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I have no idea which point you think I'm making. I'm certainly not claiming that boiled chicken breast is unhealthy. Cod is healthy, and not meat.

The point I'm trying to make is that it is a challenge to overeat on a diet that doesn't contain meat or (added) sugar.

And since overeating is a major cause of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, it's fair to say that meat and sugar are responsible. Without meat and (added) sugar, we would not have the current level of obesity in the west.

I'm specifically not claiming that meat or sugar is unsafe in any quantity.

I couldn't find any dell or hp workstations that go over 64GB in RAM. The Mac Pro goes up to 1.5TB. Apples and oranges.

In absence of guns being fired at people, guns are completely safe. There isn't even an association, let alone causation.

> And it would be naive to think that eliminating added sugar and meat would prevent people from eating too much.

I guess that people could still gorge themselves on potato chips, popcorn... Maybe a few other foods? But surely it's clear that 90%+ of overeating occurs with meat and sugar?

It's not just that meat and sugar are unhealthy, but also that presence of meat and sugar correlate with absence of healthier foods, such as vegetables, legumes, seeds, fruits and nuts.

It mostly happens to "Deutschland", actually: Germany (English), Allemagne (French), Tyskland (Danish), Německo (Czech). Only in the Netherlands (and Flanders) is the name used that they chose for themselves (Duitsland).

This apparently confused the English so much that they called the inhabitants of the Netherlands "Dutch".

Thanks, just followed her on Twitter.

Can you imagine Dorothy Parker being on Twitter? It would have been made for her...

Increasing GDP does not imply increasing consumption, and increasing consumption does not imply increasing pollution.

According to the System76 site, they charge $1798 just for the SSD.

Worth reading: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-th...

SQL on Rails, 2006

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Es9-l1up3r8

The US has 34 people/km2.

Aiming for lower population density is why the Netherlands turns sea into land.

I think you mean Amsterdam to Lyon

It’s in IKEA assembly instructions that this maxim shows itself in its most harmful form.

It was below 3 in 2016.

You’re more likely to be murdered in the U.S. than to be killed in a traffic accident in the Netherlands.

My point being, there is a lot of room for improvement in _both_ numbers.

Why use anonymous functions for control flow? Nearly any other language would either return an error or throw an exception.

The interest payments here would be from the bond holders to the German state.

Because Germans prefer saving money to buying exports of Italy or Spain or Greece, or go on holiday there.

That text is over 1000 years old.

This is Shakespeare, from 1599:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Hardly foreign

This also exists for voice. It’s called “Siri”.

No, institutional investors never put vast sums of money in banks, regardless of the yield.

Yes. The difference in interest rates implies that the EURUSD exchange rate is expected to rise (slowly) in the coming decades.

It could, but there still isn’t anything safer than German bonds.

Excellent question. There is a company, The Narrow Bank, that has the same idea, but they didn’t get a banking license from the Fed. Matt Levine, whose newsletter you should clearly start reading, has the details: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-06/fed-re...

In the context of web development, they are generally considered as distinct.

No, "Als achter vliegen vliegen vliegen, vliegen vliegen vliegensvlug."

Following your suggestion, I’ve read it now in its entirety and I’m considering adding “subjective experience” to my axiom, but that might be too aggressive.

My rule of thumb with regard to objections to Many Worlds is that if the article discusses consciousness, or brains, in any way, it’s not about Many Worlds, but about consciousness, or brains, and I will stop reading it at once.

I fed that sentence to GPT-2 last month. Brilliant:

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed. There was talk of trying to track down a mysterious man who, if not a gun, could be a helpful ally. For a moment, the two could not be sure. The Man in Black was not the same man they had met at the end of the night. But he could be a friend.

As the Man went through the desert and into the darkness of the unknown, he left the gunslinger behind. The gunslinger was in the middle of a trail of shattered bricks. The Man went away.

"Man in Black," said the Gunslinger.

"Gunslinger," said the Man in Black.

As I'm reading this article, I found myself agreeing, and thinking, so that's why a certain kind of people likes bitcoin - they're marks - too clever by half, doing well while doing good. "Especially if there’s also a pot of gold associated with being on the right side of that Big Idea."

Then comes the kicker: the author is a bitcoin believer who believes it's Libra that is the con.

Delightfully ironic.