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by wdewind 12y ago
Did you even read the link you sent? Here are some quotes: > Some studies involving the health impact of sugars are effectively inconclusive. The WHO and FAO meta studies have shown directly contrasting impacts of sugar in refined and un
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by wdewind 12y ago
The FDA recommendations are not great, but 300g of carbs is totally reasonable if you are on a low fat diet. The problem is people on high carb diets tend to have a hard time keeping it at just 300g due to insulin level effects. But it&#
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by wdewind 12y ago
> The devil is in the details as they say. Yes. First off, there is absolutely no science showing sugar is bad for you, or that it behaves differently from other carbs when combined with equal amounts of fiber (which is why vegetable car
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by wdewind 12y ago
And "carbs" as if they are bad things.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Read the list... > I notice when my mind is arguing for a side (instead of evaluating which side to choose), and flag this as an error mode. (Recent example from Anna: Noticed myself explaining to myself why outsourcing my clothes shoppi
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by wdewind 12y ago
New York City, NYC NY Justworks - http://www.justworks.com We are building a platform for people to administer every part of their business, starting with payroll, benefits, compliance and tax filing. We've also built out P
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Like I said - four months. In the vast majority of cases we can keep you alive for a few months longer. Can you cite this? I suspect it's an average, and thus not very useful. (Ie: some people are living a lot longer, enough to
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by wdewind 12y ago
> If you're sincere about this and if that's really the only objection, would you be willing to champion Uber (and its future competitors) if a way could be found to wind down the existing agreement in a manner that is not oste
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by wdewind 12y ago
> It's not just that. It's a question of why a person deserves more of a break just because they happen to be currently employed as a taxi driver whereas someone else seeks to be newly employed as an Uber driver. I don't t
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by wdewind 12y ago
In theory minimal on the positive side. The only thing you'd care about is the amino acid profile of the proteins, which they are claiming is better than meat: > “What’s exciting to me is that we now have a completely different set
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by wdewind 12y ago
Ah ok I loosely am logging some of that stuff, and I am interested in doing it better so I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the link.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Ok I will give that a shot, thank you. In terms of behavioral changes: outside of eating fiber what is there to do? What is a QS type? I'll be sure to give you some feedback about my use of it.
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by wdewind 12y ago
> - It does not contain poop Good to know, I've just ordered a month's supply to give it a shot. > we wanted something suitable for daily use. With full acknowledgment that I'm asking a barber if I need a haircut, is th
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by wdewind 12y ago
> pseudo-FMT What does "pseudo" fecal microbial transplant mean? Why does your site not mention anything about FMT? (correct me if I'm wrong, I couldn't find it).
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by wdewind 12y ago
Again, where do you get the "same risk" from? Edit: and I know we are both comparing anecdotal experiences, not asking for a repeat of that, I'm asking specifically for yours (or an expansion on your point of view). > It&#
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by wdewind 12y ago
> The worst possible position to be in is early hire in a start-up. You're going to see all of the downsides but only 1% of the upside of being a founder. Let's expand on this, because that's me and I'm quite happy (b
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by wdewind 12y ago
True that I don't have any citation, like you only going off my own experience. My own experience in hiring has been that short of consultant positions ex-CEOs don't have specific enough skillsets to be put to work in many places
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Those people generally use the phrase to mean "a shortage of workers willing to accept below-market wages and invest all of their time and energy in a company while bearing the downside risk of a entrepreneur but none of the upsid
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Sorry to disagree, but they are certainly not widely adopted, although there is a fair degree of buzzword compliance without meaningful implementation. That may be true, but OP implied that nurses being too afraid to correct doctors wa
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by wdewind 12y ago
> The problem is that everyone is too afraid to correct the doctors when they make obvious mistakes. Why do you think that is the core of the issue? Sorry to be that guy, but massive citation needed. Not only that, but it appears (based
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by wdewind 12y ago
That's my point: it hasn't been tried. It was "tried" in a hyper localized economy, temporarily, without proper data being recorded. For all intents and purposes we still know nothing.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Not shocking because this is HuffPo, but this isn't a good article, and I suspect it's because Mincome (minimum income) did not really provably work (I'm not saying it didn't work, I'm saying there isn't data s
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by wdewind 12y ago
I can't edit my old comment, so just wanted to thank you again for providing such detail into what you are doing. I still stand by my statement that I think the rest of the community would be interested in it in a more formalized way,
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by wdewind 12y ago
That's cool, but with respect, it might be better to turn it into a brief summary and repost it as a top level item. This child thread is deep and buried now so few users are going to see it.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Thanks for replying, dang, I appreciate it. I'm on this site a fair amount and don't feel super informed about the ongoing plans (was surprised to hear about the artificial movement of stories, for instance). Any details you coul
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by wdewind 12y ago
Fair points - it may be I'm just not noticing the mods/moderation when it does its job well. I have watched numerous changes happen in policy, like removing upvote counts etc., and have never noticed positive results from them, b
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by wdewind 12y ago
Yeah, you know what, you're right. Did a bit more googling around and there's tons of stuff on both. Sorry!
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by wdewind 12y ago
This study examined two new things: 1. The speed at which the microbiome can change (<3 days) 2. The permanence of such changes (some of them are more permanent than others)
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by wdewind 12y ago
Honestly I'm bummed to see a lot of the recent aggressive moderation. I know the community is far from perfect, but seeing arbitrary posts moved to the front page, existing stuff on the front page change not only in title but also in
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Every holistic MD has, for decades, preached eating foods enriched with healthy bacteria. The problem with this is that they are frequently wrong. Many people respond poorly to these type of probiotic diets, and holistic medicine has

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