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by glastra 8y ago
It seems to me that metabolic state should also be taken into account. A lower respiratory quotient for fat metabolism means expelled CO2 is much lower when utilising fat for energy (CO2 litres per kcal [0]), making respiration easier and r
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by glastra 8y ago
Maybe lower your carb intake or incorporate a daily intermittent fasting regime. What does your usual day look like food-wise?
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by glastra 8y ago
There is a significant difference between the following two statements: 1) Cravings cannot be used to determine what your body needs with 100% accuracy because some of them might be caused by gut microbes. 2) Cravings should still be taken
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by glastra 8y ago
There is a mechanism for gut microbes to cause cravings, thus all cravings must be caused by gut microbes. Are you sure that's a logical and valid conclusion?
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by glastra 8y ago
Cravings. Also, if you put salt in your mouth and it tastes good, you need sodium. If you can't stand the taste or it tastes "chemical", then you don't need it as much.
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by glastra 8y ago
That is a gross and very, very dangerous oversimplification that flies in the face of everything we know about electrolytes. I highly recommend you perform a search for intracellular and extracellular electrolyte concentrations. I also high
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by glastra 8y ago
Maybe someone thought about it mechanistically in the sense that more sodium in our blood also means more water (to keep both electrolyte balance and dilution in acceptable ranges to sustain life). More water means more blood volume or pres
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by glastra 8y ago
Oh, not at all. They are not idiots. That paper was written with a purpose which was properly met (mainly getting to publish and, to a lesser extent, to confirm a previous notion or bias). The issue is reporting of results to the public. So
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by glastra 8y ago
Certainly. The first sentence already instilled a sense of "they're full of it" in me. I know that's biased. I checked one of the papers they refer to [0] and... well, they fed mice ( not humans ) a diet with an 8- to 16
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Facebook down: Users logged out and unable to log back in as site not working(independent.co.uk)
3 points by glastra 8y ago|0 comments
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by glastra 8y ago
All fruit humans eat nowadays is far, far different from anything available in nature before we started to intervene (with perhaps a few exceptions for berries, which are still seasonal anyway). Also, aside from artificial selection, there
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by glastra 8y ago
Facebook is, as I see it, in a constant struggle to "own" the social graph of humanity. Be it trying to make your friends coerce you into using it, be it buying other social networks (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp). As long as they are
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by glastra 8y ago
The amount of omega-6 PUFAs in eggs is almost negligible compared to MUFAs and SFAs [1, table 1]. Assuming that a single egg yolk is around 20 grams, that's less than 1 gram of omega-6 per egg. One would have to eat an absurd amount of
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by glastra 8y ago
Or maybe it did, if you voted for the winning side. What if you ordered the winning votes and losing votes randomly, side by side, and eliminated pairs of opposing votes. You would be left with a set of winning votes, cast by individual peo
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by glastra 8y ago
Definitely. I don't understand why you're getting down-voted without actual refutals. I guess it generates some internal/psychological discomfort, but I expected better of HN readers. Indeed, the only animals suffering from o
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by glastra 8y ago
From your first sentence, I understand that feeding everyone in the planet is a priority. You also assert that, if we move to a plant-based diet, we would need 9x less plantations^. Do you believe those plantations will be abandoned? Or, ra
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by glastra 8y ago
What about environmentally conscious farming? I mean pastured, free-range, etc. Also, what would you say is the difference between massive industrial plantations intended to feed livestock vs those intended to feed humans with a less than i
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The Blind Man and the Elephant(poemhunter.com)
2 points by glastra 8y ago|0 comments
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Gell-Mann amnesia effect(en.wikipedia.org)
361 points by glastra 8y ago|162 comments
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by glastra 8y ago
Francisco Goya painted some of them in The Charge of the Mamelukes . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_of_May_1808 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamelukes_of_the_Imperial_Guar...
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Hedonic treadmill(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by glastra 8y ago|0 comments
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by glastra 8y ago
Could it be that you are referring to frisson and not ASMR? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson
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by glastra 8y ago
Indeed. However, you can only see non-replies, as the "tweets and replies" section started requiring authentication not long ago.
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How to turn down request from prospective employer for current employer's code?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
3 points by glastra 8y ago|0 comments
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by glastra 8y ago
What about commissions on traded volume?
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by glastra 8y ago
Someone changed it to trim.li (which apparently is another URL shortening service). I've tried changing it to the proper URL, but Wikipedia is preventing me from saving my changes because bitly.com is in their blacklist, as it is a URL
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by glastra 8y ago
It must be frustrating when you run into threads like this, though.
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by glastra 8y ago
You're right. I don't know if there's anything further than what I currently perceive, but this is definitely orders of magnitude better than before I started. And that's pretty much the only thing that has changed (othe
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by glastra 8y ago
Given all of your replies in this thread, I assume quasi-trolling on HN is an exciting thing for you to do. Life is indeed short. My diet, which I wouldn't consider at all restrictive as I can eat as much as I want, allows me to live i
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by glastra 8y ago
What is extreme about it? I'm never hungry, I never feel bloated, and I don't have any digestive issues. I suggest you do some research yourself and perhaps even experiment, before you regurgitate things out of the first result th

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