bollockitis

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by bollockitis 12y ago
> Imagine you make a tool and someone proposes making a change to that tool that would be potentially useful to slavers, people who enslave other people. This makes you hesitate. Pointing out that people already use similar tools for sla
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by bollockitis 12y ago
It makes me wonder if Moorcock has ever actually read Tolkien. As I've gotten older, some of the shine of Lord of the Rings has worn off, no doubt precipitated by the movies which relegated Tolkien's rich world and epic themes to
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> This and other "the human body is immune from the effects of thermodynamics" arguments are... well, wrong. Otherwise there is a breakthrough in physics waiting to be found and potential unlimited energy. I think you misunders
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> But if a fat person simply eats less, no matter the macronutrient content, he or she will lose weight. This is well documented, and even Taubes doesn't disagree with that. A low-carb diet doesn't have to be intentionally low
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> I don't care if you eat raw sugar or fat, as long as you eat slightly less calories than your body is using for a prolonged period of time. Well, you might not care, but your body sure does. Your body responds very differently to
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> This seems intellectually interesting to me but it's frustrating because I feel it takes what is a relatively simple issue and makes it needlessly complex. Yes, maybe there is some amount of optimization you can do with your diet,
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by bollockitis 12y ago
If you haven't read either of Taubes's books, please do. I highly recommend Why We Get Fat[1]. It's a spectacular piece of scientific journalism. If that's too much for you, try one of his talks on the same topic[2]. Whe
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by bollockitis 12y ago
It isn't perfect, but Lombok[1] helps with this. It uses annotations to automatically generate getters and setters. The downside, of course, it yet another dependency and more annotations. [1]: http://projectlombok.org/
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> You need to conserve that vital energy for sleep. My son is almost 15 months. I've been so long without sleep, that the rare occasion I get 8 hours or more I think my body just assumes I'm dead and starts breaking down. I fee
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> If this theory is correct, does it mean that a drastic change in diet might change a person's behavior? I'm imagining a future where people match their diet to their intestinal bacteria to increase or reduce the "waste&q
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> An endless supply of naive, impressionable kids willing to listen to people rant about how everything sucks and X will change the world. There's also the problem that an engineer who successfully builds a bridge simply keeps to co
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by bollockitis 12y ago
Good point. I don't remember having this problem with iOS 6. I suppose it's simply a matter of personal preference, but if the keys changed case, I could instantly determine what my keypress would output to the screen. That seems
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> There is a reason Apple does what it does (supposedly to match a real keyboard) but it's not strong and doesn't matter. Wow. Really? That a silly reason for an otherwise indefensible UI decision. I really wish the iOS keyboar
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by bollockitis 12y ago
samspot is dead on here, at least from my perspective. I am very private and have suffered from social anxiety for years. I don't use Facebook because I am overly sensitive to the reactions of others (no likes? everyone hates me and th
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by bollockitis 12y ago
I generally don't advocate complete rewrites, but it seems to be the best option in this scenario. Why is everyone so opposed to doing this? I don't mean that rhetorically. I truly don't understand. I don't want to downp
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by bollockitis 12y ago
I write, meditate, and walk. Each has its role; there is a time for each. Why are we so critical of the way the author chooses to spend his time?
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by bollockitis 13y ago
Generally speaking, the Python community believes the strength of Python is in its culture, which can be summed up by the Zen of Python: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ . Python also recieves much pra
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by bollockitis 13y ago
One could correlate stress with things like depression, suicide, anxiety disorders, divorce, addiction, etc, but that would be a very difficult study to perform.
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by bollockitis 13y ago
> 1: Hmm, chronically high insulin levels is caused by chronically eating too much. Beef spikes insulin just as much as table sugar ( http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/5/1264.full.pdf#page=1&... ). So
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by bollockitis 13y ago
> Energy balance is the physics of biochemistry; there is no arguing away the laws of thermodynamics. If you get heavier, it's because you consumed more energy than you used over a period of time. There is no other way to gain or lo
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by bollockitis 13y ago
> Every single hospital-ward double blind clinical trial over the last 100 years says exactly the same thing: net energy balance is what determines how fat you are, no matter the macronutrient content of the diet. Here's my problem
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by bollockitis 13y ago
> I, working with grad students at UCSF and elsewhere, have picked apart the materials and methods of his studies and found numerous statistical errors which make us doubt the validity of his conclusions. Have you published your work any
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by bollockitis 13y ago
> FFS, The Atlantic should be embarrassed to publish articles with "correlation is causation" fallacies of this magnitude in them. This is standard food woo thinking: "people who heavily scrutinized and evaluated everythin
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by bollockitis 13y ago
> Energy-balance (digested food calories - energy exerted living) is magnitudes more important than the macronutrient content of your diet. That's a convenient fallacy which is so often repeated that it is simply assumed to be true,
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by bollockitis 13y ago
On one hand, I'm happy to see the Linux kernel being used in all sorts of consumer devices. It's a real victory for the developers and for the open source model. On the other hand, it has only been successful because it has enabl
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by bollockitis 13y ago
There are pros and cons to both approaches. If I see a junior developer trying to reinvent the wheel, he's probably going to build a pretty shitty wheel. The whole point of using dependencies isn't laziness or cowardice, it's
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by bollockitis 13y ago
> They removed the show retroactively by mistake. That's only slightly less frightening. A simple error can potentially wipe out all of my "purchases." Just imagine that telephone conversation with customer support: "
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by bollockitis 13y ago
Anyone can lose weight simply reducing calories, but that weight loss isn't permanent or sustainable, and it may not be healthy. If you run the numbers, the Twinkie Diet guy was actually eating fewer carbs than the average American sim
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Out of curiosity, what can you eat?
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by bollockitis 13y ago
They broke within a few weeks of purchase and I sent them to Sennheiser for warranty repair. I should have known they were fake from the start, because they didn't sound nearly as good as my old ones, but I figured I just needed to bre

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