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by rdmcfee 12y ago
I can second that. Ketosis and fat adaption reduces the need for constant refueling. I have no problem going 24 hours between meals and exercising while fasting. I typically eat ~12 meals per week, 2000 kcal per meal. In addition, the consi
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
In Canada the second largest group by religion is "no religious affiliation" http://globalnews.ca/news/544591/the-second-largest-religiou... In BC over 35% are non-religious. In Vancouver it's over
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Poor date/time libraries are a major source of long term pain for developers. Hopefully Rust will get this right early on!
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
This is terrible reporting. I couldn't find a single specific study referenced in this article. Another example of the media obfuscating science. Only opinion articles by epidemiologists who seem to have a hankering for pursing non-cau
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
This could just be a correlation but the BTC/USD price seems to be inversely correlated with MtGox news. Trending down when rehabilitation/takeover looks promising, trending up when Willy report comes out and the momentum of the t
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
I tend to agree with you. Earth has always been in a constant state of change. We seem to have this perception that Earth's current state is optimal and that any change is bad. Certainly change could bring adverse effects but the premi
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
I love the contrast between Earth and Venus. Earth: devastated by drastically rising carbon dioxide levels (from 0.035% to 0.07%). Venus: 96.5% atmospheric carbon dioxide. No problem! Terra-forming!
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
People fear change. This revolution will require adaption and there will be pain involved, but mass automation will create vast wealth. Prehistorically we spent our entire lives simply collecting enough food to survive. Since then we'v
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
In this case "worst" depends on whether you're a developer or an employer.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
I think the idea of observational epidemiology is 2 fold. In extremely rare and specific cases (like with smoking and small cell lung cancer) cohort studies show such extreme correlation with new or rare diseases that causation can be impli
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Just wanting to reiterate that this is an observational cohort study that shows only a weak correlation. There's no casual information at all in the study referenced in this post and the correlation is so weak that it's unlikely t
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Soylent could be considered exactly as acceptable as any specific food but most other diets offer a very wide diversity of foods. The current thinking in nutrition science seems to be that diversity in diet gives us a better chance of eatin
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
This was touched on in the article but I still feel it's necessary to point out that nutrition is one of the least understood fields in science. The primary reason is that there are almost zero proper clinical trials and interventional
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Coming from the healthcare marketing field, I can tell you there are many doctors who are looking for more patients. Especially specialists.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
Tuition at UBC med is $16,000 per year and many students qualify for up to $100,000 in bursaries. After 4 years of academics there is a paid residency. It's not a huge salary (~$50k) but enough to avoid going into debt.
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
In my province of BC, all payments from the Medical Service Plan (MSP is our public insurance system which costs Canadians a maximum of $65/mo or as little as $0 for low income individuals) publishes all annual payments to physicians:
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
In Canada our GPs are paid approximately $31 for a regular visit. They pay their overhead out of this $31 and still typically keep 65-70% of their billings. It's amazing that the billing costs in the US are a factor of magnitude higher
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by rdmcfee 12y ago
There's no evidence that the profession causes doctors to commit suicide. It's not a stretch to hypothesize that people accepted to medical schools are self selecting for perfectionism and bipolar disorders.
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
Many people experience some ketone body production and metabolism well eating SAD (standard American diet). Fasting overnight and skipping breakfast, or having a long workout more than 4-5 hours after your last meal will cause this. Nutriti
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
On one hand this makes sense. The IRS is trying to avoid early adopters from cashing out millions by purchasing goods to avoid paying capital gains tax. On the other hand, this is debilitating for people who want to use BTC for day to day t
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
One thing is clear. There's a lot of information yet to come. They've indicated that it's "highly probably" the coins were lots due to the TX Mal bug which seems to be the least likely hypothesis in the eyes of the
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
I would think that insider theft is one of the least damaging outcomes for the Gox depositors. Unfortunately I don't know that the Japanese government is going to have the technical expertise to properly identify the theft and track wh
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
I believe it was included as debt at the artificially low GOX price.
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
Their cashflow hasn't halted. There are still plenty of trades happening between current GOX customers and they still get trading fees on these trades. The problem is that their customer acquisition and retention will take a massive hi
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
The market is clearly betting against MtGox having a fix soon. Based on this article it seems like their revenues are strong but their customer acquisition and retention will suffer immensely if they don't manage to re-instate withdraw
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
Modification of promotion and pricing seem to make sense to me. Education is important but for many people in the developed world their exposure to liquor ads on TV is a lot more prevalent than their exposure to education. You're fight
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
> Only human beings have science labs and clinical research studies to come up with new defenses against the thoughtless, largely immobile threats from other living things We're giving bacteria (which reproduce rapidly and mutate qu
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
I wonder why the coinbase prices are inflated to almost the GOX price. Are there market makers and scalp traders driving up the coinbase prices now? From my experience coinbase doesn't have the withdrawal issues like gox
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
Any guess on correlation between location of applicant and proximity of application time to deadline? Is the 8pm PST deadline keeping the European applicants up late?
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by rdmcfee 13y ago
In the context of the article your first point is the key question. The author argues that the flow rate is relatively constant even with varying speed. I would tend to agree that it would be fairly constant but if there was extremely effic

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