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by pvnick 13y ago
Eich has made it clear, both through promises as well as actions, that he is not going to force his beliefs on Mozilla. Does OkCupid seriously wish harm upon an organization that employs hundreds of innocent individuals, most of whom likely
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This is actually pretty cool. I would love to see examples like this used in high school gen-chem courses. It would probably help to keep the students' interest in what could be either an incredibly dull or exciting subject, chemistry.
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I don't know what it is about gay marriage that draws people in to this ridiculous witch hunt. I'm neutral on the issue because I feel it's complicated like every other polarizing topic, but to a lot of folks it's solid
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This is very exciting. I've had the chance to meet Brendan Eich a couple of times at Moz conferences, and he never fails to strike me as a visionary and a super nice guy. Between the asm.js stuff and Rust (which I actually had the priv
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The obvious solution is to run everything on Temple OS. I'm only half joking.
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This article explains everything you need to know: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.htm...
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This is a great article. I'm always in favor of flexible and scientific approaches to dieting. Lyle McDonald wrote a great series of articles on why diets fail (hint: it's a hormone called leptin) [1]. Caloric deficits lead to dec
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Show HN: Tardis – Rapid time series data analysis prototyping(github.com)
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Omega-3 fatty acids, which are important components of many healthy foods, such as seafood, nuts, legumes and leafy green vegetables, act to reduce inflammation Score another point for fish oil supplementation, on top of the alr
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I very well could be, considering one of my first experiments was on maxpages also, but I can't remember the name unfortunately (pikachu something?). I remember how ultra-competitive it was to get people to upvote your website so it wo
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> HTML For Dummies doesn't cover the <IMG> tag until chapter four? Ah yes, HTML For Dummies . For me, the book that started it all. Reading that book during my elementary school Pokemon craze led me to create my first serious
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The mifflin st jeor equation was found by experimentation to produce the most consistently accurate BMR [1]. You can find it on wikipedia [2]. As for tracking calories, I use my own software for this, which is what I'll be releasing so
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I wrote the top comment in that thread. I want to take a moment to rescind my hard-line attitude as to what constitutes "proper" fitness. The 7-minute workout may be a bit gimmicky and overly minimalist, but it is certainly better
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The mythology of obesity, or mythology of Gary Taubes?(weightology.net)
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I could have posted a better reference for that claim, but I was actually very busy when I wrote that. This article by the same author (Lyle Mcdonald, a revered expert on nutrition) clears up that point very well: http://www.body
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This is a brilliant article and everyone should really listen to people like Alan Aragon (and Lyle Mcdonald too fwiw). They know and communicate the science very well and aren't about to resort to the sensationalist rhetoric that'
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by pvnick 13y ago
I advocate moderation and balance. Consume reasonable calorie and macronutrient (protein, fat, carbohydrate) quantities. Eat what allows you to do that. For me, those carbs come from doughnuts and candy but also from brown rice and pasta. J
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>The insulin response to sugar is the primary way your body stores fat and sugar itself is readily converted to fat This is a common myth, but it's wrong. Dietary fat is what is primarily stored and leads to weight gain during calor
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I'm getting sick of this ignorant sugar alarmism. Sugar is not the culprit behind all the diseases listed in the article. Obesity is [5] [6]. Unless of course you're talking about cavities. Then not brushing your teeth is the culp
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Talk about contrarian bullshit. I would ask joepie91 (the author) if he has even called his representatives. This kind of post isn't helping. It's hurting the cause. Everyone knows activism is difficult. Bitching about how everyon
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Wow. That was incredible. The monotonous way in which the message was delivered, the complete lack of emotion and empathy, is appalling. Notice she did not apologize nor express any condolences beyond declaring the new unemployed state of t
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This is great news and makes a lot of sense considering their new CLI ( https://github.com/linode/cli ). I just want to say how happy I've been with Linode so far. Their prices are unbeatable if you're a decent
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I'm creating a leangains diet planner and exercise+nutrition recommendation system. I'm nearing the end of my cut, during which I've lost 15 pounds and gone from 20%-13% bodyfat in about three months with significant strength
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Congratulations! I know how difficult this kind of stuff can be - I tried something similar a few years back and ended up dropping the project before it got too far; although I learned a lot about object oriented programming. Great work!
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"Communications from US phone numbers, the documents suggest, were removed (or “minimized”) from the database – but those of other countries, including the UK, were retained." I'm interested in knowing the specifics on this.
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Among other things, this has lots of applications for molecular dynamics (computational chemistry simulations) [1]. Before you had to transfer data over to the GPU, which if you're dealing with small data sets and only computationally
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For whatever it's worth, I cast my vote in favor of this. It's been wonderful reading Paul Graham's comments voicing opposition to the illegal surveillance, and I would urge the HN community to adopt this stance as official p
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I just bought a Shopify subscription for my stepfather for Christmas. He's been wanting to start an online store to sell the fly-fishing flies he makes and asked me how he could go about building that website. Thankfully the Shopify st
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I appreciate your nuanced opinion, which I've tried to fully understand as you've posted about it in the past. It stands in contrast to my admittedly hardline position. I do uncompromisingly see Snowden as a hero. While you cons
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That was such a refreshing article. I've been saying it for a while now, I'm hopeful that we're going to see some very positive reforms in 2014 or 2015, as well as an eventual hero's welcome for Snowden. It takes a while

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