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Comment Re:danger vs taste (Score 1) 630

Going from a giant to a normal height person requires precisely one thing: reducing the amount of calories in versus the amount of calories out. Nothing else. After all, the only way that a person becomes a giant is through consuming more calories than they expend (if you don't agree, you are denying the laws of thermodynamics), so logically reversing the thermodynamic balance should reverse the condition. Right?
If you have an equal 33% intake of sugars/starches, fat, protein compared to 100% sugar/starches then the body will absorb the food differently even though the calorific intake is the same.

All sugars/starches hydrolyzes into glucose. It is the only sugar that is used by the body.
Sucrose is hydrolyzed into glucose and fructose. Fructose eventually converts into glucose.
Starches converts to sugar(s) then to glucose.

The more complex starches ingested the harder the body has to work to consume it.
All excesses of any food (fats etc) are eliminated.
So it is the specific makeup of food that is more important that pure calorific value.
Anything that replaces starches and sugars is theoretically good for you e.g. fiber (vegetables), pure fats and protein.

Comment Re:me dumb (Score 1) 157

What worries me is the concept of deconstructed foods. Applied to pudding it would go something like this presentation:

1 Plain, unflavoured cooked flour+egg pudding
2 A side of pudding flavoured sauce, like apple sauce
3 The missing bulk sweet ingredients that should have gone in the pudding e.g. vanilla essence, dried fruit and spices all mixed up as another side.

To eat it, you get a bit 1, a bit of 3 and a bit of 2.

As a metaphor, it describes the human condition, but you always wonder if the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Comment Re:me dumb (Score 1) 157

It's more like a digital copy sort of thing. A particle gets sucked into a black hole. But there is radiation (emanation) on the edges of it that send the particle back into the universe, except it is quantum linked to the particle that's still inside. That link is a wormhole.
Therefore the black hole seems to sample the particle (maybe adds some drm to it) and spews out a particle linked to the particle that got sucked in.

So now we've got all these linked particles floating around space, quantum linked with particles inside a black hole. Weird.

Comment Re: 12GB for? (Score 1) 66

But use 2 slots, suffer from frame jitter due to the SLI and less bang per buck.
The cooling system is a tiny bit of a hassle, especially if you also have cpu water cooling requiring a specialized case. I'd like to see Fiji, the next GPU coming out soon. Nvidia does have the drop on AMD though. No question about that.

Comment 12GB for? (Score 0) 66

This is old news. Reviews have pointed out that the 12GB ram just can't be used fully as no game can use any more than about 6GB even using multiple 4k monitors. Their conclusion reminds one of high end audiophile scams. Here's a very expensive card that doesn't do too much more than the base Titan model.
So... The AMD R9 295X2 as a single card still beats the Titan. This has a more usable 8GB ram. With a recent price drop, this is a serious card and hitting the sweet spot atm.

Back to the workstation: So maybe if you are mining bitcoins or have specific software to take advantage of the ram, then maybe it would be worth it. But you can buy 4 AMD 295X2 cards for the price of that Titan.

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