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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.


If you are changing you metabolic rate, you are changing the "calories-out" so it's not like it's an entirely different approach.


Fasting also changes your bmr, often far more


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.


Still though, an inch or two around here is not a big deal. I only really start complaining when I have to break out the snow blower.


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.


That's the one. Only old fogies (like me) know it I guess. It was the thing we all referred to as the impetus behind DevOps, when it became a thing a decade ago.


i’m not an old fogie and i kind of guessed “throwing a dead cat over the wall” was what you meant.

although i was actually taught DevOps proper before it got super fashionable.

maybe that makes me an old fogie nowdays? :/


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.


No, butter has low satiety (like croissant which are partly made with) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/, https://www.dietdoctor.com/satiety/foods#:~:text=44-,Fats%20...


White potatoes are in the middle but French fries (I’m assuming fried? But you can bake them too) are at the bottom, so strange

Also based on that list, I think salsa might be the perfect mix: low cal and high satiety


The second article isn't the best link, the satiety score metric isn't as good as in 1st link


Eating high-water food is filling. Compare an apple to dried apple slices, a grape to a raisin.


The idea with the Satiety index is that you can feel full with less than the ~800 calories in a stick of butter.

I want more research into the concept of calories. I only recently learned that our understanding of how to measure food energy is rather primitive.


I don't think you're properly accounting for the heartburn that would result from consuming that much oil... you could be turned off food for a whole day!


I see you, and I appreciate the joke


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).


Paying something ‘pre tax’ is equivalent to, or even better, than it being deductible.


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


Yes, I saw that! Inspired me to look at the original paper.

The video takes a slightly different approach from the paper and uses a retraction on the möbius strip to its boundary as a contradiction.

That particular argument doesn’t generalize as well in higher dimensions (in particular, the symmetric product won't always have a boundary to retract to), so I followed the original paper’s one instead. I'll add a link to that video as well


Yeah you don’t want to get hbomberguy’d.


I was thinking that too. Could be -plagiarized- inspired by the birds, since the flow of the article starts out the exact same way


The first paragraph linked to the YouTube video and mentioned

> (we’ll take a slightly different approach).


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


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've used the Airalo app to buy data-only eSims in multiple regions, and they have global ones also. I would guess it's not as cheap as you'd get if you waited to buy from local providers in arrival, but it's very convenient.


+1 to Airalo. The country specific ones are super cheap. $7 for 2GB or something like that?

I once did the 30-day Global one for I think $20 for 4GB or so. Worked all over Europe + Middle East. Was very impressed.


Eskimo has a 2y global SIM, excluding a handful of countries, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382377


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


I've read that short story before.

It's wildly optimistic to think the government would opt to give everyone housing over just letting them struggle.


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