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You get all these folks freaking out with nonsense self diagnoses and labels when the plain fact is they have messed up health. They've eaten garbage for many years and spent too m…

> Did cavemen make bread? Yes. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/humans-feas...

> leaving excess sugar that will be converted into fat De-novo lipogenisis from sugar in practice does not happen humans. If you do something goofy like keep dietary fat under 5 gr…

The report had a weird take that the caffeine must be tricking the bees, to their detriment. More likely is that the bees recognize that caffeine is good and healthy. The body of r…

The college admissions system has encouraged the arms race mentality. The SAT has been repeatedly reworked such that test prep works better. I really doubt involvement in the summe…

What Ebert did for the most part was accurately say whether or not the masses would find a film enjoyable. He was very good at his job. A film critic should aspire to do more. He s…

Ebert was an idiot and an idiot's reviewer.

The only way Rotten Tomatoes is useful is if you look only at the negative ratings. All kinds of horrible schlock that has mass appeal gets "certified fresh." But isolating negativ…

The think to do is find a few reviewers who resonate with you and keep tabs on them. I mostly just see what Armond White tells me to see.

The pants are cut for squishy office drones. It's for guys carrying an extra 12 pounds who still want a modern tapered cut. The quality is pretty much standard disposable American …

You got a small fine. At no point were you at any risk of facing incarceration. You were also probably doing something stupid and very annoying like stinking up the floor in a dorm…

You don't get it. Those people get hit with narcotics charges because the cops and D.A. know exactly who they are and the long list of other crimes they've committed. People who si…

Every time I ever got high on weed I felt lingering effects for about three days. I've never experienced this with anything else. It always seemed to me that people who smoke weed …

That simply doesn't happen in America. Cannabis is de facto legal throughout the USA. I repeat: marijuana is in practice legal in America, and all these people talking about drug c…

Instead the DINKS (Dual Income No Kids) are running minorities out of their neighborhoods by bidding up the price of the land. Uhh, that's pretty much the plan. The landowners in p…

I would say Indian humans are different from Occidental humans. Large cities in the West have generally been population sinks over the centuries. People move to NYC or London and d…

To be fair Japanese writing is insane and they know it. It's far too difficult.

Prohibition on charging interest makes perfect sense in a zero growth economy. Economic growth was effectively zero per capita for almost all of human history before the industrial…

The lenders of yore would drag you into a legal status of debt peonage, a form of slavery, if you couldn't make payments. The old loan sharks would break thumbs and legs. As long a…

Doesn't gerrymandering mostly carve out a lot of districts for black congressmen who otherwise wouldn't have districts? I think that's kinda what it boils down to in America. There…

One expert discovered this new neat social hack: hanging out in person. Kidding aside, I prophesize that the next really big, impactful American political movement will not have a …

> For some reason Wouldn't 99% of people see GPL and move on?

The single largest weight in SBIR award evaluation is previous success in commercializing SBIR funded technology. It's a blatantly ridiculous catch-22.

Nothing compensates for the absurdity of spending over $3K for one.

> one process per core, each locked to a single core; use locked local RAM only (effectively limiting NUMA); direct dedicated network queue (bypass kernel); direct storage I/O (byp…