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I am not surprised. You have obviously never stood in Ethiopia or wherever and have gotten a call from your bank: " This is the fraud department, unfortunately we have to block your card but we send you a new one".
Trick question: How many CC do you carry at a given time?
Hint: based from experience it should be at LEAST 3.
I once started a business with a black Nigerian partner. In fact, I would not consider a black guy as partner in business anymore. Been there, done it.
No, I have worked in the diabetes field and I do know, how difficult it is. But on the other hand, you don't get seriously overweight overnight and you have to start countermeasures early.
"Or look at the demonization of fat and the promotion of sugar as a health food." Yes, it should be the other way around. Please also take this into account: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/15/967.full
"skinny people are fucking assholes". The sampling size is too bigt to make any statements about "skinny" people. Also, being seriously overweight in Europe is a tiny majority, compared to some states in the US.
As a fat person you
a) may not care about conventions.
b) you have little self control
c) you may be impulsive in things
I don't have any friend who is seriously overweight and successful. But I know a shitload of people the other way around. I just tried recently to do business with a seriously overweight person and, feel free to blame me, would never do that again.
So congrats for losing weight.
"Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them."
Steve Martin
"We run small hosting company, if any domain blocks our clients mails we block theirs and problem gets solved magically." :-)
Try fastmail infomaniak.com (can also buy email for external domain) gandi.net (email included in domain)
Link?
That is an interesting point and true for Newspapers. The opposite is true for online newspapers.
What changed my life was recoll https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
I also looked into OpenPaper but in the end it offers nothing that recoll does not and recoll does it better. https://openpaper.work/en-us/
Marking PDFs, make them searchable and adding comments in Polar could be great for grants and writing a thesis.
EDIT:
1. I really DO like the webcapture feature. I often save importent webpages since I know they may either not be available anymore in the future or I can't find the link anymore. This feature seems smooth already. But how can I sure that your software will still work in 10 years? Do you have an export feature already?
2. I would really like to be able to have folders as a feature to sort stuff better.
3. Your blog does not have an RSS feed.
In fact, milk and wheat may have compounds, that are addictive.
Of cause they try to. It is normal evolutionary behavior of plants. And co-evolution of humans to being able to tolerate this toxins.
Sure, just a few liters of drinking water wasted. Now lets 1.5B Indians, 1.2 B Chinese and a bunch of other Asian countries do this, where people eat rice every day.
Sounds to me like a terrible idea.
1. Consumes much more water than needed now.
2. Consumes much more Energy than needed now.
3. Yes, you leach out part of the Arsenic for sure, sounds like a "continuous extraction process". Rice contains nutrients and vitamins. How about them?
Had problems with Claws Mail, dont use it.
This never got off the ground: https://ivelope.com/
Also tried this one out: http://www.memecode.com/scribe.php
Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies /Safa Motesharrei a,⁎, Jorge Rivas b, Eugenia Kalnay c
Summary Collapses of even advanced civilizations have occurred many times in the past five thousand years, and they were frequently followed by centuries of population and cultural decline and economic regression. Although many different causes have been offered to explain individual collapses, it is still necessary to develop a more general explanation. In this paper we attempt to build a simplemathematicalmodel to explore the essential dynamics of interaction between population and natural resources. It allows for the two features that seemto appear across societies that have collapsed: the stretching of resources due to strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity, and the division of society into Elites (rich) and Commoners (poor). The Human And Nature DYnamical model (HANDY)was inspired by the predator and prey model, with the human population acting as the predator and nature being the prey. When small, Nature grows exponentially with a regeneration coefficient γ, but it saturates at a maximum value λ. As a result, the maximum regeneration of nature takes place at λ / 2, not at the saturation level λ. The Commoners produce wealth at a per capita depletion rate δ, and the depletion is also proportional to the amount of nature available. This production is saved as accumulated wealth, which is used by the Elites to pay the Commoners a subsistence salary, s, and pay themselves κs, where κ is the inequality coefficient. The populations of Elites and Commoners grow with a birth rate β and die with a death rate α which remains at a healthy low level when there is enough accumulated food (wealth). However, when the population increases and the wealth declines, the death rate increases up to a famine level, leading to population decline. We show how the carrying capacity – the population that can be indefinitely supported by a given environment (Catton, 1980) – can be defined within HANDY, as the population whose total consumption is at a level that equals what nature can regenerate. Since the regrowth of Nature is maximum when y = λ / 2, we can find the optimal level of depletion (production) per capita, δ* in an egalitarian society where xE ≡ 0, δ∗∗(≥δ∗) in an equitable society where κ ≡ 1, and δ* in an unequal society where xE ≥ 0 and κ N 1. In sum, the results of our experiments, discussed in Section 6, indicate that either one of the two features apparent in historical societal collapses – over-exploitation of natural resources and strong economic stratification – can independently result in a complete collapse. Given economic stratification, collapse is very difficult to avoid and requires major policy changes, includingmajor reductions in inequality and population growth rates. Even in the absence of economic stratification, collapse can still occur if depletion per capita is too high.However, collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion.
For finding stuff I use recoll. Not sure if baloo has also other uses.
"Tracker is installed by default with Ubuntu 19.04. Tracker is a filesystem indexer, metadata storage system and search tool"
So no real privacy issue here or anything. But load on the system may be annoying. Boloo should be the KDE equivalent and I don't like it.
PS: Yes, this stuff can be annoying: " It wasn't installed by default until now due to performance concerns, but those issues seem to have been resolved."
I use recoll and it has literally saved my hours of work.
apt-get install recoll
"There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level)" http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-stat...
Limits to Growth–At our doorstep, but not recognized http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-02-12/limits-to-growt...
Wealth And Energy Consumption Are Inseparable http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-...
Galactic-Scale Energy http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...