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One thing I've found is that honey is an amazing sore-throat cure.

I wonder if Bitcoin's recent adoption by some big sites is actually what is bringing the price down as people with stored up BTC are sending them to merchants, who are instantly converting them to their preferred currency?

I think that in the context, it conveys the fact that it's 10% of the original price better than saying 10%.

Hey, this tumour stopped growing.. guess I can ignore it now!

Maybe they want to save the world for the world's sake. I am generally in favour of the world.

If I throw a ball and suddenly it stops, contrary to what I expect, I don't go "oh, I guess the ball just stopped of its own accord, naturally," I go, why the hell did it stop?" and look for reasons. Who knows, maybe it really did just stop naturally, but maybe it was something else (wind.. hit something.. ball burst creating a backwards force..)

It's not that every year lately has been hotter than the last; however, the last 13 or so years are hotter than anything from 20+ years ago.

See graphs here: https://www.google.ca/search?q=global+temperatures+annual&tb...

My phone's ring tone is the reading rainbow theme

My grandfather used to give me coins to count. Loved it. (Was older than a toddler, though..)

Not so much in Canada. We'll call someone from the US an American, but we don't say America; we'll say the US, instead.. as I just did.

Agreed, yep. They'll vote for their niche issue even though the rest of the platform may hurt them or their ideals more in the big picture.

I know, just that they behave similarly to the pictures shown. My point was just that I think the reason liberal-type people don't react to the image can be either that the images themselves are not dangerous, or that the images do not depict actual scary situations (the model with the spider on her head is not actually scared or in danger).

(Whereas a psychopath, lacking empathy, would not react much to even real images)

I don't think there's a 50/50 split. It's just that with a 2-party system like in the US, it's natural that they will roughly split the vote.

On it being "worse" and liberals being unafraid in the way psychopaths are -- it could be that they are unafraid of things that can't hurt them, like the "scary" staged photo in the article. Maybe if they used realistic pictures, they'd get an actual response. And of course a picture of something scary and something actually scary is quite different.

Makes me remember when I found a video online of a guy getting attacked by a lionesss. At first I thought it was fake or that the guy would get away, but when I realized it was real and saw him getting more and more tired of fighting the lioness off, I started feeling sick.

So a different takeaway could be that conservative-types are scared of imagined or suggested dangers or that liberal-types are better at discriminating between real and fake dangers. So I think it's more about the way the imaginations of the people work.

>Unless he's a complete idiot

Possibly...

I was expecting a transparent/invisible font.. Disappointed.

Geez I remember my dad's Toyota Camry would start shaking at just 140 km/hr (87.5 mph.. holy crap maybe I was about to time travel). Many cars, and especially most drivers, just can't go that fast safely..

I think having just 1 final formula will be a mistake. Different people have different needs. I remember reading somewhere on his site that women testers complained of hunger, for example. Activity levels and age may cause different needs as well.

It's a bit of this TED talk about having alternative recipes because there's rarely one ultimate recipe that everyone likes. Some people like smooth peanut butter, others like crunchy, etc. http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...

I'm not sure it actually is wasteful, though.

Social Security in the US is supposed to have minuscule overhead.

In Canada, even the government can't always be trusted to not give money to charity groups that are anti-gay -- individuals might find that a feature, not a bug, of the charity :P.

Knowing an accountant, I know that many charities put barely any of their income towards the actual charity (the legal minimum is 2%.. two percent!).

Breast cancer gets huge amounts of donations, while less glamourous, but more lethal cancers get much less.

I know that if I were to hit hard times, I'd rather have something not too personal, rather than feeling beholden to random people, nice and generous as they may be.

Plus, do we really want selfish people to keep the most money? :) Screw those people, give with the rest of us, with professionals deciding where the money goes, not random people's pet interests :P

I worked in a place with tight corridors. They had mirrors installed so you could see if someone was coming.

Yesterday there was a post on here where Elon tweeted a reply to someone that his guess was the closest yet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046943

He seems to verify that there will be "pods" 2m wide, so it sounds like this will be tunnel- or tube-based.

I actually kind of miss static sites. These days everything seems to be about pumping out new content, like a newspaper, whereas static sites were more like books. They had chapters, an order to read, table of contents... you explored them, rather than just read through them backwards.

I don't really understand the whole objection to Soylent.

1. I don't care much about food. The smell, experience and taste. Why in god's name would I spend a bunch of time each day just to have the "joy" of eating food? I could be doing other things, like having sex (Seriously. "Too hungry for sex, let's make [time appropriate meal name]" happens a few times a month!)

2. The name is humourous, and was a good way to get attention. Could do with a re-brand, but I figure we nerdy types who would be interested in this would enjoy the somewhat sick humour of the name.

To me personally, eating, and the things involved in it (grocery shopping, preparation, making and packing lunch or going out, deciding what to make, poopin', flossing, etc) are the very antithesis of the idea of living this short life I have.

I just have better things to do than chew and taste stuff. If I feel like experiencing some nice food, then I can go out of my way to get it. In fact, I'd probably be more inclined to make a couple good meals per week, and would enjoy going out or ordering in more, if I wasn't having to deal with food every day.

There's always someone in these Soylent threads who says, "Just learn to cook, it doesn't have to be time consuming or expensive, and you'll enjoy it!" but I just. don't. care. about food.