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el_don_almighty··on Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
Yes, in my personal experience. However, I suspect my body is just desperate to hold on to carbs and pack those bastards around my liver anyway, regardless of previous Keto periods or not. When I stick to Keto, I feel better, think better, poop better, I don't get headaches and I don't have acne. Is it magic? I dunno. The chemistry seems to support it.

Years ago we called it Atkins (yes, I am older) and it worked great for me, but chips and salsa are my kryptonite. Unfortunately, as I age, I must rely more and more on my diet for control I am not but a humble nerd who now sits behind a glowing screen toiling away as a PHB, but I can offer this: Keto works for me and I would recommend it to anyone.

el_don_almighty··on A $500M call option on home gyms
DOA until someone opens up this platform for PORN.
el_don_almighty··on An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
If you don't like the idiots in Congress... then run for office. Engage in the civic process. Why aren't there more nerds and programmers in Congress? We should be there
el_don_almighty··on An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
lockpickinglawyer on youtube should quickly dispel any sense of security you have with the lock on your house. It is literally ZERO
el_don_almighty··on Against Cop Shit
"Don't move the ancient barriers" is an old proverb that cautions us towards careful consideration before we thoughtless tear down the walls around us before considering their core purpose. What has changed in the heart of humans that no longer necessitates these controls? Why do we discourage cheating? Why do attempt violence prevention within our schools? Why do we train personal responsibility as a guiding force of character?

Fair enough, if you have more effective methods of achieving these goals, then describe how they better meet the need and let us evaluate them on their merits and try them.

But let's not tear down what we don't understand

el_don_almighty··on A Crash in the Dollar Is Coming
The US is engaged in a modern version of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) game theory using using national debt backed in USD instead of nuclear weapons. Any strategic move against the dollar by another currency endangers the value of the country's economy because they hold so much US debt. Try to screw with the US and you will be destroyed faster because of the way debt markets work

Can China move their Yuan into a premier position by lowering the dollar? NO WAY. The minute their US denominated debt value reduces, their economy goes bust

In the end, as long as the US has the most distributed debt, the biggest bombs, and the most aircraft carriers, the dollar stands supreme and will even survive the marginalization of petrol.

el_don_almighty··on San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
You can work from home, but you can't career from home
el_don_almighty··on Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
This is a lie because there's no such thing as a remote career. Remote work is how you become a commodity.
el_don_almighty··on Toilet Paper Orientation
first post - OVER is for humans, UNDER is for prisoners
el_don_almighty··on Wirelessly charging electric cars as they drive
Isn't this just a miles-long induction stove top? What keeps the rest of the metal from heating?
el_don_almighty··on Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
The more you scare people, the more they will pay you
el_don_almighty··on Surveillance plane starts flying over Baltimore
how many watts of LED powered infrared light is required to overcome the camera's contrast capability? If I wear a tinfoil hat with a giant beam of infrared light coming from the top, what do they see? what if we all do?

I'm off to walmart for some reynolds wrap

el_don_almighty··on A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications
Vaping at home during work hours has improved my performance and now it's protecting me from the virus?!?!?

WINNING!

el_don_almighty··on Your statement is correct but misses the point
I prefer the "Microsoft" version...

"Now I know where we are, we are right over the Microsoft campus."

"How did you know?"

"Everything they said was completely true and totally useless"

el_don_almighty··on Alphabet in bid to buy Hacker News
In related news, the US Justice Department has filed against Alphabet in its bid to purchase Hacker News in Federal District Court this morning claiming the proposed merger would provide Alphabet an unfair market command of both the letter "H" and the letter "N." Justice Department Lawyer Jennifer Garner said in a prepared statement, "Imagine a world where Alphabet literally owned HN and forced you to purchase license to use either of those letters on your web site."
el_don_almighty··on How H-E-B planned for the pandemic
Having moved away from the Austin area to Illinois, all I can say is...man I miss H-E-B
el_don_almighty··on The World’s 2,153 Billionaires Are Richer Than 4.6B People, Says Oxfam
Congrats... you can do math!
el_don_almighty··on When will the Arctic see its first ice free summer?
Despite my diligent stretching exercises, I've made scant progress towards my goal of having flying monkeys exit my anus, which I estimate having an equivalent likelihood as an "ice-free" arctic. The only way of successfully having an 'ice-free' arctic is redefining the terms, "ice-free" or "arctic" both of which are essentially marketing terms in the first place and relatively malleable. So, it's back to my exercises...
el_don_almighty··on Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill available time
I'm going to write something about this later when I can get to it
el_don_almighty··on Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists
please, oh please... pull me over and make me take a nap on the side of the road for an hour.
el_don_almighty··on Is America a democracy? If so, why does it deny millions the vote?
quite the contrary. I would argue that clarity on this issue is missing in most civics lessons based on nonsensical grumbling I hear from people in most demonstrations recently. I don't have data to support my argument, but I get the sense that a lot of people expect they should have direct voting capabilities on issues and are frustrated that they don't.
el_don_almighty··on Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ Math
That money is out making more money by investing in the macroeconomy. It isn't sitting in their bedsheets. Bill Gates doesn't sleep on a pile of gold like scrooge mcduck. He created something the world needed and valued. Now his money out creating new things. Money does NOT follow the laws of thermodynamics
el_don_almighty··on The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love
Not dying is not an option... we risk dying not doing what we love
el_don_almighty··on Confessions of a “Stroke Surgeon” [video]
A great find
el_don_almighty··on New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms
Scientific "Teen Beat" American... This is the worst kind of click-bait sensational journalism I have seen from Scientific American. Honestly, what a pile of scary hokum.
el_don_almighty··on Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells
I, for one look forward to serving our new Rat overlords...
el_don_almighty··on NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air – and it could feed billions
Dammit Neo, shut up and eat your glop! It has everything a growing body needs.
el_don_almighty··on Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
Should be an easy fix, easily accomplished well before 2050
el_don_almighty··on [dead]
CNN has been hiding Bernie supporters as well. The MSM does not want him to succeed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDcjOaAR3Sk&t=1433s
el_don_almighty··on Amazon, Walmart, Ikea targeted in University of California light bulb lawsuits
good, somebody should sue these people for making bulbs that give people headaches!!!
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