The research on optimal protein for athletes is pretty well established. I weigh all of my food and track every macro. If I ate the recommended amount of protein from plant sources, I would be grossly overweight from the additional carb and fat calories. I try plants based every year or so. It just doesn't work for my body. Not to mention the dramatic IBS-like symptoms I get even after forcing it for weeks on end to "adapt" to plant only. I switch back to my old diet and all my issues disappear in about 72 hours. After 15 attempts, I will probably try again, but it's not looking good. Maybe someday when I stop all athletic endeavors it will work out for me
I can eat maybe one serving every few days regardless of the source. I can eat a lot of various fruits without issue(high fiber too). tofu is mostly ok. I have tried about once a year for 15-20 years.
I can eat a block of cheese a day and feel great. same with extremely lean chicken. When I try plants only without the problem foods, my energy and recover drops. I get depressed and I have huge protein cravings. If I try to squash that hunger with fats or carbs, I get fat. Just never been able to find a sustainable solution for my body
if you can digest it, maybe. Thrive is somewhat open to debate. Some can handle it naturally. There is a huge amount of survivor bias in self reported vegans. They never get interviews with everyone who tried it and dropped it to uncover why.
how does this work in practice? is there any buffer in place to deal with the "excitability" of the mob? how does a digital audit trail prevent tampering?
That is exactly the thing. It never just works. There are new bugs plaguing our company on a daily basis. And they change daily. Can't share screen today. can't unmute. unread messages will never become read. Can't call anyone. Meeting invites only updated for one attendee. meeting alerts don't pop up. trying to open basic windows takes upwards of a full minute(workflows panel for example). these are just some of the things from the last couple weeks. The problem is that it's never a consistent experience. It becomes a time sink of eternal FOMO because it cannot be trusted.
None of that mentions the terrible UX(why do emojis take 10s to load?). When your company is remote first, it's a complete disaster.
The point is that the isn't some mysterious force we cannot comprehend. If the odds are stacked against us, change the odds instead of medicating everyone.
At the same time, we are all still individuals. We agency to make life decisions. I generally don't subscribe to the notion that people are helpless even in the face of a big scary corporation. There are two competing ideas. Either 1 there is some unknown force creating this problem(but doesn't extended to the entire human population for some reason) or 2 we know there are environmental causes. For #2, why systemically stack a drug on top if we know what the boogy man is? #1 we need to seriously buckle down on research on what the environmental/behavior factor is so we can bring everyone back to human baseline. Using drugs for people already in great suffering is one thing, but that is very different from widespread distribution as a preventative.
I don't understand the hostility. I am attempting to discuss the topic on a discussion site. My point is not too instruct any one person on what the exact correct solution is. However, I find the selective vision with this topic to be dishonest and ultimately damaging to the conversation(and progress by extension). One can still come to the conclusion that drugs tip the balance positivity enough to use them without sweeping other realities under the rug.
This is certainly true. Others will quote that exercise is not an effective mechanism to maintain healthy weight with 40 studies to back it. The goalposts seem to move a lot in this domain. Nevertheless, there is a ton of evidence of people in various behavior patterns that do not have such obesity issues in their society. It's wild to me how many people reach a conclusion of helplessness given that fact. The real kicker is that we aren't talking about one population being 5-10 lbs too heavy. We are taking about a difference between healthy weight and pervasive obesity. It's wild that such a delta is normalized
There is a reason for that perception. We are regularly finding out how there are damaging ripple effects from drugs that were claimed to be completely safe.
I would compare something like scale measurements to sex education. If kids were all exposed to some period of measurement of foods to learn what they were eating, it would stick. Studies show that ANY form of tracking causes people to make more mindful choices. Everyone I know personally that is taking these drugs uses it as a crutch entirely. They take it and make even worse food choices than before. It's very sad and I worry about the next issue they will cause with this behavior to then stack another medication on top.
I would say my concerns are far more in the range of downstream effects from the medication. Specifically, I am concerned with muscle retention. Concerns aside, it's a little hard of an argument to swallow having visited many other countries where these things are simply not an issue. How can it be argued that the cause is anything other than behavior when so many others are doing just fine? There is more to this story than painting people as evil.
Perhaps? Your link is what brought attention to "official lockdowns". We all kinds of know that policy reached far, far beyond what that Wikipedia page is calling a lockdown. Nobody made the claim that lockdowns in the context of schools directly align with the shorter full society lockdowns. Reduced time at parks was also due to "lockdown" policy, but it wasn't written directly by the president. A lot of company and school policy was reflective of government recommendation even if it wasn't law.
Lockdowns are not the same as school policy. Many schools were entirely remote or hybrid entering the 20-21 school year. Fully remote school was tapered over time, but a huge number of them remained hybrid through the end of school year.
I am very close to the same conclusion. Every time I travel, things return to normal. I always eat chicken at home and never when I travel. I tried eliminating everything else I could think of because chicken was such a reliable staple for me for so many years. My symptoms seem more mild. mostly GI and not much systemic presentation
I can sort of understand this sentiment. I question how much of that experience translates past 10 years or so. There is also the issue of windows simply being wildly unstable for me. I am also a long time windows user. Every 6 months or so my windows install destroys itself. I've never had this happen on my Mac & Linux has not failed me like this in over ten years. At this point, I only use windows to play games with old friends, and it still manages to self destruct with minimal software installed.
I can understand why those numbers are turning heads in isolation. However, the headlines are always something about how a $10k should be priced at $50. I struggle to see how those kinds of pricing gaps disappear even if that profit number drops to 0.
I'm not taking a particular stance on the JEP. I am not sure what is being cherry picked. The comment explicitly called out the customers for creating antihelpful noise. In my eyes, that tells me there is deep value misalignment between the involved parties, which is worth reflecting on.
I understand where you are coming from, but it is a very good signal for the team. The easiest way to get the desired feedback would probably be to adequately address to the current community concern.
I would have agreed with you until revently. And now, everyone is throwing email, chat, code, everything into cloud based AI tools at a highly regulated company. This happened 6 months after they just locked everything down for actual employees because of an IP leak. Very strange times…
understood. I am only extending that to say that virtually all software is built with the headspace of "some amount of maintenance" is to be expected. To overcome this, it needs to be delegated to someone. That someone will cost money. It's unclear to how this cycle will ever be broken unless the entire solution is somehow also controlled and produced with uniform open source hardware.
I used to think this. The Google, Apple, and Facebook options are the improved ergonomics solution. It just never pans out for these open solutions. I've been waiting decades for it things to get to that level, but it always ends up the same way - fiddling with servers.
the gap between cgm and a biopsy from a CT scan is vast. CGM is not enough to trigger any such intervention. Unnecessary interventions are absolutely a concern. A CGM is about as controversial as someone taking their own heart rate to help them calm down from panic attacks. Minimally invasive and nobody would base a dramatic intervention on this data alone.
I have bought plenty of healthy food from Dollar General. Rice, beans, canned tuna, nuts, seeds, frozen veggies, etc. It's all the same types of things I would recommend someone trying to eat healthier to get from a supermarket
I lived in an area that would be a borderline food desert. Families car pooled to places like sam's club and split the cost of one membership. Years later, I lived in a different area and with only a dollar general in early adulthood. I could never understand the desert. I bought rice and lentils until I could afford more. Dollar general has simple foods like nuts, seeds, etc. It is certainly a problem that people are eating processed junk food, but the desert argument has always been a tough sell for me.
The bad situations from the costs of duplication are often far worse. If those code paths had slightly different needs, they would diverge. It often feels like 90% of my career has been to take on massive undertakings to learn am entire system to ultimately pick these out after the fact & replace it with something reasonable.
I don't have data to support any absolute claims of what is better vs not. However, every project, team, company, industry that I have worked on has been filling my time with the above scenario. Not sure what universal truth could be pulled from that (if any)