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I have a Nokia 1800. Does calls, SMS, alarms, calculator, has a flash light, and keeps its charge for about a fortnight. I'm sure smartphones are good for a lot of people, but I ha…

> I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front. Me too. The earliest wr…

I've read a few non-canonical writings from that time (I'm a Christian). The most interesting orthodox writings are probably the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas. Among the unort…

It seems like a deceptively easy way to solve global warming. Anyone see any holes in it?

DDG also has its own crawler which iirc they plant to eventually switch over to.

http://forums.majorleaguegaming.com/topic/209781-a-corkscrew... For when you wake up a bit.

> How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? So we're just assuming it will?

$20 per person per day? That's massive, even for Australia. What are you eating?

I think there is also some concern that the Coles/Woolworths duopoly is driving prices up. I usually avoid big supermarkets, but I haven't noticed any significant difference in pri…

Yeah, there was something in the paper this morning about food prices inflating. If it's any consolation, the price of consumer electronics, furniture, and clothing have deflated a…

It's not true, but I don't think it's disastrous or anything like that. Saturated fat is practically impossible to cut out completely, and our body can produce it anyway. The more …

Food and Agriculture in Australia and New Zealand isn't as heavily subsidised as it is in Europe and America. That's one possible reason.

I was considering organ meats at one point, but unfortunately there's a bit of an ick factor to get over when you haven't been raised on the stuff. (Saying that, I used too eat liv…

Haha. $3.00 is how much one flat white costs at the local cafés. Guess I should have mentioned that I'm not downing 10 or 20 cups of instant coffee per day.

I live on ~9AUD per day, AUD being roughly equivalent to the USD. $3 of that goes towards a coffee, $3 goes towards meat, and the other $3 goes towards vegetables and other foodstu…

Yes, but farmers in America generally aren't content with living on the same income as a farmer in India, so we need to pay more.

> 6. Keeps saturated fat to a minimum In case anyone's interested, this recommendation is long outdated. You should be keeping trans fats to a minimum and trying to increase your p…

I can also see some disadvantages to ceding your sovereignty to a not-entirely-democratic supranational bureaucracy. Hopefully it all works out for Europe but I hope to God my coun…

As tempting as having my mortgage paid sounds, I don't think I could do it. I do sort of take pride in my home, and turning it into a giant ad would just feel like I'm cheapening i…

I have trouble believing even "normal people" will want to use the tablet for anything except casual use. The desktop computer's monitor/keyboard/mouse setup is too efficient to be…

I'm surprised by how much difference add-ons can make. Here's to hoping this will inspire some changes for the better.

> Check the "new page" and vote up stories you like. I know very few people do this, because I find good stuff overlooked there all the time. This is the biggest one IMO.

> I feel they have a real-estate bubble of incredible proportions. It's bad, but I think it seems worse than it is. Reason is that in East Asia buildings that have been lived in ar…

Horses for courses, and all that.

> MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing This doesn't surprise me, to be honest. Organisms have evolved to be fit enough to survive, and efficiency a…