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by ellyagg 8y ago
At least for some people, urgent hunger passes after a few days. My brother has done a few full fasts and after a week he didn't feel hungry anymore. YMMV. There was another incident, a case study in the early 70s, where a very obese m
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by ellyagg 8y ago
As a counterpoint, I couldn't stand WinAmp. To me, its interface was a mess of tiny inscrutable controls. When I started using SoundJam on the Mac, which was later bought and turned into iTunes, it was a breath of fresh air. iTunes has
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by ellyagg 8y ago
You write and borrow plug-ins for Slack. With plug-ins, Slack becomes an extensible, configurable, fine-grained company alerts system. You adapt it to alert you about your latest website traffic, analytics goals, customer support requests,
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by ellyagg 8y ago
Can I just mention that anyone who begins their comment with What. ...and: [whatever] is just a [whatever] ...comes across as a bit of an asshole? Why not just make your point instead of investing a lot in making sure ever
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by ellyagg 9y ago
You can't confirm something that has very little evidence. The prior for this hypothesis is very low.
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by ellyagg 9y ago
You should read Stephen Guyenet to challenge what you've heard about sugar, both his twitter and his blog. He's a Ph.D. neuroscientist who studies the connection of the brain to fatness for a living. A recent tweet from him:
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by ellyagg 9y ago
"Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language." – Peter Norvig http://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Being overweight is a much stronger correlate to cancer and heart disease than "sugar". And, despite what you might have read in the press, it's nowhere near a consensus that sugar is the primary cause of being overweight. Yo
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by ellyagg 9y ago
You mean we've known about Orcas exploiting tonic immobility for years, right? I can't think of any analytical technique that would allow us to know when Orcas started exhibiting this behavior. As our methods and wealth have allow
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Odd phrasing that, "have learned". "Some wasps have learned to immobilise spiders and deposit their eggs inside of them." I think many would get the wrong idea if they didn't click through and read carefully and ske
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Not sure, but here's the wikipedia page on it, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_shock_response
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Yep. It's a stressor, which is the point. Strenuous exercise is also a well-known cause of heart attacks, but you should definitely strenuously exercise if at all possible.
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by ellyagg 9y ago
A very long time ago I read a biography of Ronald Reagan, who had the same policy. He was punctilious about being on time, neither early nor late. He would arrive at an appointment 5 minutes early and then wait outside until the precise min
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by ellyagg 9y ago
A kid got electrocuted trying to charge his phone at a cybercafe in China. There was a good discussion about what circumstances would be necessary for this to happen: https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeopledie/comment
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by ellyagg 9y ago
What makes you say that? It's trivial to get opioids on the streets and it's common to be introduced to them as a recreational drug, as I know first hand. In fact, I don't know anyone who got addicted to opioids due to overpr
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Right, argumentative, cloudy, and political. If that's what is meant by "dropping the subsidies", then the simple sounding solution actually hides all the complexity of the problem.
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Saying, "read this giant report that contains a bunch of other irrelevant data" isn't the most helpful. The other comments so far in this thread are argumentative, non-specfic, or I still couldn't verify their existence
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by ellyagg 9y ago
What's the biggest specific subsidy of oil or gas right now that you know about?
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by ellyagg 9y ago
It runs on the Java runtime and interops seamlessly with Java which are two big factors in its favor.
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Apathy isn't worse than malice.
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by ellyagg 9y ago
What a cool idea! I was hoping there was going to be a directory of blog posts I could `cat`. I feel like there's some fun potential here if you keep fleshing it out, but of course who has the time?
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Musk literally wants to colonize Mars in his lifetime. Do you think that claim is a clever strategy too? Why is the hyperloop where people draw the line at credulity?
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by ellyagg 9y ago
Everything is unpleasant for some people. Anyway, is good design that which offends the least number of people? I can't agree with that.
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by ellyagg 9y ago
You have a 200 KLOC React app? That's amazing to me. Just you? Is it public facing?
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by ellyagg 9y ago
> pretty low for many companies C'mon. It's not just pretty low for many companies. It's extremely low for almost all companies. Automattic found it extremely low risk for themselves. If it's not extremely low for alm
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by ellyagg 9y ago
I believe it. However, there's more to life than squeezing maximal efficiency and productivity out of human beings.
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by ellyagg 9y ago
> Business 101 is that you're always in trouble if you depend on one supplier for the majority of your business. You're making the point. It's hard to build an online business without appeasing Google and that they need to
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by ellyagg 9y ago
But new and small businesses can't switch where they go to raise awareness, which always seems to be an underappreciated consequence of Google's monopoly. You either have to buy Google ads or do SEO, and if you SEO, Google can pul
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by ellyagg 9y ago
This article presents the reasons behind cost disease as if his interpretation is accepted fact, but that's not the case, right? Elsewhere, I've seen a lot more disagreement among smart people. For example, he says we have to pay
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by ellyagg 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if climate affected our adventurousness, though, which this projection doesn't capture. I find ice cold seas a lot more forbidding.

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