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Are there any studies or support you can give behind your claims?

Just as you're skeptical of research in the area, I'm skeptical of people claiming to have seen "hundreds of people" cured of diseases by something as simple as fasting.

Were the authors of this recent study the same ones releasing results in the 50s?

From what I can tell is these are recent scientists conducting a study in Beijing with potentially disconfirming evidence of your claim.

I think this is a "humans" thing. Japan and other countries have their own share of cults and group-think. Every culture has people who, for whatever reason, don't feel like they fit in. There will always be others who rise to take advantage of that.

Without having been to the WeWork event, it's hard to cut around the article author's biased take. They chose a certain writing angle. The event from another perspective may be that of a fun, tongue-in-cheek festival where people cut loose for a bit. The author might also have been the only rational one there who hadn't yet drunk the koolaid.

This brings me back. While I didn't attend HedgeStock, I used to post on the Albourne Village forums of the "conference" organizer. They had a points system which I found a way to game, accumulating enough points to buy a Hedge Stock calendar. "strange" and "unpleasant" were thoughts that ran through mine and my coworkers heads as we paged through the calendar.

For WeWork the vegan, hippy vibe seems part of their culture. I had a harder time reconciling that type of atmosphere applied to the investment management industry.

You may have misunderstood the article and the Lean methodology.

From the article: "Still, unless your startup has access to large pools of capital or have a brand name like Katzenberg, Lean still makes sense."

Side projects, solo entrepreneurship are not mutually exclusive and can actually be complementary. Lean is a methodology to validate demand for a product. Solo entrepreneurs can and do benefit greatly from employing it.

The interesting point here is that they aren't doing an ICO. This reads to me more like a blockchain exploration of a rewards system from a large company.

Far less likely to be a 'pump and dump' than the me too altcoin of the week startups who focus on ICOs and being listed on bigger exchanges instead of what value is actually being created.

Thanks, this makes much more sense than the author's strange example.

I deeply disagree and I'd wager anyone who has done any sort of sales or biz dev does too.

Trying to influence a potential client to close a multi-million dollar software contract is anything but close to 'normal' activities. It's very demanding intellectually and emotionally.

I really encourage you to learn more about what sales folks actually do when having dinner with a big prospective client. They aren't just eating.

Disinegenuous in what regard?

What may seem like "eating and drinking" for sales and biz dev folks is a game requiring thinking on your feet, subtle negotiation, reading social cues, and constant strategy changes.

The person at Twitter about to press the delete button and a member of Facebook's developer relations team.

What are your objections to those?

If you're doing it mostly for fun with a side benefit of recognizing a few characters here and there, go for it. Just know you're choosing to learn in a way that's not really recommended for most.

If your learning goals are mostly focused around reading, it's helpful a bit.

If you want to actually understand and use the language, hiragana, katakana, vocab and grammar have much higher utility.

I also felt this way. There is a large amount of "one weird tip" self-promotional blogspam in the startup space.

Self-promotion isn't bad on it's own, we all have motivations at some level. But too often pulling back the curtain on the "how I bootstrapped into $30k MRR while living on a beach" stories reveals something far different than the simple tips prescribed.

For something at a larger scale, I recommend critiques of Jim Collins' "Good to Great".

> But there is absolutely no evidence that saturated fat causes any of the diseases of civilization. Why should people limit their intake of it?

This is indisputably wrong. There is a mountain of evidence linking the consumption of saturated fat to cardiovascular disease. The article linked to a recent summary study from the American Heart association. Plenty of others are a simple google search away.

Ideally yes, likely, no. From the sparse details we do have it sounds like there were some fundamental disagreements between the board and CEO. The board may have seen firing the CEO as the path of least resistance. It seems harsh, but without extensive insider details, it's hard to know whether it was the right call.

> Human beings have been hunting and eating animals ... for hundreds of thousands of years,

This seems a bad argument. Our lifestyles, diet compositions, bodies, ability to diagnose medical illness or cause of death, understanding of nutrition, and lifespans have all gone through several revolutions throughout the years.

The clickbait headline of the article ("pure poison") and and author's comments were inflammatory, which is likely what you're reacting too. However the article does go on to talk about the link between saturated fat as a well-known risk factor for heart disease.

Given the lifestyle trend of humans toward more sedentary living than our hunting/gathering ancestors, suggesting people of today be careful about limiting their intake of saturated fats is a good thing.

Calling it gaslighting is uncharitable and dismissive. The Overton Window here seems to be generally around "big companies" and "ads" always being bad.

In this case advertising other Netflix shows seems reasonable. It's common practice on most content platforms. I agree it's annoying and I'd rather not have it.

It sounds like all the same protections and uses you get with USD. I get the impression Coinbase may be moving in that direction if they haven't already.

What advantages over USD are there for using bitcoin to buy domains or items from amazon?

I've often heard that problems with banks and private , centralized control of wealth is one of the fundamental reasons for cryptocurrency.

I'm genuinely curious, what cryptocurrency related services would you want a bank to provide? And, related, what do you expect or hope to be using that cryptocurrency for?

We also do this coupled with project specific Trello boards. Solved many of the signal v noise issues we had.

These things aren't mutually exclusive. Local governments have many constituencies they need to support, small business being one of the most important.

On the flip side of your rage are people who run local businesses having to shutdown, so local officials of Mountain View saw a way to respond to this.

Techcrunch does this too. It's to encourage binge reading. The news equivalent of Youtube autoplay next video.

The metrics likely suggest it's good for the site, but I'm also not a fan. It's very confusing for the reader.

The article covers your first question. He blew the whistle on misleading investors by overinflating production numbers by as much as 44% and that Tesla is knowingly installing damaged or unfit batteries into cars, increasing their chance of catching fire.

Thank you, the link is appreciated. However, it doesn't support your claim that "Cultures that had no issue breastfeeding started treating it as brutish".

It does support the claim that formula makers are using underhanded tactics and aggressive incentives. It's awful they're doing that. It's also far away from your claim that shifting a cultural mindset to viewing breastfeeding as "brutish".

I can tell you're passionate and knowledgeable about the topic which is why I was interested in your perspective. But you also seem guilty of hyperbole so I can't take what you write seriously.

While I'm not as familiar with these issues, GP did at least attempt to cite sources. Can you cite sources which prove or suggest the contrary?

In particular, I'm interesting in this claim:

> "Cultures that had no issue breastfeeding started treating it as brutish"

I understand where he's coming from. Sometimes to create a big personal change you need to disrupt your routine in a big way. For me, a change in environment really helps me think or focus differently.

New York may have been special in some way that could help that change.

I think the anecdote underscores how tough it can be to make that shift from doing something you love and are good at into new responsibilities you're not as strong in yet.

What made it rise from $300 to current day prices? What price do you think reflects it's real value? Why is it worth that price?

I stopped reading after seeing the pricing tables. I really question their data source and calculation quality with items like this:

Chicken Tacos Restaurant Price: 18.94 Cook at Home Cost: 1.14

>In regard to being determined, I know this sounds like survivorship bias but you really do get better at what you're attempting to do by sticking with it

This is survivorship bias. You're a survivor and can look back on the set of decisions you've made in the past to rationalize your current success. I've seen countless businesses linger for years only to shutdown later and sell their assets.

I find learning a language a poor analog here as it's much simpler and generally within your control. More effort is more closely tied to more results. Language learners aren't typically affected by seasonality, fads, or market conditions.

It's all of these other factors that make analyzing business success factors tremendously difficult. Because it's so difficult, it's easier and more straightforward to assume "I'm successful, so my decisions were the right ones" than "I'm successful mostly due to luck".

There are many scenarios where the founder is less than $8 million though, even on paper. The article doesn't give details about what % of the company Lee still owns or what their balance sheet or margins look like.

Based on that article, we don't actually know if Lee has assets worth $1 million. This is all before even bringing up how liquid he is.