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by wdewind 8y ago
> In other words, yes you have the caloric deficit with fasting, but without some of the downsides of the body going into starvation mode. The "starvation mode" idea is thrown around a lot but is categorically not something tha
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by wdewind 8y ago
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/sda/sdNavigation.cfm?... It is on the list, and now that I look closer, yes the stock they are using is from 2009 when Slim Fast openly advertised that they used sibutramine.
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by wdewind 8y ago
The real win is compliance, and it is a real win that deserves being talked about, but that's not the point the study Fung is talking about in the article is trying to make. It specifically sets out to prove that beyond caloric defici
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by wdewind 8y ago
My honest read of the study is that it's a poor attempt at making a case that sets out to prove something, ignores several variables that disprove its central hypothesis (like weight loss) and then steam rolls the idea that its showing
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by wdewind 8y ago
Thanks for posting the list. This is a list of dick and diet pills and Slim Fast. Slim Fast is genuinely surprising to see on this list, especially considering it's for an ingredient they used to have openly but was banned. The rest
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by wdewind 8y ago
Look at the names of the "supplements" they found issues with: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/sda/sdNavigation.cfm?... Literally the only surprising one on the list is Slim Fast, and it's so
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by wdewind 8y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29754952 This one, mentioned in this context: > This was a randomized crossover, isocaloric and eucaloric study. That is, all patients did both arms of the study eating the same f
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by wdewind 8y ago
No that is not my attitude. My attitude is that the only people who are experiencing issues are shopping way outside of normal channels. Nothing you buy at GNC will be tainted with steroids. The study takes 150 random products and finds
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by wdewind 8y ago
The reality of supplements is that there is a limited number that are both safe and have strong scientific evidence backing them. Whey protein, vitamin D, ZMA, caffeine maybe a few others. If you buy those from any kind of reputable brand
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by wdewind 8y ago
So Jason Fung is actually misreading this study. The main issue around all of this is: If someone eats the exact same amount of calories but spreads it out throughout the day does this have any effect on metabolism or weight? So far IF pr
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by wdewind 8y ago
We can go back even less far to find examples of the US Federal Government doing arguably far worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment There's this narrative that the major cause of improv
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by wdewind 8y ago
This is actually the kind of thing your congressperson can sometimes be helpful with. Worth a call.
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by wdewind 8y ago
Dude, I'm not here to shut down the revolution, I'm trying to explain what a real revolution entails. It's absolutely not running software on a bunch of hardware and networks you don't own. The people having the "
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by wdewind 8y ago
> But at least it would be up to a community of users, rather than government decree. I doubt any of the crypto communities would decide to have ~10% long term inflation like USD. Voting which is heavily centralized to a few massive owne
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by wdewind 8y ago
> The technology does reflect the politics [of this group of people], but the government does not. Right, that's what I'm saying. The technology will yield to the government, not vice versa, so if you want this technology to t
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by wdewind 8y ago
No, you're misunderstanding. My argument is based on Conway's Law: The technology will reflect the politics. If you want to change this building technology that enables it is not a prerequisite. Go change the legislation, then
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by wdewind 8y ago
> But casual users can choose to store their crypto assets with a bank/custodian/exchange. It's not clear to me that this is meaningfully different than our current financial system. > Granted, it defeats some of the be
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by wdewind 8y ago
I don't think I am. I've spent a ton of time in the community, I've owned a bunch of different currencies, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about the implications of the technology. The ideas are fun, but they are
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by wdewind 8y ago
The technology is part of the institutions, which are both derivative of the politics, which is where these systems are really designed. I'm not saying the banking system is perfect, but the ideas coming out of crypto aren't new
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by wdewind 8y ago
> Investor accreditation laws are USA specific. There is no such concept in other countries in most situations. They are such a bad law they congress finally reformed them with the JOBS act and now allow investment of startups companies
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by wdewind 8y ago
> Cryptocurrencies make us question why money has value, what makes an asset, and all sorts of interesting philosophical and economic questions. Honestly these questions have all been considered before, answered, and codified into law, a
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by wdewind 8y ago
I think generally you're right, but the comment you're replying to has something to it as well. If two parties are not "equals" in the arena they are in, things get Complicated. I'm not sure true collaboration is
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by wdewind 8y ago
> has to think of the piece of software's entire input domain If you're a startup this is not clear and changes frequently. Practicing TDD in this environment has very real downsides that exist less in mature companies with cle
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by wdewind 8y ago
> The long-term solution for this Human problem -I believe is to for employees to own corporations. We're right back to confederation. No one wants to deal with this shit otherwise they already would, hence federation instead. >
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by wdewind 8y ago
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this, especially since you go on to say that artist communes in the US qualify. Surely these artist communes exist within our centralized political and cultural system as well? These comm
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by wdewind 8y ago
Sorry, I'll attempt to clarify: most human networks obey power laws in terms of centralization. For instance, the vast majority of the content is produced by a tiny minority. Sometimes humans make networks in which this is no longer t
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by wdewind 8y ago
> There is a befuddling belief on the part of some decentralization advocates -- and of some decentralization detractors! -- that decentralization must imply an even distribution of power or influence. No, it's that if you observe t
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by wdewind 8y ago
Hey thanks for the really thoughtful response! > The current approach presents itself as a kind of socialist/libertarian communal utopia, and it can be depending on how a given instance is run -- but in practice, each instance is a
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by wdewind 8y ago
No, my criteria for success is a large network that is meaningfully better than FB, which we absolutely do not have and Mastodon will not deliver.
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by wdewind 8y ago
> What purpose does HN serve when we already have reddit? Replicated work! I think you're missing the point. All of these are examples of successful centralized networks. The idea that mastodon will not fall prey to the same inc

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