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by npsimons 9y ago
> Here in the states IMO we'd do better by making suburban lifestyles more efficient. That makes me sad, because when I envision suburbia, it involves all the NIMBYism (especially in the form of HOAs) you mentioned above, combined w
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by npsimons 9y ago
I think you and the GP are on the same page, just coming from different angles. You say we need to change communities; how do you do that without first changing the culture? Why do people want to live in suburbs? I don't know how to do
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by npsimons 9y ago
I've got a 1996 Toyota 4Runner; it's paid off and I do put it's 4WD capabilities to use, but normally I pay for gas to carpool with someone else with a more fuel efficient vehicle to drive to trailheads for hiking and climbin
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Better, balanced diets also create positive feedback loops in the healthcare equation too You can still eat your way to obesity on a vegan diet - oreos are vegan, after all. Considering that the obesity epidemic is currently the number
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wikipedia's utility for me. Two thoughts immediately sprang to my mind: 1)
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by npsimons 9y ago
I would also add that with education, at least in the US, not only would it take too long, but it's actually going backwards . Just look at the anti-vaxxer movement.
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by npsimons 9y ago
> The green revolution is able to feed people, without most people having to do anything different in how they eat. I feel Norman Borlaug ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug ) is worth mentioning. As Penn J
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by npsimons 9y ago
I want to thank you for this - it is not only instructive, but I find it very inspiring.
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Take care of yourself, deal with your mental issues Aside from your other complaints, what's wrong with these two pieces of advice? They seem like completely sensible things that far too many people eschew.
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by npsimons 9y ago
> So, I don't discourage people from machines simply because they aren't optimal. Any exercise is better than no exercise. And yeah, things like bench press you should ideally have a spotter for. Myself, I stick to the five lif
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by npsimons 10y ago
> they also represent a tiny percentage of the tens of millions of people who have tried unsuccessfully to lose weight. They also represent an unknown number of people who do keep off weight successfully, but never report in, for whate
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by npsimons 10y ago
> The study participant went from 456 to 180lbs through the course of a year, and when they checked on him five years later, he weighed 196lbs. The people who trot out "all diets fail" or "you'll regain!" would c
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by npsimons 10y ago
Don't give up! 5% is nothing to sneeze at, and that pace is actually probably the best way to go about it as it's not radical changes to your lifestyle. It also gives your body, both inside and out, more time to adjust. The tracki
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Isn't that fraught with survivorship bias? It is, but it's not a completely invalid starting point. Even better is to study people who were once fat, but lost weight and keep it off. This is what the National Weight Control R
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by npsimons 10y ago
Was going to link to the National Weight Control Registry, thanks! I'll just add that all those studies in GP seem to prove is that A) weight loss programs (especially fad diets) don't work and B) it is a psychological issue. Th
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Machines are totally unnecessary. Machines are actually worse than free weights; you don't get a full body workout, especially all those stabilizer muscles that help prevent injury. > hardened against injuries. I can second thi
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by npsimons 10y ago
If people used their time to exercise instead of watch TV/Netflix/Hulu, they'd be able to think more clearly and better absorb the results of studies like these.
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by npsimons 10y ago
> “It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” That's not knowledge - that's belief. > Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Eh, I agre
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by npsimons 10y ago
> It's in integrating the fickle whims of myriad hardware devices with amazingly high expectations of reliability and performance consistency under diverse workloads. So much this; Linux Plumbers conference years ago was bitching ab
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by npsimons 10y ago
> This may seem a nitpick, but I think it's an incredibly important distinction for beginners (or at least, I think it's incredibly important not to mislead beginners into believing in this limitation early on). No, I think it&
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by npsimons 10y ago
No questions, just a big thanks for doing this, and even more thanks for releasing the source code. Also, thanks for doing it in UE4. This could be very useful to me where I work.
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I often feel like a lot of problems diagnosed as "psychosomatic" illnesses are caused by bad nutrition or even lack of sun. Or lack of physical activity, or being overweight. Actually, a lot of people are likely overweight, b
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Spend some time in the kitchen preparing your breakfast and lunch. Do some laundry or house cleaning. Get your things ready for the next day so you wake up without stress. This makes a big difference: set it up so that all you have to
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by npsimons 10y ago
If employers had to pay employees from the time they left their front door , instead of externalizing the cost to the employees, we'd find out pretty quickly just how "inefficient" remote working really was. That, and/o
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Great movies require great writing, and then good-to-great acting. I would argue against that last part; great movies do require great writing, but you can get good to great performances out of mediocre actors if you have a great direc
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by npsimons 10y ago
> they don't make films for grown-ups anymore. This right here is the truth, and it's been known for a while: > " Adults were treated as adults rather than as overgrown children hell-bent on enshrining their own arreste
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by npsimons 10y ago
Another factor is to consider framing: you can view this cynically as "only getting involved when it might impact their bottom line", or more favorably in that "it was bad before, but now it's finally hit their breaking
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by npsimons 10y ago
> imagine modern degenerate media execs trying to do a on screen Bible. Actually, they'd probably treat it well: sex, violence, vengeance, sodomy, incest, torture. Sounds like a perfect script for a Hollywood movie. Just ask Mel Gib
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Can we get a Red/Green/Blue Mars miniseries on HBO, please? That would make my decade. OMG, yes. I'll just add as a reply to you and GP, science fiction isn't about the spaceships or technology; it's more about
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I think that's a function of awards eligibility windows. Only marginally at best; read the GQ article from 2011. "Summer" has been starting earlier and earlier and ending later and later for decades, mostly because studi

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