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Comment Re:Stop blaming processing...it's the ingredients! (Score 1) 84

Things get murky when you process food (like bread) and add a preservative or something

The preservatives are in the flour. I've made bread with unbleached, organic, non preservative flour. The finished loaves kept for about a week before the mold set in. The unused flour, not much longer.

Never again. When my doctor told me I needed more greens in my diet, I didn't think he meant mold.

Comment Re:The law of betteidge says no (Score 1) 30

I'd rather just buy a healthy company ...

while the short seller takes a loss, having to either cover or exercise the options

Probably a good idea. Short selling and buying options are two different things. If you don't know how they work, best to stay away from them.

If you buy an option (put or call) you can just walk away from it, taking only the option purchase as a loss. (Selling options is a riskier undertaking.)

Comment Probably useless today (Score 2) 49

During my power company career a few decades ago, this was a real thing. But that was due to the use of power-hungry HID lamps. Today, it's mainly LED lamps, which consume much less power. Small grow operations consumption data drops down into the noise level of typical home use.

Large grows can be found by walking drug dogs through your neighborhood. Or drones equiped with chemical sensors.

Comment Learned something today (Score 1) 49

disproportionately harming the Asian community.

I wasn't aware that cannabis use (drugs in particular) were a serious problem in the Asian comunity. Particularly due to the exploitation of the Chinese by the British opium trade in the 19th century, most of the people of Asian descent that I associate with steer clear of the "white man's drugs".

Comment Re:Cool (Score 1) 40

The US did not even had to mine the uranium for the bomb. They got it from Germany in April 1945,

Not completely correct. We had all the U-235 we needed for a bomb plus plutonium production by that date. We did seize and ship back the German supplies captured. But that was in part to keep them out of other parties (Soviet) hands.

Comment Re:Minor quibble (Score 1) 307

You can see a word-by-word translation of the Greek:

And having made a whip of cords all He drove out from the temple the both sheep and the oxen and of the money changers He poured out the coins and the tables He overthrew. And to those the doves selling He said Take these things from here

I've reinserted the articles which that interlinear translation omits. On a grammatical level it's fairly clear that "both the sheep and the oxen" is expanding the "all" whom he drives out with the whip; and on a higher analytic level the fact that he tells the dove sellers to take their merchandise implies that they weren't driven out with the whip: to interpret that as saying that he used the whip on some merchants but not others according to what they were selling is a harder interpretation to defend than that the whip was used to drive the animals.

Comment Re:Good use. (Score 1) 74

Not anything. Especially when dealing with nuclear. There are some parts that once degraded cannot be safely replaced. For example, the containment unit. And others where making a new one makes more economic sense than replacing even when technically possible. What state this plant is in I have no idea, and am not qualified to have an opinion on. I just hope experts are making the decision based on economics and power requirements and not politics.

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