DanBC2

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by DanBC2 13y ago
I'd love to see an enormous version of this harmonic motion demonstration. ( http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyw... )
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by DanBC2 13y ago
Here's a not very good example using hair and a car stereo ( http://youtu.be/4s_lpBkdoNc )
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by DanBC2 13y ago
I apologise if I've been too harsh on Soylent. I have, previously, been strongly against Soylent. I'm against some of the techniques they're using to sell it now. But I'm trying to be more a "critical friend" rather than just "negative".
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by DanBC2 13y ago
Soylent is being sold as a complete food. We've seen a couple of mistakes during the testing process. The ingredients list is not easy to find, and the sources of those ingredients are not available, so we cannot check if it is a complete
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by DanBC2 13y ago
I get all that. It's great. It's a shame that they (and many of their prospective customers) appear to be unaware of the existing liquid feed products. Eventually they claim they'll tailor the product for each individual. That'll be inter
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by DanBC2 13y ago
Yes, it has some grams of fibre. I'm not sure what form the fibre is in, or how much. It's on their website somewhere.
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by DanBC2 13y ago
So you don't know? Yet you're happy for them to sell it as safe for everyone, as providing optimal nutrition, as bring people to perfect health, as being tested, when we don't know if any of that is true? (And we know the tested part is a
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by DanBC2 13y ago
> Why does everyone seem to think that Soylent is "for every meal, everyday"? Because they're selling it as that. Perhaps Soylent could consider reading these threads and improving their website information? >Also, it doesn't have
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by DanBC2 13y ago
> It's not going to kill you, or mess up your health How do you know?
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by DanBC2 13y ago
To disrupt the industry Soylent need to know what that industry is. So far I haven't seen any sign that they have any idea about what going on in that domain. There's a bunch of stuff about "Hey! What if food was a simple easy liquid?" - w
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by DanBC2 13y ago
> assuming it's not missing any major dietary component It has some fibre, but it's missing solids. Who knows if that's important or not? They claim it has a long shelf life. I'm not sure what they're doing to maintain shelf life. Vi
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by DanBC2 13y ago
Soylent have some fierce competition. Liquid feeding is not new. Many companies do it already. Liquid feeding for developing world also isn't new. There are a number of foods developed especially for that market. Here are some of the comp
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by DanBC2 14y ago
The drug has been used to treat the condition for nearly 60 years.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> prescribed medication for this truly bullshit condition concocted by the modern age. Ritalin is nearly 60 years old.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Well, no. Now we know what we don't know, rather than assuming we do know something. And when we specify one font over another we can say honestly "Because I like it" rather than dishonestly "Because science tells us it's best".
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by DanBC2 14y ago
He crashed significant parts of the Internet, causing considerable alarm amongst sysadmins. His father was working for NSA at the time. I seem to remember he went to his father and was persuaded to own up, but maybe I misremember. Here's
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> That means that if someone steals your card or your smart-ring, you’d better report it stolen pretty quickly. Well, yes. But you'd hopefully have a master passphrase to open the "smart-ring" device, making theft less of a problem.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
This is briefly mentioned in Clifford Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg" (which is great read). It's a fascinating story. I also like his father's (or maybe it was his?) idea for a spellchecker - using statistical analysis.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Passwords are lousy. Really lousy. As you point out the problem isn't with the security of them (when properly applied) but because it's all just so klunky and annoying and different websites have different implementations. I know at leas
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Plea bargains are weird when used as a weapon to intimidate someone. There's something vaguely similar with people (at least in the UK) wrongly convicted and sent to prison. To qualify for early release they have to atone for their crime,
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Have you spent any time in prison? Have you visited anyone in any prison? Which federal prison do you suppose Mr Swartz would have been sent to if he had been convicted?
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> It was not at all realistic to think a 35 year sentence would have been handed down for downloading scientific papers, even in America. It's easier to say this when you're not facing prison and financial ruin. He wasn't being charged
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> Not sure why PG has not said anything publicly I find your comment bizarre. > this very sensitive issue. > Not sure why PG has not said anything publicly Why should PG talk publicly about the death by suicide of someone he kne
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Given the quality of a lot of Facebook comments any of the Loebner Prize bots would have a reasonable chance of passing as human. ( http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html ) A bit of tweaking - some learning and some Markov chains
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by DanBC2 14y ago
The ultimate story is of the Anandtech forums, where someone invented a woman, sockpuppeted her on the forums, romanced her on the forums, got married, had a child (or she already had one?) and then killed them both off in a road traffic ac
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Awful. T Mobile insert <script src=" http://1.2.3.8/bmi-int-js/bmi.js language="javascript"></script> after the opening <html> on every page. Pretty lousy behaviour.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Gnome overlays the root window, so anything you write to it is not displayed. Thus, they broke existing functionality. ( http://galahad.armoredpenguin.com/rootwindow/ )
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by DanBC2 14y ago
There's probably a service for people to fake it for each other - you have a site like okcupid but the intent is not dating, but posting "cute" messages for each other on facebook and twitter.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
You're getting a pretty hostile response! People are free to spend their money on whatever they want. I'd prefer them to spend money on meditation than on, for example, telephone psychics or homeopathy. Motivation is a tricky, unsolved, pr
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Have you seen the Maximite? ( http://geoffg.net/maximite.html ) > The Colour Maximite is a small and versatile single chip computer running a full featured BASIC interpreter with 128K of working memory and eight colours on a VGA monito

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