This is true, and there are several studies confirming this, one based on a few million participants (IIRC, the entire population of Denmark). At the very least, all these studies confirm that consumption of saturated fats has no correlation with incidence of cardiovascular diseases.
Excellent post. In fact, the best in the whole thread, so far. Just one comment:
Let's hope the Universities, Colleges and Research Centers worldwide (who do profit from the free publicity from RG) will take a side and not prefer to stay neutral.
I have little hope this would happen, though it should.
This is a pretty expensive thin client. For a little bit more, I can buy a MacBook with 16 gigs of RAM, an i7, and 512 GB of SSD.
Enjoy your soldered-in SSD and RAM. I'm not interested in the Chromebooks, either, but for that money I will rather buy an easily expandable laptop. And it won't be a barn-burner, either, but once that SSD craps out, I will be able to replace it or upgrade it.
At this point, I think Arduino has become the most expandable, simplest, and most open HW platform for tinkering, out there. Compared to Raspberry Pi, it has more shields, it allows for better access to the hardware, there is NO need for proprietary drivers (this plagues Raspberry Pi), it has FAR more I/O pins - which is probably why there are so many more shields for it. Arduino allows for hard-realtime control, should you need it. Among other things, this is why there are various 3D printer, laser-cutter, and CNC machine control boards made based on Arduino. Finally, the C++ libraries for Arduino are very numerous and allow you to do all kinds of sexy tricks. For instance, simple graphics via CRT control (be it RGB or composite). Or my other favorite set of projects: MIDI controllers and hardware synths based on Arduino.
any mosquito species is the easiest species to replace - there are so many of them, and we could even eradicate all the blood-sucking mosquitoes and just leave those that don't.
In fact, a mosquito species can even be replaced by entirely different families (i.e. not from Culicidae):
Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better. When it comes to the major disease vectors, "it's difficult to see what the downside would be to removal, except for collateral damage", says insect ecologist Steven Juliano, of Illinois State University in Normal. A world without mosquitoes would be "more secure for us", says medical entomologist Carlos Brisola Marcondes from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. "The elimination of Anopheles would be very significant for mankind."
Ever since Microsoft bought Skype, the following two things keep happening: - every time you update Skype (or better say, are forced to update because otherwise you're not allowed to use Skype), you can't log into Skype with your existing password - you are forced to reset it. This is a fucking pain in the ass for no good reason, because you then have to update the password on every single device that has Skype installed, whether Skype was updated there or not. - you are forced to regularly use your Skype balance, otherwise it will be simply lost after a number of months (I don't remember how long, anymore). Last time I had some money on my Skype balance but decided on purpose to let it expire - and to NEVER get any Skype balance anymore, ever again in my life. I'm now using Viber, and I've moved most of my friends over to it. Sometimes I even use FB messenger video-calls. Anything to avoid Skype.
Fuck you Microsoft. You turdify everything you touch.
Well, OK. The reason I didn't list punch cards, is because they were used for data entry and not data storage. The fact that they are a set of disconnected objects points in that direction, too.
In terms of longevity, I classify storage this way, from short to long term: - SSD - 5.25" floppy disks (anachronistic, but existing) - hard drives - Taiyo Yuden CDs and DVDs - EPROMs - magnetic tape - masked ROMs - books
Our medical system has plenty of faults, but crazy conspiracy theories are not involved.
The whole Shkreli case proves that yes, there is a conspiracy going on in the US medical system, and it is fueled by lobbying from big pharma, bio-med, and insurance companies.
Seriously, what the actual fuck are you talking about? Have you ever worked with a Taiwanese company? I am guess not. I have worked with several over the year. And yes, even HTC. From both US (California) and Europe. They are extremely demanding and extremely "into the details".
Wow. Way to completely miss the point of GP. He/she was talking about the political correctness culture, which is indeed nonexistent in Taiwan. This wouldn't even be a topic of conversation if Google didn't foist themselves firmly into the PC domain in recent years.
you are just some ignorant fuck ball who never left their mom's basement and not a casually racist prick.
I see nothing that would suggest any of that in the GP post. Do you think that, if you spew enough vitriol, it becomes true? I've seen this kind of righteous indignation play out numerous times on social media, and not once was the recipient even remotely deserving of it.
As one who has spent some time in Taiwan, I can tell you that the culture there is AWESOME. And yeah, totally don'tgiveashit about PC stuff, but not in a bad way. Women or minorities aren't being harassed; it's just not a topic of any interest.
I loved it there, and am looking forward to going back. BTW, the food is superb.
I don't care much that the attention was shifted from drinks providing science is done.
But you should: it took decades to re-focus on the main dietary culprit for diabetes and obesity, which are refined sugars, instead of saturated fats. In fact, finally we have a critical mass of studies showing that saturated fats don't pose any cardiovascular health risk at all. And yet, the damage has been done: the constant focus on saturated fats, created by the generous funding of the soda industry, has foisted trans-fats (a confirmed cardio-vascular threat), fat-free milk and other unnecessarily skimmed products, on the consumer. And since the consumer has a very small attention span, we drank tons of sodas and created a generation of obese men and women, saddled with Type 2 diabetes.
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This is true, and there are several studies confirming this, one based on a few million participants (IIRC, the entire population of Denmark). At the very least, all these studies confirm that consumption of saturated fats has no correlation with incidence of cardiovascular diseases.
Efficient and plentiful public transport, plenty of bicycle lanes, little to no private cars.
As one who has tasted Kobe beef several times.... I think it's probably genuine. That stuff is sublime.
From the article:
Linux: As noted on Charged, a patch is a patch is already available and Debian builds can patch now, while OpenBSD was fixed back in July.
"Fuckin' nothing!"
You probably won't see this but anyway.... I have a couple of 12" Thinkpad X220 laptops. They have user-replaceable/expandable components.
To be fair, Google has been an excellent custodian of our data, thus far.
Well let's hope they find it all at once. Because if they keep only finding half of what's missing we could be here forever.
Wow, that was brilliant. I love your brain, whoever it is.
Excellent post. In fact, the best in the whole thread, so far. Just one comment:
Let's hope the Universities, Colleges and Research Centers worldwide (who do profit from the free publicity from RG) will take a side and not prefer to stay neutral.
I have little hope this would happen, though it should.
Basically every researcher I work with, and I, share all our articles on ResearchGate. There WILL be a backlash.
This is a pretty expensive thin client. For a little bit more, I can buy a MacBook with 16 gigs of RAM, an i7, and 512 GB of SSD.
Enjoy your soldered-in SSD and RAM. I'm not interested in the Chromebooks, either, but for that money I will rather buy an easily expandable laptop. And it won't be a barn-burner, either, but once that SSD craps out, I will be able to replace it or upgrade it.
At this point, I think Arduino has become the most expandable, simplest, and most open HW platform for tinkering, out there. Compared to Raspberry Pi, it has more shields, it allows for better access to the hardware, there is NO need for proprietary drivers (this plagues Raspberry Pi), it has FAR more I/O pins - which is probably why there are so many more shields for it.
Arduino allows for hard-realtime control, should you need it. Among other things, this is why there are various 3D printer, laser-cutter, and CNC machine control boards made based on Arduino.
Finally, the C++ libraries for Arduino are very numerous and allow you to do all kinds of sexy tricks. For instance, simple graphics via CRT control (be it RGB or composite). Or my other favorite set of projects: MIDI controllers and hardware synths based on Arduino.
Explain koalas.
Collapse the mosquito population and you cause a cascade effect in the local fauna.
No, you don't. Mosquito species are some of the easiest to replace without adverse consequences.
any mosquito species is the easiest species to replace - there are so many of them, and we could even eradicate all the blood-sucking mosquitoes and just leave those that don't.
In fact, a mosquito species can even be replaced by entirely different families (i.e. not from Culicidae):
Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better. When it comes to the major disease vectors, "it's difficult to see what the downside would be to removal, except for collateral damage", says insect ecologist Steven Juliano, of Illinois State University in Normal. A world without mosquitoes would be "more secure for us", says medical entomologist Carlos Brisola Marcondes from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. "The elimination of Anopheles would be very significant for mankind."
From: Ecology: A world without mosquitoes
Ever since Microsoft bought Skype, the following two things keep happening:
- every time you update Skype (or better say, are forced to update because otherwise you're not allowed to use Skype), you can't log into Skype with your existing password - you are forced to reset it. This is a fucking pain in the ass for no good reason, because you then have to update the password on every single device that has Skype installed, whether Skype was updated there or not.
- you are forced to regularly use your Skype balance, otherwise it will be simply lost after a number of months (I don't remember how long, anymore). Last time I had some money on my Skype balance but decided on purpose to let it expire - and to NEVER get any Skype balance anymore, ever again in my life.
I'm now using Viber, and I've moved most of my friends over to it. Sometimes I even use FB messenger video-calls. Anything to avoid Skype.
Fuck you Microsoft. You turdify everything you touch.
punch cards.
Well, OK. The reason I didn't list punch cards, is because they were used for data entry and not data storage. The fact that they are a set of disconnected objects points in that direction, too.
In terms of longevity, I classify storage this way, from short to long term:
- SSD
- 5.25" floppy disks (anachronistic, but existing)
- hard drives
- Taiyo Yuden CDs and DVDs
- EPROMs
- magnetic tape
- masked ROMs
- books
More than two days of static Slashdot. Can't we have a headline about that shit?
Our medical system has plenty of faults, but crazy conspiracy theories are not involved.
The whole Shkreli case proves that yes, there is a conspiracy going on in the US medical system, and it is fueled by lobbying from big pharma, bio-med, and insurance companies.
Seriously, what the actual fuck are you talking about?
Have you ever worked with a Taiwanese company? I am guess not. I have worked with several over the year. And yes, even HTC. From both US (California) and Europe.
They are extremely demanding and extremely "into the details".
Wow. Way to completely miss the point of GP. He/she was talking about the political correctness culture, which is indeed nonexistent in Taiwan. This wouldn't even be a topic of conversation if Google didn't foist themselves firmly into the PC domain in recent years.
you are just some ignorant fuck ball who never left their mom's basement and not a casually racist prick.
I see nothing that would suggest any of that in the GP post. Do you think that, if you spew enough vitriol, it becomes true? I've seen this kind of righteous indignation play out numerous times on social media, and not once was the recipient even remotely deserving of it.
As one who has spent some time in Taiwan, I can tell you that the culture there is AWESOME. And yeah, totally don'tgiveashit about PC stuff, but not in a bad way. Women or minorities aren't being harassed; it's just not a topic of any interest.
I loved it there, and am looking forward to going back. BTW, the food is superb.
The planet is indeed emitting infrared light. Not all light is visible.
4 attempts: get a timeout of 1 hour. After 7 failed attempts get a timeout of 1 day. After 9 failed attempts get a timeout of 1 year.
I don't care much that the attention was shifted from drinks providing science is done.
But you should: it took decades to re-focus on the main dietary culprit for diabetes and obesity, which are refined sugars, instead of saturated fats. In fact, finally we have a critical mass of studies showing that saturated fats don't pose any cardiovascular health risk at all. And yet, the damage has been done: the constant focus on saturated fats, created by the generous funding of the soda industry, has foisted trans-fats (a confirmed cardio-vascular threat), fat-free milk and other unnecessarily skimmed products, on the consumer. And since the consumer has a very small attention span, we drank tons of sodas and created a generation of obese men and women, saddled with Type 2 diabetes.