As it turns out multivitamins do nothing for people, as do specific vitamin supplements, which, as is turning out, can actually make your health worse as far as "hard outcomes" go.
Basically don't bother with vitamins unless a doctor diagnoses you with a specific vitamin deficiency.
'Why is it that people are willing to expose large quantities of information to private parties but don't want the Government to have the same information?,' he asked."
Because I don't care if Amazon thinks I might want to buy pee pee catheters because I also bought Wells' 1984. I do care if government tracks who I talk to politically.
And even at that, not so much me as any candidate I might like.
Perhaps men of genius are the only true men. In all the history of the race there have been only a few thousand real men. And the rest of us–what are we? Teachable animals. Without the help of the real man, we should have found out almost nothing at all. Almost all the ideas with which we are familiar could never have occurred to minds like ours. Plant the seeds there and they will grow; but our minds could never spontaneously have generated them.
Nobody listens to this. It's all about memes and their mental models of reality, AKA their "political narratives" that bounce around their "echo chambers".
Times are worse than ever because those in power tell you it's bad because that meme bundles you as a large group behind them, and the meme wins elections, thus "reproducing" and spreading.
Pay no attention to actual measures of murders, gun violence, health, wealth, number of TVs and game consoles per person.
Nah. It's the effluvia pouring out the mouths of your meme masters that matters.
Astounding. Someone defends the Second Amendment, and you assume they are a complete out-and-out racist, so ape all that in a cowardly post, because in your mind they are one and the same thing.
How's starving 30 million peasants who don't wanna move to the city to make things in factories going for you, comrade?
And the problem with pardoning anyone convicted of a crime that was later legalized is...?
"Our shameful forebears, through a combination of ignorance and memetic control mechanisms, had wrongly made this illegal."
Didja ever wonder what people 100 years from now will look back on our "modern, self-satisfied" worldview and laugh or shake their heads with embarrassment?
Regardless of the results of the study, when a person turns on the tap and when what use to be potable drinking water is now the source for a Flair, it begs the question, "What Changed?"
This happens without fracking in an area, too.
The real question is: Why do people want to assume it's fracking?
That was part of the joke with smaller toilets and limit discs in California. Home use was something like 11% (the vast majority is watering a desert so we elsewhere can have winter vegetables -- have we said thanks?), and toilets only a part of that.
So you save maybe 2% a year. But if demand goes up 1% a year, you've only put off the need for more water by 2 years. Meanwhile people live like shit.
Best to ignore 1970s era stupidities and just get on with developing more sources.
For example, let people remove limit discs and have big honking toilets if they get their water from some alternate source, like seawater.
Just another massive pipeline of everything you do the NSA can spy on without a warrant. Oh, in many cases, but not all, "they're supposed to", but if the tech doesn't force them to with incorruptible logging of activities and multiple alarms going off, well...you know...
Any politician would be a fool to use something like this.
No, it's politicians grandstanding buying things private industry has spent a trillion dollars developing. Without the latter, the former has trouble bringing you a loaf of bread.
Indeed. The lumpy waves as you approach a stop sign are actual waves, formed by the drag between tires and tar (or dirt) just like between wind and water.
That was really to stop two robots at either end fighting, forcing links to auto-generated pages to be instantiated, repeat ad infinitum. It wasn't really a censorship tool.
Bastards! Thank god the US limits forced thought crime reeducation camps to just the perpetrator (college campus thought crimes, businesses where people tell a dirty joke).
Oh sorry. We libertarians have been gaining credence the past few months and I hadda go and say that. Sorry! Sorry sorry
Of course, convincing people to pay Dr. Evil $100 billion during World War II, well, they'd have to use some damned sexy Rosie the Riveters on the Buy Dr. Evil Bonds posters.
It's reminiscent of de Gaulle's comment on Brazil. Brazil had all the size, population, and natural resources of the US, "and therefore," the conventional wisdom which ignores politics went, "they will become wealthy and powerful like the US in the future."
This, BTW, is why Heinlein had Brazil as the center of world power in Starship Troopers.
But the wise who knew politics knew otherwise, and de Gaulle said Brazil was "the nation of the future...and always will be."
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Your Bible tells you the truth -- By their fruit shall you know them.
As it turns out multivitamins do nothing for people, as do specific vitamin supplements, which, as is turning out, can actually make your health worse as far as "hard outcomes" go.
Basically don't bother with vitamins unless a doctor diagnoses you with a specific vitamin deficiency.
Because I don't care if Amazon thinks I might want to buy pee pee catheters because I also bought Wells' 1984. I do care if government tracks who I talk to politically.
And even at that, not so much me as any candidate I might like.
Does it really matter?
I would just like to point out laptop prices were collapsing during this period, as actual competition swamped this cheesy backroom stuff.
We know competition works -- it's the principle behind these anti-trust laws, right?
Nobody listens to this. It's all about memes and their mental models of reality, AKA their "political narratives" that bounce around their "echo chambers".
Times are worse than ever because those in power tell you it's bad because that meme bundles you as a large group behind them, and the meme wins elections, thus "reproducing" and spreading.
Pay no attention to actual measures of murders, gun violence, health, wealth, number of TVs and game consoles per person.
Nah. It's the effluvia pouring out the mouths of your meme masters that matters.
Astounding. Someone defends the Second Amendment, and you assume they are a complete out-and-out racist, so ape all that in a cowardly post, because in your mind they are one and the same thing.
How's starving 30 million peasants who don't wanna move to the city to make things in factories going for you, comrade?
That may be an exaggeration. I recall many cases where the wrong guy was arrested, violently, and beaten, and successfully sued.
"I'd like to report a bug. I upgraded my Microsoft Windows and now I see blue."
"Ah, the famed blue screen of death. Ok, read me what it says."
"Which one?"
"What?"
"Which blue screen? There are little blue screens all over the place, and little green ones, and some other colors too."
I thought only TSA agents did that.
Oh wait, n/m. I gotcha.
I was a little scared to click that link. This is the Intertubes, after all.
And the problem with pardoning anyone convicted of a crime that was later legalized is...?
"Our shameful forebears, through a combination of ignorance and memetic control mechanisms, had wrongly made this illegal."
Didja ever wonder what people 100 years from now will look back on our "modern, self-satisfied" worldview and laugh or shake their heads with embarrassment?
This happens without fracking in an area, too.
The real question is: Why do people want to assume it's fracking?
That was part of the joke with smaller toilets and limit discs in California. Home use was something like 11% (the vast majority is watering a desert so we elsewhere can have winter vegetables -- have we said thanks?), and toilets only a part of that.
So you save maybe 2% a year. But if demand goes up 1% a year, you've only put off the need for more water by 2 years. Meanwhile people live like shit.
Best to ignore 1970s era stupidities and just get on with developing more sources.
For example, let people remove limit discs and have big honking toilets if they get their water from some alternate source, like seawater.
This.
Just another massive pipeline of everything you do the NSA can spy on without a warrant. Oh, in many cases, but not all, "they're supposed to", but if the tech doesn't force them to with incorruptible logging of activities and multiple alarms going off, well...you know...
Any politician would be a fool to use something like this.
No, it's politicians grandstanding buying things private industry has spent a trillion dollars developing. Without the latter, the former has trouble bringing you a loaf of bread.
Indeed. The lumpy waves as you approach a stop sign are actual waves, formed by the drag between tires and tar (or dirt) just like between wind and water.
IRS: Just don't forget to pay your federal income taxes on that $100.
That was really to stop two robots at either end fighting, forcing links to auto-generated pages to be instantiated, repeat ad infinitum. It wasn't really a censorship tool.
Drunk drivers have been sending things to the clouds for a hundred years.
Wait. That's not funny. :-/
Next thing you're gonna tell me is Jesus didn't think up the Golden Rule, either! Your kind serves no good! >:-(
Bastards! Thank god the US limits forced thought crime reeducation camps to just the perpetrator (college campus thought crimes, businesses where people tell a dirty joke).
Oh sorry. We libertarians have been gaining credence the past few months and I hadda go and say that. Sorry! Sorry sorry
Of course, convincing people to pay Dr. Evil $100 billion during World War II, well, they'd have to use some damned sexy Rosie the Riveters on the Buy Dr. Evil Bonds posters.
They could have swung 100 billion in the '60s, or WWII for that matter. The US alone spent $249 billion on WWII -- in 1940s dollars.
Now colonial days, where the Louisiana Purchase was $79 million, forget it.
It's reminiscent of de Gaulle's comment on Brazil. Brazil had all the size, population, and natural resources of the US, "and therefore," the conventional wisdom which ignores politics went, "they will become wealthy and powerful like the US in the future."
This, BTW, is why Heinlein had Brazil as the center of world power in Starship Troopers.
But the wise who knew politics knew otherwise, and de Gaulle said Brazil was "the nation of the future...and always will be."