You do know that many foods that humans have eaten for centuries have been discovered to pose a threat in recent years?
Excuse me for asking, but besides Mercury oxide (which was used as a poor man's sweetener until the early Middle Ages when its toxicity became obvious) and the Fool's Webcap (which kills weeks or months after being ingested, and was thus only identified as toxic in the industrial era), can you name any examples? (It's a genuine question, I'm actually curious to know others, since you mention many.)
Stay clear of major tourist centers, mix with locals extensively, and don't hesitate to ask if the latter have a room available for a few nights. Nowadays it's also easy to find a cheap bed through couch-surfing websites, short-term flatsharing websites, and Facebook.
+1 this. Lego needed to move in this direction. Megablocks gained market share by sleeping with large franchises. In the face of rapidly shrinking market share, Lego had little other choice than doing the same.
You seem unaware that childhood obesity is just as rampant in developing countries than it is in developed countries. For precisely the same reason, too: it's cheaper to buy processed food -- which contains just about everything you ought to stay away from if you plan to stay healthy.
Value is value. US dollars is simply one way of storing it. (...) You might say that value is simply based on what they decided, and that could change at any time. But that's true for every form of value storage, including dollars.
Actually, currency -- or more precisely legal tender -- differs from other stores of value in that you use it to pay taxes. This ensures guaranteed demand for it, and this makes it a more proper yard stick when measuring value than gold, pig iron or Florida condos.
In light of this, also keep the difference between realized and unrealized gains and losses in mind. A store of value is worth what the next guy will pay for it when the next guy actually pays for it. Upon doing so, you can book the realized gain or loss (and pay the taxes where applicable). Until then, it's an unrealized gain or loss that sits on your balance sheet, and you're free to value the asset pretty much any way you fantasize. (Though admittedly, the taxman might pry into your accounts if you book nonsensical values.)
To be an actual billionaire, Woodman needs to find a pigeon who pulls out his checkbook.
The issue of obesity is not one of physics, nor of willpower. It's of understanding why some people's sense of saity works well, and other people's doesn't. Lots of people have theories, every diet fad puts forward a new one. But as yet no one knows for sure. It remains an area of science where there are huge unknowns.
Indeed. There's pretty solid and damning evidence against fructose, though:
He's making no sense. Calories are not processed the same way within the body. Metabolizing some require more calories than others. And metabolizing at least one, fructose, can only be done in the liver.
The laws of thermodynamics back up the GP's statement.
You're epically wrong... Not all calories are equal: some are easier to metabolize than others, requiring less calories to process. And some can only be metabolized by your liver, e.g. fructose:
Why the hell are westerners all worked up about an "obesity epidemic"? The fact that it is even possible is a good thing, the fact that we are free to stuff our face until we explode is also a good thing. Food abuse, like drug abuse, is a personal "problem" it's not a social engineering problem.
It's less a personal problem than it is a food industry problem. Sure, drinking coke or fruit juice is personal choice, as is eating processed food, but you just try it: try to intake no fructose at all for a week. Unless you eat each meal at home, and do nearly everything yourself from the raw ingredients, it borders on the impossible.
Moreover, it's a society problem, in the sense that obesity is tied to fatty liver, diabetese, high blood pressure, etc., all of which contribute to healthcare spending.
Anybody here using Ada, or has used Ada? Not implying anything, but genuinely interested. Isn't Ada one of the most crazy complex algorithm languages ever invented? Just my impression.
It has a fan base, and specialized uses, if this mother of all Internet trolls from 1997 is any indicator:
Grammars and spelling came about in the 16th century or so, for much the same reason. Yud probbabli minde iff I rote anglich zis wai bekoz youd spend wai tu moch tim vonderrin wat I rote. If you think I'm exaggerating, try reading old English manuscripts -- or worse, old French manuscripts.
Embrace the coding standard, and enforce it for the next guy's sanity when it comes to maintenance. Ideally, setup pre-commit filters on your repo: if the code doesn't conform to the in-house standard, the repo should reject it; period, end of story. That way, nobody wastes time on it except those who aren't respecting them in the first place.
Another already suggested that nothing beats clear thinking. I agree, but don't dismiss how consistency in code formatting improves code readability and maintainability.
I fail to see how or why this Kickstarter project could possibly need a license from Apple for any of this to work. They could build it with a bunch of USB slots and toss in a disclaimer: "cables not included." There, problem solved.
To which they always reply, meh, won't happen to me...
In other words, they only care about themselves?
Based on my (again, anecdotal) sample, it's more along the lines of a very genuine and admittedly fantasized "Why would anyone with nothing to worry about feel concerned by this? Nothing can possibly go wrong!"
I'm not holding my breath for public outcry anytime soon... My sample is admittedly anecdotal, but I know more than a few people who don't care about their rights or their privacy because they consider that they've nothing to hide.
To which I always reply, that one day they might have something to hide, or be wrongly accused of something and trapped into the court system for years, or subjected to police brutality for no other reason than being at the wrong place at the wrong time. To which they always reply, meh, won't happen to me...
Until it actually does, and then they finally change their minds -- or, sadly, not...
Although there are no doubt people today who hold to that view, even at the time it was written the view expressed wasn't universal as you see in the fuller passage I quote above. I'm inclined to stick with more current scholarship on this question: ZOROASTRIANISM AND BIBLICAL RELIGION
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You do know that many foods that humans have eaten for centuries have been discovered to pose a threat in recent years?
Excuse me for asking, but besides Mercury oxide (which was used as a poor man's sweetener until the early Middle Ages when its toxicity became obvious) and the Fool's Webcap (which kills weeks or months after being ingested, and was thus only identified as toxic in the industrial era), can you name any examples? (It's a genuine question, I'm actually curious to know others, since you mention many.)
That would have more to do with pesticides and herbicides:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/30/1536216/studies-link-pesticides-to-bee-colony-collapse-disorder
http://www.bouldercountybeekeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/TheCaseAgainstRoundUp1.pdf
Much about anywhere, really.
Stay clear of major tourist centers, mix with locals extensively, and don't hesitate to ask if the latter have a room available for a few nights. Nowadays it's also easy to find a cheap bed through couch-surfing websites, short-term flatsharing websites, and Facebook.
+1 this. Lego needed to move in this direction. Megablocks gained market share by sleeping with large franchises. In the face of rapidly shrinking market share, Lego had little other choice than doing the same.
You seem unaware that childhood obesity is just as rampant in developing countries than it is in developed countries. For precisely the same reason, too: it's cheaper to buy processed food -- which contains just about everything you ought to stay away from if you plan to stay healthy.
Value is value. US dollars is simply one way of storing it. (...) You might say that value is simply based on what they decided, and that could change at any time. But that's true for every form of value storage, including dollars.
Actually, currency -- or more precisely legal tender -- differs from other stores of value in that you use it to pay taxes. This ensures guaranteed demand for it, and this makes it a more proper yard stick when measuring value than gold, pig iron or Florida condos.
In light of this, also keep the difference between realized and unrealized gains and losses in mind. A store of value is worth what the next guy will pay for it when the next guy actually pays for it. Upon doing so, you can book the realized gain or loss (and pay the taxes where applicable). Until then, it's an unrealized gain or loss that sits on your balance sheet, and you're free to value the asset pretty much any way you fantasize. (Though admittedly, the taxman might pry into your accounts if you book nonsensical values.)
To be an actual billionaire, Woodman needs to find a pigeon who pulls out his checkbook.
The issue of obesity is not one of physics, nor of willpower. It's of understanding why some people's sense of saity works well, and other people's doesn't. Lots of people have theories, every diet fad puts forward a new one. But as yet no one knows for sure. It remains an area of science where there are huge unknowns.
Indeed. There's pretty solid and damning evidence against fructose, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
This is false. My wife can eat 1200 calories on a given day and still gain weight. I can eat 3500 calories in a day and still lose weight.
Maybe she's eating sweets or fruit juice and you're not?
No, mod it down.
He's making no sense. Calories are not processed the same way within the body. Metabolizing some require more calories than others. And metabolizing at least one, fructose, can only be done in the liver.
You got any evidence to back that up?
The laws of thermodynamics back up the GP's statement.
You're epically wrong... Not all calories are equal: some are easier to metabolize than others, requiring less calories to process. And some can only be metabolized by your liver, e.g. fructose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Why the hell are westerners all worked up about an "obesity epidemic"? The fact that it is even possible is a good thing, the fact that we are free to stuff our face until we explode is also a good thing. Food abuse, like drug abuse, is a personal "problem" it's not a social engineering problem.
It's less a personal problem than it is a food industry problem. Sure, drinking coke or fruit juice is personal choice, as is eating processed food, but you just try it: try to intake no fructose at all for a week. Unless you eat each meal at home, and do nearly everything yourself from the raw ingredients, it borders on the impossible.
Moreover, it's a society problem, in the sense that obesity is tied to fatty liver, diabetese, high blood pressure, etc., all of which contribute to healthcare spending.
Has anyone looked at GMO consumption and obesity? Just compare citizens of USA and people in UE (where GMO is rather forbidden).
Yes. As a matter of fact some do:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/28/study-gm-maize-cancer
As you may imagine, the food lobby was all over this on the spot, and critics abounded the minute the research became public.
STOP BELIEVING THERE IS A SECRET BEHIND OBESITY, THERE ISN'T.
Actually, there is are rather solid reasons to believe there is a culprit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Scientists will soon discover that this gut bacteria is hugely successful at metabolizing fructose...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Anybody here using Ada, or has used Ada? Not implying anything, but genuinely interested. Isn't Ada one of the most crazy complex algorithm languages ever invented? Just my impression.
It has a fan base, and specialized uses, if this mother of all Internet trolls from 1997 is any indicator:
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.lang.ada/SHMwUTG_TZQ
It's like... Wow, just wow, look at the size of that thread!
Begs the question: what happens when a plane flies through? Does it get shredded to pieces?
Grammars and spelling came about in the 16th century or so, for much the same reason. Yud probbabli minde iff I rote anglich zis wai bekoz youd spend wai tu moch tim vonderrin wat I rote. If you think I'm exaggerating, try reading old English manuscripts -- or worse, old French manuscripts.
Embrace the coding standard, and enforce it for the next guy's sanity when it comes to maintenance. Ideally, setup pre-commit filters on your repo: if the code doesn't conform to the in-house standard, the repo should reject it; period, end of story. That way, nobody wastes time on it except those who aren't respecting them in the first place.
Another already suggested that nothing beats clear thinking. I agree, but don't dismiss how consistency in code formatting improves code readability and maintainability.
A dollar per message should be enough to discourage irresponsible spamming.
You must be kidding yourself. :-)
$1 for an email that is guaranteed to get delivered? Methinks plenty of advertisers will sign up, and not just vanilla kind either...
I fail to see how or why this Kickstarter project could possibly need a license from Apple for any of this to work. They could build it with a bunch of USB slots and toss in a disclaimer: "cables not included." There, problem solved.
Or am I missing something obvious?
To which they always reply, meh, won't happen to me...
In other words, they only care about themselves?
Based on my (again, anecdotal) sample, it's more along the lines of a very genuine and admittedly fantasized "Why would anyone with nothing to worry about feel concerned by this? Nothing can possibly go wrong!"
I'm not holding my breath for public outcry anytime soon... My sample is admittedly anecdotal, but I know more than a few people who don't care about their rights or their privacy because they consider that they've nothing to hide.
To which I always reply, that one day they might have something to hide, or be wrongly accused of something and trapped into the court system for years, or subjected to police brutality for no other reason than being at the wrong place at the wrong time. To which they always reply, meh, won't happen to me...
Until it actually does, and then they finally change their minds -- or, sadly, not...
I think it's pretty safe to bet that the US will go there eventually.
The issue with kickstarter becomes one of the relationship between the 'investor' (who isn't actually an investor)
And therein lies the rub. They're not investors. At the very most they're sponsors or supporters.
It's not a shock to anyone that projects don't make deadlines.
If TFS and TFA are anything to go by, it evidently is. *Shocked* even. WOW, the project is late!!! Call the fucking cops! News at 11.
I was hoping in to write the exact same thing... Project misses deadline! News at 11. This is all FUD.
Although there are no doubt people today who hold to that view, even at the time it was written the view expressed wasn't universal as you see in the fuller passage I quote above. I'm inclined to stick with more current scholarship on this question: ZOROASTRIANISM AND BIBLICAL RELIGION
Thanks for the reference. It was interesting. :-)
See my reply to Empiric further up.