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The lesson of the story? Don't have kids.


What the hell is going on in that graph? The West Bank is "High-income"? Yemen is "High-income"?


I was under the assumption that uncooked beans contain enzyme inhibitors (which make digestion more difficult), and germinating the beans before cooking reduces the effectiveness of these inhibitors.

This article isn't nearly as scientific as I hoped it would be.


Perhaps germinating the beans also triggers a process similar to malting of barley for beer making. It breaks down some complex sugars, making them easier to ferment, and perhaps easier to digest as well.


Static linking OpenSSL is probably not a good idea


You mean for security patches? i.e rebuilding all your binaries, instead of just openssl's shared libs


I had mine removed about 4 years ago, haven't ever felt healthier than I do now.


Conditionals without braces? Have we learned nothing from heartbleed?


Ouch! Of course I know of Heartbleed, but I didn't stick around for the postmortem... Was that really what caused it? I use conditionals without braces for one-liners frequently, and this one comment is making me reconsider


That was the apple ssl problem. But yes conditionals are far safer with braces then without.


I have noticed that more often than not, eventually my braceless conditionals turn into conditionals


Exactly my feelings.


I think a little bit of wisdom from one of my favorite writers might be appreciated here:

"""We have created a lifestyle that makes injustice permanent and inescapable.

We have created a world where robots produce robots. Where capital breeds capital with very little need for the Eastenders of the world.

Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous.

At the same time rebellious with hunger and economically unimportant.

What will then stop a final solution of the world problem?

In People of the Abyss the Eastenders already saw it coming.

They are, Jack London wrote, “encumbrances”, of no use to anyone, not even to themselves. “They clutter the earth with their presence and are better out of the way”."""

Taken from http://www.svenlindqvist.net/text_only.asp?cat=1&lang=2&id=2...


I can't recommend People of the Abyss highly enough. Read it for free on Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1688

"The Day of Judgment! More than he want it. From all the land rises the hunger wail, from Ghetto and countryside, from prison and casual ward, from asylum and workhouse—the cry of the people who have not enough to eat. Millions of people, men, women, children, little babes, the blind, the deaf, the halt, the sick, vagabonds and toilers, prisoners and paupers, the people of Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, who have not enough to eat. And this, in face of the fact that five men can produce bread for a thousand; that one workman can produce cotton cloth for 250 people, woollens for 300, and boots and shoes for 1000."


I don't find this interesting or cool; it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.


> it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.

Unstated major premises:

1. Weapons are inherently bad.

2. Modifying something bad is bad.

3. Publishing how to do bad things is bad.

Call me crazy, but I don't agree with any of those.


Well, it's probably at least lame. All this kinda crap is just some guy who had a free weekend and happens to have a decent podium to speak about it on. Clearly the device itself is useless because it's the opposite of what you want - something inconspicuous.


I sure hope you're joking... you are joking right?


If you don't want the IRS in your online business, I think there's an easier solution: Pay your taxes.


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