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I agree, a stark difference between AI and me is knowing when to say, "no", and/or to dig deeper for the unspoken story/need/value.

you might enjoy reading, "Manufacturing Consent"

Nice theory, but it is overfitted to a broad category of all software and a product that is thriving shouldn't be conflated with a product that is improving. Some products with sof…

Celebrating maximum exploitation of workers by those with all the leverage & power and calling the decent consideration of another man's well-being silly, that's, well, I'll just s…

When I read this I just assumed it was a checklist for people that know these things - a good reminder. But now that I think about it, it probably was also meant to get people to l…

+1, and anecdotally I've seen most good developers are bad teachers and that I have always gotten much more from my peers just one or two levels ahead of me (regardless of my peer'…

In this series functional concepts are very gently introduced. I feel like it really appreciates the beginners starting point and assumes very little. Is this close to what you wan…

I don't think there is one smoking gun for a chemical in food. To me, I see a clear pattern. Reducing nutrition to consuming more of a specific chemical/molecule or consuming less …

I agree with many of the critical points they make in this Japanese review. There should be higher standards for nutritional research. The main idea seems to be that in Japan becau…

I read it a few years ago. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.

And I think, I've seen a lot of studies that compare eating "normal" amounts of cholesterol to eating more than normal. But "normal" cholesterol levels in your blood still leave yo…

Heart disease is America's biggest killer. There is a lot of data that eating cholesterol effects disease rates including heart disease, cancer, etc. If you study disease rates for…

The user story is a promise to have a conversation. I think that is usually well understood. From there I think you can fall into two camps: that conversation should result in a Ji…

It is, agreed. For tomatoes, buy fresh ones as you need them.

I'm sure you've worked plenty of time thinking about this already so I feel dumb trying to supplement that at all, but I'd assume you're probably repressing some level of emotion j…

I agree that people think you need meat alternatives because they lack the knowledge of how to make a plant based meal. I agree with GP that most people don't care what a meatless …

When you say you want to completely understand the problem before starting, your personality sounds like an enneagram type 5, check it out to see if that describes you. If so, that…

Laravel is moving away from magic methods to using facades, FWIW.

It is a bit of catch-22 IMHO, for some. If you're very experienced it is just as easy to roll your own (although others may not onboard as quickly compared to well known libraries)…

The common sentiment that marriage takes hard work on the daily or else it turns sour, ideas like that point to a fundamental difficulty with the human heart, no?

For me, his writing helped me understand human nature better such that I see people less as slowly clawing their way up a mountain towards being a better person and instead to view…

What about cultures that didn't have centralized government like native Americans?

nutritionfacts.org was created for this reason, to consolidate the evidence from nutritional studies so that you don't have to. spoiler alert - the comprehensive review lead them t…

Just my two cents; I'm a father of 4 and I'm okay with not capturing those moments on film. And I mean that in two senses. One, I'm fine using my very imperfect memory to recall sp…

100% correct. It is a lifestyle disease and the reason your doctor won't tell you is because the health industry is built around treatment, not prevention, and so your doctor was n…