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by nbouscal 13y ago
The problem with the word 'healthy' is that if you're trying to discuss nutrition rigorously, you really can't call a given food (or substance) healthy. It really only works as an adjective for an entire diet. If someone
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Of course it's hard, I don't think anyone has claimed it's easy. For some reason this subject hits a nerve with some people really, really hard (Aside: it's actually really fascinating to think about why that is. Health
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Not at all. Say, for example, that I'm replacing fast food. In that scenario Soylent costs less money, takes less time (don't have to go to the fast food place, less time actually eating), is almost certainly healthier, and won&#x
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by nbouscal 13y ago
This comment[1] that I made elsewhere in the thread probably works as a quick summary of my reasoning. Again, happy to answer any questions. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248003
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by nbouscal 13y ago
No, it's more like if you were forced to have sex three times a day every single day, and most of those times it was with someone you weren't attracted to. Every time I eat fast food or takeout because I'm either too tired fr
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None of your three solutions are healthy, generally speaking. There are a few meal replacement products that are reasonable, but most of them are full of sugar and don't provide many nutrients, because they expect you to only replace o
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The main difference for me between Soylent and the other options on the market is the specific goals of the products. There are a variety of other options, but as you said, the majority aren't intended as replacements for your entire d
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You may not see a problem, but over 10,000 backers (myself included) do. I'd be happy to go into more detail about why if you would like.
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> ordinary email is like a conversation in the park. That's really, really distant from how the average non-technical user thinks of email. They just drop the e and think of it as mail.
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The idea is great, but unfortunately it won't work for the majority of Americans. Paycheck-to-paycheck is a reality for way too many people. I know a lot of people who are opposed to Walmart, and wish that they could afford not to shop
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> You seem to think (please, correct me if I'm wrong) we can divorce our philosophy from our system of government and talk only about "real practical issues", and I would politely reply that it's impossible. Obviously
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> A healthy person can have a soda without negative health effects That's simply untrue. The standard recommendation from nutritionists as to the healthy number of sodas to drink is zero. That's why I asked the question: the re
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> Unless legality comes into play, my rules of morality should not affect your economic purchases and vice versa. Completely agree. Of course in this particular case there's a lot more than just morals involved, since choosing to be
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Wait, there being another factor in the high cost of health care means his argument goes completely out the window? So you're saying there can't possibly be two reasons for the high cost of health care?!
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Basing your morality on the markets can't possibly turn out well.
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> actively toxic (as opposed to simply unhealthy) food Can you please clarify the difference between the two? Also, I don't see anywhere in your post that you address the fact that drastically unhealthy choices by other citizens are
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It's only been about a century since it was fair to assume that every educated person had read it. I think the fact that we wouldn't be able to use it as a textbook in schools today is a really bad sign.
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1215? What's wrong with Euclid?
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I just don't think it's useful to use the word monad to describe the strategy you're suggesting. I'm not criticizing your suggestion, I just don't think it has anything to do with monads. More to the point, I don&#x
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jQuery's add function has a few different formulations depending on what argument you pass, but it's basically either M a -> a -> M a (if you pass it an html string, an element, or a selector) or M a -> M a -> M a (if
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You do know that jQuery isn't a monad, right? That's the second time in this thread that you've called it one. Simplest demonstration that it isn't: try defining join.
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Train cars must be connected to each other because of how trains work, whereas the Hyperloop pods are separate from each other. I haven't yet seen anyone actually crunch the numbers on the proposed weights for the Hyperloop (which are
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by nbouscal 13y ago
To answer that question: yes, but I wish it didn't have to be. The only reason atheism is a part of my identity at all is because it makes me a minority, and one that public opinion in the US ranks below even rapists[1]. If atheism wer
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Fundamental does not mean old, it means essential. Age has very little to do with it. Never leaving Earth is a part of human life as old as humanity itself, and yet we have proven that it is not an essential one.
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It sounds like you're looking for an answer to a question more like "Where did the universe come from?" That's an entirely different question.
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I agree that there are many questions that any given human will be very likely to ask itself at some point in its life, and perhaps to dwell upon at some length. The example you gave of "Where do we come from?" is one, along with
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> I think it is fair to say that belief (or disbelief) in God is a foundational human issue. I think it is quite a bit of a stretch to call something a foundational human issue when there is no consensus agreement as to what the words in
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Umm... did you actually read the link that you just cited? “Multiple factors are involved, but in general, lower to middle income couples usually benefit from filing as a married couple, while upper income couples are often penalized.”
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You're conflating tools with products. Having to understand electricity, trigonometry, and basic signal analysis to use an oscilloscope does not mean that oscilloscopes are not useful tools. Those are simply prerequisite knowledge to w
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I'm not completely sure I agree with you yet, but this argument does mesh very well with the trope that so many programmers first started programming when they were very young. I was playing with BASIC at age 5, and anecdotally I'

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