Fructose (which is one half of sucrose - basically the same as high fructose corn syrup) is actually much worse than glucose precisely because it is metabolized by the liver. The metabolic process is very similar to that of ethanol, and the chronic effects are also almost identical. Here's a great presentation by Prof. Robert H. Lustig, MD about the link between sugar consumption and obesity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Lets do the calculation: E = m*c^2 for m = 1 gram yields ~2e13 calories An Olympic pool has a volume of ~2500000 L = 2.5e9 mL Dividing the two yields a temperature increase of 8000 Celsius, which is enough to turn water just above freezing point into a plasma.
There's far more energy locked up in the form of matter than is even comprehensible.
Laws are already in place to cover valid threats. There was an article on Slashdot a week or two back talking about a foolish kid getting arrested under one of these laws. There's no need for censorship.
Yeah, I was very confused about his selection of "quality". The book that Blade Runner was based on, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is quite good, but the movie is not nearly as good, in my opinion.
I'm not a geneticist, but I'm guessing any retrovirus could be used. HIV is likely used because its been the focus of the most research, and thus the genome is well known and cultures are readily available.
Unions are really only needed (and successful) when there is a surplus supply of labor. Factory workers in the early 20th century unionized because (at least partially) getting sick would mean being replaced by someone else. It's actually somewhat amazing that unionizing worked at all considering scabs (AKA strikebreakers) could often receive increased pay. The success of unions depended on the solidarity of the working class.
There are no demands for an industrial pump with such a low rate or the ability to last 120 years. If there were, perhaps someone would have made one by now.
Also, the heart is not unserviced. In fact they are continually serviced. I'm not sure the exact turn over, but at least over 10 years every cell in your heart is replaced.
All science is incremental. There are periodically rapid advances, but these are almost always due to beginning investigations in a new field. The paradigm shift philosophy is overblown.
None-the-less we are experiencing rapid developments in cosmology. In my lifetime, the first exoplanets have been discovered, and we are rapidly refining estimates for the various factors of the drake equation. Before I die, we should know if we are alone in this vicinity of the galaxy. In addition, we have a mostly complete model for the past and future of macro-universe. Finally, we have uncovered great mysteries, namely dark matter and dark energy.
You may not find current NASA research interesting or worthwhile, but that doesn't mean it isn't.
If the intent is to curb HFT, just put a minimum hold time of 5 minutes. Or, if you want sanity in the stock market, put a minimum holding time of 24 hours. HFT is profiting off of legal loopholes, and nothing else. It doesn't take a complicated algorithm to determine that you can make a profit as a middle man when one person is selling at 10.0, and another person is buying at 10.2.
An NDA is a civil contract. If you break it you can be sued in a civil court - not arrested and thrown in jail. Your first ammenent rights remain intact.
Providing the variable base current would require Pulse width modulation and a smoothing circuit. Better to just pulse the LED directly at ~22kHz, and let our eye takes care of the averaging. This would likely result in higher efficiencies, too, since LED efficiency is very nonlinear, and low at low biases. Of course there is a roll-over at high currents, so it depends where on that curve the normal operating bias is.
Agreed. When it's not completely wrong, it still manages to be deftly incoherent.
The atoms don't physically spin. Spin is just a word used, in the absence of a more appropriate one, to communicate an inherent quantum mechanical property of atoms. Spin is closely related to magnetism.
Funding has to come from somewhere, and fraud in a field tends to end future funding in that field, even if it holds promise. Case in point: organic semiconductors took a huge funding hit after the Bell labs fiasco. Another case in point: public funding of bubble fusion research was basically banned after the Oak Ridge controversy, even though the basic principle holds promise.
Congress did what their economic advisers told them to. If mainstream economic advisers weren't so delusional as to think giving money to the banks that caused the default in the first place was a good idea, then we would have seen more sane legislation. None-the-less, the actions they took were still far better for the average American than taking no action at all. They just happened to be even more beneficial for exploitative banks.
I apologize. I clearly see now that putting illness in quotes was patronizing and ignorant. In my defense, I didn't mean to suggest that these people are not experiencing very real difficulties. I only meant to distinguish mental illness from physical illness. However, as has been pointed out to me, if there is a distinction, it likely only exists for mild forms of mental illness.
That sounds pretty terrible. I've been depressed before, but it's not my natural state. I can hardly imagine.
I know it's absolutely none of by business, but may I ask what's actually kept you from committing suicide? There must be something. I know that for me, even if I suddenly became extremely depressed, I would never commit suicide because 1) I refuse to put my family and friends through that, and 2) I'm far too amazed by the universe around me, and I know that eventually I will regain my interest in it and stop being so depressed.
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Fructose (which is one half of sucrose - basically the same as high fructose corn syrup) is actually much worse than glucose precisely because it is metabolized by the liver. The metabolic process is very similar to that of ethanol, and the chronic effects are also almost identical. Here's a great presentation by Prof. Robert H. Lustig, MD about the link between sugar consumption and obesity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Soon we'll have cow blood-donors.
Lets do the calculation:
E = m*c^2 for m = 1 gram yields ~2e13 calories
An Olympic pool has a volume of ~2500000 L = 2.5e9 mL
Dividing the two yields a temperature increase of 8000 Celsius, which is enough to turn water just above freezing point into a plasma.
There's far more energy locked up in the form of matter than is even comprehensible.
Laws are already in place to cover valid threats. There was an article on Slashdot a week or two back talking about a foolish kid getting arrested under one of these laws. There's no need for censorship.
I think his point was that once the technology is in place, it can and will be used to censor free speech.
Those are actually pretty lax specs. Any stainless steel nut should do.
Perhaps the $300 nuts are just rediculously large? Like aircraft carrier anchor line large?
Yeah, I was very confused about his selection of "quality". The book that Blade Runner was based on, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is quite good, but the movie is not nearly as good, in my opinion.
I'm not a geneticist, but I'm guessing any retrovirus could be used. HIV is likely used because its been the focus of the most research, and thus the genome is well known and cultures are readily available.
False.
Unions are really only needed (and successful) when there is a surplus supply of labor. Factory workers in the early 20th century unionized because (at least partially) getting sick would mean being replaced by someone else. It's actually somewhat amazing that unionizing worked at all considering scabs (AKA strikebreakers) could often receive increased pay. The success of unions depended on the solidarity of the working class.
There are no demands for an industrial pump with such a low rate or the ability to last 120 years. If there were, perhaps someone would have made one by now.
Also, the heart is not unserviced. In fact they are continually serviced. I'm not sure the exact turn over, but at least over 10 years every cell in your heart is replaced.
Makerbot was started in a hacker space.
Mod parent up! Free speech zones sicken me to the core!
But why blog about it? Why not just go to the police?
All science is incremental. There are periodically rapid advances, but these are almost always due to beginning investigations in a new field. The paradigm shift philosophy is overblown.
None-the-less we are experiencing rapid developments in cosmology. In my lifetime, the first exoplanets have been discovered, and we are rapidly refining estimates for the various factors of the drake equation. Before I die, we should know if we are alone in this vicinity of the galaxy. In addition, we have a mostly complete model for the past and future of macro-universe. Finally, we have uncovered great mysteries, namely dark matter and dark energy.
You may not find current NASA research interesting or worthwhile, but that doesn't mean it isn't.
If the intent is to curb HFT, just put a minimum hold time of 5 minutes. Or, if you want sanity in the stock market, put a minimum holding time of 24 hours. HFT is profiting off of legal loopholes, and nothing else. It doesn't take a complicated algorithm to determine that you can make a profit as a middle man when one person is selling at 10.0, and another person is buying at 10.2.
An NDA is a civil contract. If you break it you can be sued in a civil court - not arrested and thrown in jail. Your first ammenent rights remain intact.
Providing the variable base current would require Pulse width modulation and a smoothing circuit. Better to just pulse the LED directly at ~22kHz, and let our eye takes care of the averaging. This would likely result in higher efficiencies, too, since LED efficiency is very nonlinear, and low at low biases. Of course there is a roll-over at high currents, so it depends where on that curve the normal operating bias is.
Agreed. When it's not completely wrong, it still manages to be deftly incoherent.
The atoms don't physically spin. Spin is just a word used, in the absence of a more appropriate one, to communicate an inherent quantum mechanical property of atoms. Spin is closely related to magnetism.
This is actually due to diffraction-induced beam divergence, not low reflectivity, or the wrong angle.
Funding has to come from somewhere, and fraud in a field tends to end future funding in that field, even if it holds promise. Case in point: organic semiconductors took a huge funding hit after the Bell labs fiasco. Another case in point: public funding of bubble fusion research was basically banned after the Oak Ridge controversy, even though the basic principle holds promise.
You may forgive a dog for licking you, but if you don't want the behavior to continue, you have to punish it and reward the behavior you do want.
Congress did what their economic advisers told them to. If mainstream economic advisers weren't so delusional as to think giving money to the banks that caused the default in the first place was a good idea, then we would have seen more sane legislation. None-the-less, the actions they took were still far better for the average American than taking no action at all. They just happened to be even more beneficial for exploitative banks.
I apologize. I clearly see now that putting illness in quotes was patronizing and ignorant. In my defense, I didn't mean to suggest that these people are not experiencing very real difficulties. I only meant to distinguish mental illness from physical illness. However, as has been pointed out to me, if there is a distinction, it likely only exists for mild forms of mental illness.
That sounds pretty terrible. I've been depressed before, but it's not my natural state. I can hardly imagine.
I know it's absolutely none of by business, but may I ask what's actually kept you from committing suicide? There must be something. I know that for me, even if I suddenly became extremely depressed, I would never commit suicide because 1) I refuse to put my family and friends through that, and 2) I'm far too amazed by the universe around me, and I know that eventually I will regain my interest in it and stop being so depressed.