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by nonbel 8y ago
It seems more likely to be a translation issue to me. This is the first I've heard of it but I'd guess "wine-faced" refers to the shimmering surface rather than the color. Going with "dark" though, Mare Tenebro
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by nonbel 8y ago
> '"the wine-dark sea"...well it doesn't mean anything like you could imagine, for their whole model of colour utterly different from ours.' Doesn't seem like everyone agrees with this speculation: > &qu
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by nonbel 8y ago
It is impossible to ever prove or disprove a theory, so falisfiability is a red herring. For a theory T and observations O , you can have 4 possible scenarios. Where "!" indicates "not": Starting from theory Modus
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "It's not clear that even reputed newspapers like NYTimes/WaPo produce quality content consistently." Doesn't the Washington post charge for articles with named sources? Almost every time I follow a link to th
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by nonbel 8y ago
This is about TSMC's "16/12nm process". AMD is using TSMC's 7nm process and Global Foundries' 12/14nm processes: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/276169-amd-moves-all-7...
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by nonbel 8y ago
>“In a 2007 analysis it was shown that, when modern statistical methods for correcting for the effects of body size and phylogeny are employed, metabolic rate does not correlate with longevity in mammals or birds.” I'm not finding t
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by nonbel 8y ago
Prediction: Once the initial excitement/novelty wears off people from the surrounding suburbs/communities will find it more difficult to shop/visit/etc in the city and revenues will drop. As a result, businesses will mov
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by nonbel 8y ago
Thanks. I am not sure where to find the nutritional info for this then.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Normal Burger: Carbs : 0 g Fat : 10 g Protein : 17 g https://www.nutritionix.com/food/beef-patty "Lightlife Burger": Carbs : 11 g Fat : 2.5 g Protein : 10 g https:/&#x2
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by nonbel 8y ago
> 'facial recognition technologies “always have these racial inequities that get translated, because algorithms are still made by human beings, and those algorithms are still pegged to basic human assumptions. They’re just automated
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "The path of a meteor is only going to be deterministic on a timescale given roughly by the largest Lyapunov exponent associated with its orbit. On longer timescales, even the very tiny irreducible quantum uncertainty in its initi
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by nonbel 8y ago
It isn't the calories that matter. To feel full your brain needs to receive signals from your body that you should feel full. It appears that carbohydrates mess with these signals so that your brain thinks you are not yet full when you
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by nonbel 8y ago
First study: > "During the test phase, high, moderate, and low carbohydrate diets varied in carbohydrate (60%, 40%, and 20% of total energy, respectively[...]We randomly assigned participants who achieved the target weight loss to h
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "You will no longer be able to eat until you are full, ever again" This is totally false. Just eat a low-carb diet and you will feel "full" after consuming much less food.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Sounds like people with health issues over there are also living "harder" lives: > "Cerebrovascular diseases, ischemic heart diseases, perinatal deaths, influenza/pneumonia/asthma and tuberculosis were the leadin
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by nonbel 8y ago
My teeth chew meat just fine. They wouldn't work so well as weapons, but humans devised tools for that purpose long ago.
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "Are you an agricultural scientist? How do you know that?" Ok, I should have spoken more carefully. First, I believe that literally every single thing we can observe is correlated with every other thing (although this correl
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by nonbel 8y ago
Yea, a big confound with the keto stuff is you pretty much are forced to cook for yourself. Sugar is added to everything you can imagine, its ridiculous. Sugar used to be considered a spice/medicine... > "There are records of k
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "Two reasons, it's the only thing that does seem to consistently match across all the studies." Not saying I agree (I haven't looked, but surely "all" is an exaggeration...), but if you don't trust t
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by nonbel 8y ago
That would be funny: "High carb diets explain pension scams".
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by nonbel 8y ago
This has nothing to do with resource consumption, it has to do with health/longevity.
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by nonbel 8y ago
The idea of "mostly plants" was arrived at using the same methods you don't seem to trust. Why are you ok with that one?
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "Despite the popularity of the Atkins and Paleo diets, however, there is minimal evidence that high-protein diets really do bring about long-term benefits. So could the “Okinawan Ratio” – 10:1 carbohydrate to protein – instead be
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "[his] body finally succumbed to the cancer" I've heard usually at that point (when the patient is ready) they just up the painkiller dose to the point it stops their breathing or heart. https://www.theatlant
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by nonbel 8y ago
Yes, it is quite eye-opening.
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by nonbel 8y ago
How are you going to do this without consuming a lot of carbs?
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by nonbel 8y ago
What I described happens after a few days, maybe up to a week for me. Right after getting really thirsty and drinking a crapload of water and pissing it out (I presume this is for hydrolyzing glycogen...) for 1-2 days. Like I said, I alread
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by nonbel 8y ago
Just cancelled my netflix this morning when I heard about another rate hike (also hadn't been using it much recently). Can you share what they meant by "low carb", how long the study ran for, and how much weight was lost? Bec
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by nonbel 8y ago
I don't know about intermittent fasting, and don't feel like checking your source at the moment. But I know in the case of "low-carb" diets the people publishing research articles on it made up their own definition that
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by nonbel 8y ago
The thing with fasting/low-carb is that once you are adapted it takes quite a bit more to "feel hungry". In fact the feeling is qualitatively different. I eventually tried the low-carb (actual low-carb of <100g carbs/

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