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by tjogin 14y ago
You're absolutely right that losing weight has a lot to do with psychology, and that the execution of it depends on finding a method, a diet tailored to the individual's needs, to succeed. But that diet will only result in weight loss if
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by tjogin 14y ago
It doesn't work that way. Show me a study that concludes that blood glucose levels have not been meaningfully increased after a meal due to it all going straight to adipose tissue -- in humans -- and I'll show you the next Nobel Prize win
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by tjogin 14y ago
That is an issue of meal timing. Individual meals doesn't matter. Transient insulin spikes are irrelevant, what matters is your overall expenditure vs intake.
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by tjogin 14y ago
The same argument could be, and often is used, to prove the existence of god.
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by tjogin 14y ago
This is pseudo science, there are droves of scientific literature that shows that meal timing is irrelevant and that as long as macronutrient content is similar, a calorie is a calorie.
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by tjogin 14y ago
Yes, fans of either reductionist fad diet of the day are all ignorant.
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by tjogin 14y ago
Taubes has been refuted so many times it's astonishing that anyone still cites him. Compelling anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron, especially when the scientific evidence to the contrary is so strong.
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by tjogin 14y ago
I have no idea how cavemen lived, and it doesn't interest me all that much either, but my guess is that they weren't as sedentary and they weren't as proficient in the art of preserving food. Overall, it should have been quite difficult for
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by tjogin 14y ago
If they were obese it's because they had a caloric surplus (I doubt it). The laws of thermodynamics applied then, as they do now.
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by tjogin 14y ago
Diseases of civilization are a function of congregation, not eating grains. Obesity is the result of a caloric surplus. Cavemen didn't have that luxury.
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by tjogin 14y ago
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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by tjogin 14y ago
I don't think you have to tell anyone here that the iPad isn't capable of doing all tasks, we're not retarded. That the iPad isn't best for every task doesn't mean that it isn't overall the best device, or that it doesn't substantially enab
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by tjogin 14y ago
Apple has never been about the hardcore. They've always made as appliance-like products as they can for the everyman.
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by tjogin 14y ago
You can't do less with an iPad than with an Apple II, you can do a great deal more. And you can also do a great deal more with an iPad if your previous experience with computers was mostly confusing. It depends on how you define "you". Broa
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by tjogin 14y ago
Actually, he hasn't had a major role at Apple since the plane crash in 1981. His claim to fame are some pretty innovative chip designs for the pre-Macintosh era Apple computers.
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by tjogin 14y ago
Your friend probably represents less than 1% of Apple's total customers. He's not a "big part" of it. That you know him doesn't mean that all of Apple's millions and millions of customers are anything like him.
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by tjogin 14y ago
No evidence points in that direction. It'd be possible if Apple had only a small amount of loyal customers (like in the nineties), but obviously they do not.
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by tjogin 14y ago
So, whether they continue to break sales records and revenue and profit, or not, you are right either way? It's just a matter if you are really right, or tremendously right?
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by tjogin 14y ago
Nothing Apple has ever done in the social context has ever reflected well on Apple's senior management. They survived Ping, they'll survive this. And it won't be a nailbiter. Wanna bet?
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by tjogin 14y ago
Jumping the shark means to have peaked and now being past ones former glory. But Apple never had any peak or glory as far as social apps go. My bet is that upcoming Apple products will continue to break previous records; the supposed acquis
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by tjogin 14y ago
Uh, all the oil companies come to mind. As for tech; Microsoft? Actually, lots of companies are reliant on one of their products. Though I'm not sure Apple is. The iPad is selling at a pace higher than the iPhone did, for example.
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by tjogin 14y ago
Yeah, so clearly they weren't trying to optimize for KB size.
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by tjogin 14y ago
How do you know they feel they're getting 'bit'? Maybe they think this is the optimal solution for what they are trying to accomplish? Maybe they have an internal tool for generating the images they need to accomplish these things? Maybe it
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by tjogin 14y ago
As you are obviously implying, Apple secured the rights to Xerox's technology, very much unlike HP.
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by tjogin 14y ago
Nobody's said that though. Facebook has, in fact, replaced some web views with native code, and that has sped up the app tremendously.
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by tjogin 14y ago
The LinkedIn app is terrible, and slow. :-/
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by tjogin 14y ago
Did you notice the enormous performance improvement in Facebook's app when they moved away from that type of solution to a native one?
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by tjogin 14y ago
No, not really. But this is more an example of a product brand becoming the company brand, not the other way around. Apple is a rather poor example of this, as they are quite careful with their brand (for instance, changing the "Apple key"
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Samsung’s Report Says Galaxy Would Be Better If it Were More Like the iPhone(allthingsd.com)
30 points by tjogin 14y ago|25 comments
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by tjogin 14y ago
> That is like saying: Since we can't cool something to absolute 0 Kelvin, all termometers are valueless. No it's nothing like that at all. It's like saying it's better to acknowledge your perspective than to pretend you don't have one.

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