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by dilap 4y ago
He loves Apple for sure, but he's definitely honest and calls out the problems as he sees them. E.g., he trashed the camera of the Studio Display. And Gruber's attention to the little details is unrivaled. What other reviewer is g
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by dilap 4y ago
Super interesting stuff! (FWIW, Dave Feldman (cholesterolcode.com) has me pretty convinced that high LDL is not bad in all contexts. High HDL does always seem to be good, though.)
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Very interesting! Thanks. From briefly searching, it looks like 2-AG more specifically may be responsible for increased appetite? I am unsure of the effects of n3 derived eCBs...
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You are right, my mistake! I was mixing it up with another study. Unfortunately, it is too late to edit my comment. However, coincidentally, the same conclusions still hold, since it turns out the pigs ate very similar amounts of food on al
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by dilap 4y ago
Yeah, there are defnly people guzzling fish oil on that assumption. I would be cautious though -- it's a novel dietary regime, and seems likely to induce a lot of oxidative stress... Certainly in mice it seems to. https://ww
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by dilap 4y ago
Absolutely, the mental aspects of hunger are huge, as anyone who has ever had the munchies (super hungry) or taken adderall (super not hungry) can attest. In fact, n6 fats may also promote hunger, via increasing endocannabinoid production.
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There's a really interesting study they did with pigs. They fed pigs four different diets that had the same amount of calories, but varying ratios of n3/n6 fats. The pigs with high n6/n3 ratio ended up much fatter and less mu
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> After the release of the iPhone the head of the LG Mobile Handset R&D Center was quoted saying he believed Apple had stolen the idea from the KE850 after it was announced as part of the iF Design Award. Huh, interesting! Duly noted
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by dilap 4y ago
Definitely true. I don't fault any phone for adopting the iPhone's basic innovation of "no buttons on the front, rectangular pane of glass", but you can still have your own unique identity within that framework.
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Even within the scope of "rounded rectangle", there are a ton of choices that will establish an overall aesthetic feel and visual identity. – How rounded is the rectangle - The thickness of the bezel - How rounded is the phone dep
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I actually like the website and what they are trying to do. To me the biggest problem is the design of the phone itself: it's got an interesting LED notification thing going on, but besides that it's a knock-off of the iPhone I do
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As a reader there's always a little groan inside when I see something is hosted on Medium. 'Cuz, here, look at it: https://imgur.com/a/EIAp2UM There's so much junk in the way of the content. It feels l
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But it's not like you get that automatically just by having a giant mass of people. There needs to be a certain life-style and culture to create those things. What density of humans is ideal for that? The calculation shouldn't jus
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you've used both and still feel that way? i admit, i'm surprised! why the love for c++?
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the cars vs public transit thing is a distraction though; the existence (& public costs) of cars is not what makes our public transit bad.
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i dont think that explains SF or CA dysfunction, though...
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What Rust does is incredibly cool and impressive. But as someone that's dabbled a bit in both Zig and Rust, I think there's a lot of incidental complexity in Rust. For example, despite having used them and read the docs, I'm
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by dilap 4y ago
There's some reason to believe that live vaccines may be net better for you, due to beneficial "non-specific" effects. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-specific_effect_of_vaccine... which links
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by dilap 4y ago
They're proposing removing most of the nicotine from real cigarettes, too. I haven't consumed any nicotine in quite some time, but I find the whole thing very obnoxious. (Smoking is a sin, but a pleasure. I'd like the freedom
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the approach i took was to read it for understanding, and then go back and see if i could implement what i had just learned, in a different language, without reference to book. (so implementation would use same strategy, but not be exactly
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I do think you're on to something here: a lot of what we feel is embedded in our bodies. So imagine we put your brain in a vat; we'll give you a webcam and a microphone for input, and for output -- ah, sorry, budget constraints, j
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I think that comic misses the point though. It mistakes "a thing that is in some superficial respects the same" for "a thing is in every externally observable respect the same". So far as we know, consciousness does not
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If that's too much trouble, just write your essay as a series of tweets. Similar focussing effect. (And part of why I think the essay-as-tweet thread is so popular.)
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You have to be thinking about speed from the beginning. You don't actually have to make it fast, but you have to be designing w/ an eye towards eventual speed. Otherwise you end up w/ a mess that can be made faster, but never
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that's interesting. i've never used chat that does this, but i have seen a lot of claims it was a misfeature in google wave back in the day. but still, i could see it being ok, more like verbal conversation. i defnly agree w/
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I played around with vapes for a bit, and I found them to be way more compulsive and addictive than traditional cigarettes. Had to give them up completely. Just typing that out really makes me want to vape. (Vs having been a cig smoker for
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Sure, it's not definitive, and rabbits are different from humans in many ways, but at the cellular level they are similar, & if skin cancer is a cellular phenomenon (say, perhaps, driven by fat composition of the cell membranes), i
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There's a study on rabbits that finds you can give them skin cancer quite easily if you feed them a diet high in polyunsaturated fats. If the same holds true in humans, it could explain our high skin cancer rates, since modern diets in
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> For Messenger, I think differentiation is extremely important and something we haven't focused on yet. We've spent the past 6-12 months catching up to WhatsApp and competitors on table stakes like performance, reliability, pu
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Mainstream provider: Eventually you'll get falsely flagged by some automated abuse system and you'll lose your account. Niche provider: Eventually they'll go out of business and you'll lose your account. Solution? Web3 s

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