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by tacon 7y ago
IIRC, you are seeing the backscatter from other people's paid like campaigns. If the agents liked only the pages people paid for, it would be almost trivial to discount and delete. So the agents spray likes over a very broad range of
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by tacon 7y ago
I went looking for evidence of time-dependence in placebo, and I only came up with this[0], which doesn't say much. [0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232423611_Is_the_Pl...
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by tacon 7y ago
If you want a technical approach to weight loss, you might read The Hacker's Diet[0], free online. He even has an online weight tracking app that is great for smoothing out the fluctuations in daily weight measurements[1]. The cardio
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Intensity is 80-90% of the determinant of a muscle's adaptive response to load. If you plan to get somewhere near your genetic potential in strength and size, you will need to use rather high intensity to deeply fatigue ("inroad&
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by tacon 7y ago
>I've found that calories-in/calories-out logic only gets you so far. It's foundationally true, of course, because energy is conserved, and we use all of the calories that we eat, with few exceptions, either for energy or
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by tacon 7y ago
>all mainstream, tried and true research I'd really like any reference to that in the exercise science literature. I would be looking for full blown calorimeter studies with fixed diets. Does not seem to exist.
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Sure, I lost a lot of weight when I started running and cycling a lot, but I wasn't tracking my food at all. I was suddenly "the kind of person" who doesn't put crap in the temple of their body, etc. When the laborat
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I like the general thrust of this article that some calorie deficit is the key to weight loss. Alas, he is still suffering under the misconception that cardio works for weight loss/fat loss. All the published research shows this neve
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by tacon 7y ago
Crossfit is great if you don't plan on needing your joints for a long life. As Bill DeSimone, author of Congruent Exercise[0], explained in a podcast, "Everyone gets a set of free passes. You decide if you want to use up all you
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by tacon 7y ago
I like your reference to catabolic/anabolic processes. Alas, you then made some incorrect claims. >you can't lift weights and gain muscle (i.e. grow) without also gaining fat Of course you can. I'd be happy to share my G
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by tacon 7y ago
Yegor has direct and extensive responses to each of your points, and many more. Not that he is always correct, but he never avoids the questions you raise, and is happy to engage in discussions. Since he himself ran a development shop in
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by tacon 7y ago
Yegor Bugayenko (yegor256) gives the most direct advice I've ever seen about hiring remote programmers, generally remote teams. The advice could be scaled down a bit for an individual developer. The general thrust is to keep things i
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by tacon 7y ago
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein#Stein's_Law
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“Professional bridesmaid” is an actual job. Meet a woman who does it(vox.com)
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AWS has an automated reasoning group working on tools to help answer the high level questions about complicated policy configurations. [0] has been submitted four times to Hacker News, and received a total of 4 points and 0 comments. [0]
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Sam Harris & Yuval Noah Harari answer a question about "peak" meditative experiences, and set them in context with psychedelic experiences in the segment starting at 1:27:20: https://samharris.org/podcasts&#x2F
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We read selections around our Thanksgiving dinner table last year and really enjoyed the experience. It really pulled everyone into the experience of gratitude, even the children.
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The Thanksgiving Reader(thethanksgivingreader.com)
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‘4°C of global warming is optimal’ – Nobel Prize winners catastrophically wrong(theconversation.com)
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This. I have been running my own mail server since UUCP bang paths and sendmail. I am slowly preparing to migrate to a containerized solution for exactly this reason. Managing the updates of all the parts going forward is just too heavy
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JAMstack? More Like SHAMstack(css-tricks.com)
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Ray Dalio – The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken(linkedin.com)
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Hand and Wrist Exercises for Computer Users(ergonomictrends.com)
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The psychology of menu design (2010)(wired.co.uk)
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The classic case is the Google search for "news". CNN used to come up first, now it is second. For the longest time, the word "news" did not appear on the CNN home page. At the moment, I see four uses of the word &quo
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“Sign in with Apple” and Digital Advertising(marketingbs.com)
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Living in the Aura: What life is like after winning the Nobel Prize(the-aps.org)
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This is a rather unimpressive article. Yes, brand advertising is a disaster, just like it has always been. But to say that all digital advertising has unknown ROI is ridiculous. Digital direct response advertising allows very accurate
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The ‘Google Maps for Money’(a16z.com)
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The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation? (1965)(edwardtufte.com)
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