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Carbohydrates are 4 calories/gram. Fats are 9 calories/gram. Frosting does not win.
I believe frosting is mostly fat by weight. Nevertheless butter beats it, pretty much by definition.
Looks like a >4:1 carb:fat ratio by weight.
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Often higher risk goes hand-in-hand with higher reward. It's all on a spectrum.
There's absolutely zero reward for crossing the Antarctic alone and very high risk of death.
Just this week I read a story about Henry Worsley who died trying the same thing: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-dark... . After reading, I wonder if you have to a certain level of insanity for doing something like this.
Lou Rudd is also currently making the same journey, partly in memory of Henry Worsley who he knew. https://m.facebook.com/louis.rudd.7 Him and Colin set off on the same day, 1 mile apart on the ice.
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I have the same thought when I see presidential campaigns. I don't think a balanced person would put themselves and their families through that. You have to be some kind of crazy to do this. Maybe we need these extreme people, but I am not sure we should take them as something to aspire to.
I think about this a lot. We would have better leadership if it wasn’t such an objectively terrible job.
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I read that and just thought this guy is a moron. There's no discovery, no profit, just vanity.
That's way too harsh to describe a man's personal quest for adventure. It's not just vanity. You have no idea how many young minds have been influenced by this adventure. How many potential new startups will come about because someone somewhere out there thinks 'well this guy just gave up his life trying to cross the Antartic, what stops me from doing something perhaps tiny in comparison, but monumental in value, or…
It can inspire people to train a bit or visit nature or something of the sort. If watching expedition makes you start startup, then it is odd as caring about business makes physical training harder.
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I read that and just thought this guy is a moron. There's no discovery, no profit, just vanity.
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still…
Wasn’t the crossing of Antartica unsupported already done in http://www.travelexplorations.com/cecilie-skog-and-ryan-wate... ? Asking because Colin’s website says it’s a first but I must be missing something.
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This level of insanity is not as foreign as you might think. The feeling of accomplishment I get from climbing a mountain, finishing a marathon or a long bike trip is comparable to the feeling I get after taping out a chip, shipping a major software release or delivering first-of-a-kind hardware to a customer. For some of us, getting Tetris to work in Conway's Game of Life is insanity. For other people, walking acros…
Except that guy literally died. Nobody dies playing on a computer and it's pretty rare to die from running or biking in civilization.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tragic-teen-gamer-d...
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world/taiwan-gamer-death/...
Just this week I read a story about Henry Worsley who died trying the same thing: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-dark... . After reading, I wonder if you have to a certain level of insanity for doing something like this.
I read that and just thought this guy is a moron. There's no discovery, no profit, just vanity.
Tangent. I once met a guy who told be about a historical book of, as far as I can remember, 2 or 3 explorers who were friends (?) and were racing to explore Antarctica. Does anyone happen to know the name of said book? It's been my white whale.
Not the book the guy told you about, but one of the finest memoirs ever written about exploring Antarctica - The Worst Journey In The World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World It's a fantastic read, written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard who was part of Scott's expedition. Such an amazing story, and to think they were doing this in a day where sat phones and GPS were not a thing (not even flashlig…