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by kbelder 2y ago
I've had similar results with blood pressure, although a smaller weight loss (about 30 lbs) and smaller decrease. Another 10-20 pounds to go. For what it's worth, I'm on a intermittent fast. I only eat between 5pm to 10pm,
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by kbelder 2y ago
And yet, it did.
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by kbelder 2y ago
We were house-shopping a bit ago, and at one place while the realtor was showing us around there was a knocking at the door. The realtor answered it, and it was an older man, a neighbor, saying that one of our cars was partly off the pavem
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by kbelder 2y ago
I think Google Sheets is nearly miraculous, with all that it can do as a web app, but it's amazing to me that anybody actually seriously using Excel in a professional capacity could migrate to it. They're not in the same weight c
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by kbelder 2y ago
I put IrfanView on every windows machine I use. It's a very handy and lightweight image viewer. But the logo is an animal ran over by a car, I think? I've had people ask me about why I have 'that dead animal' icon on
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by kbelder 2y ago
'Busybodies'
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by kbelder 2y ago
You're skeptical that many people believe those things?
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by kbelder 2y ago
I was younger and was seeing a girl who was raised in a much more well-off environment than I. At one point we went to Dairy Queen. She hadn't been in many years, so she ordered several different meals and tasted a bit of each to see
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by kbelder 2y ago
The concept of p-zombies requires a soul, or other mystic forces. It just hides it. Materialists should reject the notion as inherently incoherent. Two things cannot be physically the same, where one is conscious and the other not. To t
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by kbelder 2y ago
Does a *1 mean you just want the comment to stay unchanged? Imagine if instead of +1 and -1, we did a *2 and /2. There's the next HN April Fools day change for you. That would be fun, even though it shouldn't make any real
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by kbelder 2y ago
And don't forget you can make some pretty sweeping generalizations about how young people are nuts, too. With similar justification: "We're different, so you are crazy."
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by kbelder 2y ago
Right. It's still arguably not significantly worse than Alta Vista or Ask Jeeves.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Like humans and sugar.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I would trust the self-reported home readings more than those taken by professionals, because they're probably happening more often and under less stressful and exceptional circumstances.
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by kbelder 2y ago
The article argues 'yes', so that law may not be applicable here.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Krugman triggered some self reflection on my part when I read a column by him that was really stupid. Not just politically biased, but got economics wrong. This is a Nobel winner in economics , I warned myself. Are you really putting yo
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by kbelder 2y ago
Isn't medical insurance the same? On average, the sum benefit you get from insurance is less than the total amount you pay.
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by kbelder 2y ago
>There's a lot more smokers than there are severely obese people. Huh, I was going to argue this, but you're right (in the US). 19.5% of the population smokes, so there's about twice as many smokers as severely obese peop
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by kbelder 2y ago
>There's some evidence that Ozempic improves general impulse control While remaining on the drug. I expect your impulse control will be even worse after getting off of it, but I don't have a study to back that up.
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by kbelder 2y ago
>Fascists don't believe that, and will happily kill people with different ideas if they get the power to do so. That belief is one of the reasons Fascism is wrong.
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by kbelder 2y ago
>I legit disliked Steve Jobs. Do you mean before reading the bio, during, or after?
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by kbelder 2y ago
It wasn't a test about Objectivism. It was about ideological intolerance and zealotry in general. Note that you could fail it by whether you're pro or con Objectivism.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I don't prefer it to less mediocre books.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I liked Atlas Shrugged.
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by kbelder 2y ago
At the time, that was trivially disprovable by referring to a bird. Now, people are making the same proclamation about AGI, and it's still trivially disprovable in the same manner.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I find it amazing that the Chinese room is considered a serious argument by so many. Unless you believe in mysticism, it's refuted by pointing to your own head.
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by kbelder 2y ago
- Science has, up til now, failed to make even the slightest progress on the origin of consciousness. - Science does not even claim to attempt to answer all questions about the human experience. Similar argument could be made about every ot
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by kbelder 2y ago
Why did you interpret being compared to a comic or manga as an insult to their quality?
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by kbelder 2y ago
This is often done by contrasting the US with Europe, as if Europe is a political gold standard.
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by kbelder 2y ago
And satirizing by calling people funny names is usually found in elementary schools.

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