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richcollins

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    Comment #33331576

    They couldn’t coerce enough people to install the app.

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    Comment #32158398

    In the people that use meat’s superior satiety to stay lean, you see lower inflammation, IGF-1, insulin … etc. On a purely meat diet with loads of protein, my IGF-1 was 90, a z-sco…

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    Comment #29391382

    He tricked me into working for a month without a contract and then wouldn’t answer my calls when I asked him to sign the terms we agreed upon. I had to show up and sit on their cou…

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    Comment #28241549

    There are hunter gatherers (hadza, ache, pygmies) that eat substantial amounts of honey without becoming overweight.

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    Comment #27580302

    On a high fat ketogenic diet, my thirst is satisfied on ~500ml of water a day. I drink much more when running on glucose, if it's really hot or I exercise intensely.

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    Comment #27570807

    Lose body fat. Stopping eating refined carbohydrates. Take the Kraft glucose insulin test to see if you have “diabetes in situ” https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/services/kraft-pre…

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    Comment #20411695

    You can get plenty of calories from raw animal fats. Cooking does help a lot with plants though. Also helps with infectious agents in meat and plants.

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    Comment #20281189

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920391/

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    Comment #19418105

    By analyzing plant remains in the cave, Humphrey's team found that residents ate lots of a particularly sweet type of acorn, which becomes soft and sticky when cooked. They also at…

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    Comment #14278691

    Cold is correlated with low sunlight, which leads to less vitamin D production: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/

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    Comment #13534095

    Building tools for fact-checking and helping people decipher fact from fiction will become increasingly important to keep the electorate informed Sadly the electorate doesn't care …

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    Comment #12592937

    We are being made to participate in this venture via taxes. That said, its incredibly exciting.

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    Comment #12252063

    A lot of formerly beneficial adaptations have become "diseases" in the modern world (sugar cravings for instance).

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    Comment #11650147

    So best choice is to probably to invest in S&P while learning to program on your own.

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    Comment #11516067

    A twin study to look for a potential common cause between poverty and poor food selection might yield interesting results.

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    Comment #11290738

    It was a lifesaver for those times when it was 6pm and you didn't have dinner ready for your kids.

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    Comment #10760065

    Author missed option 3: Do contract work at $250 an hour or equivalent compensation in shares at >= series B funded startups. Choose the level of risk you're willing to accept in c…

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    Comment #9864059

    Are you attempting to justify this? If I ran a "harmless" experiment over a population of 100M that happened to kill 10 or 20 "outliers" should I be exempt from consequences as wel…

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    Comment #9179066

    There is an iOS wallet that connects directly to the network that downloads the necessary info in seconds: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/breadwallet-bitcoin-wallet/i...

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    Comment #8815577

    Minor nit to give credit where it's due. 280 North had three founders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280_North,_Inc .

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    Comment #8178604

    If bitcoin was used as widely as the USD this would never have happened. It happened because of weak depth in the bitcoin markets (i.e. not that many people are trading it).

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    Comment #8118341

    The gateways will be targeted for regulation until they are no different than modern banks.

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    Comment #8065895

    How about this? each Licensee must obtain the superintendent’s prior written approval for any plan or proposal to introduce or offer a new product, service, or activity, or to make…

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    Comment #7984838

    Everyone is making decisions about spending their capital every day so decisions are quite distributed. I think you meant that it works better when capital is evenly distributed. I…

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    Comment #7983804

    Software developers make $100+ an hour. The jobs are there for people willing to adapt to them. You can't just wait to be handed a job that matches your current abilities.