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by astrostl 6y ago
Some of them did only consider weight. It is the conclusion of the meta itself a mean BMI couldn't be determined from the 12/17 that had it. I don't think those running the studies are at all dumb. They are often focused on
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by astrostl 6y ago
"Weight" is a poor control. BMI is a better one. Going back over the study, it looks like the controls are listed in table 2. 12/17 appear to adjust for BMI, with the following note from the authors regarding the resolution:
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by astrostl 6y ago
This is not my diet, it is the diet I commonly observe from those going simply lo-carb or attempting "keto": hi-protein, rather than hi-fat. This directly questions the unvalidated assertion that, "People don't eat a low
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by astrostl 6y ago
The value of a given port corresponds to the ubiquity and lifespan of the things that plug into it. HDMI is not going anywhere in the corporate world for the forseeable future. As for MagSafe, as long as they keep some USB-C ports you wil
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by astrostl 6y ago
> People don't eat a low carb diet by accident, when they do they often follow the horrible advice given by the many misguided keto diet proponents: eat low carb, high fat, medium protein. This is not remotely my anecdotal experie
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by astrostl 6y ago
Nod to that. Where I'm going is the possibility of comparing people with "normal" diets and low-carb diets, and thus running the risk of comparing people who do not feel compelled to lose weight for health reasons and those
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by astrostl 6y ago
I would expect all explicit diets to feature higher mortality, as the correlation with having some sort of health concern (obesity, chronic condition, etc.) is going to be extreme. Skimming the whole study at https://www.ncbi.n
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by astrostl 6y ago
Where is an official ACLU statement? All I've seen are second-hand statements from senior counsel.
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by astrostl 6y ago
I have used https://www.arqbackup.com (commercial, Mac and Win only) with local encryption for many years. It supports tons of local, network, and cloud storage endpoints. They do have a FLOSS restore utilities at https:/&
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by astrostl 6y ago
> By contrast, Leica's digital M bodies have always been at least a generation behind... at their time of release The M9 was revolutionary in 2009, an 18MP full-frame sensor in a peer-comparatively tiny body. The M Monochrom in 2012
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by astrostl 6y ago
Aside: I just started using KM to implement Gmail shortcuts in Mail.app because I'm sick of the direction of third-party mail applications, and I'm super-impressed by it. Seeing the two mentioned in the same breath made me think H
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by astrostl 6y ago
Is there an implication that the bills appoached $20k/month? Whether he owed $1/month or $20k/month, 20k/month is only being asserted as at least equal to the amount of his unspecified bills.
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by astrostl 6y ago
Where was the discussion scoped to laptops? As for need, as alluded to in my previous reply generally I agree in an objective sense (although uses 256GB does not necessarily mean it needs it either). On the subjective side, I have long-
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by astrostl 6y ago
Where was the discussion scoped to laptops?
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by astrostl 6y ago
It's less than $2000 to upgrade an iMac Pro to 256GB: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DID2627DS256/ (and that's a branded kit with a lifetime warranty)
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by astrostl 6y ago
The thing I desperately want in these is a mobile app that only works with local data and determines last contact using things like SMS, Signal, email, etc. I'm also on iOS, which seems to make that a non-starter :P
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by astrostl 6y ago
> The number of people who need 16GB of RAM? Very large. The number who need 32GB is at least an order of magnitude smaller. The number who need 64GB another order of magnitude smaller. The number who need 256GB of RAM or more is likely
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by astrostl 6y ago
I can't help but notice that many of those who breathlessly exclaim that starting with GOTO will cause brain damage started with GOTO themselves. I also notice that, "I did [x] and ended up fine" doesn't seem to consider
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by astrostl 6y ago
Compliance exports (inc. private channel and/or DM conversations in which the exporter was not participating) have never been a part of free plans, and that hasn't changed in the last year. Initially they had no export function at
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by astrostl 6y ago
This is false. You can read about it at https://slack.com/help/articles/360002084807-View-Access-Log... (which excludes free plans) and/or test it for yourself.
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by astrostl 6y ago
Custom web search keywords alone are an absolute game-changer for me.
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by astrostl 6y ago
Came here just to post this one. Life-changing book, esp. on parenting.
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by astrostl 6y ago
Soundtrack to my life. Probably listened hundreds of times!
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by astrostl 6y ago
I totally forgot about that. Turns out I have 6000 lumens. Thanks!
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by astrostl 6y ago
Shrug and say, "well I guess YouTube isn't getting my money any more." I'm exited on all other Google services.
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by astrostl 7y ago
"OMAD" (one meal a day) here. It's been 5 months. Most days, I eat lunch. And that's it, no real calorie consumption outside of that window. Not hungry, not tired, not cranky, not suffering, more free time, actually eati
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by astrostl 7y ago
> Self-driving is too big — and too important — an endeavor for any one team to solve alone. Transportation serves all of us, and we should all be invested in the next step of its evolution. Imagine how much better things could be if eve
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by astrostl 7y ago
Grunching in a way that I hope doesn't come off as santimomious. I grew up with foster kids and have acute awareness of how creatively foster parents can get around "no hitting" rules with medieval stuff like time outs barefo
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by astrostl 8y ago
Thank you for posting these! This inspired me to take the time to run an ECG, and enable auto-ECGs with notifications.
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by astrostl 8y ago
Totally with them up to the lying thing.

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