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This article is written by a crusader for meat with a clear agenda of being vehemently pro-meat.

She supports the keto-diet, which has no real basis in history or science, the person she cites actively disagrees with her dietary suggestions. She cites inflammation and healing as side effects, but doesn't describe what gets inflamed, where it gets inflamed, or how.

She also makes a claim that vegans and vegetarianism will lead to mental disorder because of this lower DHA claim. Well where's the data that vegans/vegetarians have higher instances of this? Should be easy to produce right?

She even makes the claim that vegetables have no science to prove that they are healthy.

How did this even get onto HN, it's obviously garbage?

Sources:

http://www.2ketodudes.com/show.aspx?episode=156

https://www.judytsafrirmd.com/myth-buster/

https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/

The smells in some places are specifically manufactured. I'm sure the BK will still smell like a BK as this will be a minority of eaters.

Fats and oils have cholesterol. It's generally healthier types and lower amounts than meat sources though. It's not always zero.

It's already most likely cheaper when you take into account false pricing signals due to the fact that the US meat industry is heavily subsidized through taxation. Add to that lower healthcare costs due to less heart disease and realistically it should be pretty cheap comparatively.

I've had this burger and I prefer the Beyond Burger, but the meat eaters that had it said it tasted just like a run of the mill fast food burger, so I'm hoping that it takes off with the health and environmentally conscious. If anyone can really make this work I'm thinking Burger King or McDonalds could, they are both excellent logistically and process wise.

This is exciting news in the food world and opens up a lot of choices for people looking for less heavy food choices.

Yes different cancers respond differently, obviously there isn't a silver bullet, but what's being suggested is dangerous and possibly life threatening and doesn't take into account that a lot of people already limit their chemo because of cost reasons and then die early. There's a whole reason trials exist and that's to determine effective doses and overall survivability. If there was a benefit seen in trials of lower doses they would already use those doses. This is junk science at best that completely ignores a massive body of research that already exists.

So we might get there, but realistically the methodology is really flawed. Cancer is, for all cancers, a failure of our own immune system to recognize cells that have gained a genetic defect that doesn't cause proper cell apoptosis. This isn't a foreign invader, this is our own cells with a flaw. While it's cute to think about just living with it, if you're not completely preventing the growth in some cancers you're not really doing much.

We can cure most cancers nowadays through surgery, radiation, and chemo...if we catch them early enough and they don't spread. If you're talking about coexisting with cancer, you're already past the point of worrying about it spreading. It's already metastasized. Coexistence only makes sense if it's something you could live with. If you want to see how well this works out ask Steve Jobs how co-existing with his cancer worked out, because this essentially amounts to letting the cancer spread further and more aggressively which will damage even more organs. The hardier cells will already exist, your body will just have to fight off more cancer cells.

The only, and I mean only, way to live long term with cancer is to allow the immune system to fight off the cancer and keep it at bay by removing the inhibitors that prevent recognition and reaction. I hope the day that cancer becomes chronic is today, but realistically I'm probably not going to live to see the day that it does. This article is just another drop in the bucket of false cures and pseudo-scientific nonsense that exist for cancer that aims to provide hope and to take advantage of already desperate people, who often don't have the financial means to cover the costs of chemo, infusion pumps, CT Scans, PET Scans, ports, rides, medications, etc.

Unfortunately this was Google DNS itself munging DNS requests on a few of their servers. Not much we could do about it.

We've had issues with Google and we're a peered network backbone. Literally took knowing someone to get them to fix DOSing our customer with one of their servers not liking our DNS entries. Never found out what happened either.

You can claim educational loans on your tax returns, but only the interest.

In many states you lose your right to vote, you lose your right to firearms, you lose your right to privacy since you're now a known felon, you have almost no chance of getting a white collar job or a high paying job unless you were already connected before the felony and very wealthy. Poor people who get felonies often get tougher sentences because they can't afford the lawyers of the wealthy. Pretty sure for most people a felony severely limits any chances of a life that isn't just scraping by or in the best case middle class.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130647...

What's interesting is that nearly all current research shows that combinations of drugs is the most effective solution for eliminating cancers. So it would be nearly the opposite effect. If you let it grow slow you're potentially causing organ damage, letting it spread further which makes it harder to kill, and prolonging side effects of chemo which can be super severe for many people.

The addendum is the Mexican fisherman doesn't have money in the bank if his boat gets destroyed in a freak storm, nor does he have enough to cover the insurance. He's also not taking care of his family or prepared if some oil company drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has a spill that completely destroys his livelihood. In fact the fleet of boats could effectively gain enough money to lobby the local government to set limits on fishing by private boats, setting the per boat fees more than the single fisherman could afford. None of what I've said has no legitimately happened to fishermen. I know it's analogy but the analogy fails on so many levels because it doesn't include preparing for external risks or things you can't control.

So I've been at places that literally wouldn't give me a title increase with no monetary benefit. I'd saved them boatloads of money and doing far more than my job description. Upper management had a bonus structure based on cutting costs. Not actually performing the job, just how much they could cut.

I left that place and immediately made nearly 20k more per year, then next job another 25k, then another 20k and I'm now in a job where I get to set my own hours, work from home and get paid stupid amounts of money getting raises and bonuses I haven't even asked for. To this day I have no idea how I've gotten so damned lucky.

Some general things that have helped me, and believe me I started from self taught tech skills, poor people skills, and massive introversion, so chances are you're smarter than I am and able to do just the same if you're willing to put in the work.

1. Luck - not much you can do to get lucky, but you can stack the deck in your favor by making sure you're ready when your opportunity does come.

2. Know what you're looking for in advance. That means the salary, type of work environment, and position you're working for. If you're comfortable where you are position wise figure out how you're going to improve your skill set through either diversification or specialization. Diversification makes you more useful at startups, specialization at mid to mature companies. Being comfortable means you're not growing which means you're losing value from an employee standpoint because you're probably forgetting something every day.

3. Know how much you're looking for. Don't value yourself low. one way I heard which seemed to help was to start saying amounts in a mirror. When you got to a point where you thought it was silly ask for slightly higher. Worst they can say is no and you've lost nothing.

4. Be willing to walk when opportunity comes. Nothing says you're serious like walking away. Let's be honest if you're unhappy enough that you're looking externally, it's probably a sign you're ready to go anyways.

5. Be able to sell yourself. Know your past achievements and be able to show how your past achievements will be able to help the company make more money. Know what the company desires to do, who their current customers are, and what they're excited about. Nothing impresses a new company more than a prospective employee who has done their homework. I've literally had people come into interviews being told they would be asked about the company and been unprepared, they didn't get the job. For your current company, show them how you want to grow into a role that can give them more for the money. Being excited about your company and what they do is genuinely hard to find. Some jobs make it nearly impossible to do so, especially mature or more often dying companies.

6. People skills, people skills, people skills. If you suck at talking to people, get better. Toastmasters is good for speeches, church meetings for general conversations, friends groups, networking events, etc. If you're looking for step by step instructions look into the classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. It's old but it's a classic. Vanessa Van Edwards is younger but also provides really great information on learning to read people's body language, something which doesn't come naturally to me. Even if you're not in sales or management read books aimed at them. Chet Holmes is solid for sales information, James Collins for management. Knowing how your salespeople bring in clients and how your management thinks means you can often be the person who is solving their problems before they come up. Good salespeople and managers take care of people who make their lives easier, but they also lean on them more. Just never make the mistake of thinking that because they like you, compliment you, or take care of you that you're their friend. Unless a relationship exists outside of work it's a work relationship. Good salespeople and managers can make you feel great even when they are screwing you over.

7. Start doing good things for other people before they do them for you. If you know someone in your network is out of work and you're not looking but a recruiter sends you a job that you know they might fit, send it along. If someone left a job for different pastures, leave them a genuine recommendation or send them a personal message letting them know how much you appreciated them. People too often don't let others know how much they appreciate good people, and no one hates being genuinely appreciated.

I think I've blabbered on for long enough, but these are just a few of the guidelines I've worked through to get to have an amazing job. Hope you find yours. :)

As a counterpoint you're unlikely to be doxxed, lose your job, or any of the other social "features" using RSS. While one could simply say nothing and hope to avoid this, it's still up to the Twitter algorithms to display relevant content, which could change at any moment. Effectively it's about control, with Twitter you're hoping for benevolence as you're the product, with RSS you're the customer.

TheOldReader is a really nice RSS reader built after the demise of Google Reader. They've been consistently solid.

https://theoldreader.com

Well so does mine since it was an important feature to me. This conversation is about Apple products though, and they decided to make a convoluted reason to try and prop up their Airpods and Beats headphones to be "courageous". Samsung almost has the problem solved by wireless charging of devices from the phone, however I'm not sure about the long term ramifications of sending electrical signals directly at devices plugged into your ears. Apple Airpods remind me of that scene about hair gel from "Something About Mary" and are basically meant to be thrown away after a few years of use. Meanwhile I've had the same headphones with different earbuds for literally over 5 years. When there are two USB C chargers I might consider dropping the headphone jack.

That's why we have to bend them so often in real life with tricks. In media they can just make something up, we've got to find real solutions. I'm sure that one exists but it's either too expensive currently or not consistent enough yet. Yet being the key word there. I'm sure this will be an elegantly solved issue at some point, just might require some more smarts on the hardware side.

Pretty straightforward for me, there's no evidence that they don't feel pain and it's a pretty hotly debated topic. There likely won't be a way to tell if they do feel pain or if it's just stimuli response.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130208-seaf...

A secondary reason is that it's really easy to confuse people who do choose to eat meat about specific dietary concerns, especially when traveling globally. The Japanese for instance put fish into nearly everything and genuinely have a hard time understanding the difference between a vegetarian/vegan/etc there's also been some confusion between daishi and fish. Add to that the number of people who claim to be vegan/vegetarian but don't adhere to it at all and it can make a lot of people see it as a fad diet versus a diet adhered to rather strictly in other people. Another issue is religions that say fish is not meat. This isn't even getting into products people don't realize comes from meat. By just saying I don't eat anything that can feel pain it makes it significantly less likely someone will accidentally feed me meat. My wife on the other hand eats fish/shellfish. Our daughter chooses her own diet and has so far chosen to be vegetarian after deciding she no longer wanted to eat fish. To each their own, everyone has to be comfortable with their own choices.

It seems really perverse incentive wise that layoffs always seem to bump stock prices. Companies are going to need to transition at times and have cut backs and pivots but it doesn't seem like it should be a market signal that the company is doing something worth investing in so consistently. Many times what these cuts do, in many companies, is just offload the tech overhead to another department, or lower quality and quantity of work being done by another department. When I was in IT they wouldn't replace workers who had left. This caused IT hold times to go from less than a minute for an answer to over an hour. We estimated that it ended up costing the company over a million dollars in man hours over some non-trivial period because of wasted time on users who were no longer able to perform their duties. They outsourced the call center after I left. I heard it's only gotten worse as the call center frequently hangs up if the call is too hard or is taking too long since they are tracked on call times and numbers. Perverse incentives.

This basically just came across as a GNU/linux hit piece. In my admittedly really limited knowledge wouldn't multiple vectors into the kernel introduce more surface area for attackers? The other problem with this is when is Google going to get bored with it and move on to something else? If they are willing to jettison Android they are willing to jettison anything. Also the line about GNU/linux only caring about servers seems to ignore the amazing amount of work that's gone into KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Mint, etc. all of which are desktop focused and in the past few years have really started to catch up feature wise. Yes obviously there are still issues, and realistically there always will be issues. Windows and MacOS/iOS have issues with thousands of paid programmers why wouldn't a distro built by hundred of part time workers with only a portion of them paid to work just on the OS?

Venezuela has a ban on personal gun ownership for many people, however many/most people still own guns because the murder rate is very high due to the insane poverty that's gripped the country. One of the leading candidates is talking about removing gun restrictions. The problem isn't that the populace doesn't have guns. Guns do not solve political issues. The US couldn't solve Vietnam's issues despite winning on the battlefield in most incursions. Guns don't solve any problems in nearly any case. Boots on the ground solves problems and lots of them. Basically there's no way individual people can fight against an armed military with modern weapons and transport.

I'd say it's actually very hard to find effective charities. Most charities don't evaluate the outcomes versus the cost of their work, regardless of their earnest desire to be helpful. While Charity Navigator and GiveWell can weed out some of the truly bad orgs, the orgs trying to do the right thing and being ineffective is probably a larger problem than anyone realizes. You want to make a huge impact on people's lives? Solve food transportation, early cancer diagnosis, or basic medical care. Those are easily the most impactful and least sexy parts of making lives better.

Well they laid off the entire team, so that's unlikely. These are typically product pivots, not financial downsizings when it's entire teams.

Google has purchased and killed off numerous profitable companies. They've killed off Hangouts, Allo, Gchat, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few wildly popular chat services only to replace them with inferior products. They've killed off Google Reader which someone built a clone of and appears to be making a profit. They killed off Google Fiber, Nexus, and Glass all solid hardware that many people are/were still using. The point is you can't trust Google to not just drop something at a moment's notice, even if it's older or profitable, try getting help from them as well good luck finding want kind of support unless you happen to know someone inside the company personally. As a business they are hard to work with and notoriously flaky, I'd always choose to go elsewhere now after years of being a Google advocate. They're even looking to replace Android so what can you trust from them?

Do coders get paid every time their code fires? No? Oh then musicians and artists can join the rest of society in not getting paid per usage of an item. Creatives just get greedier and greedier. No other industry gets paid the way that they do, not teaching, not labor, not babysitting, not management, not politics, none. If you want to get paid, perform or provide an object to purchase.

You make it all public domain. It's been over 20 years, well past the founding father's original intent for copyright. The perpetual copyright garbage that exists today is culturally toxic and isn't seen in any other field of work. Should builders get paid on buildings that keep standing? Highway workers on roads that they make? No? Then why the hell should creatives get special treatment? Look at the house of mouse and the crap they've pulled. The fact that you can't take something you've loved for over 20 years and make derivations on it is theft from the public in my eyes. People being born today most likely won't be alive by the time it goes into the public domain. Think about that.

A very large percentage Pepe memes are white supremacist propaganda or just blatantly racist. They took something that was decent and ruined it. I mean it's like claiming Charlie Daniels isn't conservative despite most of what he says being conservative and on conservative networks. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

Source:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pepe+meme&ia=images&iax=images

White supremacists don't typically claim to drive particular roads before going on a shooting spree that kills 50 people. They also don't advocate their ISP when doing ransomware. Pewdiepie has said some controversial statements, that whether intentional or not has attracted a fan base of white supremacists. Nothing he has said has been as controversial or impactful as it would be if a head of state said something similar, however for better or worse he has inspired them whether he wanted to or not.

Joining a church requires money as most Christian churches expect or in some cases mandate a tithe. Furthermore, why should you be forced to join a religious organization that may have beliefs you don't agree with to get basic survival assistance? While my particular church doesn't require any particular beliefs or even that you're a member to receive basic necessities from our pantry, most churches I've been to are judgemental and terrible places full of people who go there just to prove they are better than everyone else. You don't even have to look far to see it, most churches discriminate against people of different sexual orientations, different religions, different choices regarding birth control, what you can eat, etc. I'm pretty much against churches being seen as a "charity". The Red Cross is a charity, churches are mostly am untaxed business.

Uh..no..I'm not sure where you're getting your facts but no this is completely false. Most Americans have either Medicare/Medicaid, or various levels of employer sponsored healthcare, most of which are really poor or push large burdens on their employees. I have fully paid for healthcare through my employer and I STILL have a $5000 max out of pocket that I have to cover before insurance fully covers me. To put that in perspective that's an entire month's income in a country where most people live paycheck to paycheck.

Oh and the cherry on top of that is that in the US you can literally be fired for getting a prolonged medical illness, such as, oh say, cancer, which impacts nearly every single American. It's totally legal, which then takes your wonderful healthcare and removes it right when you need it most and can least afford to lose it. Another fun fact is that it's really hard for most people to work when getting prolonged medical care, which means, again you can't really pay for the bills you are getting.

If you think quality is great, then you're lucky. US hospitals can flat out refuse to treat you properly if you're "lucky" enough to go to a Christian based hospital, which will deny care unless life threatening, in some states this nears the majority of hospitals.

So no, most people who go bankrupt from medical bills in America HAVE health insurance. You're living in a fantasy bubble I suggest you step out of before you get a huge shock. I sincerely hope you never have to experience this first hand because it's absolutely hell for those who have to go through it.

Sources: Average US Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

Catholic Healthcare: https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2016/05/07/health-car...

Healthcare bankruptcies: https://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148 Rebuttal: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/643000-bankruptcies-in-the... https://www.studyfinds.org/two-thirds-of-all-american-bankru...

Edit: I don't mean to suggest US healthcare providers are poor, it's generally the best in the world if you live in the east coast, Texas, or west coast the south and midwest generally have poorer coverage with the exception of cities. We basically have the best healthcare that you can afford, the problem is that most people can't afford it.