dualogy

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by dualogy 10y ago
> If you have redundant food sources such as fishing or small game and a lot of high quality land it's a relatively low effort and low risk activity. It's only after your population booms Agreed, farming isn't hard when yo
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by dualogy 10y ago
More fuel-efficient thanks to 'civilization'? Not sure I follow, what do you mean by that?
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by dualogy 10y ago
Interesting thoughts. Agriculture (even horticulture or herding) vs. immediate-return hunter/gathering of course isn't a single invention but a complex co-operative enterprise necessitating quite an array of disruptive changes in
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by dualogy 10y ago
> just reminds me how humans have been intelligent for many tens or hundreds of thousands of years In terms of brain size, IIRC our brains were largest ~90k years ago, remained that size for ~60k years, incurred a slight shrinkage over ~
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by dualogy 10y ago
As long as the grid and Youtube still runs! /prepper voice off
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by dualogy 10y ago
> but it is known that, unlike our bodies and brains which can run on glucose or ketones, that cancer can only run on glucose That's the short version. The more differentiated view is that: - this is found to be the case "for m
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by dualogy 10y ago
Just because one is considered "optimal", the other needn't be "impossible". Bodyfat is tissue and so carries a certain cost to maintain. Why do so when all of a sudden a massive abundance of fatty acids is ingested
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by dualogy 10y ago
> For a vegetarian, starting and continuing the high fat low carb diet is difficult Is it? As far as I know you could sustain yourself in perfect condition (and weight) on nothing but butter & eggs (to satiation) for decades --- wh
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Certainly not going to wipe out a town in a weekend. Well neither did lead, in the olden days. Not in a weekend, that is. Of course any fear such as it exists (and regardless of how ill-founded or well-founded it may be!) is not about
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Brains of overweight people look ten years older So, wiser?
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by dualogy 10y ago
> bleed less when I floss regularly Sheesh, shouldn't they ideally never-bleed? Just what is it you're ingesting (or not ingesting)?
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by dualogy 10y ago
Cool story
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by dualogy 10y ago
If you feel too lazy to furnish proper nourishment for yourself, you're not really hungry. (Which is fine, people love to snack after all.)
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by dualogy 10y ago
Well, sugar salt and fat (milk/yogurt in the case of breakfast cereal) are the time-proven only workable ways of shuttling food stuffs into the human mouth that on their own are more fit for birds or goats, whether cereal grains or sal
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Makes me wonder if the next tech giant is being founded right now in some garage. There probably is. And now what? Don't go scouting all the garages in Da Valley just-yet, as basements/coffee shops/coworking spaces/
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by dualogy 10y ago
> But now I see that, although very useful, medicine only serves as a band-aid. Well if only! Much of modern medicine unfortunately are "symptom-suppressors" (pain-killers, antihistamines, fever prevention, blood-pressure/
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by dualogy 10y ago
> will be pretty good at picking up new frameworks after five or ten years ..or however long until the concept in question becomes irrelevant..
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I really find no pleasure in exercise and would like to approach it in the most cost-effective way (i.e. maximum benefit for minimum time used). "Body by Science", easily. No need to read the book, just the chapter on the pro
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by dualogy 10y ago
> No respiration. > revolutionary. Well your red blood cells, some retina and renal cells, and most cancerous cells also either thrive (or at least do much better) on fermentation aka non-respiration..
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I'm a very health conscious omnivore and honestly didn't even know there were omega 3s in beef. Here's a rule of thumb, fresh fatty meats (incl. eggs) contain all human micronutrients except for Vitamin C and so called &
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by dualogy 10y ago
They're extremely efficient at synthesizing phospholipids, EPA, DHA, carnitine, choline, creatine, taurine, coenzyme Q10, carnosine, just from grazing on cellulose all day.. well they're way better at it than all the vegans I know
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Human derived chemicals and engineering have given us over 40 extra years of life. Yeah well to some degree of participation.. chiefly we have reduced maternal death rate & early childhood mortality; (re)discovered/refined&#
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by dualogy 10y ago
Or, just write the display:flex you need, where you need it, as little as you actually need.. easy as pie unless your deadline was days-ago. This here might save you 10 minutes of manual work, at the expense of further code-base bloat,
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by dualogy 10y ago
Technically a fast-mimicking diet would be: ad-libitum fat, barely sufficient protein (such that protein recycling is maintained --- no idea how to calculate this individually), near-zero (ie. only trace) carbohydrate. I suppose zero protei
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by dualogy 10y ago
"4 different apps" doesn't have to equate "4 separate codebases" obviously. Behold the wizardry of #ifdefs! Just the old idea of graceful degradation. What is done at the GUI level can be done at the feature/fu
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Gonna try this for my friends, family and some of my servers. What are these use-cases all about? Not really getting the point of this right now.. curious since all my friends, family and servers are connected to the Internet already j
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by dualogy 10y ago
> The sheer number of cases where embedding a little unification engine dramatically simplifies code is pretty baffling. Would love to learn more about this, having done Prolog back in uni. Know of any good articles or posts showcasing &
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by dualogy 10y ago
"When possible, the Go compilers will allocate variables that are local to a function in that function's stack frame. However, if the compiler cannot prove that the variable is not referenced after the function returns, then the c
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by dualogy 10y ago
I think for many/most of them the key thing is that they need some 20x the amount of glucose than normally oxygenated cells. So they're actually supremely inefficient in terms of energy. What's the problem then? They just won
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by dualogy 10y ago
> making glucose from proteins and fats plus recycling of pyruvate/lactate/some-such

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