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by wavegeek 11y ago
One slight tweak to the "doing what you love" meme: BB reported in an interview years ago that he started off busking Gospel music. He found that lots of people came up and patted him on the head and praised him but no-one put any
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> My test levels were about 200, which would be acceptable had I been 70 years old. This is a myth. 200 is low for a healthy 70 year old. Without disease or T-killing medications, T levels fall very slowly with age alone.
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by wavegeek 12y ago
This is utter rubbish. The natural age-related fall in T levels is only a few tenths of a percent per year. Healthy men tend to retain good T levels well into old age. J Clin Endocrin Metab.doi:10.1210/jc.2012-3842 Longitudinal changes
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by wavegeek 12y ago
Another factor often forgotten is that HRT very poorly mimics the natural testosterone fluctuations in the body. Testosterone fluctuates on a regular daily cycle, the reason for which is not known. Therefore it is not reproduced in treatmen
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by wavegeek 12y ago
The evidence for the longer life spans of eunuchs is actually pretty thin. Endocrinology textbooks regard it as unconvincing. What is very clear though is the association in non-eunuchs of low T levels with a host of very harmful medical co
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by wavegeek 12y ago
There is no evidence T causes prostate cancer. If you have it, T may speed the growth. But that's all. The by far dominant cause of sleep apnea is obesity. In marginal cases or in high doses T can exacerbate it, but it is not the main
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by wavegeek 12y ago
There is a good book about this. It changed my thinking about complexity. The key insight is that if you don't manage complexity you will drown in it. Complexity is OK as long as it really earns its keep. And a lot of complexity is not
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by wavegeek 12y ago
Wikipedia is not a reliable source, particularly on politically contentious matters such as this.
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> <dogs domesticated> somewhere in the 19-32k year range I have read numerous different accounts. It appears that the selective breeding of different breeds is actually much shorter even than 5,000 years. Most breeds are less than
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by wavegeek 12y ago
So what are those "other times" and where is the evidence?
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> amazed ... "no actual harassment happened" When you put something in quotes you are saying that someone actually said that. As you can see from my post, I did not say that. I simply said we don't know much about the situ
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by wavegeek 12y ago
And we don't know what he was accused of and how serious it was, how strong the evidence was, and how fair the process was that condemned him. Certainly there are plenty of cases of universities making terrible decisions in this space
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by wavegeek 12y ago
It is a real shame because his lectures were terrific.
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> study modern statistics hard Would you recommend some texts that cover this? A friend suggested: * Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial by Devinderjit Sivia, John Skilling * Bayesian Data Analysis, by Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S
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by wavegeek 12y ago
None of your refs justify your claim that "fat absolutely is converted to sugar".
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by wavegeek 12y ago
I toughed it out for six weeks and I was definitely in ketosis per ketostix testing. I felt as bad as I ever have. So it doesn't work for everyone.
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> The most stable way to supply blood glucose is by eating fat. I would like to see a citation for this. My metabolics text book says that generally fat cannot be made into glucose. Only the glycerol bit can, and that is only a small fra
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by wavegeek 12y ago
To add to this, I used to be very critical of doctors but having had various metabolic challenges and going off and learning all that stuff, medicine is a difficult confusing mess. If you disagree, read this (about 2/3 of which is rele
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> Mortality is the ticking timer that keeps you alive. For some people this may be true. Here is an important alternate view - that we rationalize death as being valuable because we can;t fix it yet. http://www.nickbostrom.com
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American nonprofit civil rights organization You seem to be trading one extremist group against another. the SPLC, whatever its origins (after the civil rights victories had been won) has morphed in
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by wavegeek 12y ago
I too am rather skeptical of the claim of 15 points per generation. Look at the intense selection on the Ashkenazi Jews over maybe 1500 years which has only produced an average IQ of 115 (there are alternate theories for their high IQs). h
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by wavegeek 12y ago
He is right in the sense that for someone from a programming background, using FPGAs is far harder than it could be. I have looked into it a few times and it is indeed horrible. It looks to me like a typical situation of legacy tools and so
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by wavegeek 12y ago
The key point which is quite valid is that daydreaming about success is not very useful. Contrary to "The Secret" and such self-help books. People seem to succeed if they a) Have a lot of confidence they will succeed AND b) They a
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by wavegeek 12y ago
As an example, people routinely study a foreign language for 3+ years and come out with zero ability to actually use the language. While a couple of months in the same country will produce a person with real useful usable skills in the lang
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by wavegeek 12y ago
Agree. The guy who cruised though high school and even the early years of college only to crash and burn later on is so common it is a cliche. This is part of the price we pay for not challenging our brightest students. With dumbed down cou
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by wavegeek 12y ago
> Evolution is not sentient, and doesn't 'design' or 'plan' or 'program'. Literally true but the effect is "as though" it designs or plans. See eg "Why evolution is true" or any evol
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by wavegeek 12y ago
Call centers are the archetype of a bad work situation. If you are aiming for classes to meet that standard, you are aiming very low.
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by wavegeek 12y ago
I am sure you're aware of Paul Graham's essays but this one is very pertinent to your situation. http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
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by wavegeek 12y ago
I just read in "the lives and opinions of eminent philosophers" written ca 300 AD that Pythagoras (yes that Pythagoras) was the inventor of the "meat for athletes" diet. He also won a gold medal in the Olympics for boxi
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by wavegeek 12y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, good form implies you do not try to lift more than you can lift with good form. Fitness programs founder on three points 1. Ceasing to do the workouts. 2. Overdoing it and injuring yourself. This includes

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