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by zamfi 4y ago
Wait, I think we’re talking past each other. “People eat too much” (where “too much” is defined not in raw calorie numbers but in terms of “more than burned or excreted”) is the obvious proximate cause, and I don’t think these folks are
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by zamfi 4y ago
> I'm saying we have a large surplus of resources, and humans are designed to consume. You have no particular evidence of this either. In other contexts where humans have had a large surplus of resources, there has not been an obesi
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by zamfi 4y ago
> mean US citizen's calorie intake increased by nearly a quarter over the period that obesity rose simply by saying "that's not a jaw dropping increase" I think the context here is that while 400 extra calories a day
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by zamfi 4y ago
Sure, CICO definitely applies, but so what? The first derivative of stored calories doesn't tell you anything interesting about causes . Your bank balance is a sum of money coming and and money going out, but what causes money coming
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by zamfi 4y ago
> consensus is truth, for all practical purposes Oof, you are definitely right about this. Very few people are able to distinguish truth where it deviates from consensus, and basically no one can do it in domains where they lack expertis
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by zamfi 4y ago
Sugar consumption peaked in 1997 [0] in the US. Obesity continues to rise. In Australia, sugar consumption dropped 23% (and other sweeteners dropped 16%) from 1980 to 2003, while obesity tripled. [1] There is more to the picture. [0] https
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by zamfi 4y ago
Most folks who respond like this are not looking for reasons to believe they might be wrong, but just in case you are, please take a look at A Chemical Hunger [0], which explores these questions in some depth. It turns out, the simple expla
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by zamfi 4y ago
Obviously you [0] didn't read the article, but that is not their conclusion. There seems to be some kind of unfortunate "shame brigade" out on the Internet that comes out of the woodwork to overrun any conversation around obe
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by zamfi 4y ago
> This is not saying a high level engineer can be all talk and no ability, but rather a great communicator/good coder might become more valuable than a good communicator/great coder I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek there, but
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by zamfi 4y ago
The issue is that the pie chart included a slice for the total and then two slices for each of the two components that sum to the total.
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You may find this exposition interesting: http://achemicalhunger.com/
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by zamfi 4y ago
You are presenting option 2 as though it "achieves his goal directly" but it also comes with significant costs which you completely elide. No option is clean. Why should Thomas do something direct if something indirect achieves hi
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by zamfi 4y ago
Well, these results definitely validate that. Once you're topped out in coding ability, better communication only helps! Or were you saying that at some point you stopped caring about coding ability and valued strong communication even
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by zamfi 4y ago
Sure, if a Twitter poll were part of your hiring decision.
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by zamfi 4y ago
I can't speak to which data they used for this particular evaluation, but interviewing.io also hosts many companies' first phone screens -- it's not just that "some interviewers may funnel you in to their real hiring pip
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by zamfi 4y ago
I can't tell if either I'm doing a terrible job making my point, or you're deliberately misunderstanding me. Let me ask you this: The Model S outsold the Leaf and the Zoe, and helped launch a new car company that has now sold
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by zamfi 4y ago
Every $100k vehicle is different, that’s not what “compromise” means. And the Model S had comparable power and comfort — not for everyone of course — to the cars you mention. Obviously people were buying it because it was electric, that add
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by zamfi 4y ago
Ok, I’ll bite: his goal is for every stakeholder to feel listened to, for their lives to get better, for no one to have an undue advantage, and for people to generally have what they need and want to the extent possible. What’s the next ste
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by zamfi 4y ago
The Model S was the first EV that “happened to be” an EV. You didn’t have to compromise on range, power, comfort, or anything else to own it. That’s why it succeeded. It was a great car, and happened to be an EV. Tesla’s chief designer hims
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by zamfi 4y ago
Oh interesting, didn't realize civilization started in 1902.
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by zamfi 4y ago
> You can use thermo to build civilization, but you can't use a cello to do that! Depends on how you define “civilization”!
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by zamfi 4y ago
You’re right that the Tesla Roadster led the charge — no pun intended — for EVs as uncompromising vehicles. But I don’t think Nissan would’ve been Tesla: they didn’t think people would pay for a full-range EV (and still don’t, looks like?)
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by zamfi 4y ago
The Leaf that Nissan sold while the Model S was Tesla’s only sedan (ie 2012-2017) was not an ICE-equivalent vehicle. It was explicitly a city vehicle with a < 75 mile official range, an effective 40-50 mile range, and no fast charging. I
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by zamfi 4y ago
Smartphone upgrade cycles are annual/biennial. Car upgrade cycles average 7-10 years. Not that I expect Tesla to dominate like apple and android have, but I do think we’ll need to wait a few more years before we know the answer.
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by zamfi 4y ago
Tesla produced the first ICE-equivalent EV sedan that was not merely a "compliance vehicle" in decades. Then, it turned out, people bought them by the hundreds of thousands, single-handedly recreating the market for EVs. Then, oth
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by zamfi 4y ago
> I think I was clear. My proposal is to have no geographic sub-districts to any polity You said to have them incorporate their own city. This seems different? > There is no meaningful contrast between the two phrases. Sure there is:
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Your proposal is to literally expel from government the people who inhabit a minority neighborhood? Setting entirely aside the questions of morality, you also lose economies of scale by doing this, and there are already hierarchies that ena
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by zamfi 4y ago
If you were walking around outside in the winter and this helped, that's pretty good evidence that sun exposure is beneficial for you outside of vitamin D production. In the winter months in NYC, the UV intensity is too low to cause
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by zamfi 4y ago
I can relate with this. I, too, can write code twice as fast when I play fast and loose with good practice. (Always regret it though.)
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> The sooner we collectively decide that housing shouldn't be a market, the better Housing is already barely a market. An actual market would be much better. We artificially restrict the construction of new housing supply by poli

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