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I don't see how it's any better than a comment here. I just wanted clarification as to whether the poster thinks elemental magnesium is a good thing or a bad thing.

Is elemental magnesium good or bad? Looking at reviews on Amazon they make it seem like a good thing.

I went to the Louvre last year a few days after Christmas which I assume is not tourist season (first time in Paris). It was packed, and the Mona Lisa was surrounded by a sea of pe…

Reminded me of a great sleep app I used to use. It's called Gentle Alarm and it really is a great hack. I don't know if the authors of the software came up with this idea but it wo…

I'm not sure I remember any good books. There's quite a bit of info on the web though. Besides bloggers who exclusively focus on sleep, the only communities that take it seriously …

I was a night owl when I was younger. Went to bed around 2am and felt like a sack of potatoes for a couple hours in the morning. I have no idea what time I would naturally wake up …

While I agree with the general premise, it appears Harvey Silverglate is a fraud. This came up on HN a while ago and I looked up a few of the cases mentioned. A brief search reveal…

So was Ronald Fisher. He was a big proponent of eugenics.

I agree in general, but in many parts of Italy they generally fry everything in extra virgin olive oil.

Much the those issues are addressed in various boost libraries. There is one which wraps all the algorithms and containers in range classes so that all the f(c.begin(), c.end(), g)…

Outside of jobs where it's pretty easy to hurt someone if you're intoxicated (construction, etc.), my personal theory is that it's all about control. As far as I know companies use…

Yup. Read my comment above if you're interested. I had never heard of the guy, but you are being way too easy on him. Presenting the arguments as he does is in my opinion an object…

I looked up the first one, Violating the Lacey Act. What they say happened: Two men were sent to prison for 8 years and one woman was sent to prison for 2 years for violating the L…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer Spain seems to have multiple poop based Christmas traditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas

Seems to me they found a witch. Or is bigotry just a myth?

I think Eich is a bigot and I'm glad he stepped down. I don't see how someone can be against gay marriage and not have a problem with homosexuality in general. How does one go abou…

Would you say the same of people who hold opinions you've always thought were immoral? Do you respect the current remaining members of the KKK for sticking to their guns?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but blacklisting was done by the government. It wasn't just some business owners that decides they weren't going to hire non-communists. Big difference.

If Mozilla changed their mind and asked him to be CEO again he could. If another company asked him he could. Just because no one wants you to be CEO does not mean you don't have th…

mutex.lock(); doStuff(); /*throws an exception, mutex is never unlocked*/ mutex.unlock(); ScopedLock lock(mutex); doStuff(); /*mutex unlocked by destructor in all cases*/ It guaran…

Unrelated to the post but related to the code you wrote - I have found that changing the tag struct definition to a declaration will cause a compilation failure if something accide…

C++ FAQ Lite is actually the "lite" version of the C++ FAQs ( http://www.amazon.com/FAQs-2nd-Edition-Marshall-Cline/dp/020... ) which is great.