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by phil21 2y ago
As others have already stated, it’s starting to become mainstream science that there is a strong correlation between obesity/poor body composition and Alzheimers. It’s not settled science yet, but the correlation is starting to look a
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by phil21 2y ago
GLP-1 reduces calorie intake and puts many people on a deficit (typically on purpose). This of course will reduce muscle just like any other calorie deficit anyone runs long term.
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by phil21 2y ago
There is likely no regulation that says this. Doctors and pharmacists have very broad legal authority to prescribe whatever they see fit. It’s almost assuredly an insurance/PBM billing issue, not a regulatory thing.
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by phil21 2y ago
Every doctor I personally know is double booked at least a substantial portion of every single day. They count on last minute cancellations and no shows just like airlines do in order to maintain their schedules. Making friends with folks
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by phil21 2y ago
Getting sick is not an unanticipated problem. A major illness or injury is. Insurance has no business paying out for you going in for strep throat or the Flu or an annual checkup. These are normal things everyone gets multiple times throu
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by phil21 2y ago
> He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with This is simply untrue. You can be born with it, but it's certainly not the common type of type 1.
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by phil21 2y ago
It's intentionally misleading. I have never understood what this is supposed to accomplish, since it's greenwashing at it's worst and will damage the battery storage (much less solar power in general) cause far more than it
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by phil21 2y ago
I have since I had to switch to an iPhone for a new job about 9mo ago. Someone in their design team decided alarms are optional and that sometimes they should just go off silently for reasons. Utterly stupid feature I didn’t have time to fi
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by phil21 2y ago
And if you spend any time critically reading them, you realize how many people are either exaggerating or not following the guidelines that exist. Like this lady in the article. She did not follow dosing guidelines (which as you say are pr
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by phil21 2y ago
I don’t think the idea is clickbait at all. I deeply regret wasting my youth on my small portion of building out the Internet. What it became went well beyond the benefits you describe and might be the downfall of society as we know it in
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by phil21 2y ago
8GB -> 32GB doesn't really give you a whole lot more than opening more browser tabs or whatnot. Cache some more filesystem into memory I suppose. 8MB -> 32MB enabled entirely new categories of (consumer-level) software. It woul
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by phil21 2y ago
Yes, that's pretty much the definition of doxxing. And then publishing it in a public forum for everyone to see. What did you think it was? Anything else would typically be illegal illegal. Pretty much anyone's (in the US at lea
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by phil21 2y ago
Doctors really are not that highly paid outside of speciality practices these days. As you note, GP is the last resort for most largely due to this reason. Many on HN make more than physicians these days. Doctor pay is not the problem in
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by phil21 2y ago
The biggest problem with modern health "insurance" is that it's not insurance - it's a health care plan that presents a giant principal agent problem throughout the entire medical system starting with the patient and cas
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by phil21 2y ago
> iPhone alarm will sometimes just go off silently Oh man, as a recent android to iOS convert I thought I was just doing it wrong. The alarm feature of this phone is utterly useless it’s so unreliable. It just decides randomly (from wh
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by phil21 2y ago
Finally a problem set well suited to AI/LLMs that is actually useful to society! Interesting idea, I really like it!
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by phil21 2y ago
> If Deere is so bad buy from competitors, of which there are many. I somewhat agree with your earlier comment, but this bit is ignoring the systemic issues involved. Deere is a leader in much of the efficiency technology that allows lar
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by phil21 2y ago
For me, because I don't want to give any more money to the PE parasites of the world. Others may be more concerned about the inevitable decline of customer service and product quality when these things happen.
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by phil21 2y ago
My opinion is Postgres was designed by software developers for software developers. The split on “which relational database to use” in my career has almost always been perfectly split between SWE vehemently demanding pgsql for the feature
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by phil21 2y ago
Fair on the doctor part - I've found doctors to be pretty reluctant to go off label for such things like dosing schedule on these new drugs. YMMV. Re: the half-life, I generally agree - however at low dosing, a half-life calculator se
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by phil21 2y ago
> lots of stories of people losing more than 2 pounds a week, which is very satisfying when it happens but not the healthiest way to drop weight Folks should follow medical advice and do what works for them, but be aware that these guide
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by phil21 2y ago
The side effects are wildly exaggerated due to the current social media discourse on the subject. I am in a pretty close knit community of 100s of people on the subject and while the side effects should not be discounted, figuring out ways
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by phil21 2y ago
They really should be called different names. The diseases are really not all that similar other than (sometimes) the need to take insulin.
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by phil21 2y ago
Yep. Same. Buttons are a must have for me, along with the waterproofing. It was (is) the perfect device aside from going through three of them (replaced via warranty) due to the waterproofing not being as advertised. I am happy I saved t
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by phil21 2y ago
It’s the mark of a company entering the early stages of a death spiral. Call it creative marketing innovation. Not kidding, I will be selling my shares of nvidia as soon as it’s as tax advantageous for me to do so. Due to this and of cour
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by phil21 2y ago
They are trying to argue semantics and rewrite history by doing so. As others have already noted - even the semantics are misleading at best, outright lies at worst. They are trying to ignore 3dfx because they were 3d only pass through ac
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by phil21 2y ago
Keep trying new things. You are young and still figuring life out. Too many people settle and stop following their dreams and whims. Chasing opportunities is likely what you should be doing at the moment. This doesn't mean be irresp
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by phil21 2y ago
I’ve done keto a couple times in the past, even back when it was called Atkins. It absolutely was a calorie deficit diet since it was difficult to eat that many calories consistently to go over my BMR for more than a few days at a time. Fr
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by phil21 2y ago
I worded that poorly and deleted a paragraph below it since it maybe was wandering into places I didn’t want it to. Reading on the topic of self control and personal discipline, and talking with friends with phds on the subject of addiction
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by phil21 2y ago
I've gone through that experience multiple times as well. Also over 30lbs each time. Also having kept it off for years, although not quite a decade for my longest period. COVID was my last regression, as it was for many who lost it

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