johnkpaul

You might find this NYT piece on the winners of the Biggest Loser TV show interesting. Basically, "dieting" as a reduction in calories is a lose-lose game because your basal metabolic rate goes down so you have to keep eating less and less to keep it up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weig...

Keeping up the basal metabolic rate is part of the rationale behind intermittent/extended fasting instead of pure calories-in-calories-out weightloss advice.

I think it was worse in suburban areas slightly outside of the city, at least on the NJ side. In western Bergen county, I had a bit over 1 inch and had to break out the shovel for the sidewalk.

I actually don't think that's the dead-cat-saying that the parent is referencing. I think that it's this concept http://itskeptic.org/dead-cat-syndrome.html

I am also unfamiliar though and I'm reading up on it right now.

I have many Twilio SMS based personal apps and the application process was annoying but nothing too complicated. The worst was the long approval wait time while my stuff was broken but that’s partly my fault for not reading the warning emails carefully enough.

You do need to have a “reason” that fits into a tree of business-like-things but you don’t need an EIN or anything. Mine was “technology industry” I think.

I’ve found this explainer by Angela Collier super helpful in understanding the current state of string theory.

https://youtu.be/kya_LXa_y1E?si=wjHwG0p3J4HWRKs7

I was a gigantic pop science fan and read The Elegant Universe when I was approximately 13 and am excited it’s still being read even if it’s not necessarily true about our universe. It’s got the inspiration and excitement part that’s all I really needed as a kid.

If you're specifically looking for the most satiating, I'd recommend a room temperature stick of butter. It's really hard to eat more after a stick of butter.

Regarding #3, do you mean in the United States? That's not generally true. Your health insurance premiums, under normal employer plans, are not tax deductible, but they are paid pre-tax.

Additional out of pocket healthcare expenditure is only deductible if you itemize your deductions and you're only allowed to deduct medical expenditures in excess of 7.5% of your income (AGI to be technical).

That new line in the first paragraph was added _after_ this comment was written.

Hmm, is this author related to the Physics for the Birds YouTube channel?

That channel just released a video on the same topic.

https://youtu.be/v5ev-RAg7Xs?si=X1LY6Qc_s-HDqI3S

Where would you recommend someone find one of these? Do they expire, or could I get one to cover years worth of travel? Thanks!

I feel like I'm noticing this more and more often in media in general and definitely hacker-news-circulated media.

This weird future is straight out of manna - https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

This is 100% true. I have a chemistry degree that's technically from a liberal arts college and it was super confusing to my immigrant parents how that could happen. Now with the advent of the term "STEM" it's even more confusing because a huge portion of Science degrees are actually in liberal arts programs, not technically "Science" programs.

Anthropologically, I think that this isn't super far from what has already happened for humans. Grandmothers specifically had a lot of repsonsibilities and importance and I believe that's why they generally live longer than grandfathers.

Instead of being about career development, it's been about specializing in hunter/gatherer stuff while still able bodied.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/grandmothers-a...

:D Thank you! They're no longer babies gratefully so it's a ton of fun.

I'm not so sure that it's only possible to build affordable 3 bedroom homes _because those burbs have roads_. I agree that it's definitely the best path compared to my options in my locale, but there are other cities/countries where I _could_ afford a 3br in an urban environment and the roads are just as rare there.

If affordability were inherently positively tied to land-use-for-roads, I'd understand the argument. For me though, I think affordability is tied to location-demand and way way more people want to live in the urban environment that I'm priced out of.

I'm exactly the dad in this scenario and I 100% do not feel like I had an option here.

I am pretty frustrated with the house, the space and I don't feel any more safe or higher quality of life. I did this only because I could not afford the number of bedrooms I need for surprise triplets in the city I was basically born and raised in. From my anecdata of peers, pretty much everyone who lived in an urban environment for most of their lives would like to stay there but cannot afford it.

I suppose I could see the "family is better off" statement being valid but it is not because of the list you mentioned, it is purely affordability for me. My parents were able to afford a 3 bedroom apartment and I cannot.

Straight outta Manna, the short story by Marshall Brain. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

> Manna’s job was to manage the store, and it did this in a most interesting way. Think about a normal fast food restaurant. A group of employees worked at the store, typically 50 people in a normal restaurant, and they rotated in and out on a weekly schedule. The people did everything from making the burgers to taking the orders to cleaning the tables and taking out the trash. All of these employees reported to the store manager and a couple of assistant managers. The managers hired the employees, scheduled them and told them what to do each day. This was a completely normal arrangement. In the early twenty-first century, there were millions of businesses that operated in this way.

> But the fast food industry had a problem, and Burger-G was no different. The problem was the quality of the fast food experience. Some restaurants were run perfectly. They had courteous and thoughtful crew members, clean restrooms, great customer service and high accuracy on the orders. Other restaurants were chaotic and uncomfortable to customers. Since one bad experience could turn a customer off to an entire chain of restaurants, these poorly-managed stores were the Achilles heel of any chain.

> To solve the problem, Burger-G contracted with a software consultant and commissioned a piece of software. The goal of the software was to replace the managers and tell the employees what to do in a more controllable way. Manna version 1.0 was born.

Do any of these offer family plans? I feel like At these price points, I would really like to sign up everyone in my household. The FAQ pages seem to all imply individual and I don't think I'm asking for a "business" or "enterprise" option.

This is the first one where I've noticed that they have X amount of days to find another job in the company. I wonder how that works and what percentage of the 100 will actually not end up laid off.

A link to the iOS App. :-D

I've had this same thought and even direct comment to friends. The answer I've gotten basically every time has been that they send audios because they're driving while they're responding.

Customer acquisition cost and lifetime value

Where are you? This sounds like a magical place of unicorns and fairies. :-)

Reminds me of the great short story Manna. It has a much more idealistic and more be the book definition of “universal”.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

If it was coming from the atmosphere and not underground, I could see the analogy. Currently it starts from oil that’s already”captured” in this sense.

It’s “weed out” from the perspective of medical schools, not chemistry path people.

It is a challenging subject for many, but the people who aren’t premed have an inherent interest to work through the material, imho.

I think that if the MCAT removed all organic chemistry, organic would lose all the “weed out” categorization

I have an NYU chemistry degree and I took quite a lot of organic. I wasn’t pre-med and had planned, at the time, to get a PhD with research in organic chemistry/material science.

Even though my classes were with this guy’s predecessor’s predecessor, everything described about the challenge of this class and the complaints from premeds was exactly the same ~20 years ago.

Organic Chemistry 1, 2 and 3 at NYU have always been considered challenging and “weed out”. I was and am very proud of my moderately successful academics in chemistry from NYU and find it a bit sad that the expectations given to me are changing.

Hah, I’m not sure if one point of anecdata can be meaningfully drawn on but at the very least I’m hopeful that the idea of children categorically not-consuming sweet foods becomes less demonized over time. Im sure my children when older will make their own decisions but not giving ice cream to a 2 year old isn’t harmful.

Thank you! That’s quite an open attitude and I really appreciate it. I have many doctor family members that do not share it.

I’m almost 6 years deep to this diet and my yearly lipid/glucose/blood work up has been all good. Both my actual doctor and my family members have been very concerned about my BUN and creatinine levels.