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by zdean 13y ago
http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/when-a-crop-become...
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by zdean 13y ago
They're available in Texas...or at least were a couple of years ago.
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by zdean 13y ago
If you read some of Michael Pollan's books, one of the key observations that he makes about the food system is that people assume organic/natural/etc. foods are expensive when in fact most of the stuff you buy at the grocery
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by zdean 13y ago
And herein lies the beauty of the war on terror, drugs, internet piracy, etc. You (the gov'nt) don't have to define who the enemy are, what actually constitutes an act of combat, or how we know the war has come to an end. Read the
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by zdean 13y ago
You may be right that my understanding of the due process clause is confused. It's been over a decade since I went to law school and I'm getting up in the years, so it wouldn't be completely surprising. However, I think you m
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by zdean 13y ago
If I understand the law correctly, U.S. citizens cannot be assassinated by its own government without the benefit of due process.
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Quantum teleportation approaches the computer chip(sciencenews.org)
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The Physics Behind Schrödinger's Cat Paradox(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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Tesla Posts Surprise Profit(cnbc.com)
14 points by zdean 13y ago|6 comments
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by zdean 13y ago
Beware of 'local' oils, too. A few years back, I ran a food truck that served Belgian style fries. I tested a lot of oils and decided on olive oil, but everything I could buy at the store or farmers' markets were prohibitivel
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by zdean 13y ago
"I’m personally willing to commit over $1 million to fight this injustice..." The other 5 steps would seem pretty irrelevant as a defendant in the absence of the above resource.
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by zdean 13y ago
Of course this is quantifiable. In the simplest sense, there's no reason you couldn't allow patients to rate doctors/hospitals based on these factors. But in a broader sense, you have to assume that these factors in turn affe
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by zdean 13y ago
Actually, a 'fair price' would be reflective of all of these factors. If a hospital/health provider feels that it excels in these areas, then they could just as well publish these quantifiable measures along with their prices
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by zdean 13y ago
would it be fair to differentiate the two concepts as: 1. using "0" as a digit 2. using "0" as a number
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by zdean 13y ago
Ok, so girls are genetically predisposed to a 'princess phase'? If so, I'd love to see the data backing that claim up. If not, then what is it that causing them to go through that phase (maybe the toy/entertainment companies you site as res
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by zdean 13y ago
There is a HUGE valley that separates the embraced traits you're describing about the women who surround you and the princess myth that Disney pushes on little girls (and boys!). The director is not attacking women who want to bake, dress i
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by zdean 13y ago
"we all have obligations to society" How is it that you cringe when friends get your daughter princess gifts but feel your daughter has a social obligation to (at times) act like a princess whether she likes it or not?
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by zdean 13y ago
This is an interesting take on the correlation/causation between the impending expirations of the Mickey Mouse copyright and the subsequent extensions of the copyright duration over the past century: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/200908
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by zdean 14y ago
The author cites this quote: "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men
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Scale of the Universe(scaleofuniverse.com)
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by zdean 14y ago
"Extra frustrating because I know just how bad taking in these quantities of sugar is." Well, the same thing can be said about anything. Drink water in excess and it can and will kill you (the dose makes the poison). These pieces are frustr
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by zdean 14y ago
He is and it has nothing obvious to do with the map issues. Remember the antenna issue? That was on Steve's watch. So was Ping. So was iCloud.
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Slideshow of Mars Rover Curiosity Images (including first color image)(space.com)
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by zdean 14y ago
Yes, but the attack is a lot of times all that's needed. I've known a handful of small companies that were attacked in court for their names on completely unjustifiable trademark grounds. However the cost to defend against even the most fri
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by zdean 14y ago
Copyright is a political construct. Capitalism is an econonmic system. There's no inherent cause and effect between them.
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by zdean 15y ago
"I think parents did think that school hamburgers were of roughly the same quality that they'd get if they decided to make it at home." If the beef they were buying for their home burgers was from Walmart (or any one of the many retailers s
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by zdean 15y ago
Universities are not going to 'make' entrepreneurs. That trigger usually happens a lot earlier in life. Take for example, the "Montessori Mafia" that includes people like Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Jeff Bezos, Will Wright, Jimmy Wales, Jul
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by zdean 15y ago
I don't think that you should assume that they are sorry that they "misused your phone contacts". This, like a lot of companies' efforts, is emblematic of their efforts to find out what people's (ever-expanding) comfort zone is when it come
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Mapping human genome to cost $1000 and take 24hrs by end of 2012(ces.cnet.com)
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Raspberry Pi $25 PC on course for January arrival(news.cnet.com)
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