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They can also tend to be harmful in combination, such as in the case of relatively unstable unsaturated fatty acids going on to be glycated in the presence of sugars (some moreso t…

Stated preference vs. revealed preference

I don't know what's worse: a gradual realisation that there's going to be nothing that anyone can do to prevent your sudden, violent death or a gradual realisation that you're goin…

The human brain can run on up to 70% ketones overall (this is not only safe, but it appears to have additional therapeutic benefits) and your body can synthesize glucose in your li…

That may be, but you know that in order to truly one-up him and show your dedication you're going to have to do it on rollers.

You get this with anything that hasn't been mass-produced at a large scale and commodified for a long time. It's more remarkable that something like a car (or a mobile phone, or a …

He's probably hesitant to do something that would be likely to bring his company's satellites closer to being seen as combatants in a proxy war between major powers, seeing as they…

Hiraeth is a Welsh word that describes a longing for a place that cannot be visited, perhaps because it no longer exists or has never existed.

I imagine that for any small-to-medium sized avian a ~100lb robot could very easily become a threat.

It's p̶a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶u̶l̶a̶r̶l̶y̶ pretty hard to obtain guidance systems and components or certain types of ruggedized electronics that haven't been deliberately gimped to prevent them…

I don't think that the signer would be able to verify the authenticity of the data that it received from the sensor and image processing circuitry unless they were able to authenti…

Cryptographically verified recordings don't sound practical to me (sensors and video processing electronics sound like a lot of hardware to put in a secure element), but I'm sure w…

> Condescending attitude towards his s/o. Do we have a particular reason to believe that skydhook is a man, or is this an assumption?

Following on from this, I imagine that being able to synthesise atom-level (or at least indistinguishable) copies of priceless works of art of great significance could also provide…

"Well, I don't think that's actually a weakness."

Or offensive weapons; the classic prison toothbrush shiv can be a perfectly effective murder weapon, and its ergonomic handle can provide all the grip and support that an offender …

It would probably just appear as faint noise, and then only if it happened to be at wavelengths that the sensors were tuned to detect, and which the machine's signal processors wer…

The bureaucracy- and accounting-related points of the article aside, though, the Department of Defense must regularly buy non-ferrous, non-sparking hammers with list prices of more…

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Again, I'm not sure that's so clear once you factor in bioavailability, and even if you were to use nitrate fertilizers and to cover the hillsides in legume monocrops to then feed …

Last I heard, the subset of beans that have been somewhat developed for human consumption are nonetheless still full of antinutrients like glutamates and lectins that function as a…