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by namelost 8y ago
The American diet isn't carbohydrate-heavy, it's food -heavy. Americans eat a lot more of every macronutrient than the average person on this planet.
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by namelost 8y ago
If you mean the clones, that's not exactly what I'm suggesting. I want Apple to continue building computers, but to use industry standard form factors, and to use as many commodity components as possible. They could get such a pro
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by namelost 8y ago
I wish Apple would just make their own ATX case (or any other standard *TX form factor), their own ATX motherboard with their TPM on it, and then use commodity components for everything else. I'd pay a huge premium for that product, bu
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by namelost 8y ago
People are naive and easy to manipulate. Often (in history) they are manipulated into killing other people against their own interests. Few people are wilfully "good" or "bad".
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by namelost 8y ago
It's illegal to cross through a red light, even if there is an emergency vehicle behind you that wants to get through.
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by namelost 8y ago
You say that but people will happily drive at 50+ down a narrow country road. I think the "narrow = slower" only works for a limited period of time before people get normalised to it.
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by namelost 8y ago
A high rate of road deaths isn't a fait accompli. Musk would have us believe that technology is the only answer. The UK has the 2nd-lowest rate of road deaths in the world (after Sweden). The roads in the UK are not intrinsically safe,
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by namelost 8y ago
It's not comparable with Python, which broke correct code to the point where even `print "Hello world"` was broken! This mootools issue only affects a very small number of users. It amounts to a denial-of-service attack aga
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by namelost 8y ago
Most people just don't care about the voice assistant on their phones, despite the efforts of Google, Apple and Samsung to make them care. Using a voice assistant in a public place still marks you out as some kind of weirdo. Siri is gr
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by namelost 8y ago
Or Google and Facebook will be held to a higher standard of compliance.
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by namelost 8y ago
In the past, "nutrition" meant "getting enough calories", as in the opposite of malnutrition. Grains are plentiful, cheap calories and so they are "nutritious". Of course if you cut them out of your diet and st
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by namelost 8y ago
It's true of everything. If you freeze when you are not in equilibrium, you will... fall over. Maintaining equilibrium is an active process.
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by namelost 8y ago
If your coworkers are so bad, wouldn't you rather get a nice message in your console when they forget to handle an error? With callbacks, error handling is entirely on the honor system. There may well be some situations where callbacks
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by namelost 8y ago
They could make a Linux distro, a "yellow box" for Linux. I know it sounds totally ridiculous, but if Apple really doesn't want to make computers for software engineers, it doesn't stop them making an OS for software eng
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by namelost 8y ago
Anybody who has used node.js for more than 10 minutes knows that the callback style makes code completely unreadable. Unreadable code is a breeding ground for bugs. Back in 2009, that was an acceptable trade-off, because there were advantag
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by namelost 8y ago
What made Whatsapp popular is that it worked just like SMS. Users are identified by phone numbers, so you can use your existing contact list. However unlike SMS it didn't cost eye-watering amounts of money to use. Whatsapp never beca
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by namelost 8y ago
So? Let them be confused and frustrated. The world's not going to end. Big corporations have enough advantages without giving them rights that ordinary folk don't have. Say that I am a mediocre violin player. But I happen to own a
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by namelost 8y ago
Does someone know what the differences are between the final version and the draft that Chrome and Firefox enabled in Feb 2017? How much did they have to change for the middleboxes?
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by namelost 8y ago
If you're not there for the 9am meeting do they give you a detention?
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by namelost 8y ago
Obligatory: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff If you want error-free software you need a blameless culture based around process, not individual ownership of code. It should not even be possible
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by namelost 8y ago
This is the first time I've ever heard someone suggest that easy access to guns makes rape more difficult.
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by namelost 8y ago
It depends where you live. I've sat on a jury in a wealthy urban area in the UK, and I'm happy to say my fellow jurors had excellent critical thinking skills. Each of us had different expertise which we could contribute. The syste
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by namelost 9y ago
The UK is still an influential country, and data protection laws here have teeth. The risk for Facebook is that stronger regulations adopted in the UK may spread to other countries.
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by namelost 9y ago
He is not being called by a court. He is being called as a witness to a parliamentary committee. The chair of the committee can call anybody in the world that they deem appropriate. The legal perspective is that Parliament decides the law o
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by namelost 9y ago
I agree. People wish not to avoid death, but to lessen their fear of death. Arguments about how relatively safe self-driving cars will be are beside the point. A self-driving car is something that can kill you. The fact that death by self
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by namelost 9y ago
I'm sorry but the actions of the Viet Cong do not excuse the crimes committed the US, and neither does the nationality of your parents. To this day, many are maimed and killed by US land mines in the region, and the US does not give a
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by namelost 9y ago
You can't miss the accompanying videos that they recorded down in the basement: 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziTE32hiWdk (beginner) 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvRAqR2pAgw (advanced)
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by namelost 9y ago
Kind of. Unlike Indian curries, Thai curries traditionally don't use dried species very much preferring a paste of fresh ingredients, usually chilies, onion, garlic, galangal, shrimp paste, etc, and then fry in coconut milk. In this ca
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by namelost 9y ago
> Garlic, onion, coconut milk, salt, ginger, chili, spices Huh?
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by namelost 9y ago
What use is due process if everybody is guilty of some crime? Have you ever changed a URL parameter against a ToS? Felony computer hacking!

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