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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Calorie counting doesn't even work well in the short term. Metabolism drops dramatically at the cellular level on restricted calories. Insulin levels are the key to fat catabolism/anabolism. Calories are secondary. You can get fatter
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Wouldn't mind an explanation on why this is down voted.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
On the iron lungs and the salk vaccine there is an interesting "conspiracy" theory I've seen. Incidence of polio correlates extremely well to production volumes of DDT and various insecticides. It's a startling chart. Production went way
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
It's great a calorie counting approach works for this guy, but it has a horrible clinical track record. Dozens of studies conclusively show it does not work in the long run absent focus on the composition of the calories. Even in clinical
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Watched a presentation on Civil War medicine and surgery and the most interesting aspect was how they did all kinds of things not knowing why they worked. They did use chemicals to sterilize, but had no idea about germs. They had various
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
A really interesting headline study a couple years back was with fish oil and juvenile delinquents. The kids fed fish oil had something like half the recidivism rate of the control group. The implication here is that omega 3 fatty acid def
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
What are the details on water and sewage? My guess is this is a huge hassle outside an RV park. I don't get why the article didn't touch on this.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> sky high capital expenditure Is it really that expensive to string cable? Fiber was laid like crazy all over the country in the late 90s, just not for the last mile. The "last mile" cost is probably all in dealing with the governmen
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I doubt anybody has empirically compared anything with regard to persistence hunting. Might as well talk about meat yields of diving for shellfish. Some people think this was a major human activity. It's all supposition.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
It's probably about as easy to lay out a big case that humans evolved for rock climbing and swimming. We out perform plenty of animals at that.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Use objects in memory. I'm just saying the relational <-> object mapping is a necessary evil because in the long run with complex data you'll suffer for your sin of skipping normalization.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I work with objectstore nearly everyday and wish we were using oracle or db2. I am firmly convinced that you better have a damn good reason (like a big heavily updated graph structure) to forgo the discipline of a normalized relational sch
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
There was no reason to write it in C++ or worry about the difficulties of distributing an interpreter in the first place. There were good tools already. Stepping out on a limb and doing it with Erlang was unnecessary. I thought the threa
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I hate dealing with people that can't talk things over or explain things without drawing on whiteboards. I would like to remove the whiteboard from my office. Doesn't anybody else just think things through in English?
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Distributing Erlang applications may be untested, but there have been good canned cross platform packagers for Perl for some time now. I'm sure the situation is the same for Python et al.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
This is interesting and valid, but to be fair it looks like playdar operates entirely where C++ has no advantages: io bound. It's surprising he didn't figure it a bad choice the first time around. Comparing Erlang to a Perl or Python vers
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> I'm not sure how you got 8% Basic algebra?
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
chicken scheme is the only other language I can think of that compiles to C code. He is not making an interpreted language. It compiles down to machine code that runs directly; not vm bytecode.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Thanks for CAPM 101. Alpha is hard to get. No kidding. But nobody here is talking about stock picking. I'm talking about diversifying well outside of equities, as harry browne described in Fail Safe Investing, and slightly overweighting
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
http://econompicdata.blogspot.com/2009/03/inflation-adjusted... This chart (last one on the page) indicates to me that during the greatest bull market in history, rolling ten year inflation and dividend adjusted returns on the sp500 only
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
You will not get reasonable inflation adjusted returns unless you do this to some extent. You cannot get returns without periodically re-balancing between equities, cash, and commodities, and different currencies. There is no free lunch.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Gold seems to continue to drop in price Huh? Gold (and commodity metals in general) has been the trade of the decade. > Gold does not have a lot more intrinsic value than anything else. You can go any time in history any where in
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
That's not what the article says. It says you have to deliberately move your eggs around according to the business cycle. A pure cash investing strategy (money market, CD, T-Bill/Bond) now has a track record as good as the US stock market o