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by graeme 4y ago
True enough, but even subcutaneous fat is not benign. Sumo wrestlers have extremely low visceral fat and extremely high muscle mass. But a good margin of subcutaneous fat. They have a markedly lower life expectancy than other elite athletes
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by graeme 4y ago
Actually according to studies BMI underestimates body fat. And by a substantial margin too. About 40% of people classes as not obese by BMI are actually obese. Very few in the other direction; this study doesn't mention them >Mean B
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by graeme 4y ago
Couldn't say. If I had to guess, a lot of ventilation happens through walls which act as a filter. Even window screens likely do. Regardless of reason, my AQI will regularly be 4-13 indoors when it is 38-54 outside, even if I have wind
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by graeme 4y ago
It really depends where you live. What's the pm 2.5 in your city? Mine isn't high enough to worry about outdoor pollution, and if it was I would move. But people in high smog cities do wear masks. They have regular smog warnings
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by graeme 4y ago
A longer time chart is more instructive: https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OG-CM820_JHOUSI_4... Thanks for pointing out that prices are rising, I may have misspoke. But the key point is that relative
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by graeme 4y ago
* Testing/replacing car air filter * Any mask outside. Even surgical can cut more than half of pm 2.5 * A lot of people recommending indoor filters, but indoor pollution generally a lot less than outdoors except when cooking. You can v
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by graeme 4y ago
The average home in a mildly polluted area will actually generally have clean indoor air without filtration. Even with windows open. Don't ask me how this works, but I've verified it using a PM 2.5 monitor, a laseregg 2. With indo
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by graeme 4y ago
In virtually the whole of Canada and the United States, dense, walkable neighborhoods are illegal. Even if you get rid of one type of zoning, other types remain. For example, one of the Texas cities has no zoning laws, but it does have mand
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by graeme 4y ago
I lived in a place that did contact tracing for SARS-Cov-2 and it definitely worked. Other places in Canada had large outbreaks they had to quell with extensive lockdowns to prevent hospital overwhelm. Nova Scotia did extensive contact trac
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by graeme 4y ago
Even that has issues. It can promote lung cancer growth and initiation. The gist is it is too good at keeping cells alive and keeps alive some that should have died. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/n-acet
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by graeme 4y ago
To be clear, if you’re not taking alcohol/ethanol etc then TUDCA seems fairly safe for short term use
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by graeme 4y ago
That's totally false. Infection control systems were activated. SARS and MERS did not spread widely, either. Here's one example from Canada: >All hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Simcoe County were ordered to a
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by graeme 4y ago
> Yes, it's unreasonable, because there's not a thing the WHO can do about it. The WHO exists to contain such things so as to minimize the risk of wider harm. It is not inevitable that every new disease spreads widely and becom
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by graeme 4y ago
> That was all while companies reported revenue largely stayed the same during the trial period last year and even grew compared with the same six months a year earlier, according to findings released this week. It’s really too soon to t
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by graeme 4y ago
Signal is not a crypto mixer. The argument here is about the frequency a certain service is used for crime. For example, library records generally have a fair amount of privacy. Criminals sometimes consult libraries. Crime is not the domina
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by graeme 4y ago
You can set the poker stakes so low that it effectively isn’t gambling. And poker is a game of skill, where good players can be profitable long run. Huge difference between playing for $10 vs nothing. In a free game people tend to be much
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by graeme 4y ago
What I hadn’t understood was what you meant by ranking data?
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by graeme 4y ago
> fantastic search term to click ranking data Could you expand on what you mean here?
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Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI) & Body Fat(journals.plos.org)
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by graeme 4y ago
Their point was that mean might be higher than median. That said, from your data is isn’t much higher, so they’re broadly wrong. Headline fairly close to accurate for median too
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by graeme 4y ago
> But also BMI is a crap metric, since it doesn't account for percent fat / muscle. Sure, but for some reason everyone assumes BMI overstates obesity. The opposite is more likely true. Strength and muscle mass are declining as
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by graeme 4y ago
Apple has been expanding its search activities for years. Google absolutely has giving Apple an incentive not to compete as part of its aims
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by graeme 4y ago
….there are more crises than shutting down the world acutely. OP was referring to slower acting effects of covid
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by graeme 4y ago
The better question would be whether their doctor recommends they get Covid or avoid it, given their condition. How you avoid Covid is a physics question, not a doctor question.
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by graeme 4y ago
Yes but they use the Bing API. If their costs per search exceed their revenues per search new users won’t help them
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by graeme 4y ago
I don’t have trypophobia, but the logo reminds me of some sort of hideous alien slug
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by graeme 4y ago
There’s a difference between: 1. Convincing an editor to run your ideas under their masthead 2. Paying someone to edit your work, and running your ideas under your own masthead A newspaper is more than a brand. They put their reputation on
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by graeme 4y ago
Try Lunch Money. Great multi currency support. https://lunchmoney.app/ It doesn’t work for my brain but ynab also supports multicurrency.
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by graeme 4y ago
I agree, but you can only stretch an analogy so far. Unplugging a bathtub is free, whereas capturing carbon currently is more costly than the energy used to capture it.
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by graeme 4y ago
Someone is the publisher. It can’t be nobody

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