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Some people here seem to be upset. I don't get it. More than 40% of US adults are obese. The rates of chronic diseases are through the roof. There's obviously a systemic problem in…

The last paragraph of the Discussion section makes it clear that fat on its own isn't to blame: > This pilot study examined correlations between diet composition, mental health, mo…

And that was just the install process. Soon you'll start using it and you'll quickly come to despise anything Windows-related. A good tangent is this absolutely marvelous video put…

The good things about books is they compel you to truly engage in an argument, an idea, a conception of the world. You can't opt out easily, and that means you ought to be focused …

Yes, there's in fact an incentive mismatch here between the creator and the media. But it doesn't mean it wasn't there before to some extent. There are still great resources out th…

Look at the buildings in this painting: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/view-of-washington-dc-ed... . Do they look exceptionally ugly? To be fair they look almost exactly like …

On the subjectivity of "beauty" in modern architecture: - if you average the "subjectivity" of most people (in the USA at least), you get "we prefer traditional architecture": http…

Is this ironic ? You give the example Yglesias, one of the most famous independent journalists in the US, and litterally the first paragraph of your article is about how he turned …

This always sounded incredibly scary to me, especially when I was in my early 20s. I guess when you're that age you don't like the idea of things having an end, you are sort of ove…

As someone pointed out to me recently when I argued the same thing, crypto and blockchain does have a use case: funding organizations and people through anonymous means as to circu…

I agree, it's probably the one use-case where it can be useful and ease the process: funding things anonymously as to circumvent the scope of the law/avoid the eyes of the authorit…

It seems to me that this whole issue is fairly simple: does the blockchain technology solve any real-world problem that people have? A mere analysis of its logic says it does not, …

I'm not sure what you're referring to with the Jan 6th hearings (I don't really follow US news), but in my opinion it's certainly the case that politics, media and administration a…

I agree, although it has to be noted that that you can preview most ffmpeg commands using ffplay. The syntax is the same as the ffmpeg command, without the final output filename ob…

You've got to appreciate the irony of how an article about historical revolutionary technologies is buried under what has to be one of the most obnoxious web interface I've ever se…

> The issue is more that literary scenes don't really exist any more, in the sense of groups of people who all know each other and have common values. This is a very good point. It…

Yes, I guess the remarks on population density and on workers' wages make sense. Thanks for clarifying.

I live in the old Lyon district and I agree entirely, but it's hard to buy into the argument that "we can't build this anymore because it'd too expensive", as if the people at the …

Obsession over tools, and the more trendy obsession over productivity ("My secret to be 10x more productive!!") ultimately seem tautological in the end: most people hooked up on th…

You'd probably enjoy reading Christopher Lasch's "The Culture of Narcissism". It makes all sort of great points about yesterday's hippies' and pop culture personalities' ability to…

>The key to this is just searching the archives of Usenet That's interesting... but how exactly do you do that? Seems like the search engines I tried never return anything more tha…

This, I believe, is the essence of the whole point.

>I really don't see a material difference between recording an album in a recording studio and writing a program at a desk, or writing a book for that matter. You don't write an al…

Concerts and plays are a real things that happen in the real world. So is teaching. They don't exist in a virtual space where everything is duplicable ad infinitum and where the ne…