throwaway_tech

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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>The unit economics of most of these companies just don't add up. VCs have been playing the loss leader game...thats why the metrics always go to growth. Hey we grew x% this week/month/year, they never mention how the &qu
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>They're holing people up in hospital beds and providing supportive care if needed. That is pretty important for people at risk. Consider lack of supportive care is what leads to most preventable deaths from regular flu progressing
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Part of the reason their numbers are so low is because they're testing, which is revealing the stacks upon stacks of asymptomatic cases or cases which lead to the sniffles. I don't disagree, but my point is S.Korea is not just
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
Why use S.Korea's numbers? Haven't they lead the best response in terms of testing and don't they have universal healthcare? It seems to me fatality rates would likely be higher in countries that: 1) aren't testing so
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Note that this contradicts your statements that GNG will kick you out of ketosis. It absolutely will not. Its really simple, eat nothing but chicken and/or turkey (high protein, low fat, no carb). You will not become keto adapted
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Yes, athletes do suffer an adaptation You admit and acknowledge an "adaptation" in this comment, but in another reply to me where I talk out the keto adaptation, you replied: >everything you're saying is a complete myt
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>excess protein is not converted to fat via GNG, but is used for protein synthesis, and increases lean body mass. >In conclusion, after a high-protein diet, GNG was increased... https://www.cambridge.org/core/jou
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Yes, everything you're saying is a complete myth. Define what it means for the cells to adapt for "running on ketones". >A ketogenic diet (KD) involves using fat, a high-density substrate, as the main source in daily c
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>GNG is an on-demand production of glucose, and absolutely does NOT kick the body out of ketosis, or cause the brain to run on glucose. I never said GNG kicks people out of ketosis, I said protein to fat ratios will prohibit ketosis. Ye
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Also most people are in ketosis before eating breakfast in the morning, because the liver's glycogen is partially depleted overnight This is true...but it gets to my point, just because your body begins breaking down fat and produc
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
I run marathons and prefer running in ketosis. In ketosis I will follow a long run with some protein for muscle recovery with fats just to maintain ratios rather than carbs to refill depleted glucose stores. For lifting/HIIT training
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
It is possible, I have done it myself eating a lot of eggs and fatty red meat. Also, in my case I was also already in ketosis for an extended period of time, meaning my microbiome and cells were primed for ketosis. That said I have also do
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Eating normal ammounts of carbs isn't going to kill you, it's literally our main energy source. Its only the main energy source because its the main dietary intake. If you change your dietary intake consistent with dietary ke
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
The title is terrible, it should read ketosis/ketones may prevent, reverse age-related effects within the brain. "Low carb" as the title currently reads does not necessarily result in ketosis and your body/brain running
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>There's no need to invent violations. I think the deceased and their family would disagree. Sure there are existing regulations, but the idea is that as this new technology evolves and is being tested in the field we will find fail
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
As I replied to the first comment asking the same thing, the sentence preceding the statement you quoted explains what needs to be done: >so perhaps these states that allow self-driving cars need to think about adopting traffic laws spec
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
As I said right before the statement you quoted: >so perhaps these states that allow self-driving cars need to think about adopting traffic laws specific to self-driving cars and figure out who those tickets should go to and the proper p
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>nobody was held liable and in fact no charges were pressed and no civil lawsuits were filed As noted below Uber settled (that typically means their insurer settled) so there is no need for a civil lawsuit. That is efficiency of the sys
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Getting into an incubator or getting money from investors is zero measure of business success. That is sort of like saying money doesn't buy happiness...true, but financial stress or poverty typically can be outright bars to happin
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
Maybe Twitter did this for the free publicity.
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
I think even more interesting is when I wake up before my alarm and actually get up/out of bed I feel like I had proper sleep. However, if I decide to go back to sleep for the short period of time before my alarm, I usually wake up by
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>there exist frames in which an event and the detection of light from it are simultaneous. At the distance from Earth to Betelgeuse?
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
If you ever see it go supernova, just remember it went supernova 642.5 years ago...or if it actually does go supernova in your lifetime, you unfortunately not see it.
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>the idea of potentially walking among clones made me sick Well for sure you are walking among "test tube babies" (IVF) where an egg is fertilized by donor sperm and transferred into a uterus, (sometimes the biological mother
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>We know that exercise levels and diet can lower or increase inflammation. I think it is extremely important to distinguish the types of inflammation. Exercise creates acute inflammation (for example the breakdown of certain muscle tiss
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>I’m convinced that a human has definitely been cloned. Me too. The article is full of stories of physicists; scientists and well funded companies who set off to clone a human...one company even left the grasp of US regulatory bodies an
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>they are also corrupt: the one in Mississippi was issuing subpoenas to Google on behalf of the entertainment industry Assuming your allegation is true, an AG was serving subpoenas on behalf of Google and that makes all AGs corrupt...the
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>The sleaze of the mattress industry is a major reason the mattress in a box business has done so well. Don't be fooled if you thought the traditional mattress buying experience was sleazy (similar to a car buying experience), the m
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
That is a clever legal argument. Of course to distinguish a traditional newspaper or publication from social media posts are the editorializing exercised by the tech companies occurs after publication/posting; whereas, traditional med
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
There are a lot of interesting case studies I remember reading about logos about 15-20 years ago, where the big thing was dropping the company name from the logo and using the logo image only. A couple of the examples I recall are target,

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