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aviv··on As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
What? It's often helpful to form a full sentence if you want others to engage in a discussion with you.
aviv··on As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
Give me a break. First address the atrosious food consumption habits within the 94% of US population who do not live in so called food deserts before it can be used to justify the behavior of the vast majority.
aviv··on As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
Eating fruits and vegetables that can easily be composted is elitist? News to me.
aviv··on As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
I would argue most of what you are referring to as "food" is not and should not be considered food for humans though.
aviv··on As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
Recycling is treating the symptom and not the root cause. The real problem is people buying too much crap they don't really need or shouldn't consume in the first place.
aviv··on CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows
Humans are frugivores, you got your whole history/life concepts wrong.
aviv··on Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
Likely a firmware issue with the NSA intercept devices.
aviv··on People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
I agree. Keto is the most dangerous dietary trend today.
aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
Of course I minimize my physical activity during dry fasts.

Hot. Arizona hot.

I don't track the weight anymore, about a pound a day, maybe a bit more. Early on it was nearly 2 pounds a day. Regain 75% of it on the scale rather quickly because I eat mostly fruits due to their water content. The weight loss is not what I'm after, as I said before, any weight loss during a dry fast is normal and expected. Those who need to put on weight generally do shortly after a fast is completed

aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
It's easy to just continue believing in your own path. I could not care less if a random HN user finds my answers vague. My comments here get flagged the majority of the time so I put very little effort into the responses nowadays. And to answer your question, I live in very dry climate.
aviv··on Ask HN: Is starting eBook store today an insane idea?
I think it's a bad idea to sell them through a dedicated stand-alone website/store. Many people are selling ebooks successfully using ClickFunnels, especially when combined with upsells. Don't think of an ebook as a way to earn $15, rather as an entry point to a $500+ sale of another related product/service.
aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
You lose as much as you need to. Many people who struggle to gain weight, actually do post-fast.
aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
This is incredibly naive. Sadly this is not how the world actually operates. Entire industries and economies would be disrupted and vanish completely if majority of people were healthy. Millions of jobs rely on people continuously going through the cycle of disease.

Medical researchers would never jump at a chance to prove that fasting, something no one can patent and turn into a recurring revenue profit center, is the cure for many diseases they currently sell maintenance drugs and "treatment" for what they tell people is incurable.

aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
Yes. Our bodies were not meant to consume processed man made food, pesticides, meat from diseased animals, excess protein, soy, genetically modified foods, processed sugars, vegetable juices, sea food from contaminated oceans and pools, the list goes on and on.

So yes, most of what you eat is getting you sick whether you realize it or not.

aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
Aside from B12, I would never take any supplement, fasting or not.

With regards to your scurvy comment: https://chestofbooks.com/health/natural-cure/The-Hygienic-Sy...

aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
Correct, no food or water.

In fact, there is also "soft" dry fast and "hard" dry fast. With the latter you also avoid any contact with water, such as washing hands, showers, etc.

I wouldn't recommend anyone should have a 8-10 day dry fast as their first fast, that's for sure.

But your body is capable of doing far more than you give it credit for. The concept of no one surviving 10 days without food or water is simply false. In fact, I have more energy on the 7th or 8th days of a dry fast than I did when I used to have a conventional diet.

aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
I've done many 30-day water fasts and up to 10 days of dry fasting periods.

I used to get routine blood work done every 7 days while water fasting, but I don't do it anymore.

The "healing crisis" typically begin around the 12-16 day marks, so just expect them and embrace the healing :)

aviv··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
Fasting is the best gift you can give to your body. It's a shame more people don't know or trust this. Good job mainstream for hiding the truth.

I water fast about 90 days out of the year (~25 consecutive days each time) and dry fast for about 30 (8 to 10 consecutive days each time).

People eat too much (and not even "bad" foods, just anything really) and more importantly - too often. Digesting food matter is a great way to get sick and maintain sickness.

aviv··on Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
"A place where people can leave notes to others that can also read them on a computer like mine."

No need to overthink this. Kid just wanted your attention.

aviv··on Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising
When someone finds a way to patent fasting, the "science" will magically appear.
aviv··on Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near
This is where you are wrong.

Anyone in the western world workforce has the opportunity or chances to change that. This is not a privilege. And certainly not luck.

I agree that for many, $200 a month is significant. That's why I'm saying - don't try to save $5, try to MAKE $5 (and much more).

There are so many ways to make money these days, you don't even need "proper" education, luck, access, none of that.

But you do need mindset and will. Most people choose to be complacent. Their mind doesn't see beyond the 9-5, beyond the concept of being a mere employee. They rather spend hours per day watching dumb Netflix content, Twitch crap, gaming, whatever it is that people do other than GROW. Just about anyone can spend a few days watching Youtube and teaching themselves the ins and outs of such things as Facebook ads, Shopify, Dropshipping, Social media management, and of course... Clickfunnels. Anyone can pick this up. You don't need to be a PhD or CS major. In fact, those are often times a hindrance. IF people only spent half the time they waste on Twitch with consuming actual knowledge - they would not care if a Starbucks cup was $5, or $50.

aviv··on Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
https://www.aculab.com/gateways-platforms-and-services/voice...
aviv··on Ask HN: What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech?
Is it going to make me or my business more money?
aviv··on Ask HN: What is your favorite tool to build web startup?
AWS, Python and Angular. Nothing else is needed. Go make your millions.
aviv··on Ask HN: Should we shut down our SAAS?
How can you think of calling quits without ever doing marketing?

Stop developing and start selling.

Also your price is too low.

Advertise on Facebook. Target business professionals.

aviv··on SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
Yep, pruning is essential. It's the HR equivalent of code refactoring.
aviv··on Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
That while they are grinding their professional life on Kernel development to barely make ends meet, others with Geocities-level HTML skills are making 10 times more money with Clickfunnels selling crap nobody needs.
aviv··on Tell HN: I Hugely Regret Using Stripe Atlas
Dear OP, if this level of minutiae upsets you, building a business may not be for you.
aviv··on Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo
My 6yo son thinks Alexa is an actual person... he might be on to something.
aviv··on CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
What is amazing here is not that a single network card caused this mess, but that most folks here actually believe this story.
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