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by wdewind 12y ago
PlanGrid just seems like one of those companies that every time I hear about it, even knowing nothing about the construction industry, just makes sense. They solve a hard problem and they charge money for it. I like those simple (conceptu
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by wdewind 12y ago
I'm not assuming that. I'm pointing out that the major weakness in the study is that we can't know the impact calories had here either way, leaving dietary composition to be potentially a major confounder. It's a massi
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by wdewind 12y ago
Sorry if I came off as a jerk, it wasn't my intent. This topic is well discussed on HN so I figured it was appropriate to expect something more cutting edge. When it comes to nutrition there are a few "key questions" people
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by wdewind 12y ago
Yeah but think about the data they had. They didn't have massive fast food and snack food industries that were primarily carb based, and so people who overate overate fats much more frequently than they do now. The certainty you disli
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by wdewind 12y ago
> The lack of caloric control is key to this study - any diet which restricts caloric intake, long term, will be self-defeating. Allowing people to eat as much as they want, but simply choosing from a particular food group, is one key to
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by wdewind 12y ago
I'm not sure where the ethical or legal issues are, I think the issues are more expense/practicality.
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by wdewind 12y ago
One thing I find the pro keto movement frequently forgets is, regardless of the efficacy of the diet, there are a lot of people who simply don't tolerate that much fat very well.
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by wdewind 12y ago
This study adds nothing new to the debate: > “To my knowledge, this is one of the first long-term trials that’s given these diets without calorie restrictions,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Scien
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by wdewind 12y ago
Horribly written, meandering article that a) doesn't argue nearly as strongly as the title implies and b) doesn't get to the real argument til nearly the last sentence which is: TL;DR - When we allow capitalism to play out withou
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by wdewind 12y ago
> On the other hand, if your entire business idea revolves around pumping several orders of magnitude more data than anyone else normally does, is it still reasonable to assume others will foot the bill building the infrastructure? Excep
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by wdewind 12y ago
> It seems like rent control creates consumer surplus for renters, at the expense of landlords. The use of AirBnB transfers some of this consumer surplus from the original renter to the temporary guest. We can obviously agree AirBnB is n
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by wdewind 12y ago
I'm sorry, what? The two look nothing alike: http://m1.i.pbase.com/g9/23/582523/2/157113241.BeCtINyg.jpg
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by wdewind 12y ago
I'm not totally sure what you're saying...if by "AirBnB renter" you mean people who rent their space out on AirBnB (not people who rent space on AirBnB), then I disagree with the parent's comment that educating the
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by wdewind 12y ago
> I hope Airbnb works through these issues and, if I had to bet, would bet they will. I want to believe, because I've used AirBnB successfully as a consumer before. But I don't see a way they continue to succeed at such a mass
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by wdewind 12y ago
> What I don't understand is why Airbnb doesn't even make efforts to educate renters about this. They could easily add in an optional course for renters to take that educates people on rental etiquette, and awards you a 'T
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by wdewind 12y ago
Yep, that is what is making this issue distinct from, say, Uber and Lyft pushing the boundaries on regulation.
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by wdewind 12y ago
The link dominotw shared is similar to my experience, but the short version is: 1. Destroyed building property (front door/lock, doorbells, hallways and elevator) 2. Late night parties/music on the roof stopping me from sleeping o
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by wdewind 12y ago
I have taken a special interest in this story as I have been negatively impacted by having someone use AirBnB in my apartment building. Every step of the way, from what I can tell, AirBnB has been at best deliberately obtuse and at worst ac
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by wdewind 12y ago
Add a pint of milk to every meal. There's 30g of protein and 900 calories. That plus eggs/omlette, bacon, sausage etc. for breakfast, sandwich for lunch and some kind of meat and veggies for dinner = 200g of protein easily.
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Sorry, my point is more that the study would be basically the same anyway. I disagree, the study would be completely different. This study is studying the acute effects of diet on the body, specifically trying to determine if macronut
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Low calorie is just forced starvation and although you will always lose weight this way, it's an uphill battle because you're fighting the body's fat regulation mechanism. You might be eating high-carb but low calorie, c
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by wdewind 12y ago
> I think the point is that the macronutrient compositions is the driver in how food affects your behavior. That is absolutely not the point of Taubes's research. Reread the article.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Maybe, but there is a massive amount of low hanging fruit in terms of making people healthy by simply making them less fat.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Of course, what I'd like is more studying of that and less studying of whether or not different macronutrient compositions cause you to lose more weight through something other than calorie deficit.
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by wdewind 12y ago
When talking about "the obesity problem" in America these people are a statistically insignificant population. Less than .1% of people have those 3 diseases combined, whereas something like 30% of American adults are obese.
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by wdewind 12y ago
> "How you ensure someone sticks with the program" is not independent of what the things they eat are. We have not put nearly enough scientific resources into figuring that out to say that so confidently. > Much current eff
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by wdewind 12y ago
But if a fat person simply eats less, no matter the macronutrient content, he or she will lose weight. This is well documented, and even Taubes doesn't disagree with that. There may be ways to lose weight more quickly, but my point i
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by wdewind 12y ago
I think we totally agree. My entire point is that this is enormously complicated, but mostly in the psychology department, and not so much in the eating department. Eating a caloric defect works for everyone, so the difficult part is figu
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by wdewind 12y ago
This seems intellectually interesting to me but it's frustrating because I feel it takes what is a relatively simple issue and makes it needlessly complex. Yes, maybe there is some amount of optimization you can do with your diet, but
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by wdewind 12y ago
To be clear there isn't a study done on bouncy balls that I know of (there probably is, I didn't look it up), just based on more fundamental science: in terms of physical adaptation there is pretty much no way to increase either n

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