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by jp555 12y ago
Capitalism is the pursuit of monopolies. Does it matter if there's cheap minerals when a patent, exclusive licence agreement, or lack of adequate engineers blocks any possibility of making a competing product? Raw materials are not the
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by jp555 12y ago
FYI beef spikes insulin higher than rice does. Insulin is released when we eat any food, both stopping the mobilization of fat and driving this food energy into cells to power metabolism. This is analogous to not drawing money out of your
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by jp555 12y ago
everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, but not their own facts. Glycogen is the preferred fuel, which are giant chains of glucose (carb) molecules. I've done keto, and you have to be very careful as even a small amount of carbs wil
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by jp555 12y ago
I think you'd agree that having hypertension at 17 is not typical, but being 17 and consuming a LOT of salt (junk food) is very typical. So which is more likely; you're genetically predisposed to hypertension, which your high-salt
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by jp555 12y ago
That's not how it works, according to all the biochemistry text book I've read. If protein is the blocks for building muscle, carbs are the mortar. You are not gaining loads of muscle without carbs. You just waste a lot of money o
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by jp555 12y ago
being fat/obese and/or sedentary is a major contributor to insulin resistance. Your protein/fat/carb intake is not a significant contributor at all outside how much of them you're eating is keeping you fat/obes
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by jp555 12y ago
Macros do not significantly affect metabolic rate. Exercise does though. Glycogen (carbs) is the preferred fuel for almost every cell in our bodies. All the fat & protein we eat that ends up used as metabolic fuel will first be converte
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by jp555 12y ago
Agreed. But it's not the carbs themselves, it's the calories in the carbs, and the fact that most of the snacks we eat are carbs. Avoid carbs and you avoid most snacks, which makes it easier to maintain a caloric deficit. It was t
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by jp555 12y ago
The macronutrient content of your diet has nothing to do with how much you gain/lose. The only way you are losing weight is that you are in a caloric deficit. Whether that's from increased activity, decreased energy intake, or a c
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by jp555 12y ago
here's another great one from Alan Aragon: "Avoid food avoidance." I think the salt thing is somewhat a problem of causation vs. correlation. If you have hypertension it can be a good idea to limit salt intake; but salt intak
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by jp555 12y ago
I thought the problem with faster as you go smaller is that smaller pipes leak higher pressure water (electron tunneling), which is why we have divided the pressure into a larger number of small pipes (multi-core). If we can make higher pre
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by jp555 12y ago
3d printed & extreme limited availability seems contradictory to me.
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by jp555 12y ago
Are programming languages more tools or languages? To put it another way, if I know several methods of knitting, would that offer similar benefits of being multilingual, or are human languages different than other tools? Maybe a better anal
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by jp555 12y ago
Are you sure? If I need to make a change to a document, but I'm sitting in a cafe, the computer I have with me is the best computer. I'm not sure one can universally say one machine is always better than another. I will edit video
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by jp555 12y ago
And I'm sure there are plenty of ~6" Android smartphones available for less than $500. My point was for a device that will be used "every 19 minutes" for years, and it's network access will cost several times the pr
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by jp555 12y ago
Did your gorgeous 27" display cost more than $500? I'm not quite clear why you think $500 for a very decent computer that fits into a (big) pocket is unreasonable.
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by jp555 12y ago
I would suppose that intensity is as or more important than exact wavelength (within the violet-to-green range), given the increasing intensity of the rising sun is the origin of our circadian-rhythm adaptation.
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by jp555 12y ago
Is that what he said exactly? FTA: "He said it's not about asking for raises, and that women should trust in the system to reward them as they go along. Not asking for a raise is "good karma," because someone will know t
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by jp555 12y ago
People disagree that the quality of your craft is more a determining property of your success than your sex?
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by jp555 12y ago
I'm currently reading "So Good They Can't Ignore You" which convincingly argues that getting really good at what you do - building "career capital" as the author says - is what we trade for the best jobs (compe
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by jp555 12y ago
what is the relevance of that blue spike? Incandescent spectrum looks much more linear ( http://housecraft.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/spectral_res... ), but appears to maybe emit more (just judging by e
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by jp555 12y ago
Is it fair to compare an S-class, which has been engineered into it's current state over 60 years, to a car that did not exist at all 3 years ago? You may have it backwards; Tesla is building the powertrain for the Mercedes electric A-
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by jp555 12y ago
why not just use a big metal case then? That way when you want to go super-light, you can.
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by jp555 12y ago
Almost all the LEDs in my house are ~2700K, about the same an incandescent lights. Regarding circadian rhythm, light from near-sleep-time television watching is much more of a concern, but that's been a problem for at least 30 years.
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by jp555 12y ago
Ah yes the Phyles of Diamond age. But this e-residency is still within the confines of a nation-state, whereas Stephenson's Phyles/Tribes replace the nation-state. I can see Bitcoin - or its decedents - easily being used for Phy
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by jp555 12y ago
More solid but over 20% heavier than the 5. An iPhone4 weighs more than the much larger iPhone6. I think they're all under the maximum weight threshold for how much a device like this should weigh, but every time I pick up my wife&#x27
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by jp555 12y ago
Look at the capability & price of LED lighting over the last 20 years as their production has skyrocketed. As you said, cars have simultaneously become much more capable (safety, reliability, fuel-effiencey, performance) while they have
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by jp555 12y ago
The food I buy, the tools I buy, the clothes I buy, everything I buy, and all the things I don't buy - says a lot more about me than the random posts on Facebook I might Like, comment on, or share. VISA knew I was having a baby a L
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by jp555 12y ago
cost-reduction is also a function of productivity. We see that - at least since the industrial revolution - every doubling of production reduces cost 20-30%. It's the same whether we're talking about cars, shoes, planes, or solar
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by jp555 12y ago
The credit card company can put together a MUCH more accurate profile of what I value, because it's a profile of what I spend my money on, and not just 10 years ago, but also 10 minutes ago. Facebook can profile as well, but the analog

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