Modern decaffeination is done with super-critical CO2. It's effective and doesn't alter the quality of the food. That's the point of using it; it doesn't ruin the flavor or texture of the beans/leaves. Contrast this with, say, orange juice, where they have to add in "flavor packs" after processing.
Man, I know what you mean. Once I got the bacon-ranch Dorito dust off my fingers, I finished my red bull and sent a letter of complaint to the management.
I assume you're talking specifically about nitrites/nitrates. As far as I've read, you're correct. Botulism is a more serious risk than the risk of nitrate induced cancer. Nitrates are the only effective way to stop preserved meat from outright killing people sometimes.
The real problem is there's some worthless bastards out there when it comes to keeping consumers from knowing how processed a particular food is. "These beef stikxz have no nitrates! Except those in celery powder. Everyone knows celery is healthy. Therefore our beef stikxz are healthy."
Spoilage alert: Celery powder contains MANY MANY nitrates. The correct solution is, unfortunately, "Don't eat any processed meat. Ever. Even though it's absolutely delicious. If they say it doesn't have nitrates, they're trying to trick you."
I'm sorry if I'm using the nitrite/nitrate terms wrong, although I doubt the difference is significant.
I liked that the article talked about the term "ultra-processed" and the pros and cons of using it. On the one hand, it's fairly well established that many forms of processing are harmful, and having degrees of processing as a broad category might be useful. By using an umbrella term like that, you can avoid many of the problems with bullshit statistical studies: "Green M&M's are 95% likely to cause cancer."
On the other hand...this is basically a "common knowledge" study which serves no purpose and tells me nothing at all. Gee, "Hungry Man Salisbury Steak" dinners are bad for me? Shocking. I'm fucking stunned by your scientific revelation. Which parts of the processing are most harmful? Should I skip that damned brownie that never cooks properly? Are ensure or soylent "ultra processed?" Oh, you don't know? Thanks for nothing.
Is the patent relevant to modern computing? No. Could this prevent the trolling of retro engineering and homebrew projects? Yes. So let's all enjoy the thought of a parasite lawyer starving to death in a back alley, his last meal being the spunk of a truck driver named Leeroy and the only money in his pocket coming from Leeroy's copy of Monopoly.
A fair point that the wage varies quite a bit throughout the US. As for the wage needing to make up the difference in tips, I think my claim remains pretty plausible. I'd guesstimate that any given waiter would need to serve $30 worth of food per hour to make up the wage difference...which is unlikely to ever be a problem in the kinds of restaurants that people would want delivery from.
It bridged the 32 and 64 bit eras. Hardware companies used that as an excuse to discontinue product support en mass, and MS got the blame. Every compliant I ever heard about it boiled down to software and peripheral vendors successfully selling the idea that an inevitable transition was Vista's fault. You want to talk about a deliberately shit os, talk about 8.
If a lender doesn't take into account borrower credit history or the amount being borrowed, it seems kind of foolish to imply they are making a valid assessment based on risk exposure. If a group of lenders make this choice at the same time, well, government interference is the more reasonable explanation.
I recently made a purchase from a place that offered a bitcoin discount. I said "Ah hah, I'll be clever." and bought some on coinbase with my credit card to make the purchase.
Holy hell did I ever get shafted up the ass with fees. Ten bucks for buying a "cash equivalent", two bucks for "foreign transaction", five bucks to buy the bitcoin on coinbase, and another five bucks to send the coin with coinbase. The discount was big enough to eat most the fees, but I still lost out. Lesson learned I guess.
This is interesting, but what they really need is some kind of system to keep track of inventory levels. This would prevent situations where I buy something and then they tell me they don't have any on the day it was supposed to arrive. Hopefully they will soon catch up with my advanced thinking.
They dominate the venue choices of mixed-age groups. "So Mom, where do you want to eat?" If loyal they are the last people to abandon a struggling restaurant. They get angry about inflation. They're most likely to post complaints. Senior discounts are often simply a matter of offering a senior serving size. They eat like birds due to sense-loss, medication, and depression, so many places offer smaller and cheaper portions for them. Some owners genuinely venerate the elderly.
I switched to Vivaldi when 57 was released and I quite love it. Feels like the best of Opera and Chromium. I'm pretty sure I'd have switched anyway if I'd known about it before last week.
Firefox Quantum on android is the least bad mobile browser though.
The Luddites had very good reasons to hate the industrialization that threatened their culture, economy, and way of life. Their opponents were brutal and made inferior textiles with a high human cost. The Luddite rebellion failed, and the horrible treatment of textile workers has continued pretty much unabated to this very day. It's a silly thing to trot out when "progress" has more steps back than forward.
Firefox 57 fixed problems I didn't have and took away things I've used for years. 56 worked well on everything from my i7 gaming rig to my ancient Pentium laptop that shipped with vista and 2 gigs of ram. I kind of wonder if this "57 is fast" stuff is a bunch of benchmark fluff, but it could be I'm just insensitive to browser latency. Stability, now that has been a very real problem in the past. Stability was also flawless on all my machines in 56.
If 57 is delightful for you, cool. Me, I lost extensions that've been part of my daily life, I gained nothing, and I think that's a perfectly damn fine reason to be annoyed with it. Not to mention all the extension developers who got shafted. Feh, Luddite indeed.
In Firefox's favor though, Fakespot on Chrome costs 2 dollars a month for a glorified link opener. What the frak?
If I'm going to be forced to deal with the loss of extensions I've been using for years, it'll be with people who didn't break extensions I've been using for years.
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Modern decaffeination is done with super-critical CO2. It's effective and doesn't alter the quality of the food. That's the point of using it; it doesn't ruin the flavor or texture of the beans/leaves. Contrast this with, say, orange juice, where they have to add in "flavor packs" after processing.
Man, I know what you mean. Once I got the bacon-ranch Dorito dust off my fingers, I finished my red bull and sent a letter of complaint to the management.
I assume you're talking specifically about nitrites/nitrates. As far as I've read, you're correct. Botulism is a more serious risk than the risk of nitrate induced cancer. Nitrates are the only effective way to stop preserved meat from outright killing people sometimes.
The real problem is there's some worthless bastards out there when it comes to keeping consumers from knowing how processed a particular food is. "These beef stikxz have no nitrates! Except those in celery powder. Everyone knows celery is healthy. Therefore our beef stikxz are healthy."
Spoilage alert: Celery powder contains MANY MANY nitrates. The correct solution is, unfortunately, "Don't eat any processed meat. Ever. Even though it's absolutely delicious. If they say it doesn't have nitrates, they're trying to trick you."
I'm sorry if I'm using the nitrite/nitrate terms wrong, although I doubt the difference is significant.
I liked that the article talked about the term "ultra-processed" and the pros and cons of using it. On the one hand, it's fairly well established that many forms of processing are harmful, and having degrees of processing as a broad category might be useful. By using an umbrella term like that, you can avoid many of the problems with bullshit statistical studies: "Green M&M's are 95% likely to cause cancer."
On the other hand...this is basically a "common knowledge" study which serves no purpose and tells me nothing at all. Gee, "Hungry Man Salisbury Steak" dinners are bad for me? Shocking. I'm fucking stunned by your scientific revelation. Which parts of the processing are most harmful? Should I skip that damned brownie that never cooks properly? Are ensure or soylent "ultra processed?" Oh, you don't know? Thanks for nothing.
https://xkcd.com/882/
I actually thought for a moment about hardware based on it, but I assumed it wasnâ(TM)t being made any more for commercial use.
Is the patent relevant to modern computing? No. Could this prevent the trolling of retro engineering and homebrew projects? Yes. So let's all enjoy the thought of a parasite lawyer starving to death in a back alley, his last meal being the spunk of a truck driver named Leeroy and the only money in his pocket coming from Leeroy's copy of Monopoly.
Is it stupid of me to wonder why Intel/AMD don't do the whole "two fast cores, and lots more slower cores" bit?
A fair point that the wage varies quite a bit throughout the US. As for the wage needing to make up the difference in tips, I think my claim remains pretty plausible. I'd guesstimate that any given waiter would need to serve $30 worth of food per hour to make up the wage difference...which is unlikely to ever be a problem in the kinds of restaurants that people would want delivery from.
Stop rebutting without a rebuttal.
Friend, it's legal to pay waiters like a buck an hour. Staffing isn't a big drain.
For MS Works files, just use Libre Office. Heaven knows Microsoft Office is too incompetently made to handle them.
Wait, so truckers that deliver cheese weren't supposed to get overtime? I hope the people who penned that law died of dysentery.
Are the default settings appropriate for a computer made after the year 2006?
Piling on dislikes is actually a very powerful tool for cyber bullying, particularly when a platform uses rating to hide comments or ban people.
It bridged the 32 and 64 bit eras. Hardware companies used that as an excuse to discontinue product support en mass, and MS got the blame. Every compliant I ever heard about it boiled down to software and peripheral vendors successfully selling the idea that an inevitable transition was Vista's fault. You want to talk about a deliberately shit os, talk about 8.
If you're implying the discounting business got the fees I mentioned, they did not.
If a lender doesn't take into account borrower credit history or the amount being borrowed, it seems kind of foolish to imply they are making a valid assessment based on risk exposure. If a group of lenders make this choice at the same time, well, government interference is the more reasonable explanation.
I recently made a purchase from a place that offered a bitcoin discount. I said "Ah hah, I'll be clever." and bought some on coinbase with my credit card to make the purchase.
Holy hell did I ever get shafted up the ass with fees. Ten bucks for buying a "cash equivalent", two bucks for "foreign transaction", five bucks to buy the bitcoin on coinbase, and another five bucks to send the coin with coinbase. The discount was big enough to eat most the fees, but I still lost out. Lesson learned I guess.
I know that many people canâ(TM)t figure out the difference between rating a product and rating the seller, but yes, it was Amazon.
This is interesting, but what they really need is some kind of system to keep track of inventory levels. This would prevent situations where I buy something and then they tell me they don't have any on the day it was supposed to arrive. Hopefully they will soon catch up with my advanced thinking.
It's some combination of:
They dominate the venue choices of mixed-age groups. "So Mom, where do you want to eat?"
If loyal they are the last people to abandon a struggling restaurant.
They get angry about inflation.
They're most likely to post complaints.
Senior discounts are often simply a matter of offering a senior serving size. They eat like birds due to sense-loss, medication, and depression, so many places offer smaller and cheaper portions for them.
Some owners genuinely venerate the elderly.
I switched to Vivaldi when 57 was released and I quite love it. Feels like the best of Opera and Chromium. I'm pretty sure I'd have switched anyway if I'd known about it before last week.
Firefox Quantum on android is the least bad mobile browser though.
I think you mean Vivaldi. But thank you for the PSA, I totally forgot about Chromium based browsers.
The Luddites had very good reasons to hate the industrialization that threatened their culture, economy, and way of life. Their opponents were brutal and made inferior textiles with a high human cost. The Luddite rebellion failed, and the horrible treatment of textile workers has continued pretty much unabated to this very day. It's a silly thing to trot out when "progress" has more steps back than forward.
Firefox 57 fixed problems I didn't have and took away things I've used for years. 56 worked well on everything from my i7 gaming rig to my ancient Pentium laptop that shipped with vista and 2 gigs of ram. I kind of wonder if this "57 is fast" stuff is a bunch of benchmark fluff, but it could be I'm just insensitive to browser latency. Stability, now that has been a very real problem in the past. Stability was also flawless on all my machines in 56.
If 57 is delightful for you, cool. Me, I lost extensions that've been part of my daily life, I gained nothing, and I think that's a perfectly damn fine reason to be annoyed with it. Not to mention all the extension developers who got shafted. Feh, Luddite indeed.
In Firefox's favor though, Fakespot on Chrome costs 2 dollars a month for a glorified link opener. What the frak?
If I'm going to be forced to deal with the loss of extensions I've been using for years, it'll be with people who didn't break extensions I've been using for years.