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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:49AM (#2008047)
the legion of unknown has moved on to operation paperstorm
Re:Diet hacker data point on Monday November 08, 2010 @02:01PM (#1883514)
you are correct, most junk food does contian some type of animal part be it eggs, dairy or fom animal-derived protein (i.e. l-cycten or gelatin)
Re:Diet hacker data point on Monday November 08, 2010 @02:00PM (#1883507)
Not all excessive calories are converted into fat. It all depends on blood glucose level, and liver/muscle glycogen storage levels and the level of activity after the meals.
Re:Diet hacker data point on Monday November 08, 2010 @01:57PM (#1883494)
As a vegetarian, I can attest to the health aspect of it. I am more healthy than anyone I know (all meat/dairy/egg eaters). Whenever I get a checkup they always ask if i am an athlete or some weird health nut, I just say , "no I just don't eat animals."

My last cholesterol test was 113 total.

Re:Don't vote on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @09:16AM (#1860271)
why does this get to stay but this gets killed?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860118

Re:33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org on Monday November 01, 2010 @02:46PM (#1857645)
This is the best thing that could happen for the software, it will continue, as FOSS and innovate. This is a good thing.

Ask HN: What browsers do you use everyday? I use 2 simultaneously

I just read an article on HN about how Chrome made an 8.5% gain last month. And had to wonder why. I was wondering if anyone else works like I do. While at work, all day long, I use 2 browsers all day long: minefield (firefox beta 8, latest trunk) and Chromium 9. Sometimes I am forced to use IE 8 for corporate stuff, but I really don't like that. I am stuck on windows XP because I work for a...

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:39AM (#1834342)
the deal is the steering committee is now made up of all Oracle employees, no one from the community, a BIG deal for FOSS
Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:38AM (#1834334)
OO will serve as a test bed for Oracle Office but it will not be innovative and free, OO will just be free.

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

Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:36AM (#1834325)
in theory yes, but in practice no. developing such a complex piece of software is very hard to do. the pieces are there, they just need refine it.
Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:33AM (#1834316)
OpenOffice was acquired by Oracle recently when they bought Sun Microsystesm and have not embraced the open source philosophy in the opinion of the greater open office community. So, since the code is open source, several in the non-Oracle community decided to "rescue" the project from the same fate as Opensolaris. Libre Office is based on OO code 3.3 and GO-OO.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20014478-264.html

Re:In defense of Wikileaks on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @08:43AM (#1833935)
I am thankful the world has wikileaks
Re:McDonald's Intends to Raise Prices on Monday October 25, 2010 @01:26PM (#1830688)
Pay more to make yourself sick.... Maybe we all should watch SuperSize me again.
Re:Is It Cheaper to Be Vegan, Vegetarian, or a Meat Eater? on Monday October 25, 2010 @09:24AM (#1829665)
better to pay the grocer now than the doctor later... a vegan diet will save you later in life
Re:Ask HN: What do you eat, hackers? on Monday October 25, 2010 @09:21AM (#1829655)
Mostly Vegan, 100% vegetarian
Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? on Monday October 25, 2010 @09:16AM (#1829641)
Water, Water with lemon, Water, some wine and then some more water. and NEVER corn water (i.e. pepsi, coke, snapple, etc...)
Re:Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead on Sunday October 24, 2010 @11:12AM (#1826277)
The main reason I am stuck with windows is because I have to reboot to play my new "windows only" games (wine cannot handle it) and, I have hardware with "windows only" drivers and I use as a freelancer CS5, gimp scribus and inkcsape just are not there as far as innovation and then people keep sending me M$ word docs and openoffice just cannot format these files 100%, in business this needs to work seamlessly.

I prefer a linux desktop but the rest of the world keeps making it "windows only."

Ask HN:Why MS Office over OpenOffice/LibreOffice?

In your company, organization, or personal business, what are the contributing factors as to why Microsoft Office is used instead of OpenOffice or Libre Office.Or, if you did choose OpenOffice/LibreOffice, what was it that made it so?Or did you skip both and choose Google Docs? What would OpenOffice/LibreOffice have to have in order for you to use it instead of MS Office?

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Re:Do something positive - leave your job on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @09:29AM (#1811088)
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment

The several state legislatures ratified the Sixteenth Amendment on the following dates: Alabama, August 10, 1909; Kentucky, February 8, 1910; South Carolina, February 19, 1910; Illinois, March 1, 1910; Mississippi, March 7, 1910; Oklahoma, March 10, 1910; Maryland, April 8, 1910; Georgia, August 3, 1910; Texas, August 16, 1910; Ohio, January 19, 1911; Idaho, January 20, 1911; Oregon, January 23, 1911; Washington, January 26, 1911; Montana, January 27, 1911; Indiana, January 30, 1911; California, January 31, 1911; Nevada, January 31, 1911; South Dakota, February 1, 1911; Nebraska, February 9, 1911; North Carolina, February 11, 1911; Colorado, February 15, 1911; North Dakota, February 17, 1911; Michigan, February 23, 1911; Iowa, February 24, 1911; Kansas, March 2, 1911; Missouri, March 16, 1911; Maine, March 31, 1911; Tennessee, April 7, 1911; Arkansas, April 22, 1911 (after having rejected the amendment at the session begun January 9, 1911); Wisconsin, May 16, 1911; New York, July 12, 1911; Arizona, April 3, 1912; Minnesota, June 11, 1912; Louisiana, June 28, 1912; West Virginia, January 31, 1913; Delaware, February 3, 1913; Wyoming, February 3, 1913; New Mexico, February 3, 1913; New Jersey, February 4, 1913; Vermont, February 19, 1913; Massachusetts, March 4, 1913; New Hampshire, March 7, 1913 (after having rejected the amendment on March 2, 1911). The amendment was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Utah.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/conamt.html

that fast food hamburgers are only 2.1% to 14.8% Meat (B. Prayson et al. Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating?, Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 12 (2008) 406–409
Re:Has a USB memory stick ever failed on you? on Monday October 11, 2010 @09:26AM (#1779606)
Yes, several. In fact I just had a Kingston become unreadable (even though the hardware was recognized) after just one month, had to RMA it. I have another transcend 4GB that is now eternally locked and read only.
Re:MySQL price hikes on Friday October 08, 2010 @11:30AM (#1771964)
I think MySQL needs to follow the path of Libre Office (the document foundation) and fork. The project should be run by the community and not controlled by Oracle. Oracle, like Sun did not create the database (Sun bought it in 2008) and are trying to profit off the community MySQL has created. This is open source and should remain open source.
Re:Browsers used in 5500+ HN visits yesterday on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:58PM (#1756368)
this information deeply saddens me... However I am please to see no IE :)
Re:A little aspirin may prevent colon cancer on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @09:09AM (#1735549)
so will being a vegetarian... I choose the latter.

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