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by npsimons 11y ago
Every single time someone says "I eat the same as them" it's been shown to be self-reported, and therefore not verifiable in the least, including this current study. There's a show called "Secret Eaters", you
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> Continually reiterating the thermodynamic dietary hypothesis to me (energy eaten minus energy expended) does not help. There are those who would deny it, unto their dying breath. You do not appear to be one of them, and that's the
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by npsimons 11y ago
> Doing research on what people eat is VERY hard, it's very hard to get accurate data. AKA, don't bother with any studies with self-reported data. No one wants to admit it's their fault they got fat, but it always is.
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by npsimons 11y ago
> I'm still pretty sure that calories-in/calories-out theory is more-or-less correct. Unless someone has overturned the laws of thermodynamics, it is correct. CICO rules over all, and it's simple but not easy to lose wei
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by npsimons 11y ago
> Everybody should build code at this level from day 1. On the project I run, the CI will reject your code in CR if it doesn't compile under two different compilers with all but a handful of warnings turned on as errors, runs and pa
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by npsimons 11y ago
I'll add a third - hiked and rock climbed for years, always had some pain afterwards, even at lower body weights. Started lifting, now I hardly ever get sore after hiking and climbing, and if I do, it doesn't last long. If it do
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by npsimons 11y ago
Which is exactly why ChrisLTD said "careful exertion". Also, extrapolating a tiny percentage (permanently injured professional athletes) of a tiny percentage (professional athletes) to the general populace is facetious. Your avera
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by npsimons 11y ago
> for extreme weightlifters. Again with the extremes; people don't get "big" on accident, and moderate strength training provides a whole host of benefits without the dangers. More people should be lifting, with proper for
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by npsimons 11y ago
There's also the factor of different types of exercise. Resistance training (again, with proper form) has done wonders for me (and before I trot out anecdata, I'll preface that resistance training has been prescribed for skeletal
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by npsimons 11y ago
> Also reminds me of the time when Kroah-Hartman mentioned that people working on embedded linux ended up improving power efficiency of Linux saving the data center guys tons of money. This right here. There's so many here decrying
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by npsimons 11y ago
> the confused people who think the only thing that matters is "developer productivity". Developers, especially good developers (or hell, even just competent) are more than worth the effort put into improving their productivi
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by npsimons 11y ago
> It seems like an irrational thing to do, putting a valuable scientist in danger doesn't advance the war effort. Nobody claimed it was rational, and just because they were scientists doesn't make them immune to "patriotic
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by npsimons 11y ago
Note to self: never, ever buy or use a Blackberry.
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by npsimons 11y ago
> In software, more supply = hiring people who can just get the job done and not worrying so much about credentials. And yet, we keep hearing about the constant shortage of programmers. Hmm, I wonder why that is . . .
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by npsimons 11y ago
I would love to live in a society with those problems. Right now, we're still squabbling over issues like those mentioned in the article. My only comeback to your initial question is: why does the 80yo need a kidney? Is it because he
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by npsimons 11y ago
> To spend less time on the road? Or maybe just to remove the necessity of having to focus all our attention on the act of driving itself? I would say yes to at least these two; the only reason most people care about congestion is that i
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by npsimons 11y ago
To be fair, Shivetya didn't back up his claim either; in fact he almost made it sound like roads and buses cost nothing with his last sentence, which is exactly why I asked that inconvenient question.
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by npsimons 11y ago
> It seems like the whole congestion problem could be greatly diminished if employers would take responsibility of the negative externality they are causing. Yes! If employers had to pay more to compensate employees who insisted on livin
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by npsimons 11y ago
> Bonus, no trains or tracks to maintain! I'm honestly curious: what's the maintenance cost differential between train tracks and road? And between trains and other forms of public transport (buses, etc)?
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by npsimons 11y ago
I'd agree that the issue is with how we (US perspective) have built our cities and require too much face time. I'd also agree that driverless cars are a stopgap measure. That being said, they might present a way to transition to m
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by npsimons 11y ago
> On the other hand as a society we actually can afford to treat the 10th guy with cancer and if that we aren't doing so is an ethical failure not an economic one. Whatever else may be said about health care and insurance, I feel it
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by npsimons 11y ago
Anyone who thinks the treadmill calorie numbers are correct is deluding themselves. As for calculating actual TDEE's, there are ways to do it (see https://www.reddit.com/r/leangains/comments/2rv09z/t
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by npsimons 11y ago
Eight years ago I was 87kg, with a waist circumference of 102cm (40in) and a BMI of 26. Today I hover around 69-71kg, and I never once counted calories or went on keto, atkins or any exclusionary diet. I reduced my intake, increased my expe
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by npsimons 11y ago
Forget 100 hours, how about 20? Josh Kaufman already beat them to this topic, and has not only a TEDx talk where he finishes 20 hours on ukelele, but he's also written a book: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/The-Fi
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by npsimons 11y ago
> "learning on your own is neither efficient nor cost-effective when factoring in time spent." Tell that to John Carmack.
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by npsimons 11y ago
> But it is always disappointing to see how much of the apologia is supported by tech workers themselves. It's insane how quickly we forget history, even our own internal history, in this industry. Just as a small unrelated example,
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by npsimons 11y ago
Some of us OCD types just like having so much detail, which you can get with org. Need to track hours for billing? Org can do that. Need to be able to capture notes/tasks at a moments notice with hyperrefs back to what you were doing a
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by npsimons 11y ago
I'll go ahead and admit it: I still use an N900 just because of org-mode. I can't really recommend it to anyone else as it's not going to meet expectations of a modern smartphone, but I love it. That and git syncing with my d
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by npsimons 11y ago
> I might have to finally try it if so many people are claiming life-changing effects! Org, much like emacs, is like catnip to a certain minded type of individual. This might stem from both being written in lisp ( http://www.wi
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by npsimons 11y ago
This is true, and it's happened to me too. The first time it did, I pinned my version to a working stable one, and thought maybe I should write some unit tests for org. That was years ago, and I've been too busy ever since, but th

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