I've been 7 months without sugar, wheat, legumes, refined oils, and all that crap. Basically a Paleo/Primal Diet. I can't be more happy, when I got some carb craving I eat a piece of yam or some cassava, both are super high in fiber and yam is filled with vitamins too, so I feel full very fast. I eat grass fed meat and lots LOTS of "paleo" veggies (and I mean HUGE salads, with one avocado a day).
The results was I not only lost 100lb (that was a seconday effect) but I feel much MUCH better, I can play with the dog for an hour, make long walks, and go outside and enjoy life. I still have more weight to lose, but it is all so easy now, sometimes I don't eat for 18 - 24 hours, just because I'm not hungry. My 20yo son is also doing the same plan, and he lost 55lb and is now 15% body fat, happy as hell with all the girls digging him.
And it was as simple as not eating "modern" food, just sticking to a good sustainable plan for a few weeks and after that everything went in "autopilot mode".
Also don't forget that average effects is not the same as specific effects. We know that metabolism variation among individuals is pretty huge.
That's partially true, the SPEED in which you can become insulin resistance varies (that's why you see people who can eat foods filled with anti-nutrients and don't easily become leptin resistant), but the mechanisms that causes it and the way of getting rid of such resistance is the same in all humans - unless u got a rare genetic desease or a damaged hypothalamus.
Affecting a nerve to help people regulate their hunger and help them loose weight? There is already a way of doing that and it's called Leptin. Leptin is the hormone that regulates hunger by stimulating receptors in the hypothalamus. When someone suffers from leptin resistance, he will eat all day. The fix? bye bye sugars, bye bye inflammatory foods, bye bye foods with anti-nutrients.
I lost 100lb resetting my leptin cycle, I stopped eating all day and simply wasn't hungry anymore. No will power, no pills, nothing... the anxiety for food just went away.
Peru is using photovoltaics to provide small amounts of electricity without the infrastructure cost, which makes perfect sense.
That is EXACTLY why I consider this is an AWESOME idea. I have visited some of those locations, and the geography around them is extremely harsh. Many of these families live above 2500m altitude (some even above 3500m - 4000m), get their water from rivers, wells or old aqueducts (some of them made during the Inka's empire), and live mainly from farming and livestock. Giving them electricity from PV so they can use basic things, like led lights and small radios, will improve their quality of life A LOT. Bringing them electricity from the regular grid would be cost-prohibitive.
Schwarzenegger also told TheArnoldFans, "We start shooting in January and I'm also going to do 'King Conan'. To play that role and also to do another 'Twins' movie. I feel very proud of that. I feel very happy and I'm looking forward to doing those films."
I guess he will be doing Conan AND a sequel for "Twins".
Considering Facebook API now requires SSL/TLS for Facebook Apps, many servers had to turn on HTTPS just for this. It's just a matter of time until we see this widely exploited.
(...) a world in which most commercial software is open source and the developers are paid for their efforts is very much in keeping with our dreams of an open source utopia.
Indeed. The most paid F/OSS developers there are, the best for everyone. If there is demand, F/OSS developers salaries will raise, which will make more people interested in working in the field. The result will be better software for everyone.
The method used by the Communists to reduce the power and influence of religions was to change the school curriculum to teach all religions equally, side-by-side, instead of just Christianity.
Once the students can't tell the difference between one creation myth and another, and everything starts to blend into an ever more ridiculous set of children's stories, very few are left that can still take their "own" religion seriously any more.
Do you have any link or book that explains the method of education that you are describing? This is one interesting subject I would like to investiagte more about.
that the easiest and cheapest way of finding new ways of pleasing their customers is listening to their opinions. The only difference between this and a traditional focus group is the size of the population sample.
I remember using touch interfaces at Epcot Center in 1985. The difference here is the size of the device and he applications I can run (not only browse info about pictures), but other than that I see no difference.
What on earth leads you to suggest they don't have working disaster recovery?
The fact that their service was partially cut due to a power failure. We know accidents DO happen and power failures DO happen, like the explosion in The Planet's power control room [1]. The guy's at Amazon cloud should be prepared for predictable problems like a power outage, specially when one of their selling arguments is service continuity.
Scouts can earn their pins by spending an hour a day playing games, teaching others how to play better, and researching the best price for games they'd like to buy.
One hour per day seems perfectly normal for any teenager, teaching others will train their social & verbal skills and the gaming market research will teach them how to get the most out of their buck.
From my point of view these are all useful skills.
At Peru you can get a 2 lt. bottle of a fine Rose for about US$ 50, from one of our award winning companies. They are cheap because in this area of South America the climate and soil are exceptionally productive and abundant. One of them, Santiago Queirolo, has a 100 km2 Vineyard, in which they produce: Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Syrah, Merlot, Chardonnay, Petit Verdot, Trebiano Bianco, Quebranta, Torontel. They produce wine since 1880.
You can see pictures here.
As Argentina, we sell great quality wines for a good price, it's the middlemen the ones who raise the price to the skies.
In this discovery they use sound waves to get hydrogen (which you can later use to make electricity or move cars). Sound waves are being generated all over nature as a natural left over of different processes. On the other hand electrolysis requires electricity, which has a cost in our modern economy.
You should measure not only the efficiency, but the total cost of energy generation.
If they want to see the REAL consequences, they should get a group of 1000 straight A students and see how many of them had video games for the last four years. I am sure the results will be the other day. I am sure many people HERE have been great students and did have a NES or some other console during their school years.
As the article says, these consoles where given to kids that where anxious to have them (they did't have it before but played them at their friends houses). Get a man that haven't had sex in 6 years and give him a girlfriend and analize what happens. Anyone has considered that those consequences might have happened because (1) those kids didn't have a console BEFORE (the novelty factor) and (2) those kids wanted to get the most out of the console because of subconscious fear that it might be taken away from them later.
Not only more maintainable, but filesystems should use 4k per sector, specially on raid's for performance stuff discussed on this post. This means that in a decently configured modern system, anything under 4k will still occupy 4k on disk.
You never found such OS? You should try CentOS, the whole upgrade guide is just 'yum -y update'. It rarely fails, specially if you never did something dumb like installing libraries from sources or such.
Kids should listen to your story (specially the "now and insurance nor social security does not cover these costs") so they remember it the day one of those "join the army! it's the best!" guys approaches them.
So, if I never get sick and die of natural death, they will return all that unused prepaid money to my siblings?. My grandma died at age 100 from natural death btw
They won't shoot themselves on their foot like this. As someone said, problem must be in some other part of the distribution chain.
Newegg's reputation is a critical part of their business, people buy on newegg because they expect that - on these type of situations - newegg won't screw the customer.
Let's hope all this patents chaos in the US (and the US trying to push their patents in other countries) doesn't end up in war in some years. I'll like to see US enforcing their patents this way on Russia / China / etc.
What amazes me is how right brained people can achieve the same mathematical design without caring about math. They get to the same point using totally different mental processes (normally with less effort) than people learning tons of math.
The math we learn at schools is just ONE way of representing & predicting our reality.
Musician's (and other artists) brains work in a totally different way, and perceive reality differently, that's why they can recognize the multiple notes of a chord inmediately while a computer (math approach) would take a lot of effort and consume MUCH more energy.
Machines haven't beat humans in the music area (yet). It's true it can "compose", but it can't invent new rythms and music styles and new instruments and sounds. Machines can't know if something entirely new will please humans, it CAN mix known patters to make something similar to what people find pleasing NOW, but it (still) can't invent a new set of musical rules, which happened when rock, reggaeton, latin jazz, etc. where invented.
Machines can beat Kasparov in chess, but they can't invent a game as enjoyable as chess by themselves.
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I've been 7 months without sugar, wheat, legumes, refined oils, and all that crap. Basically a Paleo/Primal Diet. I can't be more happy, when I got some carb craving I eat a piece of yam or some cassava, both are super high in fiber and yam is filled with vitamins too, so I feel full very fast. I eat grass fed meat and lots LOTS of "paleo" veggies (and I mean HUGE salads, with one avocado a day).
The results was I not only lost 100lb (that was a seconday effect) but I feel much MUCH better, I can play with the dog for an hour, make long walks, and go outside and enjoy life. I still have more weight to lose, but it is all so easy now, sometimes I don't eat for 18 - 24 hours, just because I'm not hungry. My 20yo son is also doing the same plan, and he lost 55lb and is now 15% body fat, happy as hell with all the girls digging him.
And it was as simple as not eating "modern" food, just sticking to a good sustainable plan for a few weeks and after that everything went in "autopilot mode".
Also don't forget that average effects is not the same as specific effects. We know that metabolism variation among individuals is pretty huge.
That's partially true, the SPEED in which you can become insulin resistance varies (that's why you see people who can eat foods filled with anti-nutrients and don't easily become leptin resistant), but the mechanisms that causes it and the way of getting rid of such resistance is the same in all humans - unless u got a rare genetic desease or a damaged hypothalamus.
Affecting a nerve to help people regulate their hunger and help them loose weight? There is already a way of doing that and it's called Leptin. Leptin is the hormone that regulates hunger by stimulating receptors in the hypothalamus. When someone suffers from leptin resistance, he will eat all day. The fix? bye bye sugars, bye bye inflammatory foods, bye bye foods with anti-nutrients.
I lost 100lb resetting my leptin cycle, I stopped eating all day and simply wasn't hungry anymore. No will power, no pills, nothing... the anxiety for food just went away.
Here is a nice article with 29 scientific references that explains exactly the importance of Leptin Cycle
And here is a nice video from Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D. explaining it too
Affecting a whole big nerve instead of changing eating habits is a really really bad idea
Peru is using photovoltaics to provide small amounts of electricity without the infrastructure cost, which makes perfect sense.
That is EXACTLY why I consider this is an AWESOME idea. I have visited some of those locations, and the geography around them is extremely harsh. Many of these families live above 2500m altitude (some even above 3500m - 4000m), get their water from rivers, wells or old aqueducts (some of them made during the Inka's empire), and live mainly from farming and livestock. Giving them electricity from PV so they can use basic things, like led lights and small radios, will improve their quality of life A LOT. Bringing them electricity from the regular grid would be cost-prohibitive.
From the article:
Schwarzenegger also told TheArnoldFans, "We start shooting in January and I'm also going to do 'King Conan'. To play that role and also to do another 'Twins' movie. I feel very proud of that. I feel very happy and I'm looking forward to doing those films."
I guess he will be doing Conan AND a sequel for "Twins".
Considering Facebook API now requires SSL/TLS for Facebook Apps, many servers had to turn on HTTPS just for this. It's just a matter of time until we see this widely exploited.
(...) a world in which most commercial software is open source and the developers are paid for their efforts is very much in keeping with our dreams of an open source utopia.
Indeed. The most paid F/OSS developers there are, the best for everyone. If there is demand, F/OSS developers salaries will raise, which will make more people interested in working in the field. The result will be better software for everyone.
I guess we all can dream...
The method used by the Communists to reduce the power and influence of religions was to change the school curriculum to teach all religions equally, side-by-side, instead of just Christianity.
Once the students can't tell the difference between one creation myth and another, and everything starts to blend into an ever more ridiculous set of children's stories, very few are left that can still take their "own" religion seriously any more.
Do you have any link or book that explains the method of education that you are describing? This is one interesting subject I would like to investiagte more about.
that the easiest and cheapest way of finding new ways of pleasing their customers is listening to their opinions. The only difference between this and a traditional focus group is the size of the population sample.
I remember using touch interfaces at Epcot Center in 1985. The difference here is the size of the device and he applications I can run (not only browse info about pictures), but other than that I see no difference.
What on earth leads you to suggest they don't have working disaster recovery?
The fact that their service was partially cut due to a power failure. We know accidents DO happen and power failures DO happen, like the explosion in The Planet's power control room [1]. The guy's at Amazon cloud should be prepared for predictable problems like a power outage, specially when one of their selling arguments is service continuity.
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Scouts can earn their pins by spending an hour a day playing games, teaching others how to play better, and researching the best price for games they'd like to buy.
One hour per day seems perfectly normal for any teenager, teaching others will train their social & verbal skills and the gaming market research will teach them how to get the most out of their buck.
From my point of view these are all useful skills.
So they can pull out a law forcing data centers to use the latest iCooling device from brand XYZ.
I think there's a market for a tablet that acts as a portable display (+touchscreen) for a bigger machine nearby.
Bookmark you post in case we need prior-art later.
At Peru you can get a 2 lt. bottle of a fine Rose for about US$ 50, from one of our award winning companies. They are cheap because in this area of South America the climate and soil are exceptionally productive and abundant. One of them, Santiago Queirolo, has a 100 km2 Vineyard, in which they produce: Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Syrah, Merlot, Chardonnay, Petit Verdot, Trebiano Bianco, Quebranta, Torontel. They produce wine since 1880.
You can see pictures here.
As Argentina, we sell great quality wines for a good price, it's the middlemen the ones who raise the price to the skies.
In this discovery they use sound waves to get hydrogen (which you can later use to make electricity or move cars). Sound waves are being generated all over nature as a natural left over of different processes. On the other hand electrolysis requires electricity, which has a cost in our modern economy.
You should measure not only the efficiency, but the total cost of energy generation.
If they want to see the REAL consequences, they should get a group of 1000 straight A students and see how many of them had video games for the last four years. I am sure the results will be the other day. I am sure many people HERE have been great students and did have a NES or some other console during their school years.
As the article says, these consoles where given to kids that where anxious to have them (they did't have it before but played them at their friends houses). Get a man that haven't had sex in 6 years and give him a girlfriend and analize what happens. Anyone has considered that those consequences might have happened because (1) those kids didn't have a console BEFORE (the novelty factor) and (2) those kids wanted to get the most out of the console because of subconscious fear that it might be taken away from them later.
Not only more maintainable, but filesystems should use 4k per sector, specially on raid's for performance stuff discussed on this post. This means that in a decently configured modern system, anything under 4k will still occupy 4k on disk.
You never found such OS? You should try CentOS, the whole upgrade guide is just 'yum -y update'. It rarely fails, specially if you never did something dumb like installing libraries from sources or such.
Kids should listen to your story (specially the "now and insurance nor social security does not cover these costs") so they remember it the day one of those "join the army! it's the best!" guys approaches them.
So, if I never get sick and die of natural death, they will return all that unused prepaid money to my siblings?. My grandma died at age 100 from natural death btw
They won't shoot themselves on their foot like this. As someone said, problem must be in some other part of the distribution chain.
Newegg's reputation is a critical part of their business, people buy on newegg because they expect that - on these type of situations - newegg won't screw the customer.
Let's hope all this patents chaos in the US (and the US trying to push their patents in other countries) doesn't end up in war in some years. I'll like to see US enforcing their patents this way on Russia / China / etc.
What amazes me is how right brained people can achieve the same mathematical design without caring about math. They get to the same point using totally different mental processes (normally with less effort) than people learning tons of math.
The math we learn at schools is just ONE way of representing & predicting our reality.
Musician's (and other artists) brains work in a totally different way, and perceive reality differently, that's why they can recognize the multiple notes of a chord inmediately while a computer (math approach) would take a lot of effort and consume MUCH more energy.
Machines haven't beat humans in the music area (yet). It's true it can "compose", but it can't invent new rythms and music styles and new instruments and sounds. Machines can't know if something entirely new will please humans, it CAN mix known patters to make something similar to what people find pleasing NOW, but it (still) can't invent a new set of musical rules, which happened when rock, reggaeton, latin jazz, etc. where invented.
Machines can beat Kasparov in chess, but they can't invent a game as enjoyable as chess by themselves.