Pork is called "the other white meat" in American advertising. Pork tenderloin is one of the leanest types of meat you can buy, it's comparable to skinless chicken breast that way.
I would say it is no more or less "healthy" than any other meat. Like everything else, fine in moderation.
Hmm...I'm not sure. I would say something acidic might last (canned tomatoes), but the acid might adversely affect the can in that period of time.
I have opened old cans of vegetables (5 years, maybe?) and found them to be quite "off". I've also open cans that age that seemed like they were canned yesterday.
I wouldn't dismiss the claim automatically. They may be using materials that can stand up to it. If the food is sterilized and the can is completely secure and doesn't break down- who knows?
@derobert I'm not sure it is a disappointment in humanity. After all, rep is based on popularity. Voting for mod too. It would have been more worrisome if the correlation was low - this would mean that at least one is an unreliable measure of popularity.
@derobert I would be interested in it too. I even think it has good publication chances. If written well, it can get into Computers in Human Behavior - the topic is certainly a good fit.
@derobert because candidate statements etc. contribute to popularity. Even more, because a missing or a bad candidate statement subtracts from popularity a lot.
Do you know the Kano model? Many things we do are the kind of basic factor which doesn't bring satisfaction if present, but do bring high dissatisfaction if absent. Satisfaction is a very fickle beast.
In general, the "view" numbers you see on SE sites are conservative. This is because they can't be 100% sure whom to count, but with questions, it is important to them to catch the minimal number. SEO and so on. It is a bad idea for moderator qa pages, but I don't think they would create a new mechanism for it.
Well, its probably more: we have no way to know how many of those 383 visits occurred after the election (its showing more now), how many of those people actually read all the statements (which is a good half hour of time, probably)...
Frankly, I read the statements but found that none of them was sufficient for me to make a decision.
All of them seemed good and consistent with the person making a good mod. No exceptionally bad ones beside the one-liner, no exceptionally good ones. So I voted based on conviction gained through other means - in this case knowing you and having seen your willingness to contribute to both the content and administrative tasks in a community, and the quality of your administrative contribution.
@rumtscho I don't think I voted based on popularity, just on who I thought would make a good mod. One important criterion is whether I thought the person would stick around. Which, per Laplace, was heavily predicated on whether he had been around for a while already. :-)
@rumtscho I know the feeling. A bunch of SE sites bug me to vote in their elections. Mostly I go look at the candidates and wonder "who are these people? how on Earth am I to decide???"
I am sure that I could have formed some ordering and made three choices based on the presentations on the mod qa page only if I had been forced to do so. And that it would have been better than throwing a fair dice. But I think that the UL community is better off if I don't do such a thing and leave the people who know everybody cast the full number of votes, and I only give a single vote to the person I know will do the job well.
@rumtscho I thought derobert was a good choice because he is (a) very calm and laid-back (b) exceptionally knowledgeable (c) around on the site a lot (d) very helpful.
Of course most of that applies to slm and terdon too.
@FaheemMitha On Unix & Linux. How many people actually interact with the candidates that much? I mean, you have to be around the site a lot before you actually interact with them, other than just seeing 'yeah, X answered another question'
@rumtscho Possibly. In my case, I knew all the main candidates on U&L. I would not even try on most other sites. On tex.sx I would have an idea too, but that site hardly needs mods.
maybe because SO policy is much more controversial than on the smaller sites, and every one of them writes down something about his priorities and the vision of how he thinks a mod should influence a site, and in which direction.
Here on U&L, everybody said that the site is running well already and they don't intend to make changes
@FaheemMitha Ah yes, I've never heard of a low rep moderator on an established site. The mods need some visibility before the election, and a proof of commitment too.
But by this measure, I wouldn't consider derobert low-rep on U&L. He is just not in the highest of highest tiers. And the ones who won are higher than him.
The whole site is OK, with some pretty good stuff in the recipes section and very boring parts which never interest me, like "which was the tastiest sandwich we were served in Chicago last week"
@ElendilTheTall oh hello @ElendilTheTall, and bye. Sorry for being too distracted to say hello before you had to go, I'm a bit too tired today to really pay attention to what I'm doing.
@FaheemMitha Probably is good (especially for the time required), depending on the quality of the curry paste you use. Personally, I'm sure I'd add more heat to it.
Traditionally, it would be eaten along and considered a delicacy. This recipe has a decidedly before-20th-century feel, long before cholesterin was a word.
I don't even read the "servings" info on recipes any more. The variation is high enough that I consider it useless. I usually look at the amount of the main ingredient and scale accordingly. Sometimes I'm still surprised, but less than when going by their servings info.
So, I still haven't touched that document since I asked about it. It's nice talking to you, but I still need to go back to work, and I just can't afford more procrastination at this time of day (actually night), sorry. See you later.
