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by wdewind 9y ago
Not to be pedantic, but the fact that you are literally assigning percentage blames to entities means you do not, in fact, violently agree with me. Read the article I posted and you'll see why it is so important not to assign blame at
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by wdewind 9y ago
No, sorry, and it's important to address this line of thinking because it goes strongly against what our top engineering cultures have learned about building robust systems. > Over the course of a programming career, there will be t
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by wdewind 9y ago
> Don't worry if you are bound to a non transfer-ability clause. Getting around that is always possible with a bit of lawyering. Please expand on this.
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by wdewind 9y ago
Yeah I've used a Holter a few times they are definitely a pain to sleep in! For certain arrhythmias you need a 6-12 lead EKG though (iWatch wouldn't work in those situations as far as I understand).
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by wdewind 9y ago
This is really cool. I have an ICM (Medtronic LINQ) for something I don't believe an iWatch could detect so this isn't an option for me, but I do know they are sometimes used for AF as well, and mine cost over $60,000 to implant
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by wdewind 9y ago
This pizza looks pretty good, but it is by no means NYC-style pizza.
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by wdewind 9y ago
You completely disregarded all of the organizational and communicative benefits I mentioned in favor of performance. Sometimes that will be the right choice to make, sometimes (I'd argue frequently) it will not. > A highly performa
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by wdewind 9y ago
> In essence, they are rarely ever a good idea. I'm not sure I agree with this. There is a massive benefit to having not just your entire engineering org thinking in an object oriented fashion, but also your entire product org. De
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by wdewind 10y ago
> A systematic mis-pricing of 0.1% is worth $18 billion dollars. Can you expand on what exactly that means?
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by wdewind 10y ago
At 191 pounds Cahill was still significantly fatter than he should be, and had very minimal muscle mass. We know this is true because it is extremely difficult to not lose muscle on even a small cut, much more so 290lbs over 7 months. It d
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by wdewind 10y ago
...check the link I was responding to?
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by wdewind 10y ago
Well, it's more like your body gets better at using fat, which leaves room for the smaller amount of carbs being used to keep blood sugar high. But many keto proponents argue you in fact can convert fats to glucose: https:/&#x2F
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by wdewind 10y ago
> You haven't experienced increased hunger or increase fatigue/sleepiness after exercise? The Vox writeup has a link to some of the research regarding exercise for weight-loss. http://www.vox.com/2016/4&#x2
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by wdewind 10y ago
I can't really respond to an anecdote in any kind of useful way. There are simply too many factors that could effect this. What I can say is that the data does not support what you are claiming. This doesn't mean what you are c
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by wdewind 10y ago
Step 1: Go on diet Step 2: Lose a bunch of weight Step 3: Go off diet Step 4: Regain a bunch of weight. I'm not trying to be a dick, but I don't think there's a lot going on here that doesn't make sense. None of the con
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by wdewind 10y ago
Yes, I think we are mostly on the same page, sorry if I was not clear before. > However, I am not sure there is no gain to be had from a change in digestive bacteria in terms of caloric intake, because chemical changes in the digestive p
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by wdewind 10y ago
Realistically you're talking about like 12% bodyfat for a male - which is something many of us would dream of. Sorry, but that's absolutely not what's happening with regular overweight people who lose weight, you're tal
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by wdewind 10y ago
> It's not so "simple"; the body fights back. Hunger kicks in overdrive, the body becomes sleepy, lethargic, you get "fog brain" (for programmers this is death). For about two weeks, maybe. This is all the resul
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by wdewind 10y ago
The shockingly large and increasing incidence of adolescent onset T2 diabetes disagrees with this.
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by wdewind 10y ago
I don't disagree with anything you wrote here. The "mind body connection" makes the line between physical and psychological issues hard to draw. I think the addiction framework is extremely apt. But the point is that there
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by wdewind 10y ago
There is some interesting stuff in that case study, but there is nothing we can generalize from it. That's the point. There are no full scale fecal transplant studies looking into obesity to my knowledge. > Source? Let's not c
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by wdewind 10y ago
My major point, which I don't think you disagree with, is that none of this research is telling us anything useful. What we know is that people need to eat a reasonable amount of calories and they need to exercise. That amount is dif
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by wdewind 10y ago
I don't dismiss them, I just don't think they tell us anything we don't already know. You have to eat a reasonable amount of calories and you have to exercise. No one gets a pass. All the research in the world is not going
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by wdewind 10y ago
Agreed but no response to the rest of that though? Haha :)
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by wdewind 10y ago
There are not obese people who do not eat too much. They simply do not exist. Then the question becomes: why do they eat too much? Yes, you are right, it's a complex answer involving a ton of things. But my point in framing it as a
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by wdewind 10y ago
The problem here is what happens when the inflammation goes down? All that fat that's been stored is still going to be burned as energy assuming one is eating within a caloric balance. It's frustrating to read all this research i
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by wdewind 10y ago
1. This can be heavily mitigated by going to the gym, or doing some kind of resistance exercise. Yes, human beings are required to eat the right amount of food and also exercise in order to maintain health. There is no magic bullet. 2. You
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by wdewind 10y ago
While 1) is true, it's not significantly true. If we are measuring calories consistently, even if we are wrong about it, we can continue to trend downwards until we are losing weight. There isn't such a massive difference that c
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by wdewind 10y ago
Right, I agree, the major thing we need to be studying when it comes to diet are the psychological aspects of it. But the difference is the important part is not "you absorb more food due to your gut makeup" because that part is
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by wdewind 10y ago
I'd go even one step further: simply reducing intake of food period. Inflammation, short of a specific disease, is pretty rare in people who are not overweight.

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