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lacrossegmon Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing

If denying something could make it untrue just think of the possiblities.

Poverty poof gone. Hunger poof gone and so on...

Reality gets in the way, of course, just as it does with GW.

lacrossegmon CRU climate scientists did not withold data

http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610#p/a/029130BFDC78FA3...

direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WvasALL-hw

lacrossegmon That Misery Called Meditation

Ten to twenty minutes of quiet meditation is a nice stress reliever but an hour or longer is just wasted time.

lacrossegmon Princeton researchers find that HFCS prompts considerably more weight gain

If the demand for corn drops because of a ban on HFCs, most of the corn farmers would just find some other crop to plant or planet more varieties that are used for other things.

lacrossegmon Is the iPad for dumb people?

"The iPad isn't for dumb people, it is for people who don't want to think about their computer anymore."

These devices will eventually just become extensions of our ourselves as with other tools.

The Samurai didn't need to think about the inter-workings of his sword to make mincemeat of his enemies in battle.

Through training, the sword becomes a natural extension of one's self.

Why should our hand held computers be any different?

lacrossegmon UK Government: Climate change scientists broke the law hiding data

"green is just sensible irrespective of the actual facts."

I totally agree with this position. There are numerous benefits to developing better clean air/water standards.

The climate "work" has been on going for decades. The science supporting the theory of anthropogenic global warming is sound.

Their may be some "believers" when it comes to global warming that just take at face value. I'm more of an accepting skeptic. I was skeptical at first that we could 1) Change our climate 2) Predict climate change with any amount of reasonable certainty. Once you understand the science you can see why its obviously true.

lacrossegmon UK Government: Climate change scientists broke the law hiding data

To each their own. I have looked it from both sides. The real-climate science camp seems genuinely concerned about causes and consequence of global warming. The other camp, call them deniers, skeptics, or whatever are more concerned about money. They believe that the cost to combat global warming is too high. It also seems divided along political lines. It is flawed logic but some people do think they can use it for political gain, on both sides of the aisle.

lacrossegmon UK Government: Climate change scientists broke the law hiding data

Exactly right. The fervent nature of global warming denial-ism drives people to go to great lengths to undermine the real science and delay action.

lacrossegmon UK Government: Climate change scientists broke the law hiding data

Yeah, screw down-votes, I know right from wrong.

lacrossegmon UK Government: Climate change scientists broke the law hiding data

Every victory for AGW denial is a long term loss for all mankind.

lacrossegmon I'm on a deserted island. How can I tell which plants are poisonous?

Water is more important than food. A person can go a long time without food, but will die without water in just a few days time.

I would observe what the local animals seem to be eating.

Another trick is to take a sample and rub a bit of it on of your skin. If it causes irritation, its probably bad.

lacrossegmon Complete Notes to Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes | Higher Thought

I'm not so sure about the science.

This quote is taken from the wiki article on Gary Taubes

"Although Taubes has no formal training in nutrition or medicine, his book was praised as "raising interesting and valuable points" by Dr. Andrew Weil, while Dr. Mehmet Oz and trainer Jillian Michaels who appeared on the same program disagreed with Taubes on many questions. [6]"

I think we have to question the science when he states that exercise is an inefficient tool for weight loss.

Taubes is against refined carbs (OK, that does make sense) but is a bit of a nutter on other causes and solutions to obesity.

lacrossegmon Complete Notes to Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes | Higher Thought

I was referring to concepts presented in "The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite" by David Kessler.

Of course, I wouldn't expect a lot of people on HN to agree, thus the down-votes.

A lot of the food industry is based on pumping the salt, sugar and fat so that we eat/buy more. So people focused on making money are more likely to side with Taubes (even if he's wrong) than with Kessler.

If I could down vote this thread, I would.

lacrossegmon Complete Notes to Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes | Higher Thought

American obsesity can correlated to eating too much salt, sugar and fat.

Fast food makes it cheap and easy to get into a pattern where a significant portion of your daily intake is essentially a combination of sugar (soda, coffee, tea, etc), fat (burgers, fries, tacos, etc) and salt (flavoring, preservatives, etc.)

If we went back to the diet before there was fast-food then we'd have a lot less obesity. People would be eating more whole grains, fruits, veggies, fish and lean meat.

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I've read a book that started with the author thanking God for granting him the insights presented in the book. Some of the more militant atheist might be offended by that. I just skipped past it and dug into the actual content, which wasn't too bad. It was no shock that none of his code contained any creationist arguments.

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I'm not sure how relevant this is to HN. I know a lot of good engineers that are creationists. It doesn't seem to keep them from producing good work. Its more important for scientist and teachers I should think.

edit: Don't get me wrong. I agree with Dawkins on this.

lacrossegmon Ageism is becoming an issue for me

This is true but we're a lot closer to isolating the nutrients that support memory and delay aging. You can also play "brain games" to stimulate neural activity and develop better memory recall, even with people over 50.

lacrossegmon Ageism is becoming an issue for me

There is a reality to aging, that's just something we can't escape. We can take measures to stay healthy and young in mind. Of course, experience and wisdom are good attributes to have too.

lacrossegmon Ageism is becoming an issue for me

Should we start looking into techniques for keeping the mind and body young? One measure would probably be how quickly you can learn new technologies and methods for getting work done. As I get older, I'm always trying to learn something new and coming up with ideas for solving problems. The last thing I want my employer to think is that I'm only good for maintaining the existing code. Another thing is how well you can relate to younger people and work with them. You can't afford to have them thinking of you as being out of touch with the current tech.

lacrossegmon The tiniest C sort function?

template<typename Iterator> void QuickSort(Iterator first, Iterator last) { std::sort(first, last); } // C++ > C, need to #include <algorithm> and <iterator>

lacrossegmon Can we stop the language bashing please ?

You cannot fix something that you don't know is broken. Programming languages can have flaws just like anything else. Unless someone points them out they'll never be fixed.

The idea that there is a single perfect language for doing everything is a myth. We need a variety of languages in our toolkit. They can be improved if there is constructive criticism, someone to listen and innovate changes.

lacrossegmon Even more new C++ features

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

lacrossegmon Performance / Price for CPUs

The whole line has been marred by the them continuing the ship buggy processors with the bios work-around. Would you buy another Phenom if you had the misfortune of getting one of these?

lacrossegmon Prerequisite for learning assembly

asperger's syndrome?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

lol j/k

lacrossegmon Performance / Price for CPUs

The top listed performance/price AMD processor is known to be buggy, which is why it's so cheap.

People that are buying the high-end systems are usually people who play PC games competitively. Intel is also making compilers that are optimized for their processors. In addition they are creating tools for optimizing parallel processing. I don't see AMD doing that. If they don't they won't be able to compete in the high-end desktop market.

lacrossegmon Performance / Price for CPUs

There's a reason why the AMD Phenom X4 9750 has the best cost to performance ratio.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14424