You're preaching to the choir. I had really high blood cholesterol, high triglycerides, non-alcoholic fatty liver, and was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. I was following the advice given (and still given until 2 months ago) to avoid foods high in dietary cholesterol and saturated fats. I went on like that for years and it didn't do shit, and I was told that diet can only adjust your cholesterol numbers by about 30%, and it's likely that I was genetically predisposed to have high cholesterol and needed statin drugs.
This was odd though because nobody else in my family had any of these problems, including the more overweight members. Also this situation couldn't last because apparently my liver was being distressed by the lovastatin (my liver enzymes went up so they took me off of it temporarily.)
So I went and did my own research and found that not only was the connection to dietary cholesterol very weak at best, but the research method that recommendation was based on was flawed. I then found some further information that explained the exact metabolic process with which simple sugars get converted into solid fats (for fatty liver), triglycerides, and cholesterol. After that I simply dropped simple sugars from my diet completely, (except for the occasional fruit in a day or candy bar in a week) which mostly just meant no more soda and no more juice. Lo and behold, ALL of those symptoms went away, and furthermore I'm no longer on statins either.
I still drink diet soda though, and it doesn't cause any issues. I haven't found any credible research that shows anything bad about aspartame, which is just a combination of two amino acids (aspartic acid, phenylalinine) and methanol, all of which are found in higher quantities in "natural" foods than are found in diet sodas (fruit juice has something like 11 times as much methanol and 6 times as much aspartic acid as a diet soda, while milk has some 6 times as much phenylalinine.)
Even if it was for VR, I suspect it would be very easy to get away with literally streaming your game from scratch with only a 50mbit downstream link. They could always adopt the approach Blizzard uses to allow WoW to be played long before you finish downloading all of the game assets, and with a 50mbit link, it would be totally seamless.
Yeah, fruits are high in sugar, but that doesn't mean I want even more sugar / corn syrup to make up for the bad flavor that corn syrup drink makers have to mitigate.
Fruits aren't necessarily high in sugar, but juicing typically keeps the sugar while removing a lot of other materials, making fruit juice have a higher concentration than fruit. The same applies to vegetables by the way, which is why "juicing" or "juice diets" are a pretty dumb idea if the whole point is to be healthier.
Pure orange juice has about 8.5% of sugar and about 2% of other carbohydrates. That could be called 'very high'
Not only that, but it's pretty close to what most sodas are, and most juices are have similar numbers as well. It also doesn't take much juice (14 oz, even if it's "natural" or "organic" fruit juice to meet food religion requirements) to exceed the FDA recommendation for simple sugars per day, which is likely too high at this point.
Overconsumption of simple sugars are likely *THE* reason why a lot of people have high cholesterol and fatty liver, and in a 2,000 calorie diet you should probably be consuming less than 20g but ideally zero (there's no nutritional or other physiological need for it.) Cutting out dietary cholesterol and saturated fat from your diet is and always has been the wrong advice for treating these.
It seems unlikely that an entire third of their catalogue is of interest to no-one. Not that some of it isn't shit - I get that. But people watch shit (citation? Kardashians).
I'm looking forward to giant walls and all Muslims wearing yellow crescents with stars so they can be easily identified "for our safety". And those free hoodies they're going to give out. Too bad they're only available in white. Oh, and those lovely pine scented crosses you can burn in your neighborhood to freshen the air. Those'll be nice too.
I think this is what GGP means when he says the other side is scaremongering. I'm not a fan of Trump, (I think mercantilism is a stupid idea) but when I see whiny bleeding hearts like yourself, I think the ultimate insult to you would be to just vote for him. No, it won't be the end of the world if he wins, but it would go a long ways towards ending safe spaces for pussies.
I personally don't think Trump will be a good president. In my opinion, diplomacy is what makes or breaks a president, which is why I think Reagan was a good president, even though I disagree with a lot of things he did, such as the war on drugs. ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!") Other than diplomacy, every president doesn't seem to change much from the previous. That said, Trump will probably do poorly here.
However I'm tempted to vote for him anyways just because of how much of an ass anti-Trump protesters are:
Also, my brother casually mentioned in his office that Trump and Bernie supporters were arguing a lot, and somehow or another one of his coworkers interpreted him as being a Trump supporter, sent him a bunch of emails about how he's a racist, and reported him to HR. No joke.
Maybe it's time for organizations to learn that networks need to be segmented within the organization
If they're HIPPA compliant, they already do this.
not put everything on centralized servers.
That's neither necessary nor practical. What should be done instead is file versioning with timed snapshots, which basically every major storage vendor provides. Or if you want free software, ZFS does it as well. Not only is it a good way to prevent malware, but it provides a good audit trail as well.
I would have to say getting banned from marketing events for being too investigative rather than just promoting the marketing line is a good thing rather than a bad thing.
They got banned from CES (which is what I meant to say, not E3) for turning off all of the digital signage they came across. That isn't being investigative, it's just being obnoxious.
The rules are a changing, whether you like it or not and fakers will be exposed no matter how rich or powerful.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I have a feeling that you're one of those who make up stories about the Bilderberg group. No thanks.
When I say show, I mean a live performance, i.e. music, dancing, theater, etc. About 70% of the people in the audience or at the bar are themselves artists. (That, and about 70% of them are gay.)
Seriously haven't we established already that not only is gawker a disgrace of a website, but its satellite ones as well? Both kotaku and gizmodo themselves have been caught showing poor journalistic integrity and ethics. In fact gizmodo was even banned from E3.
I especially disagree with his opinion about art. I could see a practical art, maybe, but most of the art scene in big cities sucks. I have had a lot of exposure to it because my sister is really into it (and is one of said artists.) I have attended the shows and other stuff she hosts, and am around lots of other artists that come to these things, and one thing I've observed is that basically nobody comes to these artsy events/shows unless they themselves are an artist, and even then they're mostly just there to support their fellow artists. While the later is applaudable I guess, I can't help but observe that this business model just doesn't work very well, and explains why most of them are poor.
Before I say what comes next, I need to draw an analogy. Presently most lawyers are grossly underemployed, and there's a simple reason for this: There's an economic need for about 7,000 new lawyers per year, yet our universities are pumping out 40,000 new lawyers per year.
Under the same vein, and while I don't have any numbers to show, I suspect that universities are also pushing out too many new arts (and liberal arts) graduates per year. That is, we have more professional artists than there's an actual demand for. Another thing I've observed is that if you aren't very obviously talented early on in life, then a college probably isn't going to change that. Thus I think adding "arts" in the same vein as STEM careers is probably not a good idea.
As for his prediction of the future, let's wait and see what exactly AI can code before we start asking a lot of new college graduates (presumably with their big student loans) to become the founders of new tech startups and go even further into debt.
From what I understand, the blue OLED ages at a faster rate than the rest of the display, which means that it will appear to turn yellow over time. If you have a static image on the display, then it will age unevenly.
LCD panels don't age in a way that makes the colors change, so they don't get burn in (the closest thing they get to burn in is image persistence, which is only temporary.)
The utility companies can't negotiate content deals (something to give them leverage against i.e. Viacom) nor throttle your service (leverage against consumers) nor anything analogous. Utility rates are only negotiated with local governments who are only concerned with their specific jurisdiction, and no other jurisdictions come into play at any time in that process. Likewise, how big or small the company is doesn't have much of an impact on anything.
And one's hope is that yet another Java bloatware will fix that?
What's got me scratching my head is that we've got a file format commonly used as a vector for malware running on top of a runtime also commonly used as a vector for malware.
Seriously? This non-answer gets Score: 2? It does not matter if what ArmoredDragon said is true or not. I'm outta here.
The question wasn't soliciting an answer so much as it was pointing out that Nintendo's latest console is a total flop. I offered an insight as to why Nintendo as a whole has been nothing but a flop for the past 20 years (Wii being an exception, but even then, its success was limited.)
or he made actual scientific observations worthy of a PHD and figured out...wow we're gonna be screwed - and so started getting involved in activities to influence society.
Just because he's a PhD doesn't mean his work is scientifically valid without peer review.
So by your logic if somebody holds degrees they can't be an activist?
I think the point is that because he's an activist, his conclusions (about topics that he's an activist in) are probably biased.
We see this in other fields as well. For example, anti-GMO activists who hold degrees often release papers showing that GMO causes different diseases, only nobody else is ever able to reproduce their results every time they do. (In fact, one said activist is currently being investigated for ethics violations because he was found to be deliberately fudging his data to make it fit his narrative.)
That said, I think it's wise to take everything James Hansen says with a pinch of salt until it has passed peer review.
I don't think even nintendo knows. Hell, they haven't the slightest idea what their customer is anymore; they actually said "customers do not want online games" even after it had already taken off a decade earlier.
What the US needs is a 20-30 hour work week, mandatory voting (ala Jury Duty), parliaments and the end of Electoral Colleges and in general we need to drag everybody into managing their long term well being. This is the sorta thing the Investor Class does with their time, and we need everybody to do it.
You're asking the wrong question; it's now who funds them, but how they're funded. How they're funded is civil rights groups either sue them into submission or launch a negative PR campaign to do the same. The NAACP has mastered this technique:
As a non-profit, the group’s donations aren’t disclosed, but the sponsors of its yearly NAACP Image Awards, a star-studded event celebrating “the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts” are public. In the past five years, sponsors of the Image Awards have included companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wal-Mart and FedEx, all of whom have been sued for discrimination – in some cases by the NAACP itself.
The Justice Department’s civil rights division secured a nearly $200 million settlement with Wells Fargo in in 2012 over accusations the bank steered minorities into subprime loans – a lawsuit filed by the city of Baltimore alleged that loan officers referred to subprime loans as “ghetto loans” and black borrowers as “mud people.” The NAACP dropped its lawsuit against Wells Fargo – an NAACP contributor at the time the lawsuit was filed – in 2011, after the bank agreed to help establish the NAACP Financial Freedom Center, whose mission is to “educate and empower consumers and provide tools for effective advocacy.”
The Justice Department also secured the largest settlement in the division’s history with Bank of America, $335 million, over similar accusations that its Countrywide unit discriminated against minority borrowers.
Wells Fargo began sponsoring the Image Awards in 2010, and Bank of America has sponsored the Image Awards since 2008. Both banks, the NAACP announced, agreed to the organization’s “responsible lending principles.”
FedEx, which has sponsored the Image Awards since 2008, agreed in 2012 to pay a $3 million dollar settlement over accusations that they discriminated against job applicants on the basis of race and gender.
The NAACP also backed Betty Dukes, whose class action sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart went all the way to the Supreme Court, where in 2011 the conservative majority severely restricted the ability of workers to sue for discrimination as a class. Wal-Mart was a sponsor of last year’s Image Awards, and has supported the NAACP’s work on helping the formerly incarcerated reenter society.
The 1% are _always_ looking for ways to stop paying you.
It occurs to me that this is more of a push by forced equality groups than anybody else. On a side note, one of the original purposes behind the first unions in the US was to keep Asians out of the workforce, up to and including through the use of violence.
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You're preaching to the choir. I had really high blood cholesterol, high triglycerides, non-alcoholic fatty liver, and was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. I was following the advice given (and still given until 2 months ago) to avoid foods high in dietary cholesterol and saturated fats. I went on like that for years and it didn't do shit, and I was told that diet can only adjust your cholesterol numbers by about 30%, and it's likely that I was genetically predisposed to have high cholesterol and needed statin drugs.
This was odd though because nobody else in my family had any of these problems, including the more overweight members. Also this situation couldn't last because apparently my liver was being distressed by the lovastatin (my liver enzymes went up so they took me off of it temporarily.)
So I went and did my own research and found that not only was the connection to dietary cholesterol very weak at best, but the research method that recommendation was based on was flawed. I then found some further information that explained the exact metabolic process with which simple sugars get converted into solid fats (for fatty liver), triglycerides, and cholesterol. After that I simply dropped simple sugars from my diet completely, (except for the occasional fruit in a day or candy bar in a week) which mostly just meant no more soda and no more juice. Lo and behold, ALL of those symptoms went away, and furthermore I'm no longer on statins either.
I still drink diet soda though, and it doesn't cause any issues. I haven't found any credible research that shows anything bad about aspartame, which is just a combination of two amino acids (aspartic acid, phenylalinine) and methanol, all of which are found in higher quantities in "natural" foods than are found in diet sodas (fruit juice has something like 11 times as much methanol and 6 times as much aspartic acid as a diet soda, while milk has some 6 times as much phenylalinine.)
Even if it was for VR, I suspect it would be very easy to get away with literally streaming your game from scratch with only a 50mbit downstream link. They could always adopt the approach Blizzard uses to allow WoW to be played long before you finish downloading all of the game assets, and with a 50mbit link, it would be totally seamless.
Yeah, fruits are high in sugar, but that doesn't mean I want even more sugar / corn syrup to make up for the bad flavor that corn syrup drink makers have to mitigate.
Fruits aren't necessarily high in sugar, but juicing typically keeps the sugar while removing a lot of other materials, making fruit juice have a higher concentration than fruit. The same applies to vegetables by the way, which is why "juicing" or "juice diets" are a pretty dumb idea if the whole point is to be healthier.
Pure orange juice has about 8.5% of sugar and about 2% of other carbohydrates. That could be called 'very high'
Not only that, but it's pretty close to what most sodas are, and most juices are have similar numbers as well. It also doesn't take much juice (14 oz, even if it's "natural" or "organic" fruit juice to meet food religion requirements) to exceed the FDA recommendation for simple sugars per day, which is likely too high at this point.
Overconsumption of simple sugars are likely *THE* reason why a lot of people have high cholesterol and fatty liver, and in a 2,000 calorie diet you should probably be consuming less than 20g but ideally zero (there's no nutritional or other physiological need for it.) Cutting out dietary cholesterol and saturated fat from your diet is and always has been the wrong advice for treating these.
It seems unlikely that an entire third of their catalogue is of interest to no-one. Not that some of it isn't shit - I get that. But people watch shit (citation? Kardashians).
You mean how many Courics it is equivalent to?
I've had this happen with my ipad 2, and it has always gone away after playing videos or something.
I'm looking forward to giant walls and all Muslims wearing yellow crescents with stars so they can be easily identified "for our safety". And those free hoodies they're going to give out. Too bad they're only available in white. Oh, and those lovely pine scented crosses you can burn in your neighborhood to freshen the air. Those'll be nice too.
I think this is what GGP means when he says the other side is scaremongering. I'm not a fan of Trump, (I think mercantilism is a stupid idea) but when I see whiny bleeding hearts like yourself, I think the ultimate insult to you would be to just vote for him. No, it won't be the end of the world if he wins, but it would go a long ways towards ending safe spaces for pussies.
https://youtu.be/eCfU44cnbCc?t...
I personally don't think Trump will be a good president. In my opinion, diplomacy is what makes or breaks a president, which is why I think Reagan was a good president, even though I disagree with a lot of things he did, such as the war on drugs. ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!") Other than diplomacy, every president doesn't seem to change much from the previous. That said, Trump will probably do poorly here.
However I'm tempted to vote for him anyways just because of how much of an ass anti-Trump protesters are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, my brother casually mentioned in his office that Trump and Bernie supporters were arguing a lot, and somehow or another one of his coworkers interpreted him as being a Trump supporter, sent him a bunch of emails about how he's a racist, and reported him to HR. No joke.
Maybe it's time for organizations to learn that networks need to be segmented within the organization
If they're HIPPA compliant, they already do this.
not put everything on centralized servers.
That's neither necessary nor practical. What should be done instead is file versioning with timed snapshots, which basically every major storage vendor provides. Or if you want free software, ZFS does it as well. Not only is it a good way to prevent malware, but it provides a good audit trail as well.
I would have to say getting banned from marketing events for being too investigative rather than just promoting the marketing line is a good thing rather than a bad thing.
They got banned from CES (which is what I meant to say, not E3) for turning off all of the digital signage they came across. That isn't being investigative, it's just being obnoxious.
The rules are a changing, whether you like it or not and fakers will be exposed no matter how rich or powerful.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I have a feeling that you're one of those who make up stories about the Bilderberg group. No thanks.
When I say show, I mean a live performance, i.e. music, dancing, theater, etc. About 70% of the people in the audience or at the bar are themselves artists. (That, and about 70% of them are gay.)
Seriously haven't we established already that not only is gawker a disgrace of a website, but its satellite ones as well? Both kotaku and gizmodo themselves have been caught showing poor journalistic integrity and ethics. In fact gizmodo was even banned from E3.
I especially disagree with his opinion about art. I could see a practical art, maybe, but most of the art scene in big cities sucks. I have had a lot of exposure to it because my sister is really into it (and is one of said artists.) I have attended the shows and other stuff she hosts, and am around lots of other artists that come to these things, and one thing I've observed is that basically nobody comes to these artsy events/shows unless they themselves are an artist, and even then they're mostly just there to support their fellow artists. While the later is applaudable I guess, I can't help but observe that this business model just doesn't work very well, and explains why most of them are poor.
Before I say what comes next, I need to draw an analogy. Presently most lawyers are grossly underemployed, and there's a simple reason for this: There's an economic need for about 7,000 new lawyers per year, yet our universities are pumping out 40,000 new lawyers per year.
Under the same vein, and while I don't have any numbers to show, I suspect that universities are also pushing out too many new arts (and liberal arts) graduates per year. That is, we have more professional artists than there's an actual demand for. Another thing I've observed is that if you aren't very obviously talented early on in life, then a college probably isn't going to change that. Thus I think adding "arts" in the same vein as STEM careers is probably not a good idea.
As for his prediction of the future, let's wait and see what exactly AI can code before we start asking a lot of new college graduates (presumably with their big student loans) to become the founders of new tech startups and go even further into debt.
From what I understand, the blue OLED ages at a faster rate than the rest of the display, which means that it will appear to turn yellow over time. If you have a static image on the display, then it will age unevenly.
LCD panels don't age in a way that makes the colors change, so they don't get burn in (the closest thing they get to burn in is image persistence, which is only temporary.)
The utility companies can't negotiate content deals (something to give them leverage against i.e. Viacom) nor throttle your service (leverage against consumers) nor anything analogous. Utility rates are only negotiated with local governments who are only concerned with their specific jurisdiction, and no other jurisdictions come into play at any time in that process. Likewise, how big or small the company is doesn't have much of an impact on anything.
And one's hope is that yet another Java bloatware will fix that?
What's got me scratching my head is that we've got a file format commonly used as a vector for malware running on top of a runtime also commonly used as a vector for malware.
Now THIS (parent) is a useful post. The perk on the other hand seems pretty crazy.
You also said "I'm outa here" a post ago, and yet, you're still here.
Seriously? This non-answer gets Score: 2? It does not matter if what ArmoredDragon said is true or not. I'm outta here.
The question wasn't soliciting an answer so much as it was pointing out that Nintendo's latest console is a total flop. I offered an insight as to why Nintendo as a whole has been nothing but a flop for the past 20 years (Wii being an exception, but even then, its success was limited.)
or he made actual scientific observations worthy of a PHD and figured out...wow we're gonna be screwed - and so started getting involved in activities to influence society.
Just because he's a PhD doesn't mean his work is scientifically valid without peer review.
So by your logic if somebody holds degrees they can't be an activist?
I think the point is that because he's an activist, his conclusions (about topics that he's an activist in) are probably biased.
We see this in other fields as well. For example, anti-GMO activists who hold degrees often release papers showing that GMO causes different diseases, only nobody else is ever able to reproduce their results every time they do. (In fact, one said activist is currently being investigated for ethics violations because he was found to be deliberately fudging his data to make it fit his narrative.)
That said, I think it's wise to take everything James Hansen says with a pinch of salt until it has passed peer review.
I don't think even nintendo knows. Hell, they haven't the slightest idea what their customer is anymore; they actually said "customers do not want online games" even after it had already taken off a decade earlier.
What the US needs is a 20-30 hour work week, mandatory voting (ala Jury Duty), parliaments and the end of Electoral Colleges and in general we need to drag everybody into managing their long term well being. This is the sorta thing the Investor Class does with their time, and we need everybody to do it.
That sounds like a dystopia to me.
In a lot of cases they're pro bono, but they don't necessarily need lawyers to get funding.
You're asking the wrong question; it's now who funds them, but how they're funded. How they're funded is civil rights groups either sue them into submission or launch a negative PR campaign to do the same. The NAACP has mastered this technique:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/naa...
As a non-profit, the group’s donations aren’t disclosed, but the sponsors of its yearly NAACP Image Awards, a star-studded event celebrating “the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts” are public. In the past five years, sponsors of the Image Awards have included companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wal-Mart and FedEx, all of whom have been sued for discrimination – in some cases by the NAACP itself.
The Justice Department’s civil rights division secured a nearly $200 million settlement with Wells Fargo in in 2012 over accusations the bank steered minorities into subprime loans – a lawsuit filed by the city of Baltimore alleged that loan officers referred to subprime loans as “ghetto loans” and black borrowers as “mud people.” The NAACP dropped its lawsuit against Wells Fargo – an NAACP contributor at the time the lawsuit was filed – in 2011, after the bank agreed to help establish the NAACP Financial Freedom Center, whose mission is to “educate and empower consumers and provide tools for effective advocacy.”
The Justice Department also secured the largest settlement in the division’s history with Bank of America, $335 million, over similar accusations that its Countrywide unit discriminated against minority borrowers.
Wells Fargo began sponsoring the Image Awards in 2010, and Bank of America has sponsored the Image Awards since 2008. Both banks, the NAACP announced, agreed to the organization’s “responsible lending principles.”
FedEx, which has sponsored the Image Awards since 2008, agreed in 2012 to pay a $3 million dollar settlement over accusations that they discriminated against job applicants on the basis of race and gender.
The NAACP also backed Betty Dukes, whose class action sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart went all the way to the Supreme Court, where in 2011 the conservative majority severely restricted the ability of workers to sue for discrimination as a class. Wal-Mart was a sponsor of last year’s Image Awards, and has supported the NAACP’s work on helping the formerly incarcerated reenter society.
The 1% are _always_ looking for ways to stop paying you.
It occurs to me that this is more of a push by forced equality groups than anybody else. On a side note, one of the original purposes behind the first unions in the US was to keep Asians out of the workforce, up to and including through the use of violence.