richcollins

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by richcollins 4y ago
They couldn’t coerce enough people to install the app.
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by richcollins 4y ago
In the people that use meat’s superior satiety to stay lean, you see lower inflammation, IGF-1, insulin … etc. On a purely meat diet with loads of protein, my IGF-1 was 90, a z-score of -1.
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by richcollins 5y ago
He tricked me into working for a month without a contract and then wouldn’t answer my calls when I asked him to sign the terms we agreed upon. I had to show up and sit on their couch until he showed up to write me a check to go away. He’s a
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by richcollins 5y ago
There are hunter gatherers (hadza, ache, pygmies) that eat substantial amounts of honey without becoming overweight.
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by richcollins 5y ago
On a high fat ketogenic diet, my thirst is satisfied on ~500ml of water a day. I drink much more when running on glucose, if it's really hot or I exercise intensely.
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by richcollins 5y ago
Lose body fat. Stopping eating refined carbohydrates. Take the Kraft glucose insulin test to see if you have “diabetes in situ” https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/services/kraft-prediabetes...
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by richcollins 7y ago
You can get plenty of calories from raw animal fats. Cooking does help a lot with plants though. Also helps with infectious agents in meat and plants.
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by richcollins 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920391/
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by richcollins 8y ago
By analyzing plant remains in the cave, Humphrey's team found that residents ate lots of a particularly sweet type of acorn, which becomes soft and sticky when cooked. They also ate wild oats and legumes. Such foods can lead to serious
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by richcollins 9y ago
Cold is correlated with low sunlight, which leads to less vitamin D production: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
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by richcollins 10y ago
Building tools for fact-checking and helping people decipher fact from fiction will become increasingly important to keep the electorate informed Sadly the electorate doesn't care about being informed. They seek out news that confir
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by richcollins 10y ago
We are being made to participate in this venture via taxes. That said, its incredibly exciting.
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by richcollins 10y ago
A lot of formerly beneficial adaptations have become "diseases" in the modern world (sugar cravings for instance).
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by richcollins 10y ago
So best choice is to probably to invest in S&P while learning to program on your own.
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by richcollins 10y ago
A twin study to look for a potential common cause between poverty and poor food selection might yield interesting results.
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by richcollins 11y ago
It was a lifesaver for those times when it was 6pm and you didn't have dinner ready for your kids.
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by richcollins 11y ago
Author missed option 3: Do contract work at $250 an hour or equivalent compensation in shares at >= series B funded startups. Choose the level of risk you're willing to accept in cash vs equity. (Nearly) completely avoid politics
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by richcollins 11y ago
Are you attempting to justify this? If I ran a "harmless" experiment over a population of 100M that happened to kill 10 or 20 "outliers" should I be exempt from consequences as well?
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by richcollins 12y ago
There is an iOS wallet that connects directly to the network that downloads the necessary info in seconds: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/breadwallet-bitcoin-wallet/i...
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by richcollins 12y ago
Minor nit to give credit where it's due. 280 North had three founders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280_North,_Inc .
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by richcollins 12y ago
If bitcoin was used as widely as the USD this would never have happened. It happened because of weak depth in the bitcoin markets (i.e. not that many people are trading it).
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by richcollins 12y ago
The gateways will be targeted for regulation until they are no different than modern banks.
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by richcollins 12y ago
How about this? each Licensee must obtain the superintendent’s prior written approval for any plan or proposal to introduce or offer a new product, service, or activity, or to make a material change to an existing product, service, or acti
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by richcollins 12y ago
Everyone is making decisions about spending their capital every day so decisions are quite distributed. I think you meant that it works better when capital is evenly distributed. I don't know if that is true but there seems to be lots
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by richcollins 12y ago
Software developers make $100+ an hour. The jobs are there for people willing to adapt to them. You can't just wait to be handed a job that matches your current abilities.
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by richcollins 12y ago
Sounds like you discovered an opportunity for a job ...
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by richcollins 12y ago
They can afford it if they can create something of value that you're willing to accept in return. If they can't then that is the real problem. You have to ask why they can't create enough wealth to trade for the things they
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by richcollins 12y ago
Nobody creates the jobs, they exist to be discovered. If you adopt the viewpoint that other people create jobs for you then your fate is not in your own hands. People want things. If you can create something that other people want and the
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by richcollins 12y ago
It seems unlikely to me that we're anywhere close to diminishing returns from technology. More likely we're seeing what happens when a system is full of perverse incentives that reward unproductive / destructive behavior.
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by richcollins 12y ago
Why will high Debt-to-GDP or government spending send the economy into a recession? Do you agree that it is a problem at some point? If so then why not at current levels?

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