My typical daily caffeine intake, circa early 2016:
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Caffiene, Nicotine, Preservatives, and Sugar. . . (Score:5, Funny)
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Nicotine's a lot less prevalent these days. I always find it amusing to read the ubiquitous mentions of smoking in older science fiction. They set these stories centuries in the future, with all kinds of technological and social changes as background, but they took it for granted that the status of smoking would remain unchanged.
Re:Caffiene, Nicotine, Preservatives, and Sugar. . (Score:4, Interesting)
Whereas you're assuming that the status of smoking today will be unchanged ... ;) Lucky you're immune to such biases ;)
Maybe people will start smoking again once they fix the issues it causes using nanotechnology :D
Re:Caffiene, Nicotine, Preservatives, and Sugar. . (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe people will start smoking again once they fix the issues it causes using nanotechnology :D
Can't solve the problems it causes in oxygen-rich environments, like space stations (and perhaps eventually pressurized buildings in high-pollution areas), that way. Smoking in low- or no-gravity would be harder, regardless, without fans or something to ensure fresh oxygen and removal of waste gases buildup. And then your air scrubbers have to be more complicated and work harder to deal with your exhaust, and you need robots or cleaning time devoted to remove residue off surfaces and out of circuitry. Much more efficient all around to eat or drink or contact-absorb your adulterant of choice. I'm not even going to say inject, because a limited supply of needles in spaceflight or remote locations, with subsequent issues of disposal, should be reserved for medical necessity.
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Second hand smoke is a non-issue outdoors, which is where smokers are being forced these days anyway.
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Don't really care. Smoke doesn't bother me outside. It bothers you because everything you don't like becomes something that needs to be banned. That's how staunch feminists operate.
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More accurately, it doesn't really taste that good, full ashtrays stink, smokey clothes, curtains, soft furnishings stink, regardless of claims consciously you are aware that smoking after a whole is no longer a choice but an addiction, it's a waste of money and if people could give up at the drop of a hat, let's be honest by now nobody would be smoking. Addicts in denial about their addiction and the failure to be able to quit can be quite defensive, I know, first hand but then finally getting there is tr
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That's part of the excitement.
You may not like the smell, but the relatively low exposure you get from passing groups of smokers is a drop in the bucket compared to what you sucked down in car exhaust on your drive up there.
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Then I guess you should stop driving your car, because that's doing more to harm people than a person smoking outside ever will.
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This is true, but the person I was replying to was presenting a supposition that eventually nanotech would take care of direct damage to the lungs, and I just assumed they meant as it happened, not after the fact, and that everyone would be given the tech. :)
Re:Caffiene, Nicotine, Preservatives, and Sugar. . (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Caffiene, Nicotine, Preservatives, and Sugar. . (Score:4, Insightful)
Even if they somehow fix all the health issues, it will remain disgusting. The only reason youngsters start smoking is that their freinds are doing it. If smoking slowly goes extinct, this reason disappears completely.
Plenty of people seem to enjoy it. I even know several people that smoke once a month or less but still enjoy it. There are plenty of disgusting things that people do every day. There are tons of food like hot dogs, jello, blood pudding, eating bugs, eating shrimp, eating dog, or even eating meat are all just social norms that some people find disgusting. There are also activities like sex and even exercise that are kindof disgusting. It's all social norms. There is nothing inherently more disgusting about smoking than plenty of other activities, it's just that smoking is currently out of fashion for health and addiction reasons.
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The only reason youngsters start smoking is that their freinds are doing it. If smoking slowly goes extinct, this reason disappears completely.
Sadly youngsters are starting to pick up "vaping" (e-cigarettes). While I know a number of smokers that have used vaporizers to reduce/quit smoking, or at least to feel less shitty from it, the fact that teens are using them to pick up a nicotine habit is disturbing.
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The amount of smokeless tobacco is pretty high.
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A surprising number of pilots chew tobacco.
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So yes, go down to Louisiana, Texas or any other (shale) oil state and you'll find them boys with a wad.
Although their culture can't be compared with the redneck states, Norway is also a place where they chew, maybe it's got something to do with oil
All these places are now suffering the low price of oil so many of these people had to look for other work, maybe check out if there is a spitt
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Although their culture can't be compared with the redneck states, Norway
More than you might think...
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Take a trip to Sweden or Norway, where a substantial part of the population (around 20%) uses snus. It has the advantage of being one of the few forms of nicotine you can use both in the shower and while sleeping. You might not even know they're using it, cause there's no chewing or spitting involved.
As the saying goes, a kiss without snus is like a boiled egg without salt.
Then there are all those who use personal nicotine inhalation devices. Many of which favor propylene glycol (PG) liquids and devices
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Re:Caffiene, Nicotine, Preservatives, and Sugar. . (Score:4, Interesting)
Or you could come to your senses and decrease your risk of lip cancer
That's the thing - there's no known link between Swedish snus and oral cancer. It's made a different way than American snuff, with steam pasteurization, much finer ground, and without acids added, and doesn't elicit the mucus irritation that causes spitting in American snuff. The Swedish government removed the warning about oral cancer on snus back in 2001, because any research showing a link was based on lumping it with American snuff. There was no credible evidence for oral cancer - the largest study showed a negligible decrease in risk vs non-tobacco users, and a significant decrease in risk compared to smoking.
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It's pretty common to find spit cups at the bar patios, and I live in SF Bay Area. It might be common in a demographic that aren't part of the circles you run with.
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Pretty much all contractors in the oil and gas industry chew. They smoked back before somebody realized smoking around flammable stuff wasn't the best idea.
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I'm hoping that technology will bring back smoking, I miss it.
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Today nicotine has been replaced with marijuana, though not for engineers.
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One of the computing magazines I subscribed to in the early 90s (Byte? PC Mag?) ran a "review" of different caffeine products as though they were programming tools, rating them for flavor, price per ounce, and effectiveness at keeping one alert.
I mostly remember this because I was surprised they rated Mountain Dew better than Jolt Cola.
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I've been going with "salt, sugar, grease, caffeine", since college. The four restoratives after a hard night, easily located in the college dining hall or any fast-food establishment.
How many mg of cafeine in a cup ? (Score:5, Informative)
40 mg for an expresso to almost 100 mg for a cup of filter cafe (120 ml) .
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http://www.mayoclinic.org/heal... [mayoclinic.org]
Given that I'm working on my fourth 20oz Caramel Macchiato it's two hours before lunch and I make them strong... I probably get about 7000mg of caffeine a day.
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My grandfather smoked a pipe until he died at 103 years not from lung cancer... I imagine that natural tobacco probably isn't as bad as the paper and chemicals they use in cigarettes but he may have just been lucky.
I do however like the anti-smoking add that says cigarette smoke contains methane which is also found in dog poop... and then people are like "gross how could anyone ever put that in their mouth"... of-course my answer to that is "You mean like the stuff that people pipe into their house to cook
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The caffeine is just to keep me going until the meth kicks in.
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They also say it can cause hallucinations but my pet dragon thinks they're stoned.
No I'm serious, I didn't used to drink that much it just got to be more over the years. Caffeine has little effect on me or my wife has been switching my coffee with decaf for years. On occasion I have gone a day or two with no caffeine like when visiting my mother who drinks only decaf and didn't suffer withdrawal symptoms either.
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Depends on your serving size and brew.
According to Wolfram Alpha:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in... [wolframalpha.com]
250 mg
and yes, I drink coffee in programmer-sized vessels.
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And the strength of the brew.
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The brew strength varies quite a lot, and mostly by culture and geography. A normal cup of coffee in Scandinavia is easily 3-4 times as strong as what a normal cup is in USA, but brewed quicker, so it's less bitter. (That made some problems for Starbucks trying to establish themselves in Scandinavia, but serving the same coffee as they did in USA.)
Personally, I prefer my coffee made in an old fashioned kettle. And it's probably stronger than what most people are used to, but to compensate, I drink more o
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Like this one: Kockums kaffekanna [porslinet.nu]
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Oh, I thought by "kettle" you meant a percolator. I used to use one of those and liked the coffee it made.
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No built-in filter, just water and coarsely ground coffee. Let it boil, then let it rest and pour carefully.
That's how they did it before the coffee filter was invented.
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For those who haven't made coffee the old fashioned way, here's how:
1: You need coarsely ground coffee. Not filter ground, but with the individual grounds up to half a matchhead in size.
2: Boil water in the kettle.
3: When boiling, remove it from the heat, or reduce the heat to well below simmering.
4: Immediately add grounds. You can't wait a minute.
How much grounds depend on how strong you want it. A common rule is one heaped table spoon of coffee per cup of water, plus one extra "for the kettle".
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At Starbucks, an single shot of espresso is 75mg and a small cup (8 floz/238 ml) of brewed coffee is 180mg.
These values are average. 40mg is very low for an espresso.
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Here is the page for Starbucks : http://www.starbucks.com/menu/... [starbucks.com]
AFAIK, Starbucks uses 100% arabica. Robusta is almost taboo in the US for anything better than instant coffee. It would be a bad move for Starbucks, who tries to give an image of quality, to use robusta.
In Europe, especially Italy, robusta is more accepted and most espresso blends, even the best ones, contain a little bit of it. Quality robusta can add to the flavor and improves crema.
Caffeine is Good For You! (Score:5, Informative)
Despite the default assumption that anything mood-enhancing must be "bad", and that abstaining is some sort of virtue, there is a massive amount of evidence showing that caffeine consumption, at moderate levels, either as the pure substance or in tea or coffee improves mental function and health. A recent New England Journal of Medicine published a study found very strong life extension effects [nih.gov] from drinking coffee in older adults (with whom the effect is easier to observe). Model organism studies find caffeine extends the life [nih.gov] of the widely studied Caenorhabditis elegans. And as all caffeine consumers can attest, it really does have value for improving mental functioning, and physical performance (reaction time, etc.) [nih.gov], particularly under the "sub-optimal" situations so often found in life.
Drink up! It does a body and brain good!
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Forget Java... Try Python... (Score:2)
Caffeine content... (Score:2)
I based my vote on the results of googling for caffeine content in drinks. Two sites either agreed or one stole results from the other, that the caffeine content in a 16oz grande Starbucks coffee is around 330mg. Since my travel mug is 16oz, and I fill that thing with coffee at least twice a day (sometimes more, depending on workload), that's a lotta caffeine. I think. I don't really care. It is the nectar of the gods.
I used to drink a lot (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't really notice much difference. No headaches, no fatigue, nothing. Well, I'm saving $15/week on coffee.
Oh, one other thing. Every once in a while now I drink a cup of coffee. And a few minutes later I have to poop. Like RIGHT EFFIN NOW. Not diarrhea, it's a regular poop. A very insistent poop. Doesn't matter if I've already pooped, coffee makes me poop.
I can live with that.
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My cardiologist PRESCRIBED it. (Score:4, Informative)
My GP happens to be a cartiologist, who also does GP for his cardiology patients. (Got hooked up with him when I had a viral bronchitis that included tachycardia as a symptom and he was my "attending".)
He has PRESCRIBED two cups of coffee per day for me. (I also drink some soda.)
Apparently, research (starting about 2012) has shown that moderate coffee intake is associated with reduced mortality from most major causes of death except cancer (which it doesn't seem to be associated with either way). Like 6 cups per day associated with 10% improvement for men, 15% for women.
They found the correlation in large-population surveys. Last I heard they're still hunting for potential mechanisms (and aren't really sure if it's causal, just associational, or even reverse causal i.e. healthy people being more likely to drink coffee or sick people to totally abstain as an attempt to reduce perceived risks.) Regardless, it looks like worries about moderate coffee, and by extension caffeine, consumption are groundless.
Groundless you say? (Score:2)
None by Choice (Score:2)
I'm quite surprised that so many people chose the same option. In my adult life I've only met a handful of people who avoid caffeine in their daily routines, and IIRC, I'm the only computer programmer who does so.
Plain and simple, I don't like how I feel after consuming caffeine; the buzz is annoying, and I just don't feel right afterwards. Second to that is what I hear when talking to everyone else (ie: normal people), "I need coffee to wake up" or "I get such a headache when I skip my morning coffee."
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Plain and simple, I don't like how I feel after consuming caffeine; the buzz is annoying, and I just don't feel right afterwards. Second to that is what I hear when talking to everyone else (ie: normal people), "I need coffee to wake up" or "I get such a headache when I skip my morning coffee." None of that sounds the least bit appealing to me.
Same here. I just don't *feel* right, and pretty much just use it to keep from dozing off on long red-eyes.
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I drink coffee mostly for the taste, with a preference for short espressos.
The caffeine is just a side effect which can be beneficial or not.
I sometimes drink coffee to stay awake but it is more the exception than the rule.
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I have terrible tinnitus. It's like a dentist dril 24x7 in the middle of my head. Caffeine can cause it to get worse for many days, and the withdrawals make me tired; which is a shame because I love the taste.
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I hate coffee and soda. So, although I don't actively avoid caffeine, I consume very little of it (I do like chocolate, but I don't eat a lot of it).
I will drink coffee if I'm absolutely desperate to stay awake - the last time that happened was about 5 years ago. I have such a low tolerance that one cup will keep me awake all day, and it won't be particularly enjoyable.
Had to give it up . . . mostly. (Score:2)
I probably average around 5mg/day now. Every now and then, though, I'll ask the Starbucks barista to fill up a venti with espresso.
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need to define your units (Score:2)
it's not clear to me how many mg of caffeine are in a can of coke or a cup of coffee.
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edit: my can of diet coke has 46 mg of caffeine. it says that on the label. still, it would have been nice if the poll had a benchmark, so I didn't have to RTFL.
No soda for me (Score:2)
I stopped drinking soda about 6 years ago. I might have one coffee a week, but that's it for my caffeine intake. I take a .5L of water to work every day and fill it multiple times. I'm better hydrated and I sleep better at night vs my 6 20oz Mt Dew's a day.
TooMuchCoffee? (Score:2)
Toomuchcoffee? NoIdon'tdrinktoomuchcoffee. Icertainlydrinkalotofcoffeebutitsnottoomuch. IcouldstopanytimeIwanted ...
Cups???? (Score:2)
I take my caffeine cold and out of cans. Mountain Dew Throwback preferred natural cane sugar so it must be good for me.
Missing option (Score:2)
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Wikipedia: "Some sources now identify Liberia as metric and in Burma it was announced in 2013 that the country is preparing to adopt the metric system"
So really it's just the US stubbornly hanging on now.
Medical? (Score:2)
I drink (Score:2)
50 percent Mountain Dew (either Throwback or Whiteout)
the other 50% is Gatorade
I have no idea how many megagrams
Fucking close to water (Score:2)
I looked up the typical content of a cup of coffee, and I was surprised that American coffee is rated as about 100mg per 8fl ounces. That's half the strength of what is considered normal coffee here in the Netherlands, where they assume between 100 to 175 mg per cup (about 4 fl ounces), depending on brew method.
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I drink my coffee by the cup.
I did a PC refresh project at a Fortune 500 company. A cubicle had ~40 half-empty cups of coffee with mold in various states of growth. I call my boss, who told me to move on. A hazmat team came in to decontaminate the place and the engineer got fired.
Re:Welcome to Slashdot (Score:2)
So you're... new here?
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http://science.slashdot.org/st... [slashdot.org]
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Re:The poll should go in the side bar... (Score:5, Informative)
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This year?
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It's on our list of things to do in the next week or two
The funny thing is that on occasion I use an older version of Safari to read /. and sometimes I see the polls on the side bar. It's not consistent, and I have no idea why, but I do see them there every now and again.
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Re:The poll should go in the side bar... (Score:4, Informative)
I think you're missing what "read more" used to do. If the summary was expanded into a story on slashdot itself (eg book review, interview etc), then you would get the rest of the story then the comments. If it wasn't a slashdot story it would just lead straight to the comments.
Alternatively I'm imagining things a way they never used to be, but I'm fairly sure I'm not.
Keep up the good work though. For the first time in a long time, I actually have faith in where slashdot is heading...
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