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by 462436347 3y ago
> Interestingly you've left it somewhat ambiguous as to whether you view these immigrants as morally upright while being somewhat naughty. I thought my post was unambiguous. Powerful, successful people (like pg and sama) clearly don
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by 462436347 3y ago
https://paulgraham.com/founders.html > 4. Naughtiness > Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morall
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by 462436347 3y ago
At 5:45 they show how the migrants are given step-by-step instructions on how to sneak in by TikTok videos.
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Chinese migrants are fastest growing group crossing into U.S. from Mexico [video](youtube.com)
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by 462436347 3y ago
The linked page doesn't once contain the word mainframe.
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by 462436347 3y ago
Most countries in Europe and Latin America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system
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by 462436347 3y ago
> These collectors were seen as criminals, but now we can see they are really saviours. An amnesty would stop them being frightened of prosecution,” he said. The UK is unusual in that it has no statute of limitations for most crimes besi
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by 462436347 3y ago
> This is not relevant to arguments (with sources and statistics) about systemic obesity he presents. Yes it absolutely is, since he claims he doesn't eat sugar for all the reasons he cites, yet he's fat and looks metabolically
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He posted, then deleted, a response saying he's not diabetic, but isn't healthy either. I guess he wears a CGM because he falsely believes transient blood glucose spikes ultimately cause T2D.
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by 462436347 3y ago
The straw-graping replies to this thread are pretty funny. It's somehow still all sugar's fault, because it just is, with at least one repost of Dr. Lustig's viral Sugar, The Bitter Truth lecture from 12 years ago (when peopl
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by 462436347 3y ago
> and is more easily stored as fat Dietary fat is even more easily stored as fat, since it doesn't require the added step of de novo lipogenesis (DNL) like carbohydrate does, or the added steps of gluconeogenesis + DNL as protein do
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by 462436347 3y ago
> Fat is estrogenic I meant bodyfat specifically
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by 462436347 3y ago
> It's addictive because there's very little of it in nature and it's high energy density Fat has 2.25x times the energy per gram that sugar does.
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by 462436347 3y ago
> You can learn a lot wearing CGM Are you diabetic?
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by 462436347 3y ago
> There's a very good reason why sugar is so "addictive" Sugar on its own isn't addictive and isn't a necessary nor sufficient ingredient for hyperpalatability. Foods can be hyperpalatable without sugar , and in
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by 462436347 3y ago
> You can note that average male height in the US continued increasing up until the late 1980s. Fat is estrogenic, and estrogen accelerates growth plate fusion.
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by 462436347 3y ago
The point is the added calories aren't coming from sugar , contrary to what everyone here thinks. And even if sugar did somehow magically make you fat regardless of calories, sugar consumption has actually gone down , yet the obesity
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by 462436347 3y ago
It's probably multifactoral. For example, here's a recent provocative paper from a highly respected researcher (John Speakman) arguing metabolic rates have actually slowed since then: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
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by 462436347 3y ago
Alternate title: the graph that broke HN's brain. You'll notice that 1) sugar consumption peaked around Y2K and declined after 2) the decline was driven by a decline in consumption of High-Fructose Corn Syrup (the most vilified su
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U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021(ers.usda.gov)
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by 462436347 3y ago
> He was a good guy, didn't hurt anyone, and was senselessly murdered in cold blood. He had an affair with a married woman and spent his free time attending sex- and drug-fueled parties instead of at home with his two kids and wife.
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by 462436347 3y ago
https://nypost.com/2023/05/14/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-atten... >Known in wealthy circles as “The Lifestyle,” Lee, 43,a father of two, allegedly enjoyed the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Mo
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I can't for the life of me understand the personality cult of Sam Altman. He gives off sociopathic vibes, and looks (probably thanks to plastic surgery) creepy.
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by 462436347 3y ago
I'm flagged too. Unbelievable that criticism of Sigmund Freud is controversial on HN, a site overrun with "IFLS" types.
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by 462436347 3y ago
> Skinner was a charlatan for behaviorism Being wrong doesn't make you a charlatan. Skinner, to his credit, tried to operate scientifically, by formulating empirically falsifiable hypotheses and testing them. Freud, by contrast, cra
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by 462436347 3y ago
> As somebody with a jacked up spine, chiropractic care has its place https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016850/
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by 462436347 3y ago
> Lysenko You're sympathetically comparing him to Lysenko, which only proves my point: both were unscientific charlatans legitimized by leftists, to the detriment of many.
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by 462436347 3y ago
> where Freud never even was mentioned Maybe he wasn't mentioned by name, but he was a major influence on earlier versions: https://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/clinical/dsm
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by 462436347 3y ago
> Why are there so many psychologists practicing psychoanalysis today, then? There aren't. Psychology (in the US) abandoned Freud roughly in the 50s and 60s, with the rise of Behaviorism and later Cognitive psychology. These movemen
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by 462436347 3y ago
Comparing it to chemotherapy doesn't really undermine my point, does it? And the ultimate goal of the proponents is not just to get these drugs made available via prescription, but to make them as legal as marijuana.

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