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... I wanted to experience what it's like for the millions of people around the world who suffer from malnutrition. I ate nothing but bread and drank nothing but water for about 6 weeks in all. In the later stages of the diet thing. ...

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Its Saturday so I slept in and missed breakfast. Lunch- pb&j sandwich and fruit smootie dinner- chicken noodle something and sprite zero snack- turkey taco and juice Yeah not very much food at all. Read and post comments | Send to a ...

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by Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University. Great job title!

Quoted: This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:

(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;

(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);

(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

Quoted: It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.

City Market is our neighborhood convenience stores that puts out ever-changing hand drawn signs on the sidewalk. This Flickr pool collects those signs.

Quoted: 日本の漫画やアニメが根強い人気を持つフランスから、日本にやってくる人が増えている。「漫画を原文で読みたい」と日本語を学ぶ留学生、アニメゆかりの場所を巡るフランス人向けツアー。漫画を入り口に、日本文化に関心をもつ若者も少なくない。

I wonder if this essay isn't a decade late. Seems obvious, no?

Quoted: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

ボークス製の初音ミク6分の1フィギュアも、開始から2日後までに初回生産分の受付を終了。2次生産分の予約が始まっている → 予約しちゃったよ。2次生産分も完売したみたいですね

Quoted: 日本のクリエイターをサポートする、クリエイターのための「エッジメディア・コミュニティ」

Our blog is #1. Kudos to the Editor-in-Chief.

I can't believe we beat both Autoblog and Jalopnik.

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