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by crooked-v 4mo ago
See also: various defining works of ancient Greek literature featuring the same characters, that are almost certainly fanfics of earlier works, like the Telegony. Culture has been reworking existing culture since the idea of culture existed
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
It's about 1800 KCal, give or take, on a day of sedentary office work. I'm deeply familiar with it after years of calorie tracking. My grocery shopping and meals, most cooked from scratch on a daily basis, are designed around it t
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
They're incredibly cheap to manufacture. Everyone and their dog will be able to afford an infinite supply the second the patents expire, and black market supply is already cheap even with the extra overhead of it being illegal and impo
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
I personally think that once the patents expire, it will be about as universal as antihistamines, or if not, only because of the larger side effects like rapid weight loss causing gallstones.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
My meaning was more that indulging in that hunger would result in me just eating an exorbitant number of calories, way past anything it would be reasonable to burn off without spending 4 hours a day every day in the gym... but you're c
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
> it goes away when you fix your diet. Anecdotally: no, it doesn't. Maybe it did for you. I spent most of a year once on a predesigned meal plan, and the only thing it changed about the low-key but constant food noise was better kno
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
I am a person like that. There is no "calorie deficit" involved. I can, if I let myself, eat 2000 calories of moderately bulky, high-protein food in a sitting and be vaguely hungry again in six or eight hours once my stomach'
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
If it "wasn't that hard", obesity rates would be much lower.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
> But if the changes it causes are universally good, why didn't evolution already make your body work that way? We evolved in an environment where every bit of food took hours of effort and food preservation was impossible, so the o
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Being aware that there are deceptively calorie-dense foods doesn't help the basic equation there. Anecdotes are not data, but my anecdotal experience is that if I ate nothing but bulk vegetables whenever my hindbrain wanted food, I wou
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
> Simply putting them on drugs for life isn't a solution. Plenty of people are on drugs for life for a variety of things that have less health impact than being overweight.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
For many people, the "underlying issue" is fundamentally just being too hungry for how they live. GLP-1s absolutely treat that.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Etsy has plenty of stuff like that, though you do have to do some filtering through the clones and the drop-shippers.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Exercise will burn calories, yes. But my life doesn't fit the several hours of exercise a day, every day, forever, that would be needed as an already-small person to burn the 1000+ excess calories a day my body is constantly hungry for
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
I'm not on GLP-1s, but I've been looking at very seriously because something I can't "fix on my own" is just... always feeling hungry. That's just how my body works. Exercise doesn't help; there's no
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Plenty of people have lifelong drug use of, say, caffeine, or aspirin as a blood thinner, or various antihistamines. Why is this somehow worse? Particularly keeping in mind that it's very easy to make, so once the patents expire, it&#x
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
I'm curious if this post will also have the same phenomena I've seen before of people springing out of the woodwork to post moralizing comments about people shouldn't rely on drugs, about how actually GLP-1s are bad because t
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
We already know the downsides ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5397288/ ). The family of drugs has been in use since 2005 for controlling glucose with diabetes. The only new thing is the mass-market use wh
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
The lack of effort is the point. The intent is to automate the entire pipeline and churn out huge numbers of these for whatever the top selling topic of the week is.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
> Why are there differences at all? Reality has a liberal bias, but if your LLM says "yes, climate change is real", the Trump administration won't pay for it. Every company ends up with a different method to try to compens
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
The Democratic Party is a center-right conservative† party by the standards of much of the world. † As distinct from the wildly regressive stated policies of the "conservative" Republicans.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
The problem is the "without too much cognitive dissonance" part. Lots of voters have completely dissonant views that they've never consciously considered in any way. Just by posting on HN, the people here are probably in the
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
The lines seem to be pointing to the "nearest" politician comparison point, not the data point for the LLM. Except for Claude, for some reason? You can see the "area" for the LLM by hovering it over it, they all line up
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Removing the 'light truck' hole in CAFE standards would be a good start.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Here in San Francisco, there a huge number of "e-bikes" that are designed, built, and sold as de facto illegal motorcycles, with only the paper-thin wink-nudge of a speed limiter that can be easily removed by the user, sometimes w
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
The basic problem that causes laws like these to be passed is companies selling technically-legal "e-bikes" that are, in practice, electric mopeds you can remove the speed limiter and useless-but-technically-functional pedals from
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
"In cursive" is just filtering for people old enough to have been taught cursive.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Note that the "just" is overlooking that it's more locked down than a typical Linux box, in that the OS filesystem is read-only and all app installs live in userland (though you can turn off the read-only behavior). For what
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Here in San Francisco, you just have to look on Nextdoor for two minutes to see droves of people coming up with absurd complaints about any and every case of new housing construction, up to and including literally photoshopping bad faith co
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
"People don't want houses in random small towns with few local jobs, so the housing shortage isn't real" continues to be a bullshit claim every time it comes up.

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