profsummergig

Thanks, I've been doing it and have seen some encouraging results (weight-loss, less cravings, more tolerance for hunger).

> reduce your weight so that your BMI is between 22.5 and 25. This is the area of lowest mortality. There's no point to go lower

Thanks. I doubt I'll have to ever worry about going below 22.5 :-). I'm at 28 right now. Gonna be a huge fight to get to 25.

Why do people not like having their child be born on Xmas?

This has been very helpful to know, and I'm going to try out this intermittent fasting scheme.

Question: do you have any system or hack for keeping track of whether it's a < 4pm or > 4pm day? If you do, please share. I have a habit of mindless eating, and will likely not remember to avoid eating at my prescribed times.

The title phrasing makes it seem like a Myocardial Infarction is a good thing.

Do you believe it has helped to vary the eating window (one day before 4pm, the next day after)? What do you believe would happen if you kept it the same every day (e.g. eating only before 4pm)?

> a rapid increasing in global temperature (and CO2 concentrations) around between 60-50 million years ago

> a civilization like this would not leave a trace on the geological record

Am curious: if dinosaurs can be found with intact skin [1], after 110 million years, why not remains of the civilization's "people" (bones etc.) after 60-50 million years?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borealopelta

Ah yes, Dutch too!

Imagine explaining this to middle-America.

My 0.02 cents on this issue: it is terribly rude to speak Mandarin or Hindi, when in a mixed group setting at work, in the USA. Be happy you didn't become one of these rude people. Support structures... I get it. It does help to have a sort of extended-family sometimes. Here's what I've found helpful: get into an activity where such support structures organically form. And you can have the support structure without attendant ethno-centric drama and politics.

There are also downsides to being in these ethnocentric cliques. Know the crabs in a bucket effect, and the saying about how you can't become a prophet in your own town. There's a strong anchoring effect your own people have regarding you. When they see you rising up, they wonder why you're succeeding and they're not, and try to drag you down (instead of celebrating your rise). There's a strong hierarchy within these cliques, and you're not supposed to break-out of your "correct position" in the hierarchy.

Also, if it helps to know this: I have relatives who are thick in the middle of their Indian cliques. What do they do when they're not with their clique-members? Trash-talk about them.

Unsustainable. Things will probably change after enough Guyanese find out.

Oops, typos. Corrected. Thanks.

Indian here. I've never fit in any of the traditional Indian cliques. Such a blessing! At the end of the day, you're going to lose your individuality over the group or sub-group you're identifying with. And you're going to be pulled into their politics and drama. Read Naval's thoughts on the importance of solitude and dis-identification with any group, in order to be able to become the individual you are meant to be. And thank your stars that none of the traditional Indian cliques wants you.

For some reason the current leader of Guyana (who has a muslim name) hangs out a lot with India's Modi (who is an open islamophobe). A strange set of bedfellows.

Theory is that 1) Guyana needs to wage war with Venezuela over oil-rich disputed territory [1], and 2) Guyana wants to build a lot of infrastructure. Might be opportunities there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_terri...

Thanks for the link. I'm keeping it for future reference. My ideal weather is "slightly warm and slightly humid" all the time. Alas, I live in a place where we have 7 months of winter each year. One day....

Some things I was shocked to learn when I first learned these a couple decades ago (from a Guyanese girl I was seeing in the U.S.):

- Guayana and nearby places were British colonies.

- there's a vast Indian (i.e. descended from India) population in Guyana and nearby places brought over by the British as "indentured workers" (for some reason, Indians were never officially called "slaves" by the British) in sugarcane plantations. (Interesting to me because I'm from India).

- Guyana speaks English.

- Yes, there are countries in "Latin" America that speak English. There are also countries that mainly speak French.

- Guyanese are often considered "Hispanic" in the U.S. though they are "Anglo". In fact Guyanese and Belizeans are able to pick and choose what to indicate on forms regarding their ethnicity, as it suits them.

- My favorite Salsa dance teacher in the U.S. has the last name "Persaud" and looks "Latino". Took me about 15 years to realize he was of Indian stock (though might be mixed with Latino).

- if Guyana had lower crime, and a well-organized economy, I'd move there in a heartbeat. They speak English, have good weather, and have massive oil deposits.

The gallon milk jug we get in the USA, does that need to be pasteurized too? I'd assume they're already pasteurized.

Is it necessary to heat it to 80c, can one heat it to 50c only, instead? Also, do you use a thermometer to measure the temps?

Thanks.

Certain famous men in the past smoked pipe all day and lived very long lives. E.g. Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell. Do you have any theories on why smoking didn't harm them as much. Do you think back then there might not have been some interaction factor that's prevalent today, etc.?

I just remembered something:

Pregnant women have extremely high cholesterol (ridiculously high).

- There's a theory that if evolution designed pregnant women to have high cholesterol, then cholesterol cannot be the poison it's made out to be.

What are some no-brainer strategies to avoid the damage please? Thanks.

> It's possible to have a nutritionally complete diet of only plants

Vegans need B12 supplementation.

Anyone else have alternative takes on cholesterol based on personal experience?

Some alternative theories I've come across:

- There's a theory that cholesterol is good for you. It's necessary for brain functioning. Low levels of "bad" cholesterol have been linked to depression.

- There's a theory that the high levels of cholesterol in blood clots found around ripped arteries may be due to the body trying to heal a rupture with cholesterol.

- There's a theory that seed oils and table sugar, which have only been mass consumed for the last 100 years or so, are what cause heart disease.

Personally, I have a very high level of both good and bad cholesterol. They shot up after I started eating a lot of non-veg food. And after they shot up, I stopped having depressive episodes.

Fantastic points. As I got deeper into the project, I started to realize the futility of it. And have been leaning towards finding "doppelganger" places, sister-cities (regions). The way you framed it ("A has weather similar to B, but gets colder in winter"), has clarified the project for me.

Good point. I'm guessing these 2 must be measured by the weather stations. I'll check the variables available.

Update: dew point and wind chill are collected by the weather stations. So yes, I will now aim to incorporate them.

You lucky person, you've seen a lot of cool places. You're right about hours / minutes of sun. I'll check if the weather stations collect that data.

Good points.

> The way we found one variant of wheat in Mexico that was resistant to bacteria, and replicate that to the whole world

Great analogy.

Borlaug's famous Mexican dwarves.

When I first encountered the Mahalanobis distance, I thought it sounded strangely Indian. Turned out it was!

In the Ramanujan story, a true MVP is G.H. Hardy. He read letters from some random unknown guy (a savage "native" no less!) half the world away, and took them seriously. And then organized resources to have that guy travel to England. A true MVP. All the others Ramanujan wrote to ignored him (understandably so). Such a tragedy that he died so young.

Is this a significant improvement from having a "live preview" on a browser?

> “The DNA indicates that Christopher Columbus’s origin lay in the western Mediterranean,” said the researcher. “If there weren’t Jews in Genoa in the 15th century, the likelihood that he was from there is minimal. Neither was there a big Jewish presence in the rest of the Italian peninsula, which makes things very tenuous.”

Does anyone else think that this is a poorly argued piece?

Being Jewish, and having some Jewish DNA: are they the same thing? Is it not possible that many many people in Genoa could have had Jewish ancestors? After all, most of Jesus's disciples were Jewish (please correct me if I'm wrong).