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they shadowbanned me. dang is obviously a low-carb paleo-saved-my-life advocate. i just checked my posts and a lot of them are flagged. okay, i'll leave the community. thanks for l…

but solving problems is creativity, be it project euler or drawing stuff on screen.

Yep. There's nothing wrong with sugar. Nothing wrong with meat, or milk. Or fat. People's lifestyle is wrong where they mostly sit around and do not move much. They overeat, averag…

If you really find Robert Lustig scaremongering a scientific argument, then do you find the relative increase of meat consumption relevant and scary enough (Is Meat Killing Us? jao…

HN doesn't promote a good conversation on the subject of nutrition and diets. Just take the fact that angry users can downvote me to oblivion or flag my posts which are on topic. E…

About what? Debunking Robert Lustig's claims or diet advice? Because I do agree I do not find his diet advice relevant. But he definitely showed some lies and idiocy that Lustig di…

The research on young and successful isn't really showing any causation. Maybe being young and concentrating on a single thing makes you more obsessed about it? So you end up spend…

No it is not. Because it is filled with lies and scaremongering. HackerNews should promote culture of science and critical thinking and shouldn't be accepting of the fad diets like…

Why not just adapt Isso for this? It already has a bunch of nice functionality. I personally just delegate the commenting to github and render the comments with javascript through …

HackerNews is also susceptible to fad diets like paleo, keto and other crap. They are also susceptible to scaremongering pseudoscience that demonizes sugar and fat and whatever els…

I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes. Changed my diet to lots of veggies, fruits, beans and legumes. Symptoms disappeared. At first I was heavy on meat when I removed the carbs but it …

Nutritionist is probably a pseudoscientist, because there's no such a thing as a nutritionist anywhere near science. http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/the-truth-about-nutritioni...…

Bot can be made where one doesn't have to parse commands. The author of the article could have collected all the conversations and learned a bot that would correctly converse with …

high carb diet works too. there's no junk food. there's nothing junky in a hamburger. on the other hand, it is unhealthy if you eat hamburger every day or so. http://www.diabetes.o…

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of ocean dead zones, habitat destruction, extinction of species and deforestation. It all comes down to human greed, complacency and conveni…

We can bond with horses, pigs, cows, chickens, all sentient animals, some even outsmarting the dogs. We can't really start with dogs until we acknowledge the fact that sentience de…

It is a question of how they encode the image. Just like our eyes filter out most of the things and the brain reconstructs the picture, they might send compressed images that are e…

And yet again these stuff can be automated with contextual bandits or gaussian processes. Instead of bruteforcing one can just put yet another system to find the parameters for the…