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Jeremy Cherfas

Distributed verification -- another gentle shove back towards Chrome.

Jeremy Cherfas

Teehee. Updating old blog posts, found this gem. So resonant: The Inaugural Menu: one word, VILE « Chez Pim http://chezpim.com/uncategorized/the_inaugural_m

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Obese vs normal may be more different than poor vs rich in response to food prices http://www.eatthispodcast.com/fat-taxes-and-thin-subsidies/

Jeremy Cherfas

> Now that we are starting to expand greater into generation 2, we need to improve the documentation of the various IndieWeb components to focus less on code and protocols, and more on the end goals.

Amen to that.

Jeremy Cherfas

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An English Sheep Farmer’s View of Rural America
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We have all become such suckers for a bargain that we take the low prices of our foodstuffs for granted and are somehow unable to connect these bargain-basement prices to our children’s inability to find meaningful work at a decently paid job.

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@AgroBioDiverse Guilty as charged.

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"Every 10 percent price increase in unhealthy foods and drinks was associated with a trend toward lower BMI (per 10 percent price increase: -0.06 kg/m2), this did not achieve statistical significance"

So, why report it?

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@thatmags In addition to endangered condors, lead ammo poisons hunters too. http://www.eatthispodcast.com/lead-poisoning-of-hunters-and-game/

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We still need to ask whether poor people may be choosing calories because they are hungry. @cjsnowdon

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I looked briefly at 60dB when it was announced, and came to much the same conclusion, that while it is an interesting idea and may end up being a sort of personalised stream of short-form audio, it didn't seem to address discovery in the long tail. I've enough long-form to be getting on with, that's for sure, and that's what I, personally, would like more of.