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Agreed! People think it's so easy to determine what's true or not at scale. Do I want Facebook employees or (algorithms written by them) making that call? No way.

PG holds Sam in very high regard: "Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve …

With regards to fat shaming and "gluttonous sloths", Stephan did say: "I do not consider it a "moral failure" to eat unhealthy food that is under your nose, socially accepted and i…

I never thought of food reward as typical fat shaming, but I suppose some of the "food reward friday" posts come across that way. I'm reading through some posts and comments by "it…

Anyone who reads Taubes should also consider Stephan Guyenet's critique of his arguments: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h... http://wholehealthsource.b…

Hi there, I'm an engineer at DeepDyve. I'm wondering how long your rental was for - was it a 30 day rental? And was 30 days too short to cite the article later? I'll talk to some p…

Cool, I'll take a look at Peter's posts - I like him in general. Btw, Stephan did respond to Taubes' 6-part series: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/11/brief-response...

Low-carb diets work for plenty of people (including me), but this is a must-read refutation of Taubes' carbohydrate hypothesis: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carboh…

I don't think he implied that. And I agree with his sentiment - for those of us who haven't made up our minds on Groupon, it's nice to see a view from the other side.

It's a big difference to risk starting a company vs climbing Mt Everest. That's actually a big mental block people have - they are afraid of risk, but starting a company or asking …

Seems like you missed the "/sarcasm" comment, unless I'm being leveled?

There is an argument to be made that modern fruits have been bred to be sweeter, which is worth examining. Also, it is well known in the "paleo" community that fruit should be avoi…

Paul, do you see any role software could play in trying to resolve the dietary advice problem? There are lots of communities out there of diabetics and obese people improving their…

Look for dextrose or corn sugar. Here's one link: http://www.nowfoods.com/Products/ProductsbyCategory/M004079.... . Personally, I just do my best to avoid anything that tastes swee…

One of the important benefits of YC is that meeting every week with a group of like-minded founders forces you do some kind of work on your startup. Even if you are demoralized, yo…

Keep in mind that YC didn't exist when Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple were started. It's quite possible that the next wave of those companies will be part of YC or are already part…

I haven't been able to find the answer to this: why are Ev and Biz AWOL? What are they doing now?

hey guys, this is a short post in a series about a great book on diabetes care: http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achiev... , the author's ideas haven't penetra…

It's so hard to think like this. I've read and watched this speech many times over the years, and I always thought it was awesome - but it never changed my behavior. I'm working on…

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