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Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by vertex-four »

platz wrote: post #180
vertex-four wrote: post #174

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There was a promotional document a couple of years ago which describes each type of egg they do.[0] The egg mcmuffin is actually the best, as it's entirely just an egg, cracked and cooked from scratch right there. [0] http://static6.uk.businessinsider.com/image/54c920c1dd08950d...

Ok, so the worst thing I can find about the egg McMuffin is that it is prepared with 'liquid margerine' which appears to contain some trans fats in the form of 'partially hydrogenated soybean oil'. My understanding is anything that is partially hydrogenated is trans fats. Apparently it is has 1/3 of you daily allowance of sodium as well.

On the other hand, if you're eating at McDonald's, I suspect the presence of trans fats in the oil isn't something you're super worried about - it's not like it's junk food loaded up with things you can barely pronounce, specifically designed to make up 75% of your recommended allowance of calories while containing as little meat/veg as possible.

McDonald's, as long as you approach the menu reasonably, is honestly probably one of the better fast food options - not something you should be eating every day, but once every couple of weeks probably isn't going to kill you any faster than anything else you do.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by redblacktree »

starpilot wrote: post #155
throwa_way_ wrote: post #130

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How exactly does McDonalds make eggs that aren't real eggs> I don't believe that.

There are carton "eggs" that you pour. The McMuffin really is made from fresh cracked eggs, though. I think they are delicious.

Just curious. What do you think those are made from?

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by pcmaffey »

driton wrote: post #177
pcmaffey wrote: post #123

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Self-plug: I built a 5 minute word game for this very reason (diffuse mind time) that fits right in with your list of options. www.esoterica.io

Cool game! Is there a chance to get longer words in the mix? I could be blind, but the longest word I was able to spot was 5 letters long, I think.

Thanks! Sure are. Words currently go up to 7 letters long... I will probably increase to 10 soon, so long as that size dictionary doesn’t impact performance.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by [deleted] »

rhizome wrote: post #169
Fnoord wrote: post #68

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> So, treating the symptoms rather than the disease If you want to convince people with the point you're trying to make you I suggest you address the why and come up with one or more alternative, viable solutions . IOW, in short you must be constructive and I gave two examples how . What I quoted from you reminds me of Schneier's essay Data Is a Toxic Asset [1]. I'm not as intelligent as Bruce Schneier so instead of…

simply by making certain business practices illegal. "Shit's Easy Syndrome," from a great Steve Yegge post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... Unfortunately I'm more cynical than Mr. Schneier. His three reasons are true, but irrelevant, because the companies don't even have to care how valuable the data is right now. It's already free and clear, outside of maybe COPPA. It's the territory…

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Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by rhizome »

simplemts wrote: post #168
rhizome wrote: post #158

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Do you really think they'd be allowed to call it an Egg McMuffin if it didn't have real eggs? It would be a pretty clear-cut case of false advertising.

Do you read the ingredients of anything you eat/drink? This happens all the time. Read ingredients of "Apple Juice" or "Orange Juice" and it will often say upon inspection "Contains 12% juice" or something of the like. Yeah... your Egg McMuffin probably has SOME egg in it, but that's about it.

Find me anything with fake egg that passes itself off as Egg Something. Cadbury doesn't count, it has to be an egg substitute.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by pcmaffey »

Fnoord wrote: post #167
pcmaffey wrote: post #123

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Self-plug: I built a 5 minute word game for this very reason (diffuse mind time) that fits right in with your list of options. www.esoterica.io

That's cool, just didn't know how to confirm at start. Reminds me of a game by Microsoft. I really like Wordament. What I like about it, is that if you select the same language, you get the same puzzle. So you can play against a friend who's sitting in the same room! Who'd have thought I'd love a game by Microsoft (for Android!). Only annoying this is the ads; I wish I could buy a premium version.

Will check out Wordement. I definitely plan on incorporating heads up mode, as I love the competitiveness of blitz on lichess and similar. But it introduces a whole new level of engineering challenges, so first building out solo mode.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by thousandautumns »

starpilot wrote: post #155
throwa_way_ wrote: post #130

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How exactly does McDonalds make eggs that aren't real eggs> I don't believe that.

There are carton "eggs" that you pour. The McMuffin really is made from fresh cracked eggs, though. I think they are delicious.

What's wrong with carton eggs? How are they not real eggs?

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by starpilot »

redblacktree wrote: post #182
starpilot wrote: post #155

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There are carton "eggs" that you pour. The McMuffin really is made from fresh cracked eggs, though. I think they are delicious.

Just curious. What do you think those are made from?

I wasn't trying to imply whipped eggs from a carton aren't eggs.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by gaius »

blawson wrote: post #21
gaius wrote: post #15

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McDonalds is still a viable business. When Facebook goes, it will evaporate like MySpace did. And not a moment too soon.

I'm not too sure. I think there's a lot of value in a centralized identity management system. Facebook seems to have filled that role. I can see a near future where it acts as a sort of SSO for the web. That doesn't necessarily sound like a $550B company, but could still be worth quite a bit.

centralized identity management system. Facebook seems to have filled that role.

They blatantly cannot do this unless they actually implement their real names policy. Which they won’t.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by fancyfacebook »

scarface74 wrote: post #70
fancyfacebook wrote: post #13

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People are fleeing facebook in droves. Read last week's release. Something's gotta change, it's more of a debate as to what or how.

Yes for Facebook owned Instagram... Meet the new boss.

It's not quite that simple, but yes insta is helping facebook hide their problems due to them stealing everyone from snapchat.
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