Random Thoughts XI: Listen to the Whispers

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Snerk said:
Cool beans! But what's that got to do with anything, takibaby?

Awfully legendary yes. :)
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No, it's plain awful. That's how I categorize music if I can't stand to listen to an entire video, especially if it's a short one.

YKMV, of course.

I found a rather cool cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene." It's done in a medieval style, with a slight change in lyrics. The singer is excellent.
 
shadowplay said:
Fwiw It's actually a parody of British invasion music, by the satirical rock group Spinal Tap.
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Looks like Ed Begley Jr was their first drummer. Poor guy.
 
FWIW

Hot dogs can shave 36 minutes off one’s life

Study finds eating PB&J can restore 33

BY THERESA BRAINE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Joey Chestnut better start scarfing nuts and berries.

That may help counteract the nearly 46 hours he may have lopped off his life by gulping a winning 76 hot dogs at this year’s Nathan’s hot dog-eating contest.

Researchers at the University of Michigan’s school of public health have calculated the health and environmental footprint of eating various foods, and come out with specific numbers. The goal was to home in on environmentally sustainable foods that promote health, then measure the health effects in minutes — ranging from 74 minutes lost to 80 minutes gained per serving, according to a nutritional scale they developed for the study.

The bad news is that highly processed meat, beef, shrimp, pork, lamb and greenhouse-grown vegetables are off the menu in this new paradigm. The good news is that all one has to do is tweak.

Researchers evaluated more than 5,800 foods to rank them by their nutritional disease burden and their environmental impact. They found that substituting just 10% of one’s daily calories for an equal value of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and “select seafood” could reduce one’s dietary carbon footprint by one-third, and grant as many as 48 minutes of healthy life per day.

A hot dog on a bun, for instance, can cost a person 36 minutes of healthy life. But a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could increase life by 33 minutes, the researchers found. The researchers, headed by Katerina Styliaou — who was a doctoral student and postdoctoral fellow at the school at the time and now works with the Detroit Health Department — measured the minutes using the Health Nutritional Index, which they developed to calculate the net health burden of eating a particular item.

Thus, increasing field-grown fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts and “low-environmental impact seafood” can improve one’s longevity chances, the study authors said
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Birdjaguar said:
FWIW

Hot dogs can shave 36 minutes off one’s life

Study finds eating PB&J can restore 33

BY THERESA BRAINE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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Whoever did this study never took climate into account.

There are experiments going on with growing greenhouse vegetables in the Arctic regions in Canada. You can't grow them there in the open, and the cost of shipping food to the Arctic is astronomical. I honestly don't know how people manage there. What costs $5 here could cost $20 there.

So... (does the math)... If I put peanut butter and jelly on my hot dogs, that should only shave 3 minutes off my life, right?
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Whoever did this study never took climate into account.

There are experiments going on with growing greenhouse vegetables in the Arctic regions in Canada. You can't grow them there in the open, and the cost of shipping food to the Arctic is astronomical. I honestly don't know how people manage there. What costs $5 here could cost $20 there.
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only really possible to get enough food with a meager income by hunting, but climate change is making it hard
 
amadeus said:
Somebody should open up a hospital-casino and call it Procto & Gamble. Their slogan could be “bend over, twice!”
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Valka D'Ur said:
I found a rather cool cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene." It's done in a medieval style, with a slight change in lyrics. The singer is excellent.
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Hildegard von Blingin'? Her videos are the bee's knees. :)
 
Arakhor said:
Hildegard von Blingin'? Her videos are the bee's knees. :)
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Yep. :yup: I had no idea this was even a genre. Of course upon taking a look at her channel I realize that there are very few of these songs she covers that I've even heard.

 
You don't have to search for Stalin, he will find you either way.
 
Someone tell me why this won’t work!

Cryptocurrencies solve math problems to make its not-fiat-but-really-actually-fiat-kinda-currency,

And, I’m guessing science (I’m thinking medical science as the hot topic!) needs a lot of these kinds of problems solved to ... uh, work.

So why not have one that’s based on solving those problems instead of just random bits of useless garbage? If people are going to run their computers all day for a fiat speculative non-commodity, why not put it to some social good?

I don’t know how it works, and since I don’t understand the point of it, it makes me angry! :mad:
 
amadeus said:
Someone tell me why this won’t work!

Cryptocurrencies solve math problems to make its not-fiat-but-really-actually-fiat-kinda-currency,

And, I’m guessing science (I’m thinking medical science as the hot topic!) needs a lot of these kinds of problems solved to ... uh, work.

So why not have one that’s based on solving those problems instead of just random bits of useless garbage? If people are going to run their computers all day for a fiat speculative non-commodity, why not put it to some social good?

I don’t know how it works, and since I don’t understand the point of it, it makes me angry! :mad:
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Cryptocurrencies are actually moving away from proof-of-work and are switching over to proof-of-stake. It's a lot cheaper and environmentally friendly to run a blockchain like this. Instead of solving complex mathematical problems based on encryption, proof-of-stake assigns "power" based on the percentage of coins already held. i.e. no crazy computations required at all, just a simple check of who owns what.

It didn't make sense to me how this could work at first either, but in the end all that matters in this context here is that the new approach is a LOT more environmentally friendly. The issue really is that blockchain technology is relatively new, and so the first bunch of blockchains built and put into use were using proof-of-work by default. Now that we're a decade or so into this tech being in use, new approaches have been developed.. and some of the newer blockchains are already running on proof-of-stake.. but the existing heavyweights are still running on the old tech, since it's a lot of work to roll a global decentralized system to a completely new way of doing things. Ethereum (the largest & busiest blockchain using smart contracts) is in the process of switching over to proof-of-stake, but this is a process that will take several years to complete.

To answer your question a bit more directly though.. In a blockchain running on proof-of-work, the "work" part of this is something very specific. i.e. it's based around encryption and finding a specific key that "unlocks" an encrypted set of data. You can't just make this "work" to be anything, especially if it's something as vague as "problems in medical science".

I agree with you that the old tech needs to be thrown out the window. It's why I support blockchain tech that is environmentally friendly and in some cases already carbon neutral. A lot of people seem to for instance have an immediate dislike of NFTs, not understanding that a bunch of NFTs are already running on carbon neutral blockchains like WAX

So yes, these issues are something that people have been complaining about and working on, with solutions already in place! Just because bitcoin is the original blockchain tech and hasn't changed much since its inception, doesn't mean that every single iteration of this technology is going to be the same. A lot of people in this space genuinely care about the environment and have been working to evolve the tech so that it is sustainable and not a drain on our environment.

For full disclosure, I am knowledgeable about this space because.. well, I got bored during the pandemic, and so one day I read the bitcoin whitepaper. I got fascinated by the computer science concepts in use and started reading more about related technologies. I am also a digital artist and so NFTs get bundled in that as well. I have a computer science background and am fascinated by the algorithms and tech in use in these projects, the implications for the future, and like I said overlap with digital art. A lot of artists who are on board are left-leaning eco friendly people who want to support projects that they see as being eco friendly. Thus the popularity of WAX
 
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