mcfunk

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by mcfunk 7y ago
>>Serious question, why do unhappy customers keep buying what bad companies sell? Many good convos have happened on this -- Facebook is de facto required for participating in some levels of society. I've heard of people being req
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by mcfunk 7y ago
They might find greater ease with learning both at this point in life. But unless you homeschool, the probability that your children will have to work on QWERTY computers they don't have the ability to change into Dvorak input mode at
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by mcfunk 7y ago
LOL ok, so "eat a diet and time your eating in a way that promotes healthy hormone balance and use of fat as energy" is a silver bullet but "use our magic equations based on state of the art info from 1958 to calculate your d
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by mcfunk 7y ago
Once the body gets habituated to using fat stores for energy rather than glucose or glycogen, there's no particular need or urge to eat after exercise.
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by mcfunk 7y ago
There's also good evidence that people don't maintain that weight loss over time despite maintaining their lower calorie consumption. Because base metabolic rate is something that the body can adjust, just like if you had less mon
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by mcfunk 7y ago
This is a good place to start: https://idmprogram.com/how-do-we-gain-weight-calories-part-1...
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by mcfunk 7y ago
I'll be interested to see where the scientific consensus is in 10 years. I think the evidence is very much on the side of the hormonal theory of obesity and fasting, especially given the monumental failure of the "calories in calo
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by mcfunk 7y ago
The simple answer is that children's physical and hormonal makeup is different to that of adults. I've always seen it recommended that children should not fast.
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by mcfunk 7y ago
Interesting that this is "news" when the medical understanding of fasting and ketosis is pretty far along. Highly recommend the book "The Complete Guide to Fasting" by Dr. Jason Fung. When you think about it, while the &
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by mcfunk 7y ago
Very disappointing, clearly they used the wrong deck back, it was all about that palm tree with the sun that had the easter egg smiley face. ;-)
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by mcfunk 7y ago
Above commenters are correct, in the US you have to have a special designation to consider a values-based mission as more important than providing value to shareholders. Right at the root of something very fundamentally wrong about our way
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by mcfunk 7y ago
I clicked looking forward to a strong analysis of this, as is bound to happen in the coming days since there are tons of invested people ready to analyze the way the show has (at least ostensibly) failed to live up to even its own lore. But
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by mcfunk 7y ago
Dr. Jason Fung and others have written some very compelling arguments for the idea that hormonal imbalance driven by both caloric makeup (too many refined carbs) and too frequent eating (market-driven obsession with snacking) are the underl
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by mcfunk 7y ago
It seems like research to show correlation between the two is a helpful step on the way to having such studies on intervention, though. I feel like the prevailing sentiment would be to consider the two separately.
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by mcfunk 7y ago
It's almost like both mental health and weight gain have underlying relationships to hormones, inflammation, etc which, when out of balance, can cause issues with both-- and can mutually reinforce both for endogenous and exogenous (i.e
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by mcfunk 7y ago
Hydrogenating lard is such a depressing concept-- the entire point would be as a more healthful alternative to hydrogenated and highly processed oils, but I guess processing is a hammer to which everything is a nail...
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by mcfunk 8y ago
We are in a dismal state of medicine on many chronic illnesses, such as the emerging study of Mast Cell disorders which could be affecting upwards of 10% of people but aren't understood by most doctors and is rarely diagnosed (in fact
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by mcfunk 8y ago
It's a good point too that taking insulin is associated with greater risk of obesity and further worsening of T2D in the long term. So dietary interventions (which are experiencing great success -- both Virta and also the work of Dr. J
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by mcfunk 8y ago
>“Single-handedly” may not be quite right, since the paper also finds that cheap gas prices and higher fares have a negative effect on ridership. And this analysis does not include other, more local factors that could be pushing riders o
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by mcfunk 8y ago
It would be very instructive to see a studied comparison of what factory work looked like during its peak as a well-compensated profession in the US, and what is happening in software development now. Certainly there are meaningful differen
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by mcfunk 8y ago
The framing of this is all wrong. The problem isn't that developers are overpaid, it's that other industries' laborers have had their work systematically undervalued, all the way down to people performing essential services w
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by mcfunk 8y ago
My friends and I keep talking about this. The quality of the interactions on LiveJournal were so much more substantial.
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by mcfunk 8y ago
Fasting has been hugely beneficial to me in terms of endurance sports and keeping even blood sugar. Interestingly it has never had much of an impact one way or another on my weight (I'm a fat person) but it's a lifelong lifestyle
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by mcfunk 8y ago
This article is disturbingly enthusiastic about bariatric surgery, an extreme procedure with limited success and serious side-effects. The long and short of it is that we understand far too little about the human body and what drives weight
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by mcfunk 8y ago
The respect for the user here is huge. Every time I would get to the bottom of an article I would think, you know, I read that whole article, you're right, I should consider donating. Am a monthly donor now. The lack of a paywall or ob
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by mcfunk 8y ago
It's almost as if evidence continues to mount that addiction is a health issue and should be treated as such, rather than as a matter of criminality. For anyone interested in further reading on the topic I highly recommend information
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by mcfunk 8y ago
I'm all for having THAT discussion. Things that come to mind - - treating PRs as communication and ensuring the person reviewing has the information they need to check for what you coded. - Building a culture where discussion around al
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by mcfunk 8y ago
I tried to move to Inbox but kept having to use the Gmail app after I would see alerts for mail and then was unable to find the message in question in Inbox without searching, which is tedious. The "missed messages" problem was on
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by mcfunk 8y ago
I would recommend reading The New Jim Crow or watching 13th to better understand the argument and comparison being made.
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by mcfunk 8y ago
I've had this conversation with friends, too, about missing LiveJournal. The interactions were much more organic and fully fleshed-out. It was about sharing our internal life in a more intentional way that wasn't corporatized (unl

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