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by wdewind 10y ago
This is all interesting, and warrants more actual research, but it's on a rat study that did not control for calories, so it's not super useful because we also know that: 1. Rats metabolisms are very different from primate and spe
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by wdewind 10y ago
Yeah, in the context of usefully effecting the obesity epidemic it's just not even worth discussing because it has no impact.
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by wdewind 10y ago
Please don't get science news from BBC. This is a sample size of 1, in a person who was probably already eating a ton and not absorbing it much due to a massive infection. There's not a ton we can take from this.
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by wdewind 10y ago
There is some evidence to think that a fecal transplant could help treat obesity, but not a ton. There is no evidence of the existence of people who can eat whatever they want and stay skinny. The thing is, with all the tweaks etc. that w
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by wdewind 10y ago
This is sort of true but not really usefully true. Yes, your metabolic rate will go down slightly when you eat less food, but the idea of "starvation mode" comes from a study done in the fifties on extremely underweight people, w
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by wdewind 10y ago
> the rest of the world has multi billion dollar low hanging fruit begging to be worked on go on...
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by wdewind 10y ago
Well in this specific case LinkedIn makes it so you have to report your salary to see other salary data, so that right there is one place where people have an incentive to add junk just to get the data. But the more important problem is the
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by wdewind 10y ago
Self reported salaries are just never going to be a good data source. I was hoping since this was LinkedIn and they have tons of resources they'd be doing something different, but they don't seem to have made any progress on the
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by wdewind 10y ago
I disagree. Airbnb has always had a really really simple solution to all of this: make it so people can file complaints about specific addresses without being involved in the Airbnb system. Airbnb lost the public support because they ignor
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by wdewind 10y ago
> Contrary to the hive mind you don't need some special encapsulation class to pull your post and get variables. The hive mind is like that for a reason. Making it easy to do the right thing and wrong to do the wrong thing has mass
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by wdewind 10y ago
> Smoking is pretty unambiguously bad for you. Stress is a killer. Smoking can reduce stress. Nothing is simple.
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by wdewind 10y ago
Thank you!
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by wdewind 10y ago
Thanks, but I'm not smart enough to digest this haha. If you have time could you break it down a little? My main question, I guess, is how do you calculate P-value?
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by wdewind 10y ago
Yes please
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> The number of users clicking on Coderwall from Google increased 14.8% (yes, this was statistically significant). Would be very curious how they calculated significance here.
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by wdewind 10y ago
Yeah I think that's totally right, and in that case my argument is Japan has great "bacon" but pretty lousy "pork chops" :)
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by wdewind 10y ago
Thanks, but you know that Miyazaki is just a region as well right? And Miyachiku Co-Op is made up of hundreds of different breeders (and does not encompass all Miyazaki beef). And I've had it. It tastes roughly the same as Kobe, des
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by wdewind 10y ago
> What about Hida? Not as well known in the US but many believe it's better than Kobe beef. I've had Hida and a few others as well, and found them all to be basically the same. Extremely negligible differences that are similar
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by wdewind 10y ago
> I assert that anyone who has visited Argentina or Uruguay I have not myself been to either of these places but know several knowledgable people who have who all say the beef was fine but not as good as American. > I would easily be
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by wdewind 10y ago
My source is going to Japan and eating the food.
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by wdewind 10y ago
> Japanese produce and meats are just fussed over to such a degree for which an American consumer has no frame of reference. The Japanese are famous for high quality Kobe beef, but the truth is most meat in Japan is actually not very hig
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by wdewind 10y ago
Do you have links to any of those demos?
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Right, which is why I'm more excited by "fake" meat vs meat alternatives. There are some trying to recreate literal meat (chemically indistinguishable) but without the animal. If you consider the stomach of a cow to simply
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by wdewind 10y ago
You're talking mostly about the aesthetic part of fake meat, but there is another huge advantage over existing products which is health/environmental. Current vegan/vegetarian incarnations of fake meat (Boca, Morningstar etc
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by wdewind 10y ago
Yeah, totally fair point. Similarly there's a lot of code that pretty definitely isn't being depended on in life or death situations.
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by wdewind 10y ago
Interesting post, a lot I agree with, but I think if you aren't working on bridges or things that can kill people when they go wrong credentialing would probably be a negative.
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by wdewind 10y ago
I added a sneaky edit (sorry!) that may address some of this, so I think we probably largely agree. I'm responding to a relatively specific claim, frequently heard by bootcampers and inexperienced engineers in web development, that fo
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by wdewind 10y ago
I totally agree with this. In one of my other replies I mentioned the concept of having multiple paths for a candidate to be successful through, and I agree that "whiteboard coding" should not be the only way to prove you are sma
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by wdewind 10y ago
BFS queues are not particularly difficult to describe, and deciding whether or not to do breadth or depth first is something I think about all the time. Frequently, for instance, in data access patterns, that decision can have a very big e
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by wdewind 10y ago
Well the idea is that they aren't memorized by chance first, they are known pretty well because ideally you have a track record of applying them to real life problems (even if they are just school projects or side projects). I can des

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