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My hypothesis would look something like this: > The amount of fructose in the Standard American Diet (SAD) is a major culprit in obesity and obesity related diseases. > The body metabolizes fructose differently than other carbohydrate
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Both of these could be true. I have no doubt about your microservices anecdote, but I wouldn't dismiss Arrival's strategy outright because of it. Arrival may have something in common with Nucor steel and its mini mills. Legacy ste
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Off-topic but Bloomberg.com related... How is the video element on this page so persistent? Using the latest Firefox, I have uBlock origin on with Javascript, pop-ups, and large media elements all disabled for this site. And yet, the small
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Good question. The asymmetries of the cost of improper legal work versus saving some amount upfront may not seem worth it. There is probably some cognitive bias in play here.
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If I had to guess based on parsing these articles, Atrium went up against incentives in the legal industry and lost. [0,1] Legal firms bill hourly. Efficiency means less billable hours. (warning: moving into personal experience and conjectu
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> The relationship between salt and blood pressure (and the role of sugar) [5:45] https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/ #87 – Rick Johnson, M.D.: Fructose—The common link in high blood pressure, insulin resistanc
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> That's also how a company trying to do its best to cover the sometimes ambiguous intent of diversity law will often interface to academia, so it's a fair approach in this context. Agree that it provides cover for an org to d
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Hi, I understand that this can be a hot button issue, and I know when that happens to me I sometimes misread or I am hasty in my response. Perhaps that's what has happened with your response here. I took a few minutes to read your post
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1) You selected one PDF from one organization, that has no visible attribution to anyone, generalized that to "recommended by academics", and based on that questioned the light of the rest of the post. This is poor reasoning. 2) Y
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Performance evaluations are subjectivity masquerading as objectivity. > In each of these cases, I brought these issues to HR and senior executives and was assured the problems would be handled. Yet in each case, there was no follow up t
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You're welcome. Thank you for reading it.
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So I'm going to comment on this. As an outsider I gather that there is a journalistic/photographer code that basically amounts to "don't help or get involved with your subjects." Well, if you follow Chris' work
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> We're basically treating nature like a resource and stripping it all back to nothing (like AEP did in the 60's and 70's) Go back further. This [0] is a picture of what used to be a stream in Southeast Ohio. Coal mines
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Since you weren't explicit about it, having a PM or manager who a) understands this concept, and b) can communicate it to the team is important and what you did here! I mentioned in a comment above that with the Theory of Constraints
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> If it is urgent and your only option is to sit there and do nothing then asking the team for help during the day is fine. Sit there and do nothing for awhile just may be the right thing to do! I'm thinking about the Theory of Co
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Goodreads link https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86524.The_Path_to_Power
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It seems like it was both. I have framed houses and I have shingled roofs. The former is physically demanding. The latter is back breaking. Some excerpts from Caro: > the farm filth had to be scrubbed out in hours of kneeling over rough
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Vivid is the right word for it! I had no understanding of what that sort of life must have been like before reading the chapter, but after it stuck with me so strongly. I felt wholly inadequate trying to summarize it above.
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Your eating pattern matches up with what Dr. Satchin Panda of the Salk Institute is finding regarding circadian rhythms, which every cell in our body has. Evidence points to the benefits of eating only within an 8-12 hour window each day. W
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And electricity powers washing machines. Robert Caro masterfully paints the picture of what life was like in rural Texas for women making homes before their area was electrified. It wasn't just time saved. It was hard, physical labor t
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> Patreon CEO says the company’s generous business model is not sustainable https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550645
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I see you getting downvoted, but I am fine with taking your comment at face value. Here's the problem. Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, etc are another middle man between creators and supporters. That's another mouth to feed on top of St
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> unobtrusive way to monetize their work I have seen this movie before and I know how it ends. [waves at Patreon] Help me understand why this a venture scale business and not a non-profit, a benefit corporation, a co-op or some other m
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We are firmly in conjecture-only territory here, especially discussing a 382 day fast. Having said that, Dr. Peter Attia has some reasonable hypotheses/extrapolations on how one may maintain muscle on a prolonged fast. > "I do
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> who has never done any programming Suggestion/hope for anyone looking to answer this part--please answer this: -------- What does the map of the programming terrain look like? -------- I have come across so many articles/tu
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Oh wow! Cuisenaire rods are both esoteric, and something I have seen used as an amazing teaching tool. How do you get 5 and 6 year olds to go from playing with Cuisenaire rods as blocks to modeling algebraic equations and learning fractions
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Thought this might be another hype article, but instead I found an informative article from the perspective of a physician on the front lines treating patients with CAR-T therapy.
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It seems you and OP aren't working from a shared definition of "American made." OP seems to have a reverence for autos made by foreign-based companies (Toyota and Honda). While you are rightly pointing out that both Toyota an
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Appreciate you breaking that down! Really illuminates how complex and challenging chemistry and biology are.
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You're welcome! This stuff is way outside my area of expertise, but I'm obviously curious what the heck is going on. Glad to see this discussion here on HN.

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