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by stevedt 3mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8541492/
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by stevedt 3y ago
> you lose muscle faster due to low protein during the fasting period if this is the reason, then wouldn't adjusting your macros to ensure enough protein mitigate this?
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by stevedt 5y ago
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/the-5-2-diet-guide FTA: It’s called the 5:2 diet because five days of the week are normal eating days, while the other two restrict calories to 500–600 per day.
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by stevedt 6y ago
https://image3.slideserve.com/6300839/cumulative-distributio... this says 10% of the people drink 60% of the alcohol
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by stevedt 7y ago
While not everyone is a fan of Jared Diamond, see: https://www.enotes.com/topics/guns-germs-steel Infectious diseases often arise when humans live in large groups with their animals from which a lot of the diseases ori
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by stevedt 7y ago
> Rem sleep occurs in the last two hours of an 8 hour sleep. Slight quibble: the fraction of REM sleep in each sleep cycle is highest during the last sleep cycle of the night.
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by stevedt 7y ago
https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-WWI... https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/hidden-monuments-to-r...
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by stevedt 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol FTA: Menthol has local anesthetic and counterirritant qualities, and it is widely used to relieve minor throat irritation. This makes it easier to get new smokers going without the
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by stevedt 9y ago
But in Ruby only false and nil are "falsey", so unless the variable was accidentally set to false (not impossible) the construct behaves as an initializer.
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by stevedt 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp... Auto, tire and oil companies had an affect in some places.
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by stevedt 9y ago
Just my anecdotal experience: the people who should be coding will find a way to start coding. The barrier to entry is so low -- talking about learning to code, not necessarily finding employment. I have tried with coworkers and family mem
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by stevedt 10y ago
In California you can turn left on red from a one-way to a one-way street.
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Ask HN: How bad is this survey's security?
5 points by stevedt 10y ago|1 comments
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by stevedt 10y ago
I Googled "islands accelerate genetic changes" and the results show stuff like: The restricted scale, isolation, and sharp boundaries of islands create unique selective pressures, often to dramatic effect.
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by stevedt 10y ago
Perhaps a better tag line would be "duplication is far cheaper than a bad abstraction". The take-away from the article for me is if subsequent activity (the changes requiring parameters and if-branches) show it was or has become a
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by stevedt 11y ago
But how your body reacts to food has an effect on how hungry you get. It's easier to eat fewer calories if you aren't as hungry. And the whole point of the article is that we differ significantly on how are bodies respond to food
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by stevedt 11y ago
I was in the ER with what I expected was (and turned out to be kidney stones). I was stunned when the doctor's first question was something like "what is your expected outcome of this visit?". I mumbled something like "
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by stevedt 12y ago
prefer hash.fetch(:key) over hash[:key]. fetch raises NoKeyError if key not in hash.
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by stevedt 13y ago
More generally, when you are coordinating activity with others. If the code being deployed requires announcements to users, Help Desk people, changes to other applications, changes do documentation, etc., then these are not "artificial" at