c1u · HackerTrans

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Only if your time is cheap as well.

If I can make $500 in the few hours a week it takes to tend my garden, then it's better to buy off a local farmer.

c1u

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Working back from a government nutritional RDA is not really the best way to shape a diet.

Instead:

1: Uncover your total daily energy expenditure: BMR*activity multiplier

2: Once you have your TDEE set your macro intake, and try to get them from mostly whole foods:

_2a: Set daily intake of protein to around 0.82g/lb of bodyweight. Higher if you're more active, can be lower if you're more sedentary.

_2b: Set daily fat intake to around 0.25-0.5g/lb bodyweight, prioritizing essential fats.

_2c: Fill remaining TDEE with carbohydrates.

_2d: Get adequate fibre: at least 0.15g/lb bodyweight per day, but stay below ~0.4g/lb so that it doesn't begin to negatively affect the absorption of nutrients.

3: Measure intake and body comp over time, adjust diet as required.

c1u

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Who spends 12 hours a week cleaning their house? Do you not have thumbs?

c1u

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I bet it's a broken pixel on a CMOS/CCD sensor or a reflective (like aluminum) roof of a building.

c1u

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A mobile device that's meant to be used ONLY in one VERY specific way that is in no way mobile friendly at all.

Masterbation. Fun but pretty useless.

c1u

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List out all the monosaccharides contained in a serving's disaccharides & polysaccharide content.

It's so frustrating to see something like this:

    Total Carbohydrates: 75g

         Dietary fibre: 2g
    
         Sugar: 23g

... ok so what is the remaining 50g of carbs?! It makes a big difference if it's 50g of fructose or 50g of glucose (starch or lactose). Plus, what is meant by "sugar"? Is that sucrose (50%/50% fructose/glucose), HFCS (55%/45% fructose/glucose), or some other disaccharide?

c1u

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>Alcohol gives you a buzz by destroying your brain cells.

That's totally incorrect.

Alcohol INCREASES levels of norepinephrine, the neurotransmitter responsible for arousal. Elevated norepinephrine also increase impulsivity.

Alcohol REDUCES activity in the prefrontal cortex and temporal cortex. This is where decision making, rational thought, memory formation, and aggression suppression is managed.

In large amounts it's much harder on your liver than your brain, but in moderation it's fine.

c1u

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All good critiques of freelancing today. "Freelancing" in 2043 will be very different.

Of course no one knows the future (maybe lifetime union jobs will be back in 30 years?) but I just feel this is the way the wind is blowing. But then again maybe it's just where I'm standing.

c1u

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> What I do is a marathon, not a sprint

The problem I see is that all the other top marathon runners around me are taking nootropics (adderal etc) to stay in the lead.

Not everyone is born Kenyan. :P

c1u

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Yep, partially due to technology but I also think in 30 years almost everyone will be a freelancer and "jobs" as we know them today will be very very rare.

c1u

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Not sure what you mean by "wealth per person", but pretty much everything is significantly better than it was in 1970.

The average North American is significantly wealthier today than they were in 1970. Compare an average car from 1970 and an average car today. Today's econo-boxes are Space Shuttles compared the caveman-cars of 1970 (Ford Pinto?). Both cost approx the same in inflation-adjusted work-hours.

Think about the TV that your average family was watching in 1970, and the average TV today. 60" 3D flat panel TVs for <$1000 in 2013 compared to ~$2200 (inflation adjusted) in 1970 for a 16" Motorola color TV.

c1u

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hard, hard, hard; not strong.

Gorilla glass is not as hard, but is much stronger.

c1u

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It's hard to show something that does not exist.

c1u

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Since diamonds are actually not valuable, one would require the help of the diamond-cartel to extract any value at all.

Don't think diamonds are worthless? Try selling one.

c1u

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Ah yes, but then those are fat calories, not "fibre" calories.

c1u

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There are only 4 macronutrients (foods metabolism can run on): carbs, fat, protein, & ethanol. So if you believe protein & fat are nutrients, then you must believe carbs are as well.

c1u

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It's just a term one of the nutrition experts I follow, Alan Aragon has used to describe people who blindly follow the paleo diet. Not that paleo is all bad, but there a lot of people who get it very wrong.

c1u

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Here's the explanation from an expert - http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.htm...

"Carbohydrates are rarely converted to fat (a process called de novo lipogenesis) under normal dietary conditions. There are exceptions when this occurs. One is with massive chronic overfeeding of carbs. I’m talking 700-900 grams of carbs per day for multiple days. Under those conditions, carbs max out glycogen stores, are in excess of total daily energy requirements and you see the conversion of carbohydrate to fat for storage. But this is not a normal dietary situation for most people."

c1u

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"calories without nutrients" does not makes sense at all.

A spoonful of sugar contains 100% nutrients.

That link is total nonsense. For example it claims pizza is empty calories, but bread, cheese, tomatoes, meat & veggies are not? It's ridiculous.

c1u

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"Sugar/carbs are not something readily available in human history..." This doesn't matter at all.

"...in the vast quantities we eat them today." THIS is what matters.

Net calories are king, regardless of diet macro composition.

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