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What's wrong with industrial processing

It's going to be lower quality than unprocessed fresh food, for several reasons:

1) Food spends longer between harvest and mouth, so any nutrients that are lost over time will be reduced in the final product.

2) Food crops are of varying quality, and the highest quality will go directly to places people will see it (e.g. tomatoes in the supermarket vegetable section) and the lower quality (less ripe, overripe, blemished, part squished or bruised) will go to the industrial processing where it ends up not being noticable (e.g. XYZ in tomato sauce).

3) There's a lot of scope for badness to be included in processed foods. When dealing with trailer loads at a time, detailed checks are impractical so contaminants become more possible. Food processing is factory work which is generally low skilled, low paid and long hours, so there's more room for things like poorly cleaned machinery, accidental contamination by people, gross fooling around, a nod and a wink and sod the overbearing health and hygiene rules when workload is high.

4) Labelling laws in some countries only require ingredients of more than X amount to be included, so there is room for contents that you don't know about and therefore can't choose whether or not to eat.

5) Industrial processing is full of bizarre things. Who eats cotton? Nobody. So how come it's OK to put cottonseed oil in food? Why is nickel used as a catalyst in the making of margarine? Nobody uses nickel as an ingredient or as a material for cooking utensils.

6) It exists to make money, not to make you healthy. Food processing is better if it takes cheaper ingredients and makes a more expensive desirable product. They are hacking your perceptions, studying flavouring and colouring and mouth-feel and so on, to make something look and taste nicer, while not actually doing you more good (or even, less harm).

and is there evidence to prove it?

I think this comes under the side of "prove God doesn't exist". Humans lived for a long time without mass food processing, and now we have it it's accepted as fine and the suggestion is that we have to prove that it's bad. Surely the default state is to be without food processing, and supporters should have to prove why it's good? (Apart from the fact that it makes lots of money, that is).

Is it possible to make up for whatever negative effects it (anything one is advised not to eat) has

Who knows? Ask yourself why some 70 year olds are out hill walking, travelling, working, are healthy-albeit-old and some are demented, plagued with ill health, bedridden, seriously forgetful, suffering arthritis, heart disease, loss of balance, etc.

Is it really all luck and genetics?
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As someone that knows very little about DB2 I found this article to be very illuminating. I can see his points about the power of using system authentication for controlling logins. However, as someone that runs quite a few MySQL and PostgreSQL servers the 'downsides' he presents of keeping login info in the DB is not an issue. I have a script that just replicates that info to all the machines-I remove them from the master DB and within a few minutes they've lost access to all the DB's.
But "breaking in" indicates some disorder. I wouldn't trust a doctor to go into my house without asking me first. I would trust Amazon only to remove the thing they're legally obligated to remove.

Perhaps I don't have the same feelings regarding owning a copy of somebody else's work. I don't feel ownership towards ebooks. I feel ownership towards the money I spend, but if I get that back I wouldn't be mad at what Amazon did. That's a minority opinion, and I think it would be worth debating somewhere that's not here.
There are plenty of real karate schools, far more fake ones. The test is pretty simple- you ask the instructor if the students fight each other. If no, it is fake. Very hard to get good at something without ever doing it.
Because you need to eat. You don't need a new pair of sneakers.
(1) follow your heart. love what you do, ignore everything else and good will come. despite your doubts, this is true.

(2) Any degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will be better received by potential employers than all degrees from Pellissippi State Community College.

(3) follow your heart. love what you do, ignore everything else and good will come. despite your doubts, this is true.

this could be conflicting advice. welcome to Life.

g'luck!
It rains pretty frequently out here, I'm not sure why people make such a big deal out of hurricanes.
I spoke of LSD with the implication that LSD is much worse than marijuana in terms of lasting effects (flashbacks in this case). I used it only to provide some frame of reference in the real argument, which is over marijuana. You went after my mentioning LSD despite weed being the topic here. That's a straw man, if you care about being syntactically correct.

Find me the story of somebody who was "lost" in LSD and I'll respond to it. Right now you're spreading FUD. There is proof of LSD flashback. There is no proof of people getting "lost" in trips. There certainly is proof of LSD aggravating people with mental instability, but instability exists without drugs.
Excellent points all.

Anybody who wants to use social drugs should take a look at meditation and self-hypnosis, because you can get the same emotional states that you'd get with drugs through a little practice. As lionhearted mentioned, hallucinogens are the one exception.
Part of the trust he earned was a technical advantage. America at this time did not have half a dozen news networks. There were only a handful of men delivering the news via this medium. CBS as a pioneer of the medium had an incredible amount of reach from a technical broadcasting perspective. More (powerful) transmitters reaching more homes. Better entertainment programming keeping channel dials on CBS. It's also important to remember that TV news was still a new concept in those days. TV itself was still an incredibly powerful medium to people. It certainly helps he was a top notch journalist and could rival the more mainstream print media.
Comedians will exaggerate grossly in order to make their point.

In other words, they improve their marketing. How ironic.
The publishers are not the enemy
And, since the chroma is degraded, it automatically gives the images that magazine-cover "beauty blur" effect.
Knowing Bill Gates used LSD just made the drug even less attractive than it was before...

I don't want to be like him. ;-)
"Simple proof: Kerosene is jack-full of calories."

Err... it is. What's your point? Caloric content is completely unrelated to toxicity, and I don't see any reason why it should be.
Don't, but have. Enjoyed it to a point. Great times (again to a point). Should be legal, but it's not, and that's the real danger.
Just to be clear, I was translating, not giving my own views on the subject.
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Amazing Stories: Book Five "Fine Tuning". http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1068892441/

Much less epic than Contact.
I believe the word people are searching for in this situation is actually "pioneer." He was a pioneering TV news anchor. Hackers like pioneers, whether they end up innovating or simply exploring uncharted territory.
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Sure, it would have been better if these features were in a 1.0 release, but Palm doesn't need to take away Apple customers right now. There are a lot of people who don't want AT&T service or don't want to pay the extra for the iPhone plan. So the market is large and growing, especially as more people buy the Pre (and Palm's upcoming devices for AT&T and Verizon).

Sure apps won't not be as "rich" at first, but there is still going to be a demand for the simpler ones. It may be harder to have, and get profits from, a "hit" for the iPhone. However, I bet your expected return on a simple Pre app is higher than releasing an iPhone app. The app store is so big it's hard to get noticed. You could even just clone existing iPhone apps. They sold once, they will sell again.

Once the SDK is advanced enough to let you have more access to the hardware, the market will be ready for those apps. Sure it'd be great to have them now, but they'll come. In the meantime, you can build the easier apps.

I suppose if you really wanted to, you could get access to it as long as you're willing to do a little reverse engineering. Some ideas:

1. Direct Framebuffer (http://predev.wikidot.com/directfb). I don't know much about OpenGL programming, but this might be able to be used. Doom runs on it, so perhaps there's a way through that.

2. The built in apps must execute some type of native code. For example, when the phone app initiates a call. Does it somehow make a call to a local shell script or app? You could use that to write stuff in whatever language you wanted and have it talk back to js app. The tools are available to compile executables for the platform.

Be the first to figure this out and you've got a great head start, because I'm confident this is how Palm will do it. Or even release your app outside the App Store; you don't need to "root" a Pre to install an app. A person downloads an "installer" on their computer, plugs in their Pre, and runs the program. It installs it on the phone over USB. No hacking required. You'd have to do payment processing yourself obviously.

Note: I also recognize that games make up a large number of iPhone app purchases, but there are still a lot of games you could make for the Pre with the SDK's limitations.
FWIW, I keep the wireless on my Kindle off unless I need it on for some purpose. The battery lasts forever that way, and Amazon can't delete my stuff either.
Each to his own and for me it's about living and enjoying life to the fullest and safest. You can always sit on the sidelines and play it safe; whatever floats your boat. That's not me!

Mary Jane for me is no big deal, though I don't use it anymore. In college I enjoyed it with friends weekly; it was fun and it even landed me a job at a major record label out of college; jump started that career and made me 3 out 100 in my music biz degree to land such a job! Though I no longer participate or smoke it had a great positive impact on my life and it was hell of a lot of fun! It's boring now to me and I have out grown it!
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Unfortunately, it would probably need to be "Disney gets to make money from all its copyrighted works forever".

But I suspect Disney isn't actually that powerful itself, but it has sufficient resources and motivation to argue its case strongly before the appropriate committees - and then the many other powerful parties with similar interests rally round it.
Part of the article discusses how soft, highly processed, or cooked foods are easier to digest and thus yield more usable calories than hard, unprocessed, or uncooked foods. The implicit conclusion is that the hard foods should be preferred due to the decreased caloric usage.

However, there is a flip-side to it: Having to digest a big, tough-to-process meal can actually cause you to feel tired! By eating soft easy-to-digest food, you leave more of your body's precious energy available for things like, you know, going about your daily activities. (Read _Spent_ by Frank Lipman for more on the topic.)

With that in mind, though, it's still probably better to eat soft easy-to-digest nutritious foods than the all-too-common easy-to-digest processed crap that's devoid of any nutritional value.
I like IPy, but it uses too much reflection for it to be used for this. In addition, Boo's macros make life easier.
There is no argument here. There is a lot of "but they're simpletons who don't understand the Internet" and "the CEO has to answer awkward questions from other simpletons if he doesn't insist upon the right to 'unpublish' a book".

Never mind that the whole point of being a publisher is to publish books. Never mind that a bunch of people, clearly, had bought these and were therefore paying more than the paperbacks for those cost in store for fewer rights. The whole foundation of ethics is that just because you can do something does not mean you should do something.
Take a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_lookaside_buffer

Basically when you switch between processes you have to update this. In 64 bit and some 32 bit operating systems you don't need to update the TLB to make system calls, the kernel shares address space with whatever process is running.

With a single process running I don't think the overhead is anything to concern yourself with, but if you have a lot of processes running I think it can measurably affect performance.
WALTER CRONKITE'S "WE ARE MIRED IN STALEMATE" BROADCAST, FEBRUARY 27, 1968

Tonight, back in more familiar surroundings in New York, we'd like to sum up our findings in Vietnam, an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective. Who won and who lost in the great Tet offensive against the cities? I'm not sure. The Vietcong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw. Another standoff may be coming in the big battles expected south of the Demilitarized Zone. Khesanh could well fall, with a terrible loss in American lives, prestige and morale, and this is a tragedy of our stubbornness there; but the bastion no longer is a key to the rest of the northern regions, and it is doubtful that the American forces can be defeated across the breadth of the DMZ with any substantial loss of ground. Another standoff. On the political front, past performance gives no confidence that the Vietnamese government can cope with its problems, now compounded by the attack on the cities. It may not fall, it may hold on, but it probably won't show the dynamic qualities demanded of this young nation. Another standoff.

We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. They may be right, that Hanoi's winter-spring offensive has been forced by the Communist realization that they could not win the longer war of attrition, and that the Communists hope that any success in the offensive will improve their position for eventual negotiations. It would improve their position, and it would also require our realization, that we should have had all along, that any negotiations must be that -- negotiations, not the dictation of peace terms. For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
you may want to try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action
What's your point

God, I hate explaining obvious things. Are you really that confused? Really? Which has more energy that can be metabolized by a human being:

1) One celery stalk, or

2) 500,000 gallons of jet fuel.

Huh? Huh? The nutrition labels are not talking about the physical sciences but human nutrition.
Reading is fundamental: it's an exploit against 2.6.30.
mine is 1.35 KB
In fact due to an odd lacuna in the law inherited from English common law, if someone in the business of selling cars (say, a used car dealer) sells one to you, that car cannot be repossessed (although the used car dealer is liable for the cash amount of the car). This is precisely to protect consumers, who can thus reasonably expect that if they buy an X from someone who deals in X, they are fine.

This does not, of course, apply to buying Xs from people not in the business of selling Xs. If your garbageman offers you a deal on a car, that car can be repossessed.
6% housing appreciation in a few years is FAR from another housing boom. In fact, it's under most estimates of inflation. And with the way we're printing money over here, I think inflation is far more likely to increase than decrease.

I don't think that this is necessarily a "great idea" but I was just trying to explain how the bank can get "equity" (a share of ownership) from a homeowner who is underwater in their current mortgage.
A hacker is somebody for whom not all solutions are equal; the more elegant is to be preferred.

Of course, definitions of elegance vary greatly :-)
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Did anyone try it? I don't have a master lock on hand.
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A lack of competitors is almost always a bad thing because it means the market you entered doesn't interest anybody else.

Completely disagree with this. There are plenty of successful startups that created a whole new niche that didn't even exist before they got into it. If anything, the lack of competition (and a high barrier of entry) were significant reasons for their success.
- allow a '+' in the email address

- make the data sticky, if you give me an error when I enter a '+' in the email address, I want the stuff I previously entered to be there

But it looks nice, I'm hoping to get a free bike
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You probably already know this, but just to clarify, LSD flashbacks are not biological, but psychological, similar to Vietnam flashbacks or other PTSD inducing events.
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Calories are an incomplete way of looking at food anyway. What type of food are you eating? What sort of enzymes does your body need to produce to digest it? What sort of hormones will be produced?

From a fitness perspective food is a game of hormone manipulation, not calorie counting.
What is your solution? The system, if you want to call it that, is massive, bureaucratic, and has checks to stop the right thing from happening. If the publisher's CEO decides he hates DRM, then what will the board say to him? There's no way to eliminate the middlemen without eliminating the content in the process, or having to create new content. Unless, of course, you want to bring the government in or something like that.
Illegal or not, the purchasers bought the books from Amazon's web site, not from some Hackerz site. Amazon later discovered that the books that Amazon was itself selling were somehow illegal, which the buyers need not have to be concerned about in the first place.

Then instead of informing the buyers of it's mistake, Amazon decided to delete the copies outright, without any notice and of course without any talk of refund to the buyers.

That's what I understand of this situation.
hmm so we have a front page news item on HN everytime a celebrity dies. Michael Jackson was a music "hacker", Cronkite was a news "hacker" ...

Hooray for all the future "Celebrity who was really an [X] "hacker" passes away " articles on HN!
Soft focus is spherical lens abberation, something you would usually want to avoid.
I bet it would gravitate toward his next meeting with the board, the part where someone asks, slowly:

So copyright law gives us rights over our content that you decided to waive why, exactly?

But that would never happen, because if there’s one thing he knows how to to best, it’s to avoid risk.

What about most obvious risk--the one the article conveniently overlooks--the risk of customers not buying your product? Would you buy a book that included a remotely operated kill switch which could dissolve the pages at the wishes of the publisher?
sounds like an application i can use. let's give it a try. BB
Q: Who defines what "general interests" benefit society as a whole?

A: Special interests.
Correct, people normally avoid soft focus in the luminance curve. Running the chroma curve(s) through a low-pass filter, however, is the "Make My Logo Bigger Cream"[1] of the commercial photography world.

[1] http://makemylogobiggercream.com/
Can anyone explain this issue (http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/925dl/apollo_landin...) Google moon not matching these images? INACT (I'm not a conspiracy theorist) just curious.
I found a Master lock that I know the combo to (I consciously tried to not let knowing the combo influence the "where are the clicks" results).

Got 12 candidates and seven .5 numbers, just like it said. One of them was the correct last number. Throwing away the .5 numbers left four numbers with the same digit in the ones place and an odd man out which was indeed the correct last number.

The modulus trick produced the correct first number in the resulting candidate list and the second number candidate list contains the second number. So yeah, does work on this lock (where "work" == the method results in only 100 combinations to try manually, one of which I know is correct).
hahaha good one!
I know its very unhealthy, but how about sleep deprivation or fevers? I've never really hallucinated, so I wouldn't know.
It would be interesting to see the effect of captcha on signups (and not just comments). Also it would be good to know if re-captcha works out to be better (since it has audio support).
"So is everyone who becomes famous in their respective field a "hacker"? "

No, but you see, the death of (US based) celebrities is of great interest to hackers worldwide under the

"On Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "

guideline, because such deaths are, of course, gratifying to intellectual curiosity.

Strangely enough this bit of the guidelines doesn't seem to be having an effect

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "