earnon

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by earnon 14y ago
Correlation does not imply causation. People who play basketball are tall. Therefore playing basketball makes you taller.
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by earnon 14y ago
It's not a pyramid scheme. Although it does reward early adopters for taking a risk, eventually price should stabilize at a real world value (as opposed to a dollar value. As long as we keep printing dollars, the real world value of a dolla
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by earnon 14y ago
Are you sure about that? In the wild plant foods are only availiable in season. Also, what about tribes that lived in places with cold winters? There are no plants to eat when the ground is covered with snow.
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by earnon 14y ago
> (Germany) seems to be doing much to force the Greeks into performing hideous acts of financial restraint, after the Greek economy imploded like Microsoft Vista. The more insensitive might therefore wonder whether German companies migh
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by earnon 14y ago
The industry will never come up with a cure because there's more money in chronic treatments. At the same time, why do we even need diabetes technology? Just go on a low-carb diet. My grandma was borderline diabetic a year ago. She was gett
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by earnon 14y ago
Is it the farmers who have a powerful lobby, or the food processors, such as Monstanto and ADM?
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by earnon 14y ago
Also, I just want to make it clear that I'm not trying to bash vegetarians. Just the opposite - I think it's great that people care. Eating ethically is very important to me. I've given it a lot of thought, and that's precisely the reason I
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by earnon 14y ago
That's probably true. However, like I said above, our agriculture is also unsustainable. Most of the increase in crop yields over the past few decades have come as a result of fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Without oil yields would plummet.
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by earnon 14y ago
What if the animal ate only grass? Also, keep in mind that modern grain agriculture is 100% dependent on fossil fuels. Back in the day, animals were raised on the farm along with vegetables. The animals ate the cellulose (inedible to us) an
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by earnon 14y ago
Vegetables are real food. Fake meat is not.
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by earnon 14y ago
Meat is not bad for the environment. Factory farms are indeed terrible, but they're not the only way to raise animals. On the other hand, grain agriculture is beyond fixing See http://lierrekeith.com/vegmyth.htm for a great intro. Meat is
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by earnon 14y ago
There's a doctor named Paley in Florida who specializes in lengthening limbs. I've talked to many of his patients and their parents. Most doctors, when presented with a child who has one short leg, recommend amputation (the difference in le