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theNJR

1,175 karma · joined December 17, 2017

VP Marketing @ Zero Longevity Science

www.NicholasJRobinson.com

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theNJR··on Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide analyses of 475K people
That film was one big inaccurate extrapolation after another.

One of the authors of a cited study did a rebuttal here - https://ketogenic.com/debunking-the-game-changers/

theNJR··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
This conversation needs to be higher up. It's strange how much unbridled enthusiasm there is for fake meat within the first page of comments here.

I would agree, strongly, with your assessment of PUFAs. They are even harder to eliminate from ones diet than sugar. They are in most of what one eats that they aren't making from base ingredients.

theNJR··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
There were FDA rulings around the use of the word "milk". I think it went to court, and I don't recall the final ruling.
theNJR··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
The blind enthusiasm for factory meat is concerning.

Any farm suggestions?

theNJR··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
The analogy of less water and more Pepsi is terrifying and potentially accurate.
theNJR··on Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS
I think (hope?) the user is trolling.
theNJR··on Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS
Which study are you referring to here?
theNJR··on Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS
Only some oils are bad. Avoid oils used at fast food restaurants and in packaged goods. Olive and avocado are good.

Salt isnt bad.

Meat can be fine. Just be careful of its source, frequency of consumption and method of cooking.

Fruit is sugar, which is bad.

Focus on eating a ton of veg, locally sourced when possible, and the most expensive lean proteins you can afford.

theNJR··on Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
Came here to suggest The Order of Time by C Rovelli, which explains this in such a captivating way.
theNJR··on “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
It’s very easy to get the dopamine loop going with sugar, nicotine, memes, rage-bait, and bikini photos. The brain loves it.

Chicken breast, deadlifts and philosophy takes a lot of effort and the positive effects are delayed. The brain has to be trained to tolerate it. It will always prefer the latter.

theNJR··on Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round
Kevin Rose had a pretty epic Tweet about wanting to buy Digg and bring it back to its pre-redesign phase [1]. Mark Cuban wanted in on it and I seem to remember Alexis Ohanian responded in a new tweet. I don’t feel like going through his old posts to link to it.

I’d love a return to the old. Even if its just the social web version of reruns.

[1] https://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/1347747289511563265?s=2...

theNJR··on The people the suburbs were built for are gone
I consider it often but can’t find a suitable replacement. Having grown up in rural Maine I’ll spare you the other excuses and acknowledge that I just love the weather here.
theNJR··on The people the suburbs were built for are gone
What a frustrating article.

The first few citations are circular, they link to articles about the book being discussed or the authors of that book.

Where are they getting the “80% of new households ... will be these one to two person households” stat from? No citation, of course, because it’s not true. I won’t be surprised to see that used in future articles and linked back to this interview, however.

The anti-homeownership propaganda seems to be growing with articles trying to tell us “you don’t want to own a home!”. If an ounce of research was conducted it would be clear how many people want out of cities and into homes.

My wife and I are going into the third season of trying to buy a house (SoCal). Every half decent home sells in its first weekend and, in our experience (6 offers), for all cash and over ask. This is the norm in many other areas from what I’ve read.

To me, the real story is “Millennials want to buy homes and start families but the older generations aren’t moving out of the suburbs fast enough”.

theNJR··on AirPods Max
The app was essential in making it all work. Agreed that’s annoying.
theNJR··on Privacy Labels and Lookalike Audiences
This article isn’t about access to photos or Bluetooth.
theNJR··on AirPods Max
I see you’ve never used AirPods between multiple devises. It’s become a lot better in the last year, but that’s only because it started out infuriating.

QC3s were much better than AirPods at multi device up until a recent update.

theNJR··on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
>Where did you get 43.84 from?

WORK closing price. I just realized I can't read though, misinterpreted the press release.

theNJR··on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
I'm a bit confused by what this means for WORK shareholders.

"Under the terms of the agreement, Slack shareholders will receive $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion based on the closing price of Salesforce’s common stock on November 30, 2020."

Lets say you own 100 shares of WORK. Does that mean you get both

1. $4,434 in cash (100 * 43.84 current value of WORK)

and

2. 7.76 shares of CRM (100 * .0776)

Edit: I can't read!

theNJR··on Roblox S-1
I bet it was Matt Ball.

Maybe this? https://www.matthewball.vc/all/themetaverse

theNJR··on Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
I won’t pretend why you want that if you don’t pretend why we don’t offer it.

All I can say is that we are a SaaS supported product, not an ad supported one. We are highly incentivized to protect your data.

theNJR··on Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
That is us!
theNJR··on Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
Some of Peter Attia’s thoughts on the more robust study from a few weeks ago that is relevant

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j7AZF8bvcR0

theNJR··on Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
We’re working on this. Harder than it seems.
theNJR··on Launch HN: Artifact (YC S20) – Personal podcasts with the people in your life
I tried to do this manually over Zoom with my parents at the start of the pandemic.

My mom focused on walking through the family tree and dad keeps putting it off.

This will for sure be a Christmas gift. Amazing idea.

theNJR··on Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
What did you think of that class? I’m doing a Reforge program now and hungry to keep doing similar. The Innovation Course looks pretty awesome.
theNJR··on Show HN: Seamless head tracking for games using the TrueDepth camera (iOS)
Whoa. I was about to spend the cash on hardware to support this in MSFS2020. Can’t wait to try.
theNJR··on New fitness habits being created during Covid?
PTON stock has doubled since COVID.

Lulu bought Mirror

We saw MAU higher than New Years during peak COVID (health and fitness app) and our peers said the same.

Can’t buy weights to save your life.

Question is what happens after reopen?

theNJR··on P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free
Lots of comments on 1,000+ people teams.

What about sub 100?

We are fully distributed. Lots of Slack and Zoom. Trying to create a central source of truth in Notion but that feels very static.

Any smaller teams using this?

theNJR··on Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
> There is no money in fasting

There is, and that’s a good thing for both sides of the transaction.

theNJR··on Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores
I never knew that. How incredibly ... reasonable. Really changes your UA math in a good way.
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