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> Besides just gaining weight, the movie also claimed that Spurlock got major liver damage and started suffering from a range of mental health issues, all as a result of eating fast food. Notably, none of the people who replicated the experiment suffered from these problems.

> Years after the movie’s release Spurlock admitted to being a lifelong alcoholic, despite claiming otherwise in the documentary. Alcohol abuse can easily explain the liver damage, and alcohol withdrawal during the filming of the documentary also explains the sudden mental health problems he was experiencing.

Hmm, I'm not sure what to think with this new information.

I really enjoyed the documentary when I watched it as a kid. But I did remember thinking it was weird he puked so early in the film. I brushed it off as "everyone is different", and forgot about it.

how does Mistral monetize or plan to monetize? create a chat gpt-like service and charge? license to other businesses?

he is on a pedestal because everyone who’s worked with him said he’s amazing and effective.

But it is your right to assume what he works on from reading his tweets and leap from that to how this is an American cultural thing tho.

for another POV on Uruguay, here's Doomberg's recent article on Uruguay: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia

perhaps also related to the “Sea Peoples” during the bronze age collapse ~3,0000 years ago?

Could see how the people of the Aegean could produce myths like Atlantis when they themselves were invading Egypt and most likely became the Philistines of the Old Testament, aka Goliath’s people (local greek pottery discovered there, as well as descriptions of helmets etc lend credence to Philistines being the invading Greeks)

Do they? What classes?

Temporary and permanent immigration to Japan seems to be increasing in the last few years.

On the "influencer" side, you also are seeing more and more people talk about how cheap houses in beautiful parts of Japan are, how easy / difficult it is to buy and live in one of them, etc. Come to think of it, are these covert advertisements by the Japanese government to get more foreign immigration and capital?

> Short answer - no.

A tangent: if an article's title is a question, the answer, vast majority of time, is either "no", or not a clear answer at all. I'm sure articles that answer the title with "yes" exist, but I cannot even remember one.

> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Ah yes, I remember how Tony Soprano would always threaten small business owners with endless stream of ads if they did not pay protection fees

someone needs to tell China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe

> China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe were the only countries that both added new coal plants and announced new projects. China accounted for 92% of all new coal project announcements.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/coal-burning-capacity-cli...

What percentage of crops will fail in 20 years?

Is there an fertility rates published by income/wealth levels? Does the U-shaped fertility graph show up in SK? As in, poorest people have more kids, middle class have fewest kids, and richest have more kids.

Harvard's admits that have legacy status also have better SAT/Grades I believe

> And a Harvard spokesperson told me that admitted legacies tend to have higher median test scores and grades than the rest of admitted students.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/legacy...

Class of 2025 student profile:

> Legacy students also had a higher average SAT score than non-legacy students, at 1523 for legacy students and 1491 for non-legacy students.

https://features.thecrimson.com/2021/freshman-survey/academi...

oh true. I didnt think about the non-occupied times when they run

they are only allowed to run from 9pm to 5/6am though. Rode a few and they seemed perfectly safe.

went on a short hike around Mammoth Lakes in California with a retired US Forest Service guy, and he told us a story about how they manually surveyed an area that had been fire suppressed for many years. They counted the number of trees per acre, and compared that to the number of trees per acre to an area near Mammoth (Bishop maybe) that hadn't been fire suppressed.

I don't remember the specifics anymore, but basically there were far fewer trees per acre in the area that did not have fire suppression, but the trees were far healthier / bigger as they did not have to compete for resources. While the trees in the fire suppressed area were smaller and made for a less healthy ecosystem.

true for some commodities but not for others.

For example, nat gas prices in the US are usually cheaper than the price in Europe. For the last year, due to recent events, the price differential has been a lot bigger too.

on top of that, there are contracts. So Japan might pay a different price to Europe, but that might be because they bought a contract 12 months ago for today's price

Same in China (Shanghai). Same 30 to 35 students in the same class would do 1st to 6th grade. Then you'd usually go to a different school for 7th to 9th grades, then take a test to get into a high school for 10th to 12th grades. All three would have the same class you'd stick with, usually with way more intra-class interaction than inter-class interaction.

Sports was usually one thing that was more inter-class, but that was it.

Yes this post is about developing accounting or other kinds of software that tracks money (from the subtitle: "... we walk through basic accounting principles for anyone building products that move and track money").

One can treat it as a primer on double-entry accounting as well.

Really? I feel like these two in written form are pretty different, and I don't have any real knowledge of South Asian languages.

Personally I feel Thai and Lao are harder to tell apart (I've resorted to: Lao is more curvy, Thai uses more straight lines), and also how to tell apart Czech from Slovakian, or Danish from other Nordic languages. Of course there are other ways to tell where you are, and if you only rely on written language you will not become a great player.

I'd watch GeoRainbolt[1] and all the pros that play in his tournaments.

1: https://georainbolt.com/

a multipolar world means more instability and wars, though. When you say it will "insure competition", that means conflict for sure.

the number of comments "back then" compared to now is a testament to how large HN and the tech ecosystem in general has grown.

Still had a good chuckle at someone commenting "This is one of those threads that just never dies" on a post with fewer than 40 comments, though.[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330357

Highly doubt 5k IUs is the issue. Some select quotes from "Vitamin D Is Not as Toxic as Was Once Thought: A Historical and an Up-to-Date Perspective" by Michael Holick in Mayo Clinic Proceedings [0]:

> Ekwaru et al recently reported on more than 17,000 healthy adult volunteers participating in a preventative health program and taking varying doses of vitamin D up to 20,000 IU/d. These patients did not demonstrate any toxicity, and the blood level of 25(OH)D in those taking even 20,000 IU/d was less than 100 ng/mL.

> The evidence is clear that vitamin D toxicity is one of the rarest medical conditions and is typically due to intentional or inadvertent intake of extremely high doses of vitamin D (usually in the range of >50,000-100,000 IU/d for months to years).

[0]: Holick, https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)...

[1]: Ekwaru et al, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25372709/

> But if he points his mook armies at that same employee and subjects them to the same abuse, it's all good. Just freedom of speech.

What does "points his mock armies at the same employee" mean here? Any examples?

You see "nether-" in other words too, like "netherworld" or "nether regions", which both mean low/lowest parts of a place.

the (late)-2020 to 2021 euphoria environment is partially to blame too.

Going to be interesting to see how the other companies that raised big A and B rounds in the past one to two years fare.

The "procrastination for too long" into hyper work, erm, "workflow", is too real.

Sometimes if I can get started on _something_, I can kick start the working. But if I don't, this is the fallback

Why two apps, Plainorg & Flathabits? If I wanted to use one, which one should I use?

My non-White friends (not Black) have said US is better than France etc in that regard. This seems like a real phenomenon and worry for people

Other than this being an anecdote and doesn't mean everyone who drinks heavily will leave to their 90s, the quality of those 90 years matters too!

Though he became Prime Minister for the last time at the young age of 76 in 1951, he was plagued by health problems. He suffered many minor strokes and at least one that left him partially paralyzed for some time. He only stayed on as PM as long as he did because his successor was sick as well (Anthony Eden).

Don't know about you, but I would rather live a healthy 70 years than live 90 years but where the last 20 years are plagued with illness and thus lower quality. In that light, I try to minimize the bad habits that may result in poorer health and thus lower quality life in my later years. Not saying I'm a saint, but I don't need to drink every day or even every week. Currently I'm mostly dry. Saves a lot of money too!