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thebeefytaco··on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
>Sure, at a super granular level, different foods affect you differently, trigger different biological responses, etc.. etc.. but if you zoom out, the details just don't matter. If you're under calories, the weight will come off.

Not true at all.

A gallon of gasoline has over 30,000 calories, yet you won't gain weight from drinking it,

thebeefytaco··on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
>Everyone's posting it because you are wrong. A calorie is a calorie. If I eat 500 calories surplus a day, i'll gain ~1 pound a week.

Bullshit. A calorie is an incredibly crude metric of energy when it comes to human metabolisms. Our stomachs are not furnaces.

Try eating 500 calories surplus of gasoline or wood.

thebeefytaco··on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
Your body is in a 'fed' state long after eating.
thebeefytaco··on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
Insulin will cause your body to store more fat and is released when you intake carbohydrates.

Macro content does matter and not all calories are created equal.

Calories are actually an incredibly crude measurement of metabolism energy, as our stomachs are not furnaces. Gasoline and wood have tons of calories, but no usable energy for humans.

thebeefytaco··on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
You're still not explaining what specifically is unhealthy in a burger.

The only thing I can think of is the bun which can be replaced with a lettuce wrap or salad bed.

thebeefytaco··on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
>Intermittent fasting seems like it'd wreck your body if you do moderate to intense exercise. So I just fasted, and now I want to do intense cardio.... but I might run out of glycogen or blood sugar.

Have you actually tried working out in a fasted state? I find that I get better performance.

Glycogen isn't depleted as quickly as you think, and blood sugar levels are actually more stable in a state of ketosis when your body is manufacturing its own glucose.

>You don't need intermittent fasting to be healthy.

Semantics, but I would say you do if 'intermittent fasting' just means periods of respite between meals so you're not constantly in a 'fed' state. It's only relatively recent in human history that we are even able to be constantly eating.

>Keep your fat, protein, and simple carb levels within reasonable limits for your age, height and sex.

You say this, but experts have all sorts of contradictory recommendations for what are 'reasonable' macro limits.

thebeefytaco··on Show HN: Snipper – Lets you collaborate on the same code in real time
Came here to say this. Snipper does seem a little faster to set up at least, and might be useful for one-off scenarios.
thebeefytaco··on Board: only remote developer jobs
+1

The social media links do work, however medium is labeled as twitter.

thebeefytaco··on I'm being threatened by Magic Leap's lawyer. How should I handle this?
>Sure. But are they really going to drag me into court?

Only if you don't comply.

thebeefytaco··on Ask HN: How do you use Amazon Echo?
I have an Echo as well as an Echo dot.

I use it mainly for managing smarthome devices, which is great. I control all the lights with it (Phillips Hue), as well as my AC/heating (Sensibo), remote controls (Harmony), outlets, and just about anything on IFTTT too.

It also manages my timers & alarms (which are also linked to my lighting system), music (great speakers on this thing), to-do list, and is useful for other random tasks you might google, e.g. kitchen measurement conversions.

It's really useful to me as is, but will get a lot better once custom skills are allowed to run in the background. It can also be kind of frustrating when Alexa doesn't hear you properly or do what you want, but yelling "ALEXA, SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and having it work, is quite satisfying.

thebeefytaco··on Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
It's messed up, but my guess is simply that they're trying to limit prisoner communication with the outside world and they don't want the general public to see how they're run.
thebeefytaco··on Microsoft Band SDK Release and Band Studio Introduction
It's a lot more accurate when you set it to track an exercise. I believe it decreases polling frequency normally to save battery.

I have some weird heart issues and it can have trouble with that as well. If it's not set to track an exercise, it's frequently reading 10-15 bpm lower than my actual heart rate.

thebeefytaco··on My Gmail account got hacked. Google won't help. I need your advice.
Click the Details link next to the Last account activity line at the bottom of any Gmail page.

That will give you a list of IPs signing into your account.

I get a lot of those failed delivery messages though because I have my own domain via google apps. Someone scrapped my mail domain and fakes it in the headers, but I get the actual replies because I have it set so all addresses on the domain go to me.

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