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by thras 17y ago
And by listing negative effects, you can also make bad things sound bad. Lots of people kill themselves with marathons. Maybe there's a right way to do it, but obviously it's easy to do it the wrong way. Which makes marathons dangerous
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by thras 17y ago
e) 5-10 big name publishers threatened Amazon over Macmillan, and they had to choose between backing down or facing a publisher revolt.
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by thras 17y ago
It's not just the forefoot striking (also, Vibram != barefoot, call them minimal, if anything). When you run barefoot, you don't do anything stupid with your feet, like subjecting them to lots of impact, because it hurts!
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by thras 17y ago
Master/servant? I prefer the pusher/user metaphor myself.
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by thras 17y ago
The Vibram KSO doesn't do a good job of keeping your feet warm in the cold and wet. I mostly run barefoot on dirt trails, but pull the KSO's out of my pocket when I hit really bad terrain. Cold is the one thing that stops me. I'm moving to
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by thras 17y ago
From the Engadget leaked photos, it looks like it has both cellular connectivity and a front video camera. Video calling, here we come. Still, the more I find out about the device, the less interested I am. It looks like it's just going to
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by thras 17y ago
The problem is that there is a hell of a lot of general purpose software out there already that's never going to be worth the effort to port to a single device. The iPhone has some nice apps, but runs nothing important to me in my professio
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by thras 17y ago
iPhone-based OS. I wonder if everything will have to go through an App-store? Annoying if so.
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by thras 17y ago
Here's a helpful tool for figuring out Sun's strategy on any given day: http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/sunstr...
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by thras 17y ago
Uh, yeah. That's somewhat obvious. How else would I have gained the weight? Magic? Now comes the million dollar question: Why was I so hungry that I ate 470,000 extra calories? Could carbohydrate driving insulin driving fat explain it? Home
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by thras 17y ago
The weight gain lasted from when I was 170 pounds until I was 305. I had to stop running when I hit 240 or so. At 305, I was still 30 pounds under my max...but something tells me it wasn't water weight.
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by thras 17y ago
Well, a gene can spread in a small group through drift (even if detrimental). If it allows that group to out-compete the next tribe over, it will spread farther. Of course, no one has ever seen this in action, so it's pretty unlikely that g
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by thras 17y ago
No no. I just eat a lot of meat, eggs, and cheese. I average 2-3 pounds of rib-eye per day, 6-9 eggs, and 3-6 ounces of cheese. Googling for calorie information...good god, that's 2900-4500 calories a day. And I'm only 5'10". No modified fa
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by thras 17y ago
It did work. I lost the weight. Pay attention to fiber? The research in support of that suggestion is execrable (pun intended). I did try the 500-1000 calorie deficit for a number of months. My weight loss was on the order of 5-10 pounds, a
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by thras 17y ago
I've actually never heard of hyperuricemia being caused by carbohydrate restriction. Nobody seems to list it in the standard "drink your Coke, low-carb kills" list of warnings, either. Anyway, here's Taubes on Gout: http://www.fourhourwork
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by thras 17y ago
No tiredness for me. There's the "induction flu" that people on Atkins get, and I felt that for the first few weeks. Apparently it's caused by sodium depletion (carbohydrates cause you to retain a lot of water/salt). Drinking non-sodium-red
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by thras 17y ago
You will lose weight on calorie restriction as long as you go low enough. Though I've been fat my entire life, after college, I was 150 pounds overweight. I lost the extra weight by eating 900 calories a day for a year and a half or so. At
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by thras 17y ago
Well-written comments are generally helpful. And the people who write well-written comments generally understand the concept of brevity. Badly-written comments are worse than no comments at all. Badly-named variables and functions are worst
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by thras 17y ago
Maybe things have changed since 1985. This article found that 33% of all marriages were inbred in Bangalore, Mysore, and Karnataka: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2803361 Also, according to the article I just linked, "The highest rates of inbre
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by thras 17y ago
Just noticed this on our installation. Y2K+10...
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by thras 17y ago
No it hasn't. This is 2 events in an expected background of 0.8. According to reports it's a 1.5 sigma event. Noise. This can be dismissed until they get to 3-5 sigma.
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by thras 17y ago
These seem to be up on archive.org through 2008. The rest are available through Google Reader.
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by thras 17y ago
Child predators can attack your family through Google real time search? Moronic. Flagged.
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by thras 17y ago
So stupid. We don't worry about this with dangerous chemicals, and those don't have a half-life. They'll stay deadly forever. There is no need to treat nuclear waste massively differently than other kinds of waste. There are some special
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by thras 17y ago
Couldn't newspapers do this before? I don't see why Google needs to be involved so that a newspaper can show a registration page when a user goes to their article (from Google) more than 5 times. They could implement this with or without Go
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by thras 17y ago
You mean "root exploit" not "root vulnerability." The second term is again mistaken, although it gets used a lot. Did you even read the exploit code? He's figured out a way to overwrite LD_PRELOAD environment variable for anything SUID. Tha
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by thras 17y ago
I'm willing to take your bet. He has claimed that "localhost vulnerability" was the term used on the OpenBSD list in the 1990s. Why don't you try to find it there: http://emailthreads.org/list/openbsd-security-announce.en.ht...
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by thras 17y ago
Huh? Sorry, but to quote the advisory: A short time ago a "local root" exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list; You don't know what you're talking about. This exploit appears to give local users root privileges, making it a
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by thras 17y ago
"Localhost vulnerability" is a meaningless term. It's called a local root exploit. EDIT: Since I got modded down for saying this, try to Google for it. There are less than 300 hits for "localhost vulnerability," with this article leading th
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by thras 17y ago
The author has stated that his account was disabled. Some info: http://www.halfsigma.com/2009/11/what-happened-to-mangans-bl... http://www.halfsigma.com/2009/11/google-censorship-rears-its... http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/11/where-di

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