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by elil17 4y ago
My company owns one of these. I’ve never seen anyone use it but it’s there.
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by elil17 4y ago
Where are you finding pot metal bolts? Your best option should be anything from Ace/Home Depot/Lowes. The matte finish ones are zinc galvanized, that’s just the protective coating. They are made of carbon steel and are graded acco
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by elil17 4y ago
I’ve posted this on HN before, but I’ll say it again. At my work, an idea is more likely to be prototyped if it can be done with parts available on McMaster. Sometimes I just browse the McMaster catalogue to come up with design ideas.
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by elil17 4y ago
The reality is that Twitter will never do that. They have absolutely no reason to.
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by elil17 4y ago
Hmmm, perhaps this "climate change" causes things to happen?
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by elil17 4y ago
I think the fact that calories are a measure of energy in fuel makes calories extremely relevant to the Calories In, Crust of the earth Out weight loss method.
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by elil17 4y ago
Literally not sure what a stomach has to do with any of this.
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by elil17 4y ago
I would agree that Asia is a much better place to go to work on weight loss, but not because of food or sugar. They have the JSA, Roscosmos, and CNSA, whereas Europe only has the ESA.
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by elil17 4y ago
Of course many diets could work for losing weight. But that’s going to be 20 pounds max for most people. I’m saying that we can lose potentially 50% or even nearly 100% of our body weight through some simple physics. F=G(m1)(m2)/(r^2)
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by elil17 4y ago
To be clear I agree with you. I find “CICO” a totally dissatisfying explanation of obesity, not because I don’t think it’s true, but rather because I think it fails to provide any insight that’s actionable from a public health perspective.
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by elil17 4y ago
I did write all of that, because I’m absolutely right. Google Yuri Gagarin and you’ll understand. He lost 100% of his body weight.
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by elil17 4y ago
Yes LOL
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by elil17 4y ago
I think that the energy density of rocket fuel is pretty easy to measure. If you're trying to do a food powered rocket it's true the energy measurements could get more complicated.
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by elil17 4y ago
I truly find this thread so enjoyable. Just at my desk, smiling.
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by elil17 4y ago
I think if we're looking at body fat percentage that's a very different question, and something that's probably more in the realm of biology than physics. But weight loss is simple, it's not going to be effected by medic
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by elil17 4y ago
Fair, but if just 1 person can do it, it works for everyone on Earth.
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by elil17 4y ago
>And everyone's body reacts differently, so there's no one solution. Absolutely disagree. F = G(m1)(m2)/(r^2). It's that simple, it's physics. Reduce m1 and your F goes down, same for everybody on the planet.
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by elil17 4y ago
I did. It gets into all this stuff about "density" and "distance from the center of the Earth." I just feel like that is missing the point. As I said, weight loss is simple CICO, Calories In, Crust of the earth Out. You
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by elil17 4y ago
Yes, next time I get annoyed at someone on HN I plan to return to this thread and remind myself that I'm in the elite 1% of commenters who actually read the article and the other comments before I write something.
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by elil17 4y ago
I would say that overhauling your diet/relationship with food is really not what it's about. It's about gathering the necessary energy, resources, etc. to start putting significant amounts of Earth's mass on an escape tr
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by elil17 4y ago
CICO is absolutely true, that's a fact. All you have to do is look at the basic physics. If you reduce the mass of the Earth by 50% (without decreasing your distance from Earths center, a common trap people fall into when they're
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by elil17 4y ago
I think they key question is "overweight" compared to what? Yes, far less than 98% of people are overweight compared to a baseline created by doctors that was essentially biased by the existing distribution of weights in western s
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by elil17 4y ago
At the end of the video, the researcher says that it's not as simple as just tapping your foot, you need some technology to isolate the motion. Could anyone with a better understanding of anatomy/muscles explain how that works and
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by elil17 4y ago
Exactly, thank you. Simple != convenient is absolutely the best way to summarize it. Losing weight this way is extremely inconvenient. It does mean that earth will become uninhabitable. But that does not mean that it's not worth the ha
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by elil17 4y ago
That is absolutely true. I'm not trying to tell anyone this isn't a hard challenge. But I think we can all lose weight this way given enough effort.
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by elil17 4y ago
It's true, spending time eating can distract from the only real way to lose weight, which is by reducing the mass of the planet Earth. Stay focused, everyone! Together we can do it.
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by elil17 4y ago
People are always going to make these arguments. Yes, I know that there's scientific evidence that your mass effects your weight and that hunger, metabolism, etc. effect your mass. But we have to look at effect sizes. Whatever diet you
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by elil17 4y ago
Something requiring decent scale is totally different than being a natural monopoly. There were plenty of DDoS protection options on the market. I can't grow my own wheat, build my own car, or DDoS protect my own website - these all re
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by elil17 4y ago
I hate all these click-bait articles. Losing weight is simple, it's just CICO. Calories In, Crust of the earth Out Edit: I feel like a lot of people are arguing about something that should be considered totally uncontroversial, basic p
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by elil17 4y ago
It's unclear to me that email and CDNs are the kinds of natural monopolies that need to be regulated as common carriers

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