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TIL that going on a diet (any diet is a restriction on what to eat) is hacking.
by keybored 2y ago
TIL that going on a diet (any diet is a restriction on what to eat) is hacking.
- jedberg 2y agoThe diet wasn't the hack. The data collection before, during, and after, while changing the diet was the hack.
- keybored 2y agoLying about being alcoholic (his liver) is also a hack. He hacked the MDs. Besides the lying though it would have been better to stick to the one thing that he was investigating: fast food. He already had some ridiculous extra requirements like always finishing his meals and a high calorie count (the former sounds like some ingrained motherly “finish your meal!” scorning latent in the psychology of some adults, not a fast food thing per se). But he also stopped exercising and restricted his steps per day. It is much more interesting to change only one variable in your life when that variable is the thing that you are supposed to be critiquing. Or else change the investigation to “Average American Me”.
- Maxatar 2y agoI mean, changing your eating habits is absolutely a form of hacking in pretty much every sense of the word and it can be used to significantly change your life.
- keybored 2y agoIn the sense that the word turns into a self-parodying meme.
- Maxatar 2y agoYes, words do evolve over time. Hack originally meant to cut with heavy blows, like with an axe. It then came to mean a clever and unexpected or unorthodox solution to a technical problem. It has since been generalized and adopted by the general population to mean a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method used increase productivity. The right diet is absolutely an effective way to increase productivity in life changing ways.