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BasLeijdekkers

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BasLeijdekkers··on A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long
Interesting, how can there be both a high engagement in fishing jobs and low amounts of fish in the diet. Are they very unsuccessful fishers? All the fish is sold to some other, by definition unhealthy, population?
BasLeijdekkers··on Born to Rest
If we have always been lazy, why is there now an obesity epidemic? It seems to me that means the cause of obesity lies elsewhere.
BasLeijdekkers··on The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2012)
The wikipedia article[1] of the book contains several quotes with references to negative criticism that look fairly credible to me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature...

BasLeijdekkers··on McMaster researchers may have found a way to restore metabolism to youth levels
It seems it is the carbohydrates that cause the seratonin release[1], not the fat.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8697046

BasLeijdekkers··on How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Control
It seems there is a pathway that converts lipids to glucose: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22314896
BasLeijdekkers··on IntelliJ IDEA 14 Released
If I understand you correctly you will want to disable Preferences > Editor > Smart Keys > Backspace smart indent
BasLeijdekkers··on The Kids Who Beat Autism
For any parents starting to get worried: toe-walking is completely normal for many children below 5 years old and even older[1]. Usually they grow out of it as they get older. So I would definitely not consider that a sign pointing to the possibility of autism.

[1] http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20120723/childrens-toe-wa...

BasLeijdekkers··on Why Europeans Don't Refrigerate Their Eggs
Counter anecdote: I am dutch and never keep my eggs in the fridge.
BasLeijdekkers··on NetBeans 7.4 – New and Noteworthy
Actually, the Garbage First (G1) garbage collector was created by Sun not Oracle/JRockit. It did get production ready under Oracle with jdk 1.7.0_04.
BasLeijdekkers··on Evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago
This means fire was used before homo sapiens existed, fascinating. We might have evolved to eat cooked/roasted food.
BasLeijdekkers··on 60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?
The red meat study from the nytimes article you link received a lot of criticism, for example: http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/red-meat-mortality-the-us...
BasLeijdekkers··on Not just the weather: climate change acceptance nosedives with the economy
Sorry, I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me. My position is that the study authors are suggesting a cause and effect relationship which is not supported by the evidence. From the article: "Based on their statistical analysis, the authors conclude the economy is the strongest influence on the public's acceptance of climate science". They only found a correlation and like you say correlation != cause & effect.
BasLeijdekkers··on Not just the weather: climate change acceptance nosedives with the economy
It seems to me that this is another case where association does not equal causation. Just because both the economy is bad and climate change acceptance is low, does not mean that one is causing the other, no matter how strong the association.
BasLeijdekkers··on IntelliJ IDEA 11 is Out
If you can't get IntelliJ IDEA's JavaDoc formatter to do what you want there exists a plugin which lets you use Eclipse for formatting call Eclipse Code Formatter: http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?idea&id=6546 I have never used it, so I cannot comment on its quality, but it might be worth a try.

However submitting bugs and feature requests with examples would be better. Many reports are fixed quite quickly. I did not manage to find the bugs you filed though: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues?q=%23rkalla

BasLeijdekkers··on Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application
The mouse's too sensitive. A tiny flick of the finger and it is maximally zoomed in or zoomed out. Zooming a small step is practically impossible, at least for me.

Google maps has the same problem for me. I prefer to use the scroll wheel only for scrolling.

BasLeijdekkers··on Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application
Very nice UI, except that it uses the dreaded scroll wheel zoom. Especially annoying for magic mouse users.