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bfieidhbrjr··on Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis
The transition to ketosis is usually the hardest, which for most people is around day 3.

If you eat keto it isn't a problem.

bfieidhbrjr··on Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis
When you water fast you excrete salt with the water you're drinking. Beginners tend to drink far too much water to mentally replace the food, and so they lose a lot of salt. Gatorade when it was invented was an electrolyte replacement. Now it has a lot more sugar too. It was probably for the salt.

My longest fast was two weeks, AMA. :-)

bfieidhbrjr··on Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis
The gatorade sounds horrendous, to dump a ton of sugar on you when fasting. It was probably for the electrolytes, a pinch of salt would have worked without all the junk in gatorade. And then you rarely need it on just a three day fast, only if you're dizzy. And if you're dizzy it means you've drunk too much water.

Glad you're better though!

Reddit fasting sub is ok to learn more, though they have some hangups like dry fasting.

bfieidhbrjr··on Why cancer cells waste so much energy
YSK, cancer as a metabolic disease, and tripping over the truth, are excellent books about this, and why we got cancer wrong since watson and crick.
bfieidhbrjr··on Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts
The spice must flow....
bfieidhbrjr··on Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
I agree but there are 300 million in the US. The actual insurrectionists are like... 200 people? Maybe 2,000?

Shutting down anyone talking pro trump in the whole country will have downsides, and just make them more angry. Prohibition isn't an answer that will work.

Hopefully sending all of the insurrectionists to jail will help.

bfieidhbrjr··on Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
They don't pay for them. It's where all the "aid" money goes.
bfieidhbrjr··on Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
Pretty much anything from the last generation. Embarrassingly the F-16 beat it in combat, for example.

For close air support the A-10 is vastly superior.

The F-35 is an employment program like the TSA.

bfieidhbrjr··on Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
Buggy? It barely works. Short flight time. Crap wing loading. Not good at any of it's multi-roles.

We could build 5-10 F-16s for each F-35, and many more A-10s, and they'd be better despite being ancient designs.

They're so expensive we can't even do proper flight training in them, it'd cost too much if we break one.

bfieidhbrjr··on Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
Good. The whole thing should be shut down.
bfieidhbrjr··on California reports 585 coronavirus deaths, new single-day record in state
Meme with the comic dog in a fire saying "everything's fine".
bfieidhbrjr··on Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with domestically built plane
Myth. US manufacturing never went away, US manufacturing JOBS went away. Automation.
bfieidhbrjr··on Tesla: Soaring share price creates army of 'Teslanaires'
Mach-E looks ok but there's no way I'm driving long distance on J1772. You might convince people ChaDeMo is okay... but not if they've done a v3 supercharger.

Like I said, its not just the car. You may be right about SuperCruise, I have a small amount of experience with it, but I'm skeptical.

As for cars having design faults and the manufacturer being disgraceful... That's a pretty long list? We could start with the Pinto exploding? Or the Bronco roof collapsing?

bfieidhbrjr··on Tesla: Soaring share price creates army of 'Teslanaires'
The value is really in the inept cluelessness of the legacy automakers. If any of them woke up and got a Clue(TM) then, after they build a car that isn't crappy, and a charging network, and self-driving... Then TSLA stock might drop.
bfieidhbrjr··on Life After Eroom’s Law
Well, are you aware that the common model of cancer (genetic) is almost certainly wrong? And that we've wasted 50+ years, and something like an infinite amount of money on it?

https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-P...

https://www.amazon.com/Tripping-over-Truth-Overturning-Entre...

bfieidhbrjr··on Ask HN: Are we in tech-stock bubble?
I've owned multiple Tesla and LEAFs. I've test driven a Bolt. A Bolt to a Tesla like Salieri to Mozart.

Where to even begin? Thin seats. Smaller car. No charging network. No self-driving. No remote software updates... It's a long list.

Does GM even know how to make a car these days? TSLA has massive growth problems. I've had my own issues with my Tesla cars. But how could we even talk about Bolt and Tesla in the same paragraph?

We should be talking about BMW. My past BMW service experiences were far better than Tesla. That's comparable to my Teslas. Who cares about GM?

If, one day, the Mach-E ships, and anyone buys it, and it has anything near AutoPilot then maybe we can talk about it. But right now the Mach-E is about as useful as a NKLA truck. With no charging network. Or AutoPilot. So it's basically a bigger LEAF.

bfieidhbrjr··on Ask HN: Are we in tech-stock bubble?
Responding to the question, and the comments:

It could be worse. Much worse. It could be the great depression, caused by massive shrinking in the money supply. Nobody likes growth in the money supply (well, ok, debtors do). But, it's better than a shrink. Or as Ray Dalio sorta says, a beautiful deleveraging.

Yes it's a bubble, defined by everyone saying it's not a bubble. Is TSLA justified - no and yes. Purely monetarily, no. But in relation to all it's competitors yes. They're all FUBAR. Most of them don't have a clue about either EVs or self-driving. They are horse carriage companies in the age of the Ford Model T.

Relative to their competitors, yes, TSLA should be ahead as a measure of future growth, or future ownership of the transportation sector. There is little doubt how clueless their competitors currently are. But it's still arguable TSLA is ahead of the curve a little.

Will TSLA come down? Different question. Now they're in the S&P 500 this isn't simple. Probably not. If you transpose or invert the question - who will challenge TSLA? Crickets. Silence. That's why TSLA is so highly valued. There is nobody even close. LOL NKLA.

Will tech stocks come down? Yes, but there's many ways to think of it. Will covid end? Yes, this too shall pass. tech stocks will come down but relative to what? The dollar? Maybe. But more likely everyone else will catch up a little.

Stepping back - let's ask a better quesiton. Who's long tech stocks? What would you bet tech stocks go up (a dollar? 10 dollars? 100 dollars..?). These questions are better asked as bets or about current positions.

bfieidhbrjr··on ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)
Wow I just did this. It's like turning on cable TV at a motel. (I don't watch TV at home).
bfieidhbrjr··on Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills
There's no "market" in healthcare in the US.

Long ago, it became illegal to open a hospital without a 'certificate of need' from the State. That's why so many towns have only one hospital - it's a government granted monopoly like cable companies in the 80s.

Differential pricing is also illegal. You fly cheap on Sunday at 3am, expensive on Monday at 9am. Healthcare providers are not allowed to charge less when it's cheap to do so, for example allowing you to do an MRI cheaper at 3am.

Your employer picks a monopoly insurer for you to chose a plan from.

The list goes on and on. There's no market here, it's a set of monopolies. It should be legal to open a hospital. Differential pricing should be legal. Your employer should let you chose from at least two insurers.

bfieidhbrjr··on “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”
reminds me of a description of MSFT's first XML-based office file formats (not sure if its true or was a joke) but it went something like

<xml> <office-proprietary-binary-blob> wky4b5tlwybkjbb2... </office-proprietary-binary-blob> </xml>

bfieidhbrjr··on Starship SN9 damaged in an accident in the high-bay
We could always do it the NASA way and.... just talk about it for 40 years and then spend double on something that doesn't work...?

:-)

bfieidhbrjr··on Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max
The point is to make it sound like you're in a 5.1 home theater so if you turn your head you should hear different things.
bfieidhbrjr··on EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade
OP might have been sarcasm about VW's dieselgate...
bfieidhbrjr··on The Airbnbs
You're right. I just posted the same thing:

"Chesky felt Graham was impressed that they knew so much about their market and customers, but it seemed like he dismissed the idea itself entirely."

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-c...

This is an attempt to go back in time and talk about how smart everyone was.

bfieidhbrjr··on The Airbnbs
Revisionist BS.

"it seemed like he [pg] dismissed the idea itself entirely"

"As they started to pack up to leave, Gebbia pulled out the ce­real boxes; against Blecharczyk’s wishes, he’d sneaked them into his bag. He walked over to Graham, who was by then talking with his partners, and handed him one. Graham thanked him, awkwardly"

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-c...

bfieidhbrjr··on Bill Ackman: give every American cash at birth so they can retire a millionaire
Thanks!
bfieidhbrjr··on Bill Ackman: give every American cash at birth so they can retire a millionaire
Could you please translate all this? What is super and why would a car dealer be through the roof?
bfieidhbrjr··on FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits
Because most people aren’t large shippers. People go on experience not logic. Welcome to the internet.
bfieidhbrjr··on FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits
The real answer is it’s politically incorrect to do that. Refusing service is cheaper than raising prices. Raising prices introduces all kinds of media and government scrutiny with unquantifiable downside. It’s the right thing to do but not the political thing to do.
bfieidhbrjr··on Windows ugly sweaters from Microsoft Xbox store
Meanwhile try and find a series x...
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