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chenda wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:42 am

I thought that was a myth ?

I think it has been coming down in recent years, the same as in Japan.

I've seen that effect in my work. When I left my last employer I went back to some of their customers and did the same work for them at three times the cost. The difference in the way they treated me was very noticeable yet the only change was the increased rates. People really do seem to value thin...

unemployable wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:02 pm

And he still used electricity and stuff, just not at home.

Christ this stuff is like a fundamentalist religion to some people. It doesn't have to be perfect to be valuable.

Not a scientist, so grain of salt here but it seems to me society as a whole has grown more intolerant of disruption and has gotten good at using technology to marginalize potential threats to the status quo at earlier stages. I wonder if aging populations will have more of a problem with this. It ...

My son has one of these. As far as I know the only issue he had was with a weak hinge. I think this was a common problem and has been resolved in later models. He was happy enough with it to convince his company to buy him one for work.

It is interesting to me how David mostly follows a vegetarian diet but has been leaning more and more towards full-vegan (dropping eggs and dairy from his current eating regime). That seems to line up with my own understandings of eating for optimal health. He stated that the Mediterranean diet pro...

@Lemur The video is at https://youtu.be/wD8reCw3Kls

Also I agree with the general statement that the majority of benefits from IF are through caloric restriction. I was under the impression that recent research shows the causation was the other way. Because those poor mice ate everything as soon as it was presented to them they were eating during a ...

Merry Christmas everybody.

Five years is fine when you are young but those of us who can see employment opportunities withering away as we age will be looking further ahead.

Most of my hand tools are forty years old or more. The only electrical item close to that was a hand mixer that lasted about thirty years which we just replaced (after several repairs).

@Jacob I've often wondered why those sort of places don't exist. Something like a workplace or school canteen where the scale can deliver better value than you can get at home.

I'm trying to get to one meal a day. I've tried in the past but failed, probably because I did it in one step. This time I'm gradually pushing back the time of my first meal until I get there. I've moved it about two and a half hours so far without too much difficulty.

basuragomi wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:09 pm

The switch is held in place by a magnetic alloy which demagnetizes at 105 C.

Which it can only get to once all the water has boiled away. I wonder who came up with such an elegant solution.

A big problem for teachers as well, my guess is many students are already asking it to write a proof of Euler's formula or a summary of the US constitution.

@liberty I'm not so sure about that. My wife was a competitive athlete in her youth (100m in 11.51 seconds) but is paying the price now with lots of mobility issues. Pushing your body to extremes comes at a cost.

zbigi wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 3:45 am

Let's not kid ourselves - male labor is, on average, more skilled.

I don't believe that. Now that brute strength is rarely required for any of these jobs I can see no reason why women can't do them.

Write a poem about extreme early retirement: I retired at thirty-five With a nest egg that was quite alive No more long hours at the office for me Now I'm free to do as I please I travel the world and see new sights No longer stuck in a daily grind I have time for hobbies and passions galore Life is...

KeepassXC is a good open source password manager. Not quite as polished or convenient as 1Password or LastPass but no subscription and you get to keep everything local. In terms of two factor auth you are at the mercy of your financial institutions, here in the UK most of them use SMS for authentica...

If you redistribute wealth without reducing consumption then you haven't solved any problems, you're just moving the emissions from one demographic to another. The atmosphere doesn't care. I didn't say anything about redistribution. The point I was making is once you take away peoples ability to co...