InSteady

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   by InSteady 3y ago

   It just means eating 12% fewer calories than your baseline to maintain your current weight. So if you eat 2,500 calories per day to keep your weight and activity levels, bump it down to 2,200 and keep it there. I have heard that it is possi
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   Participants also lost weight and muscle mass in this study. 12% calorie restriction and 10% weight loss maintained over 2 years (avg weight reduction of 7.5 kg vs 0.1 kg weight increase in control group), of which 71% was fat loss.
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   According to an article around the time of the policy change, people were even buying cliff bars and returning the wrappers for a refund, saying "I wasn't satisfied." It wasn't just young or broke people either, the CEO
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   I'm under 40 and this puts immense strain on my eyes. After reading a few paragraphs if I look over to the wall I will see persistent shadow-text in my vision for 30 seconds or more. Very uncomfortable. It's to the point that if
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   The entire concepts of "dialysis stocks" seems so perverse. I mean, the free market is great and all, but I'm not sure it has a whole lot of societal benefit inside of my damaged organs.
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   >I work for John Deere Mind telling your bosses to fuck off and let farmers repair their own equipment, please?
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   That's an extremely easy thing to say from a place of privilege, and of course there is some truth to it. On the other hand, how many chronically broke and miserable people out there are only hanging on for love of a pet (perhaps the o
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   Sounds like a really great way to potentially destroy someone's career if they aren't terribly competent and you are. Infect some component in their home network that they don't even know is smart-enabled, and keep breaching
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   by InSteady 3y ago

   Something tells me there is a fair bit of wiggleroom on the line between "no innovation whatsoever" and "making a large number of my customers situation untenable." I think innovation will continue just fine. Disrupting
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    Almost completely unrelated to the article, but I figure a few of you prospective PhD candidates could use a mental break anyway, so here goes. Had a nice Baader-Meinhof moment from the article. I have been obsessed with music from a you
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    Then definitely don't marry or have a child with that guy's wife.
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    The caffeine trap can be particularly insidious, especially for those of us who metabolize it slower. Its half-life can range from as low as 1.5 hours all the way up to 9.5 hours. So on the high end of that scale, if you drink 3 cups of cof
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    GP is not necessarily wrong on the overall points, but they are a little bit all over the place. Leading with e-bikes being a sign of the decline of our discipline and health kind of threw me. I wonder, have they ever tried pedal assist for
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    >while FDA violation letters for misleading drug marketing decreased from 156 to 11. As an interesting aside, it is my understanding that legislation is often written by lobbyists and industry groups rather than by our elected officials
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    I can draw sort of ok, but only because I've practiced a bit. I can visualize quite well, I assume because of some innate ability + I practiced extensively as a child for fun. It is definitely a skill that requires focused training, at
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    Yeah, I think there are two distinct types of visual spaces in the mind. When I'm tired, meditating long (rare), or otherwise in an unusual state I can sometimes access the one that feels much more eyeball derived. Very rarely I have b
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    The Feynman anecdote was pretty cool. Feynman counted 'verbally' in his mind, so he was able to keep a steady and consistent count while reading and writing, but not while speaking or listening. His friend kept count by visualizin
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    There is basically never a perfect survey, but there is a lot of value in taking pains to not bias your sample (it allows you to tentitiviely draw certain types of conclusions that you otherwise absolutely cannot). Biased sampling happens c
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    Kinks and sexual preferences both include things that don't directly relate to sex. Not sure if this helps to clarify, but all kinks are sexual preferences but not all sexual preferences are kinks. Kind of like how all squares fit the
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    I don't think its surprising that people aren't deciding what turns them on based on population statistics. I'm no expert, but the consensus of what I've read and heard is that by and large people aren't deciding wh
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    Kink (regarding sexual preferences) is formally defined in various dictionaries as including a component of being uncommon, unconventional, etc. Holding hands, cuddling, and emotional bonding (along with kissing and various kinds of caressi
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    >wrestling some space in the commons from inefficient forms of transportation in favour of more efficient ones. And underused parking lots. Dear god the huge, empty parking lots.
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    Many e-bikes have 100+ mile range. In theory you could have a few backup batteries for longer trips. You could also rent a car for the 5 or so days a year the average person is doing anything other than commuting, shopping, and other local
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    IR light reduces certain types of inflammation, speeds wound healing, protects against macular degeneration.. I'm surprised there isn't more interest in its benefits given what we've found so far.
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    And emissions continue to rise, ecologies continue to be devastated in the quest for growth and rising standards of living.
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    >no offence, but JFC. Is there any world in which this trivializing response to someone expressing serious dismay is not deeply offensive?
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    Ah, the classic "there are starving children in Africa so your feelings and perceptions are invalid."
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    >but had to be careful because we only had correlations as far as I knew Sooner or later we need to throw caution to the wind when it comes to advocating for behaving more conservatively towards the environment and climate. If we have to
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    > so you have to compare toothbrushes on raw metrics like length, with, plastic composition, angle of attack, bristle circumference, mouth feel, water retention, etc. Dear god, please save us from having clear, concise, and honest produc
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    by InSteady 3y ago

    The closing of most independent pharmacies and overall decline of the profession is a huge loss to society.