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by glenra 13y ago
> How many times in the last year did you start a trip with a full tank and need to refuel before you reached your destination? Well, there was that time in the last year that I drove from New York to Jackson, Wyoming and back (~2000 m
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by glenra 13y ago
Keeping track of who owns which to ensure each user can get their battery back seems like a bit of a mess. Presumably they give you money back if you keep a battery that's older than the one you dropped off? If so, I frankly can&#x
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by glenra 13y ago
By the way, when skeptics say there's been "no warming for the last decade", they often mean this: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/last:120/plot/wti/last:... That one works even
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by glenra 13y ago
> It's always nice to look directly at the data. It is, but you should keep in mind there isn't just one "the data" and in this case, what data source you pick affects what answer you get. The people you're argui
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by glenra 13y ago
I worked at a company that did "theme offices" - mine was "the tiki room"; my cubicle was a grass hut accessible via a wooden-plank walkway (there were two other huts, a bit of sand, and a fish tank). We had a Star Trek-
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by glenra 13y ago
> "Set points" assumes that we are dealing with an automatic system. We are dealing with an automatic system. If we weren't, people would starve or become morbidly obese whenever they moved or changed jobs such that they
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by glenra 13y ago
Okay, this is a survey from 1998 - my google-fu was not strong enough to find one more recent: http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/2/196.full Quote: "...the majority of the studies point to a re
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by glenra 13y ago
One particularly interesting point Taubes makes is that there exist people (with various conditions) who are simultaneously emaciated and obese. Someone can be obese in the lower half of the body and emaciated in the top half or vice-versa.
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by glenra 13y ago
What, exactly, are you calling an "astonishing phenomenon never before detected in history"? Are you saying that chickens and monkeys got fatter over time due to "record-keeping errors"? Are you claiming the "fat vi
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by glenra 13y ago
That implies TDEE doesn't change. But we know that TDEE does change when people diet. (One study found that a group of people who lost 10% of their weight through dieting had their resting metabolism decline by an average of 15%.) We
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by glenra 13y ago
It wasn't sustainable. Maintaining enough of a calorie deficit to lose that much weight made me depressed and made it hard to do my job - I think better with more calorie consumption. So I stopped dieting for much the same reason oth
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by glenra 13y ago
A diet people consistently can't keep to doesn't constitute a solution to the problem. It's also worth noting that people who have gained a bunch of weight and lost it have a slower metabolism than people who stayed at th
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by glenra 13y ago
> I did read that point and find it perplexing. The "fat virus" theory would perfectly explain it. If some of our co-evolved viruses and bacteria have been making us more prone to accumulate fat and it's contagious , the
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by glenra 13y ago
My guess is that eventually we'll confirm something like the "fat virus" hypothesis and be able to immunize kids (to some degree) against becoming obese. There exist human cold viruses such that if you give that particular co
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by glenra 13y ago
Some obese people do eat a lot, but the causality direction is unclear. It's likely they eat a lot in large part because they're obese. The human body in general is amazingly good at calibrating how much you eat versus how activ
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by glenra 13y ago
Doesn't that make it even more important that research journals should be transparent and follow their own policies? If top journals were willing to admit mistakes promptly it would be much harder to claim that valid alternative view
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by glenra 13y ago
I though this question was interesting: “What system are you or the director of national intelligence administration putting into place to make sure that if another person were to turn against his or her country we would have an alarm syst
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by glenra 13y ago
THere's no guarantee , no. But it's a pretty safe bet. Yes, buildings built in the 1880s have a certain style to them, but so do buildings built in the 1970s, 1990s, and today. By the end of the century people will undoubtedly ha
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by glenra 13y ago
> Right, let's raze all historical cities, and build stell and glass cubes. If redevelopment were generally allowed in cities like Paris and New York some of ugliest, least unique buildings would tend to get replaced with somethin
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by glenra 13y ago
A bit more regarding "sufficiently strong and consistent" effects: We all do little experiments all the time and generally reach valid conclusions based on them. Some examples. Imagine your friend says one of these things: "S
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by glenra 13y ago
UPDATE: I'm getting downvoted, most likely from people who don't know what I'm referring to. So let me clarify: The platonic ideal of a traditional drug or medical treatment is something that works the same way on EVERYBODY.
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by glenra 13y ago
If cocaine were legal, most people would tend to use it in milder forms, as they have done in the past. (eg, the recipe for coca-cola used to include cocaine). With heroin, the physical harm is almost ENTIRELY due to illegality - when a her
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by glenra 13y ago
When drugs are illegal, the economics of an illegal market tends to push them towards more concentrated highs. When heroin was legal people took it in pill form, which is much safer than "shooting up" but is a relatively inefficie
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by glenra 13y ago
Where cocaine was legal, people used the cocoa leaf to make a tea they drank all the time, the way we drink coffee or caffeinated soda. When heroin was legal (from the Bayer company!), addicts took it in pill form and it caused no particula
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by glenra 13y ago
You don't actually need a controlled double-blind study to notice a medical effect, IF the effect is sufficiently strong and consistent. Traditional "controlled double-blind studies" are nice to have, but are much too likely
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by glenra 13y ago
> Do you really twist your neck around on your laptop to make sure that the labels for plugging in peripherals all the time? Not all the time, but...yes, sometimes. On my MacBook Pro, the headphone jack and the microphone jack take the
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by glenra 13y ago
I was influenced by this part of the show presentation: http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mac_pro_... You've gotta admit it looks like at best slightly varying shades of grey in th
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by glenra 13y ago
"everyone" might be an exaggeration but the adoption curve for iPad is ramping up a lot faster than for the iPhone. Apple has sold over 100 million iPads so far.
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by glenra 13y ago
"Okay, we COULD just label the ports with regular high color contrast paint. Say, white paint on a black background or black paint on a white background. But that would be TOO EASY and the panel would then really 'pop' agains
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by glenra 13y ago
> Pizza deliveries cannot wait 5 minutes or so. [...] You ever see a pizza delivery person take their time? Hell fucking no. Before they move on, existing pizza delivery drivers delivering to an apartment have to: park the car, walk to

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