dualogy

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by dualogy 11y ago
Would you recommend your favourite resources for techies to dig into this space?
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by dualogy 11y ago
"We are seeing the emergence of an anti-visual design movement, as more and more customers are becoming distrustful of smiling faces, soft tones and soft language." Not seeing that yet but it can't come soon enough.
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by dualogy 11y ago
~37.2 trillion cells and ~372 trillion microbes first and foremost
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by dualogy 11y ago
"Scientists at Newcastle University have shown the disease is caused by fat accumulating in the pancreas and losing less than one gram from the organ can reverse the life-limiting illness and restore insulin production." That vagu
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by dualogy 11y ago
That sounds harsh, I bet numerous freshly diagnosed and devastated T2D sufferers told by doctors "incurable, a progressive disease" would be thrilled at this very glimmer of hope that just showed up.
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by dualogy 11y ago
Carnivorous livers such as polar bears' have dangerous levels. Omnivore/herbivore livers aren't very dangerous at all, you'd have to eat many many kilograms in a single setting to approach acute toxicity. Or eat like a p
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by dualogy 11y ago
Um, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiota --- in human bodies, "bacteria seem to outnumber cells 10 to 1". Mitochondria, the "power houses of cells" seem to be bacteria.
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by dualogy 11y ago
I'm not saying parents are programmed to fall over and die exactly the moment they have sucessfully reproduced, clearly in those species incl us only the offspring of caring+longer-lived parents have survived to reproduce themselves --
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by dualogy 11y ago
Semantics. Certainly that's true for most animals, I'm not saying parents are programmed to fall over and die exactly the moment they have sucessfully reproduced, clearly in those species only the offspring of caring parents hav
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by dualogy 11y ago
On a cellular level for most all animal life, "nature"/evolution doesn't care about a long healthy post-reproductive lifespan (there was never and couldn't be reproductive selection pressure for that) --- since mo
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by dualogy 11y ago
Abrasives on enamel! Yay..
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by dualogy 11y ago
> Doing that is, from what I've read at least, 100% useless. Well it's not 100% useless, it's just not "100% success rate guaranteed every time". Maybe not even 20%. But 100% useless will be hard to prove..
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by dualogy 11y ago
That's the nasty thing about cancerous cells, they can adapt to "feed" (via blood) on a wide range of macro- (glucose, protein, fatty acids, even ketones for some rare types) and micro-nutrients (vitamins, "antioxidants&
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by dualogy 11y ago
> I could see that certain real nutritional deficiencies could be helped by drinking blood. Iron deficiency jumps to mind. Any come to mind, given that blood transports nutrients all the time. And that might explain why these "vam
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by dualogy 11y ago
Go figure.. might be another perk of the lifestyle ;)
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by dualogy 11y ago
Not in a long time -- regrettably ;) flower tattoo seems the best hope nowadays
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by dualogy 11y ago
Absolutely true. Gym rats and Joes have been ridiculously complicating their diets over the decades to squeeze out an at-best theoretical 1% boost or something. Also being 15 helps with a natural abundance of virtually-side-effect-free ridi
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by dualogy 11y ago
So out of curiosity, in your case, was this overworked + crappy diet + lack of physical activity, or was this overworked + healthy/balanced/junk-free diet + some modicum of regular physical activity?
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by dualogy 11y ago
Not everyone gets it. Fasting puts you in nutritional ketosis as does ketogenic / very-low-carb dieting. But the metallic taste is usually a temporary and harmless keto-adaptation symptom. The body's ketone production and consumpt
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by dualogy 11y ago
1kg of fat would be 9000 kcal. Impressive energy expenditure there. Of course a lot of water weight is lost initially (when fasting or just skipping all carbs) but that rate won't hold for weeks on end.
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by dualogy 11y ago
Ah, Owsley "The Bear" Stanley. He also lived on a fatty-meat-only zero-carb diet for some 50 years in decent health until he died in a car accident aged 75 in 2011. Quite the character: http://www.thebear.org
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by dualogy 11y ago
> Building muscle with a keto style diet will help you lose the weight the quickest but probably isn't the healthiest long term. Why not?
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by dualogy 11y ago
I sincerely doubt any diet rich in (reasonably fatty, reasonably "unprocessed") meat would show a Vitamin A deficiency, unless too much of such plant matter as hampers bioavailability and absorption is consumed concurrently. Of co
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by dualogy 12y ago
Surfing.. I'd hope!
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by dualogy 12y ago
> Why the obsession of economic growth? Easy. Essentially unknowable/unpredictable future growth expectations/extrapolations were already baked into present-day voter promises, welfare obligations and many bank/insurance
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by dualogy 12y ago
Haha, I went for the wither-and-die approach myself.. end result is the same, and inexplicably it's still sending "sufficient" funds my way. Major props, next time I shouldn't miss my Penang flight.. Phil ;)
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by dualogy 12y ago
Uncanny valley, if anything: reflections are supposed to change with a changing viewing angle and/or surface angle, whereas just camera movement has no immediate effect.
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by dualogy 12y ago
Funnily enough bittorrent still "wins out" in the handful of rogue countries where it isn't criminalized
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by dualogy 12y ago
Overheard just earlier: "Financial markets used to be about getting money into productive enterprises, not out of them" Right on. Let all the leveraged bots and algos devour each other. Sooner or later "real economy" wil
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by dualogy 12y ago
Don't see what the problem is. So millenials like to retain some connection to the physical world rather than glue themselves to the same old glowing screen all day for all activities, from work to reading to movies to music. These thi

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