The existing mess will clean up itself. Plastic gets constantly degraded to smaller pieces, ultimately down to molecular level. The key is to prevent new waste from entering the system, and the best place to start is with the biggest rivers of garbage.
Why do people find it acceptable that valuable packages are just left on the doorstep ? Where I live, the delivery guys ring the door bell, hands over the package, and takes my name and signature as proof of delivery.
What happens if the package gets stolen ? Does UPS pay you back ?
Trying to get the body to burn more calories is the wrong way to solve the obesity problem. People need to figure out ways to ingest less calories, not burn more. Eating less saves money and time you would otherwise need for food and eating. Also, increasing metabolism most likely has bad side effects on longer term, such as higher rates of cancer due to increased oxidative stress.
Of course, it's hard to make a profit on people eating less.
Effect of glucose-lowering therapies on heart failure
This study seemed interesting, so I downloaded the paper from sci-hub to check it, but disappointingly it only talks about using drugs to lower glucose, rather than the obvious therapy of removing glucose and starches from the diet.
We are not omnivores, neither our teeth nor our digestive system is ready for meat.
Our teeth are just fine for chewing meat. They aren't very good at biting through thick hide, or for killing animals, but that's because we've used spears and knives. Our teeth aren't very good for eating fruit (makes them rot), or eating hard plant matter (wears them down too quickly).
Our digestive system is also just fine for meat. Compared to other apes we have a longer small intestine. We also have bigger kidneys to help process excess protein.
Oh, of course if we cook it, then we can eat meat
Yes, and our teeth have adapted to that habit. If you eat vegetables, you need to cook them too (in order to make starches easier to digest and to neutralize a variety of toxins), otherwise it's pretty much impossible to get enough calories in the wild.
I've tried some of these non-meat burgers and they are excellent.
Yes, but are they nutritious and healthy ? It's a highly processed food aimed at delivering maximum addictive flavor made from the cheapest ingredients.
By its own operation it's going to smooth everything out when it's trying to make an amalgamation of all its source material.
Deep Learning is good at representing complex patterns, such as which designs can or cannot be used together, so that's most likely not going to be a problem. A standard technique is to use adversarial networks to provide feedback on the quality by comparing the generated material to original sources. Anything that stands out, such as excessive smoothing, will be used to correct the generating network.
No it doesn't. There is only a small correlation between meat consumption and cancer. The problem is that people that eat more meat also smoke more cigarettes, are more overweight, get less exercise, have more diabetes, lower income, worse job, and a worse overall diet. The cancer can be easily caused by any number of other factors. We've been telling people for decades that meat is bad, and this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as all the health conscious people reduce their meat intake.
Also, none of the studies have shown a credible mechanism that would explain *how* meat causes cancer.
Both are based on extremely sloppy science. I challenge you to come with a single good causal study that shows a direct link from meat to either cancer or heart disease.
They are horribly inefficient
Not when you take into account they produce excellent nutrition, in good ratios, in good bioavailable forms, and the fact that you can let cattle graze on land that's unsuitable for growing crops.
it means that they can target a certain demographic with a fair accuracy
I can say that, without exception, I only get ads for things I have never,ever, shown the slightest interest in, or ads for things that I've already bought.
No, actually I didn't know that. I spent a few minutes trying to find one, noticed it didn't work, and then gave up. If you can point me to a working ad block (for Android) I'll give it another shot.
I've already stopped watching 99% of youtube on mobile because of the ads. Only when I'm really particularly interested in watching that video right now, I'll play the ad. Otherwise, I wait until I can get my laptop with adblock.
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They should employ their skimmer in the mouth of the most polluting river, rather than in the ocean. They would catch 10 truckloads on the first day.
The existing mess will clean up itself. Plastic gets constantly degraded to smaller pieces, ultimately down to molecular level. The key is to prevent new waste from entering the system, and the best place to start is with the biggest rivers of garbage.
And then they get delivered and stolen ?
Why do people find it acceptable that valuable packages are just left on the doorstep ? Where I live, the delivery guys ring the door bell, hands over the package, and takes my name and signature as proof of delivery.
What happens if the package gets stolen ? Does UPS pay you back ?
I can live without Vitaminwater for a year.
Space tourism would necessarily mean that your thirty minute (or however long) visit had you being weightless
It's a 2.5 hour flight, but the free fall portion is only 5 minutes.
"it's okay when my house is flooded, because 1 billion years ago it was an ocean"
When they cut down their calorie intake it goes into starvation mode.
Source with actual measurements ?
Trying to get the body to burn more calories is the wrong way to solve the obesity problem. People need to figure out ways to ingest less calories, not burn more. Eating less saves money and time you would otherwise need for food and eating. Also, increasing metabolism most likely has bad side effects on longer term, such as higher rates of cancer due to increased oxidative stress.
Of course, it's hard to make a profit on people eating less.
So how would you recommend that new knowledge is shared with the public so that you would actually believe it ?
Effect of glucose-lowering therapies on heart failure
This study seemed interesting, so I downloaded the paper from sci-hub to check it, but disappointingly it only talks about using drugs to lower glucose, rather than the obvious therapy of removing glucose and starches from the diet.
at least not until we figure out how to de-orbit a bunch of this stuff whose creators didn't make any EoL plans for it.
Maybe you could think about some solutions, and write a letter to NASA ?
We are not omnivores, neither our teeth nor our digestive system is ready for meat.
Our teeth are just fine for chewing meat. They aren't very good at biting through thick hide, or for killing animals, but that's because we've used spears and knives. Our teeth aren't very good for eating fruit (makes them rot), or eating hard plant matter (wears them down too quickly).
Our digestive system is also just fine for meat. Compared to other apes we have a longer small intestine. We also have bigger kidneys to help process excess protein.
Oh, of course if we cook it, then we can eat meat
Yes, and our teeth have adapted to that habit. If you eat vegetables, you need to cook them too (in order to make starches easier to digest and to neutralize a variety of toxins), otherwise it's pretty much impossible to get enough calories in the wild.
I've tried some of these non-meat burgers and they are excellent.
Yes, but are they nutritious and healthy ? It's a highly processed food aimed at delivering maximum addictive flavor made from the cheapest ingredients.
By its own operation it's going to smooth everything out when it's trying to make an amalgamation of all its source material.
Deep Learning is good at representing complex patterns, such as which designs can or cannot be used together, so that's most likely not going to be a problem. A standard technique is to use adversarial networks to provide feedback on the quality by comparing the generated material to original sources. Anything that stands out, such as excessive smoothing, will be used to correct the generating network.
What's the point of a short text article about graphics without adding any pictures/video clip as demonstration ?
Maybe just a kind of diffuse lighting, possibly greenhouses ?
beef increases the risk of bowel cancer anyway.
No it doesn't. There is only a small correlation between meat consumption and cancer. The problem is that people that eat more meat also smoke more cigarettes, are more overweight, get less exercise, have more diabetes, lower income, worse job, and a worse overall diet. The cancer can be easily caused by any number of other factors. We've been telling people for decades that meat is bad, and this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as all the health conscious people reduce their meat intake.
Also, none of the studies have shown a credible mechanism that would explain *how* meat causes cancer.
Crops use a lot more CO2 than trees.
Pretty much all the CO2 that is taken up by crops is released again when you (or animals) eat them.
meat causes cancer, the fat causes heart disease
Both are based on extremely sloppy science. I challenge you to come with a single good causal study that shows a direct link from meat to either cancer or heart disease.
They are horribly inefficient
Not when you take into account they produce excellent nutrition, in good ratios, in good bioavailable forms, and the fact that you can let cattle graze on land that's unsuitable for growing crops.
Much more methane comes from spills and leaks in the oil & gas industry, though.
bottle of aerosol gets cold when its contents are released and decompressed
and the phase change
it means that they can target a certain demographic with a fair accuracy
I can say that, without exception, I only get ads for things I have never,ever, shown the slightest interest in, or ads for things that I've already bought.
No, actually I didn't know that. I spent a few minutes trying to find one, noticed it didn't work, and then gave up. If you can point me to a working ad block (for Android) I'll give it another shot.
I've already stopped watching 99% of youtube on mobile because of the ads. Only when I'm really particularly interested in watching that video right now, I'll play the ad. Otherwise, I wait until I can get my laptop with adblock.