I do not know how much more the world must suffer before the power that be wakes up to the fact that the patent system is hopelessly broken.
In most countries, the political parties able to govern serves the interests of the wealthiers. Patents as a tool to defend against challenger is good for the them. Nothing can change without more power to the people, which is really not an easy problem to solve. The Referendum d'Initiative Populaire is a solution, but there are not many countries where this exists
The title is wrong, this was not about becoming vegetarian, it was about been less dependent on fishes for omega-3 intake
The brain needs an omega-3 fatty acid called DHA. We can get it by eating fishes, or create it by transforming alpha-linonenic acid we get from vegetables (good sources are flax, wallnuts, colza). The mutation they talk about is about transforming alpha-linonenic acid into DHA.
This does not make use vegetarian, as there are still many nutriments we are unable to get from vegetables. The point is that it let us have working brains without relying on eating fishes
An interesting point is that the enzymes that process omega-3 also process omega-6, and the mutation therefore also increased our ability to process omega-6. This was not a problem until we started eating animals fed with too much omega-6. The animal flavor of omega-6 is called arachidonic acid. Excess of that one lead to cardiovascular problems and it promotes cancers because of excessive inflamation.
Absolutely. Provided of course you replace 100kcal of soda with 100kcal or less of nuts. Your example suggests replacing a half-cup of soda with a quarter-pound of nuts. While the volumes are (roughly) similar one of those is mostly water and will slake your thirst while quickly making you hungry*, while the other is almost pure fat and protein and will take the edge of hunger (fat is good at that) but do nothing to slake your thirst. Holding them up as alternatives is disingenuous.
Ok, that was a weak example. Consider 250 kcal cookie vs 600 kcal nuts and you get a better example
the secret to pure weight loss is simply not eating more calories than you need for the day
You would probably benefit from improving your model. For instance 100 mL of soda gives you about 50 kcal. 100g of nuts gives you around 600 kcal. Are you sure it is better for your diet to lower calories intake by replacing nuts by soda?
In linked article, the reporter first starts by a rant about the difficulty of obtaining a visa to Brazil, suggesting he has some natural right to go wherever he wants, then:
To my surprise, however, nobody in Rio (perhaps all of Brazil?) speaks any English. Of all the places I’ve travelled in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, Rio was the most difficult to communicate with locals, by far (they’re in South America, right? Shouldn’t they speak American??).
There are no search warrants in France. The police (and especially the Gendarmerie) is allowed to enter any building, any house, any property, within certain conditions (for example, they're not allowed to wake you up before 6AM)
They still need a Commission rogatoire delivered by a judge, which is almost they same thing as a warrant. The exception is the flagrant délit, when a policeman just witnessed a crime. But I bet that it is the same in other country: if you kill someone in front of a policeman and then hide in your house, in what country the police needs a paper to arrest you?
I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody’s technologies
Then what why would we need patents, except for preventing newcomers to enter the market? Again, this is something that hinder innovation. Once you realize patent prevent innovation in a given field, why not stand against them
You'll never work again because once employers get a whiff of you valuing 'fun' over working hard for the company and making them money, you'll never get hired once the 'fun' job goes away because they thought 'fun' was important at all. Any effort to make the job 'fun' increases overhead, and therefore increases costs.
Companies always pay you less than the value you produce, this is how it works. All you can hope is that your pay let you have a decent living, and to have a rather pleasant time at work. Nobody will ever make a good financial bargain when being employed.
I have been on a high protein diet since 18 as I noticed though experimentation and copious note taking that I was vastly more productive on a high-protein diet.
Note that there could be non proteine-related reasons to that: a high protein diet means you eat less carbohydrates, and there are many reasons why too much carbohydrates can destroy your productivity. You also mention exercise, and exercise is well known to be good for your health
We already knew about some forms of autism where a genetic disposition causes the lack of dipeptyl-peptidase IV, the enzyme responsible for breaking proline bonds during digestion. Proline needs a very special enzyme because the amine is tertiary, while it is secondary on other amino acids.
Gluten and casein contain sequences with a lot of proline, and this class of autists never digest them completely. They are left with short proline-rich peptides known as gliadomorphine and caseomorphine. As the name suggests, theses peptides are able to bind morphine receptors in the brain. And for this class of autism, symptoms disapear with a diet without casein and gluten.
And now we have autists with another genetic disposition related to protein digestion, this time with valine, leucine and isoleucine not being digested, and missing in the brain because they are essential amino acids. I wonder if we are going to discover more autism forms as being protein digestion issues
Homeopathy is likely to benefit the patient through placebo effect, and it does not carry adverse effect like many real drugs. Why should we discard a treatment that sometimes works without any drawback?
Nuclear disintegration is the weak interaction at work.
The weak interaction involves neutrinos.
The sun emits a lot of neutrinos.
Of course, it is not that simple, and physicists still have to churn out a theory. But the idea that the sun can influence nuclear disintegration does not looks odd to me
You only have to explain this to the user if they are your customer or employer, in which case you should have explained to them upfront that they could have a consistent UI with a good budget and some time, or an inconsistent GUI cheap and quick
Moving software from a toolkit to another and maintaining that fork costs a lot of budget and a lot of time...
Complaining because someone else already did a tremendous amount of work for you and gave you the software you want to use, but neglected to make it visually consistent with your preferred theme, is absurd.
If it was just a theme problem, that would not be a great concern. The problem is that we have apps that behave differently, and IPC features that are not consistent.
I am a bit surprised nobody noted the presence of multiple toolkit with different API as a problem.
One can have on its desktop a mix of programs using raw Xlib, GnuSTEP, OpenMotif, QT or GTK. Then you have to explain the user why it is possible to drag and drop between program A and B, which both use GTK, but not between A and C, because C uses another toolkit. Not a very nice user experience.
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I do not know how much more the world must suffer before the power that be wakes up to the fact that the patent system is hopelessly broken.
In most countries, the political parties able to govern serves the interests of the wealthiers. Patents as a tool to defend against challenger is good for the them. Nothing can change without more power to the people, which is really not an easy problem to solve. The Referendum d'Initiative Populaire is a solution, but there are not many countries where this exists
The title is wrong, this was not about becoming vegetarian, it was about been less dependent on fishes for omega-3 intake
The brain needs an omega-3 fatty acid called DHA. We can get it by eating fishes, or create it by transforming alpha-linonenic acid we get from vegetables (good sources are flax, wallnuts, colza). The mutation they talk about is about transforming alpha-linonenic acid into DHA.
This does not make use vegetarian, as there are still many nutriments we are unable to get from vegetables. The point is that it let us have working brains without relying on eating fishes
An interesting point is that the enzymes that process omega-3 also process omega-6, and the mutation therefore also increased our ability to process omega-6. This was not a problem until we started eating animals fed with too much omega-6. The animal flavor of omega-6 is called arachidonic acid. Excess of that one lead to cardiovascular problems and it promotes cancers because of excessive inflamation.
I would have hated to get heart surgery from one of their doctors.
But if there were no specialized worker in the field of making you eat junk food, perhaps you would not need heart surgery
There are many illegal activities that move a lot of money. This is not a reason why we would not want to fight them.
Absolutely. Provided of course you replace 100kcal of soda with 100kcal or less of nuts. Your example suggests replacing a half-cup of soda with a quarter-pound of nuts. While the volumes are (roughly) similar one of those is mostly water and will slake your thirst while quickly making you hungry*, while the other is almost pure fat and protein and will take the edge of hunger (fat is good at that) but do nothing to slake your thirst. Holding them up as alternatives is disingenuous.
Ok, that was a weak example. Consider 250 kcal cookie vs 600 kcal nuts and you get a better example
the secret to pure weight loss is simply not eating more calories than you need for the day
You would probably benefit from improving your model. For instance 100 mL of soda gives you about 50 kcal. 100g of nuts gives you around 600 kcal. Are you sure it is better for your diet to lower calories intake by replacing nuts by soda?
MS suggests to use EMET (a tool that enfonrces ASLR and DEP), but Brian Krebs reports that this does not really plug the hole
In linked article, the reporter first starts by a rant about the difficulty of obtaining a visa to Brazil, suggesting he has some natural right to go wherever he wants, then:
To my surprise, however, nobody in Rio (perhaps all of Brazil?) speaks any English. Of all the places I’ve travelled in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, Rio was the most difficult to communicate with locals, by far (they’re in South America, right? Shouldn’t they speak American??).
This guy is joking, right?
So why isn't this research a hot field in Europe?
Because the hot field can be another research. France is a top player at nuclear energy, for instance.
You assume there are two people in the house, and that both found a full time job. Big assumptions in crisis time.
A lot less dumbass than elsewhere: 150 euros is a slap on the wrist.
Tell that to someone that earns about 1000 euros a month...
There are no search warrants in France. The police (and especially the Gendarmerie) is allowed to enter any building, any house, any property, within certain conditions (for example, they're not allowed to wake you up before 6AM)
They still need a Commission rogatoire delivered by a judge, which is almost they same thing as a warrant. The exception is the flagrant délit, when a policeman just witnessed a crime. But I bet that it is the same in other country: if you kill someone in front of a policeman and then hide in your house, in what country the police needs a paper to arrest you?
Woz says:
I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody’s technologies
Then what why would we need patents, except for preventing newcomers to enter the market? Again, this is something that hinder innovation. Once you realize patent prevent innovation in a given field, why not stand against them
You'll never work again because once employers get a whiff of you valuing 'fun' over working hard for the company and making them money, you'll never get hired once the 'fun' job goes away because they thought 'fun' was important at all. Any effort to make the job 'fun' increases overhead, and therefore increases costs.
Companies always pay you less than the value you produce, this is how it works. All you can hope is that your pay let you have a decent living, and to have a rather pleasant time at work. Nobody will ever make a good financial bargain when being employed.
As Confucius said "Find a job you like, and you will never work again"
I modded you redundant by mistake (choose the wrong item in the menu). I am talking here just to discard my moderation.
Now for big business:
You fogot rule 0
Rule 0: consider you have already been compromised
Is what I have just read implying a connection between all these (previously seemingly disparate) symptoms? Anyone?
You can try a few days without weat, barley, rye, and dairy products, and you may or may not discover a link.
Interesting. I'll do some googling, but do you have any bibliographic info?
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Sure, here is a starter: Biochemical aspects in autism spectrum disorders: updating the opioid-excess theory and presenting new opportunities for biomedical intervention
I have been on a high protein diet since 18 as I noticed though experimentation and copious note taking that I was vastly more productive on a high-protein diet.
Note that there could be non proteine-related reasons to that: a high protein diet means you eat less carbohydrates, and there are many reasons why too much carbohydrates can destroy your productivity. You also mention exercise, and exercise is well known to be good for your health
Given the reliability of DNA tests, I can bet they are going to find a lot of people matching the murderer.
We already knew about some forms of autism where a genetic disposition causes the lack of dipeptyl-peptidase IV, the enzyme responsible for breaking proline bonds during digestion. Proline needs a very special enzyme because the amine is tertiary, while it is secondary on other amino acids.
Gluten and casein contain sequences with a lot of proline, and this class of autists never digest them completely. They are left with short proline-rich peptides known as gliadomorphine and caseomorphine. As the name suggests, theses peptides are able to bind morphine receptors in the brain. And for this class of autism, symptoms disapear with a diet without casein and gluten.
And now we have autists with another genetic disposition related to protein digestion, this time with valine, leucine and isoleucine not being digested, and missing in the brain because they are essential amino acids. I wonder if we are going to discover more autism forms as being protein digestion issues
Homeopathy is likely to benefit the patient through placebo effect, and it does not carry adverse effect like many real drugs. Why should we discard a treatment that sometimes works without any drawback?
Nuclear disintegration is the weak interaction at work.
The weak interaction involves neutrinos.
The sun emits a lot of neutrinos.
Of course, it is not that simple, and physicists still have to churn out a theory. But the idea that the sun can influence nuclear disintegration does not looks odd to me
You only have to explain this to the user if they are your customer or employer, in which case you should have explained to them upfront that they could have a consistent UI with a good budget and some time, or an inconsistent GUI cheap and quick
Moving software from a toolkit to another and maintaining that fork costs a lot of budget and a lot of time...
Complaining because someone else already did a tremendous amount of work for you and gave you the software you want to use, but neglected to make it visually consistent with your preferred theme, is absurd.
If it was just a theme problem, that would not be a great concern. The problem is that we have apps that behave differently, and IPC features that are not consistent.
I am a bit surprised nobody noted the presence of multiple toolkit with different API as a problem.
One can have on its desktop a mix of programs using raw Xlib, GnuSTEP, OpenMotif, QT or GTK. Then you have to explain the user why it is possible to drag and drop between program A and B, which both use GTK, but not between A and C, because C uses another toolkit. Not a very nice user experience.