babblefrog

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by babblefrog 3y ago
If only we knew exactly what in the culture we need to fix. There are a lot of theories. Something in our environment has broken the homeostasis which worked for the last million years.
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by babblefrog 3y ago
Can and bottle deposits are older than the general recycling push, at least where I live. It was more about keeping trash off the road sides than re-use.
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by babblefrog 5y ago
My understanding is the if the spike mutates, the virus can no longer get into your cells.
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by babblefrog 5y ago
How long are you going to keep wearing the mask after everybody else stops, though?
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by babblefrog 6y ago
Exercise increases heart rate. That’s why I stay away from it. I still drink coffee though.
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by babblefrog 9y ago
I'm not sure there is a mainstream American right. There are several threads that appear to have incompatible ideas. Then the politicians try to give lip-service to all of them, which makes it impossible to actually deliver on any of
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by babblefrog 14y ago
A couple of points: 1. Most or all of the mummies studied were from neolithic societies, not paleolithic. The only one that might be considered paleolithic is the Unangan, but even these are from decades after they were conquered by the Rus
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by babblefrog 14y ago
I think there's a joke in there.
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by babblefrog 14y ago
Not entirely market forces. City zoning often requires housing over there, shopping way the hell over that way, and your work miles away in a different direction. Which means that you have to drive to go anywhere. So everything is built to
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by babblefrog 14y ago
Well, for one thing, the school is an arm of government, not a private party. We allow private parties to do all sorts of things we don't allow governments to do.
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by babblefrog 14y ago
I think some of that is generational. The women I work with who are my generation (I'm in my 50s) find that offensive, whereas the ones from the generation younger don't see anything wrong with it. I think the language is changing, where th
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by babblefrog 14y ago
Just a short note of clarification about the GPL: The intent is to protect the freedom of the users, not the developers. Essentially so that every user can potentially be a developer, too.
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by babblefrog 14y ago
> humans are excellent at reading cues from body language, facial expressions, etc. to understand how other humans feel. For most people, yes. For some of the geekiest among us, I'm not sure that always holds.
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by babblefrog 14y ago
In the US, Everbank offers accounts in several currencies.
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by babblefrog 14y ago
They appear to be carbo-loading. If I ate that lunch, I'd be asleep an hour later.
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by babblefrog 15y ago
I think GWB really did think there were WMDs there. And protecting the oil supplies from who, exactly? They were going to go onto the market anyway.
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by babblefrog 15y ago
This appears to be dependent on how you interpret the numbers. See http://uspirg.org/reports/usp/do-roads-pay-themselves for another view.
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by babblefrog 15y ago
The non-driver issue is a big one. I believe I have read that typically on third of the population don't drive, either because they are too young, too old, or have some sort of disability. This doesn't include those who are poor enough that
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by babblefrog 15y ago
You can't go back. 2007-era Google would be unusable with all the SEO-hacks that people have discovered since then. Google has to keep tuning their algorithms to stay ahead of the "optimizers" and spammers.
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by babblefrog 15y ago
> The plain fact is that if you look at the richest countries in the world, with the best standards of living, they have huge governments that provide their citizens with a host of services without profit, such as healthcare. You seem t
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by babblefrog 15y ago
I've always been confused by this. Does "as a US company" mean that it's HQ is in the US? Or that it is incorporated in the US? Or just that it does business in the US?
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by babblefrog 15y ago
Commodities and currencies fluctuate against each other. Over longer terms, the value of currencies tends towards zero. Everything depends on the time frame you are looking at.
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by babblefrog 15y ago
How the heck would you hold the trade deficit constant, and why would you even if you could?
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by babblefrog 15y ago
Right next to the Amazon store ;-)
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by babblefrog 15y ago
I suspect that supply and demand have a lot to do with it. Capital and innovation is scarcer than labor, especially unskilled or lower skilled labor.
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by babblefrog 15y ago
To the contrary, Reagan was inaugurated in January 1981. The trend had already changed before that. There were major changes to our economy in the late 60s and 70s, including the "great society" programs of Johnson and Nixon, and the stagfl
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by babblefrog 15y ago
Information is contained in transactions. That's how supply and demand determine prices in the real world.
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by babblefrog 15y ago
One correction: Atkins died of head trauma after slipping on the ice, not heart failure. I guess you can call every death heart failure, though ;-)
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by babblefrog 15y ago
Hmmm. More complex carbs are pretty much chains of glucose. The sugars you are talking about are glucose and fructose, about 50/50. If your explanation is the correct one, does that mean the problem is really fructose?
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by babblefrog 15y ago
I'm not sure the difference is that big. Amylase in your saliva starts breaking down starches to glucose even before you swallow. Non-digestible carbs (fiber), protein and fat can slow down the process, however.

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