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> Eg. High saturated fat intake causes about a 20% increase in heart disease mortality.) Not true. That was thoroughly disproved over the last 10 years of studies. (Sugar and indus…

False. Caffeine increases calories out, without increasing calories in. Macronutrient ratios, feeding schedules, and compounds such as caffeine affect metabolism, which determines …

> You could argue that git in large institutional projects converges to a monolithic repo so at that point it’s less efficient even than svn. Not true. Facebook and Google do not u…

The Commodore 64 boots up in ~2 seconds.

According to decimal numbers. 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc.

> + The foundation of computer science is Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Everything else is footnotes. The foundation of computer science would be the work done by the li…

I agree.

Yes. "No true Scotsman" believes such things. My point stands, that the accuracy of the models is debatable, and the extreme scenarios that are used to inform policy are quite poss…

Gum disease is linked to carbohydrates, which aligns with the "type 3 diabetes" hypothesis. (carbs feed bacterial overgrowth)

Straw man. It's not black and white. Some are skeptical of the _degree_ to which the claims are true. Go watch Al Gore's 2006 documentary to see a good example of alarmist hyperbol…