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xanth··on Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973) [pdf]
Having switched to eating once a day four days of the week with great results and no adverse effects I cant help but feel like there was a concerted misinformation campaign, to have us eat three times a day every day.
xanth··on Debuggers Suck
Has anything like RR been developed for the .net Core CLR or Framework?
xanth··on Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
Having watched this[1] talk concerning how they secured the Xbox One to the degree that it's in millions of peoples homes but it's not been hacked onced in 6 years, it's pretty disappointing they've not just lifted nearly exactly the same tech for voting.

1: https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/

xanth··on Segway-Ninebot unveils scooters that drive themselves to charging stations
Oh man this is a terrible idea if limited to our current tech, even if they're being controlled from the cloud with shadow-workers the havoc they could cause is significant and the chance of failure is high.
xanth··on The Case Against Octopus Farming
I suppose I'm frustrated they decided to mix the two issues and muddy the waters rather than create a clear environmental message.
xanth··on The Case Against Octopus Farming
> Did you intentionally remove the first part of the paragraph?

Yes, it seemed a little superfluous given the last third of the paragraph makes the point that farming them is putting undue stress (in comparison to alternative food sources) on the environment.

> They are talking about the environmental impact of octopus

They're talking about both the environmental impact and the ethics of carnivores.

> Farming octopuses is not only unethical but deeply damaging to the environment, scientists say.

>There is already a wealth of research that suggests octopuses are one of the most complex and intelligent animals in the ocean. They can recognise individual human faces, solve problems (and remember the answers for months) and there is some evidence they experience pain and suffering. Numerous videos on the internet of octopuses escaping from their tanks or stealing fishermen's catches have fuelled a human fascination with the only invertebrate that the 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness considers sentient alongside mammals and birds.

xanth··on The Case Against Octopus Farming
I'm with you, but it seems that the article & many in the comments are more concerned with the ethical implications of killing a thinking creature for sustenance than they are the environmental impacts of farming a carnivore.
xanth··on The Case Against Octopus Farming
> given that octopuses are carnivorous and live on fish oils and protein, rearing them risks putting further pressure on an already over-exploited marine ecoystem.

Inherently it’s no less ethical for us to eat them than it is for them to eat fish. The conditions we keep them in and the impact on the wider environment is seperate

xanth··on Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019
How do they deal with inflation/investment to counteract said inflationary depreciation?
xanth··on Blender 2.80
I'd always wondered how they made money. I've had the (outsider) impression that Blender was substandard in comparison the the paid suites (3Ds Max, Maya) in part because of my interactions with GIMP—my impression has been its lower quality in comparison to PS is a result a of its lack of funding.

Could the GIMP foundation follow Blenders example or is it politically untenable?

xanth··on Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019
> (b)the payment is part of a series of payments that are made for a supply or as a gift;

Given that the supply in this context is housing for some short term (7/14 days) and a rental contract can be exited from with 21 days, I don't see how a low income individual could be charged with an offense. Every additional payment period would conceivably be considered a separate supply not the accumulative rental period.

xanth··on Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019
Not all digital systems fail similarly, consider some sort of distributed hub and spoke system that could arbitrate transactions; thus mitigating a single point of failure. Also consider how much of everything we purchase today is entirely reliant on our digital infrastructure, if there were some calamity that entirely halted our networks I don't think legal tender would be any use.
xanth··on Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019
If a public institution was introduced to allow you to freely digitally transact and securely store your money would you feel similarly?
xanth··on Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019
There is no such law, at one point the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) was state run but was privatized in 1996.
xanth··on Case of the Missing Women
I'm not sure there's any way to talk about people in aggregate whilst keeping a compassionate tone.
xanth··on Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV
I'm fully up to date but at work in Australia, so there could be a number of blockers to me getting this feature.
xanth··on Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV
I still can't see cast button in the Prime Video app, maybe this will come in time?
xanth··on Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest
Good point, even with non renewable resources excess power is often entirety wasted when the expected grid consumption is lower than the production.
xanth··on Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest
I wonder how much this processes would consume and further reduce the effective yield.
xanth··on Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
Why? The more equitable the tax code the more complex it becomes. And assuming you're aiming for the most fair system I don't understand only applying our computational resources to rendering superheroes and recommendation engines, when we could scale the tax code complexity (and fairness) relative to our compute resources.
xanth··on Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?
There is a strong correlation between the increased usage of social media by young people and an increase in suicide rate, that being said the US went through an economic depression at the same time so maybe it has more to do with young peoples guardians economic stability.
xanth··on Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps
The whole concept of fleeting pictures is designed to make you addicted, I refuse to get on board because I know I'll get sucked right in.
xanth··on Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library
Yeah, inclusive how?
xanth··on Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are all in Australia
To be fair the southern hemisphere only accounts for 31% of the world's landmass and of that Australia is 20% of the total landmass in the southern hemisphere experiencing summer right now.
xanth··on Cloudflare Ordered to Expose YTS, Showbox, and Popcorn Time Site 'Operators'
How doable is a anonymous ipfs torrent tracker?
xanth··on Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
Having not done any cloud work myself I have no clue how much this would cost, anyone able to give a rough estimate?
xanth··on Ask HN: Is it reasonable to cover your webCam?
IMO If 'they' are covertly using your webcam you have bigger problems than them catching a glimpse of your naked arse.
xanth··on Announcing a specification for PHP
Javascript is the lingua-franca of the internet not PHP.
xanth··on Facebook was down
This could just be a coincidence but it seems that Spotify is bugging out, I am able to open the program but it wont play any music. I authenticate with Facebook so maybe that has something to do with it.
xanth··on Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
I have been meaning to use LayTeX for my assessment and now that my second year of university is rapidly approaching this product looks perfect. I would love to use this but github intergeneration is a must for collaboration. What is the time frame for git integration?
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