what do you think is the next logical step in that path if not mandatory donation? And if the argument is that we should move to opt-out because "greater good", then what's the argu
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by zdean 10y ago
I may be nit-picking here but I said that the impact of the 2 sources is different...because of fiber, etc. I didn't mean to imply that the sugars themselves were different.
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by zdean 10y ago
Naturally occurring sugars in fruits and vegetables have a completely different impact on your body than the processed sugars found in packaged foods (and directly through sugar, of course): http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/201
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by zdean 10y ago
The dose makes the poison with sugar as with anything else. That being said, I think most people encounter sugar at doses that are clearly poisonous to their bodies: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/
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by zdean 10y ago
"They represent a testament to hard work, even in later life, that few cultures manage to exemplify quite like the Chinese seem to do." Really? I can't think of a culture/society where people that need to work hard don&#
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by zdean 10y ago
The issue with non-regulated dietary supplements may well be caused by the current state of regulation (this is strictly my own opinion/observation). In the current state of things, we've grown accustomed to seeing warnings when t
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by zdean 10y ago
Defining "mind" or "consciousness" seems like a backwards effort. I would think that the natural progression would be that there is an observed concept which then needs a label (ie, I observe a bunch of tallish greenish
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by zdean 10y ago
If the SECOND SENTENCE of a comment is a factually false statement, I'll still honor the effort and respond with more accurate (even if imperfect) information ;)
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by zdean 10y ago
In regards to paying taxes and social welfare resources, they actually contribute quite a bit: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/02/... And in a perverse turn of events, they
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by zdean 10y ago
I think they're largely limited by the greater public's threshold for acceptable casualties of their own soldiers during war. What the AI'ing of war does is to remove that natural limit and raise the amount of death and des
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by zdean 10y ago
Steve Jobs had a very different idea of what changing the world meant and who was doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMQhOm-Dqo
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by zdean 10y ago
Copyright law was originally created as a mechanism of censoring speech and (later) for the benefit of guilds...and eventually became a tool of corporations (see Mickey Mouse). It has never really been a matter of benefiting/compensati
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by zdean 10y ago
I'm sure they still get a cut of the price from the restaurant. No delivery and no markup just means the restaurant keeps less of the revenue to themselves.
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by zdean 10y ago
Do we not have enough databases built already with enough data points to effect this?
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It probably requires a shift in what we think of as assessment. Montessori has some ideas: http://montessoriguide.org/assessment/ Seems to produce good results: http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/20
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by zdean 10y ago
Ken Robinson on collaboration in education: "In the work world, collaboration and team work are essential to success; in school, it's called cheating." More here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
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by zdean 10y ago
I'm very sorry about your father's diagnosis. A few years ago I came across this spoon invention which seemed to be very helpful to those that are dealing with the shaking symptoms: http://www.gyenno.com/spoon-en
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by zdean 10y ago
I'm not sure if it has differentiation, but lifestyle factors could have an impact. If, for example, in more developed countries there's a great emphasis on (especially) childhood cleanliness, it may be affecting the development o
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is stepping down(businessinsider.com)
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by zdean 10y ago
I don't think this is happening to journalism as much as journalism as an industry is doing it to themselves. I say this with the perspective of starting a local magazine in the early 2000s and running it for 10 years (and it's st
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by zdean 10y ago
"The dose makes the poison." I think at relatively low concentrations, you could set up a similar test.
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by zdean 10y ago
Even if the mutation was part of the original soup of bacteria, the process in the video still shows evolution. Either at time=0 or some point in the future, a strain of bacteria was more fit to survive and produce viable offspring than the
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by zdean 10y ago
It's a nod to the Material design framework that was used for the project.
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by zdean 10y ago
I'm not sure if that's a benefit to "mainstream users" as the original commentator specifies. I think most people that use the proprietary platforms never give much thought to who owns their data or even that there is an
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by zdean 10y ago
I used to buy large quantities of olive oil from an importer a few years back. He worked directly with the producers in Europe and N. Africa and told me about the fraud that happens in the industry. One interesting thing he told me was that
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by zdean 10y ago
From 2 years ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852772 I personally really dislike when online stories lack a date of publishing.
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by zdean 10y ago
"My husband is a software engineer, so he makes six figures, too" I think it's great that she paid it down, but on 225+k/year, it seems like the interesting story would be if she didn't pay it down.
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"She welcomes people to live there in a very healthy and free lifestyle as long as you dont step out of your bounds." I can't tell if you're being sarcastic with that statement... https://www.theguardian.com&#
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"Why shells evolved in turtles"

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