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Comment: Re:Easy answer (Score 2) 270

by turp182 (#43799419) Attached to: 3D Printers For Peace Contest

Maybe yeast culturing systems? Or a better, sealed bread box that supports humidity controls (desiccants)?

We can't print food (well, maybe meat, but it's not affordable at this point), but we could print things that help people better store and preserve food.

Of course we can't print salt either, the most historically used food preservative...

Comment: Re:Nice. (Score 1) 422

by turp182 (#43799393) Attached to: Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early

I haven't seen the link yet (kids are about ready for bed...), but a breakdown by capital lost, capital returned, and capital still successfully in play would be the best evaluation, along with per company values for each category.

I don't mind government investment to promote new ideas, but investing in things before society is ready to adopt them would be foolish.

The flip side is promoting necessary societal changes that take a lot of time, investment, and infrastructure. Oil and other fossil fuels are infinite, but we do seem to have reasonable supplies now. But if those supplies slip, will we have the resources to come up with viable replacements in time?

Comment: Re:Maybe they missed the point of the loan... (Score 2) 422

by turp182 (#43798703) Attached to: Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early

Maybe, but it's conservative spending and accounting that allow for such early payments.

I appreciated the bullet points, and the government shouldn't be worried about future interest payments if it receives the provided capital ahead of schedule. At least they got paid back.

Comment: I take 6 grams a day (Score 1) 103

by turp182 (#43798229) Attached to: Scientists Find Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Three 2 gram doses before meals.

It's anecdotal, but I haven't been sick for more than 36 hours in 20 years (half my life, no cold or flu), but only taking C and other supplements for the past few years. Since having children I have gotten short sicknesses more often, but that's because they incubate the stuff and pass on heavy doses to me (in my opinion).

I also have to mention that I got sick a lot as a young kid (flu and other nasal related infections). That's probably the reason my immune system is what it is.

But the C can't hurt, except for some stomach problems at particularly high doses (greater than 10 grams if you aren't used to it).

Comment: Re:Makes me want to move to Australia (Score 1) 227

by turp182 (#43784871) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

I'm going with music rather than a second spoken language for my kids. It's something I do actively that I believe will be similar in benefits to the kids learning and cognitive development.

I've started with piano (keyboard connected to a computer actually, I have thousands of sounds it can produce, they like the variety) and then, in a couple of years (5-6 years old) moving to guitar (I play) or violin (my wife plays), depending on what they each want to do. I'm also learning to play piano more as well (I previously only knew chord patterns).

We also have a variety of kids and adult drums/bongos (love my djumba) that we bang around on a lot (great for camping).

Why not a second language? It will be unused and quickly forgotten. So music is the language of my choice and I hope I can pass on a love for music as my mother did for me (well, she had an electric guitar laying around and I just started playing it, but having it available was the critical part).

Comment: Re:Damascus steel was lost for centuries (Score 1) 207

by turp182 (#43783575) Attached to: Narrowing Down When Humans Began Hurling Spears

You may want to consider a combat/hunting knife for the "rougher" food tasks. It is not uncommon for me to raid my camping equipment for my SOG Seal Pup Elite for kitchen use. Not the sharpest blade in the toolbox (it holds a edge pretty well, but it gets abused commonly), but the toughest one for sure. And I like the way it looks...

Comment: Re:Damascus steel was lost for centuries (Score 1) 207

by turp182 (#43777739) Attached to: Narrowing Down When Humans Began Hurling Spears

Try Shun steel knives. Not too expensive on sale (relatively speaking, a good knife is not cheap, $100 isn't too much for a superior chef's knife), they will draw first blood I guarantee. They are knives that deserve and get a high level of respect lest you bleed everywhere (both have caused me to ruin dinner by bleeding on ingredients). The ones I have are full tang,100% metal.

They stay sharp far longer than any knives I've ever owned. I sharpen them myself with a 4 stage sharpener, razor sharp for at least a month, with 3-4 uses per week.

I didn't believe such a knife existed.

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