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by zenon 10y ago
Trans fat from partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is (mostly) Elaidic acid, which is probably harmful. Butter contains other trans fats, like Vaccenic acid. We don't know much about the long-term health effects of Vaccenic acid.
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by zenon 10y ago
Flippant, but: VR: Everything is in the computer AR: The computer is in everything
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by zenon 10y ago
It might have been Jasper Lawrence ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Lawrence ), who wrote about his experience on kuro5hin. I think this is the link: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4&#
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by zenon 10y ago
The non-experts did not ask to see things which would be hard for non-Satoshi to provide -- they were at the mercy of the charlatan (paging James Randi, James Randi to the courtesy phone please). I'm mystified as to how this got past
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by zenon 12y ago
The major use of bitcoins currently seems to be as a store of value: http://www.coindesk.com/analysis-around-70-bitcoins-dormant-...
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by zenon 12y ago
Didn't Mojang already do this? http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Superflat
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"I don't go to meetings, don't make reports, and don't write timesheets."(translate.google.com)
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by zenon 14y ago
My PT seconds your recommendation of rock climbing, particularly for upper back muscular pain. Climbing twice per week kept my back pain-free for years.
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by zenon 14y ago
I don't think it's crazy in principle. The average person eats 1-2 grams of naturally occurring plant pesticides every day. They've always been in our food, and our bodies are pretty good at dealing with them (if anything, we're getting l
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by zenon 14y ago
If it goes high enough, it will be worth mining trashed HDs for lost wallets.
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by zenon 14y ago
I tried to draw the elusive snowman: http://i.imgur.com/dr5VKTh.png Clearly it's not impressed by my drawing skills.
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by zenon 14y ago
It's metaphor. If your life span is indefinite, a journey lasting a few hundred years is nothing.
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by zenon 14y ago
Forever is a long time. Alpha Centauri feels far away because our lifetimes are so ridiculously short, and we're so unfathomably economically poor, compared to the age of and resources available in the universe. These limitations don't have
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by zenon 14y ago
Dr. Lindeberg and co. found the same thing (albeit using less sophisticated methods) in the study of the Kitava islanders more than 20 years ago. http://www.staffanlindeberg.com/TheKitavaStudy.html
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by zenon 14y ago
We have invented it, it's just that there are some political (and PR) obstacles to developing and using it: http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/ProjectOrion.html "Our motto was 'Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970'", recalls Dyson. Orion would h
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by zenon 14y ago
Oops, important difference there. 2 x 12,5% is pretty close to 25%, yes :-)
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by zenon 14y ago
Jaynes' ideas occasionally surface in science fiction. Two examples are Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams. The last one is an underappreciated gem IMHO.
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by zenon 14y ago
The novel Blindsight by Peter Watts is partially about what blindsight and other similar phenomena can tell us about conciousness. If you like the article, and speculative fiction in general, you'll probably like that novel (although the en
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by zenon 14y ago
According to the CIA World Factbook, Germany consumed 545 billion kWh of electrical energy in 2008. 67.9 billion kWh is only 12.5% of that. I suppose they import a lot of their electrical energy? Also, electrical energy consumption is only