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The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by ragazzina »

schiffern wrote: post #93
punnerud wrote: post #75

Article summary: “ Irving V. Link spent 42 years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool, where his meticulous daily routine of breakfast, sunbathing, and gin rummy became legendary. He was admired by hotel staff and Hollywood figures alike, symbolizing the timeless charm of a bygone era in Los Angeles. His life was deeply intertwined with the hotel’s evolution, reflecting the glamour of old Hollywood and the shifting dynami…

>Ultimately, his story is a poignant meditation on the inevitability of change and the enduring power of tradition. I wish, occasionally, AI would close with >Ultimately, his story is a trite and shallow distraction which fails to leave a lasting impression upon the reader. The article may indeed be a "poignant meditation" (I liked it personally). but when AI shoehorns the last sentence of every summary into this exa…

Your intuition is right. ChatGPT can suggest you a book that is not worth reading in its opinion (The Secret by Rhonda Byrne) but then its summary is basically positive.

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Post by cratermoon »

forgetfreeman wrote: post #242
cratermoon wrote: post #237

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There's a reason the phrase "money pit" is used to describe owning a house.

Typically by people that don't own their own home and never have. Most everyone else uses the term to describe renovation projects the owners lack the skills to complete (contractors are expensive) or boats. Seriously, how often do y'all think a house needs major repairs or renovation work in the course of 20 years?

It depends on how well the owner maintains the house. My dad spent some time nearly every weekend doing something around the house. He did nearly everything himself: painting interior and exterior, plumbing, appliance repair and installation, window frame adjustments. He even rolled out fiberglass installation in the attic, and in the process accidentally slipped off a joist and put his foot through the ceiling, but he fixed the drywall himself. About the only thing he didn't do himself was re-roof. I'm sure he saved a ton of money not paying contractors to do all that.

For someone who doesn't do upkeep, or can't afford competent contractors to do it, major repairs can happen any time, without warning.

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Post by pvg »

sureglymop wrote: post #90
dang wrote: post #73

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That's good! Do your friends know about / use HN? (Sorry for conscripting you as a guinea pig but it's hard to get this kind of info!)

Person born in 2000 here. My friends and colleagues at university generally don't know about HN. Have told a few people about it but the only person I really converted into also becoming a regular reader is my dad. It's good because now whenever we see each other we have a lot of topics and stuff to discuss that we both read about here.

HN is officially a dad site now.

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Post by tmerc »

xandrius wrote: post #189
vladms wrote: post #175

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I always find fun these "generalizations". Like: "Eggs are fine". If you are a 50kg person that eats 20 eggs for breakfast each day I doubt it would be fine. We would need something like LD50, or even better a range over a period (eggs are mostly fine if you eat between 2 and 5 per week)

What's interesting some of the reasons why 20 eggs are too much for someone weighing 50kg: - Too much Vitamin A - Too much protein (yes, there is such a thing) - 1450kcal from eggs alone (might be ok but other nutrients are needed) Even before touching the fats.

Assuming female, 5'5", age 35, somewhat active because it's more conservative; daily caloric intake is like 1700. Your egg macros are about 5.5g of protein and fat per egg for about 72 calories per egg. A large egg is 7g protein, 7 fat. 91 calories. My math is based on large eggs, 9 cal/g fat, 4cal/g carbs and protein. To get all of of their caloric intake from eggs would be around 18 eggs.

Vitamin A in eggs is 75iu, 23ug RAE. RDA is 700ug for this person. 30 eggs. The tolerable upper limit is 3000ug. 130 eggs.

Macros: 126g of both fat and protein. Carbs in eggs are negligible at maybe .5g each, totaling 9g or 36 cal. Harvard recommends .36g/lb for protein, which is about 40g. They also set the theoretical upper limit at 2g/kg ; .91g/lb, which is 102g. So this is 24g excessive (3.4 eggs). The quantity of too much protein is debatable, though in the absence of heavy weight lifting, this is at least excessive for most people. Harmful depends on context.

126g of fat is 1134cal. This is below what they need to maintain weight (calorie deficit) and the biggest problem with this diet so far. If this person are more than 150g of carbs per day, I would be concerned because with circulating glucose, body fat is not used readily to supply caloric need. The body may want to use protein as a calorie source, which is where the danger of eating too much protein comes from.

After being on this diet for several weeks, they will be in ketosis, which will actually make it much safer. Body fat is used more readily in ketosis to fill energy needs and could make up the 600 calorie per day deficit, totaling to a little over the safe 1lb per week recommendation for weight loss.

I would advise adding more fat and reducing protein a bit (80g should be plenty though potentially excessive still), not because this is dangerous but because it is excessive and the body will need to remove the excess protein as waste. This isn't really harmful in smaller quantities but does put more strain on the kidneys.

Maybe 12 eggs a day and another 50 of mostly fat to get 500 calories, 500 deficit. If trying to maintain weight, increase fat by another 50g. Mix carbs if you want under 300 calories (75g) with that amount removed from fat intake and preferably in one meal with protein.

Doesn't consider vitamins other than A.

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Post by kamaal »

jajko wrote: post #220
kamaal wrote: post #205

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>>You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up To up keep your home! You also pretty much up keep your rented home too. And at the end you spend to maintain other people's home. >>Is that really how you want to spend some part of your me-time? Most of the times its not that bad, you talk like you are on-call 24x7 throughout the year. >>You are also locking yourself down at very…

lol lets just say we disagree on practically everything :) to each their own Just one point - there is no way ownership of some home brings actual happiness , you overload the term massively. Not only some theory, I simply never met such a person so that this would be actually valid. I've lived in 3 different cultures and talk about 100s of folks knowing well personally. Although I've met quite a few folks that, by c…

>>Just one point - there is no way ownership of some home brings actual happiness, you overload the term massively.

There was this stock broking platform owner here in India who was going on Youtube for years and telling people to rent instead of buying.

Last year, his landlord showed him the door, and he had to vacate.

Even for the rich. Not being to able to continuously associate with a place. Not being able to modify the premises, not being able to keep the beautification they would have done to the premises or just being asked to leave without having any control over the place is grounds enough to own a place.

>>Although I've met quite a few folks that, by chasing the dream of some home in suburbs 'to have their own place' ruined their marriage often beyond repair, including happy childhood of their kids.

Their wife and kids will likely hate homelessness more. Some times you have to experience worse to value to these things.

Everytime food gets bland at home, I go fasting for a while. Suddenly the blandest salad tastes good.

You can talk to the sages modern or ancient. They will give you this one advice- Avoid the big problems, and things that can kill you. You can only go upwards from here.

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Post by rightbyte »

bowsamic wrote: post #182
rightbyte wrote: post #180

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I know people with kids that have divorced for the most stupid reasons. In many cases I feel the problem could have fundamentally been solved by being better at dividing household work such that someone can rest one or two days and then switch. For many divorce seems to be a way to divide labour, which they could have done without one.

It is undeniable that it seems that way for us as outside observers at least. It seems more like both are stubborn and would rather burn everything than take responsibility. It would have to be pretty bad on the inside for that external appearance of the divorce to be justified at all

That is true. I might be reading too much of my own pain point into their situations.

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Post by psunavy03 »

jajko wrote: post #220
kamaal wrote: post #205

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>>You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up To up keep your home! You also pretty much up keep your rented home too. And at the end you spend to maintain other people's home. >>Is that really how you want to spend some part of your me-time? Most of the times its not that bad, you talk like you are on-call 24x7 throughout the year. >>You are also locking yourself down at very…

lol lets just say we disagree on practically everything :) to each their own Just one point - there is no way ownership of some home brings actual happiness , you overload the term massively. Not only some theory, I simply never met such a person so that this would be actually valid. I've lived in 3 different cultures and talk about 100s of folks knowing well personally. Although I've met quite a few folks that, by c…

Sure there's a way owning a home brings happiness . . . when you're ready to retire, you've paid off your mortgage, and then you can actually, you know, retire. As opposed to funding your landlord's retirement paying rent for the rest of your life.

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Post by elzbardico »

kamaal wrote: post #117
kristianp wrote: post #108

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Of course when they bought their house it would have cost mere 10s of thousands. You can see why there's an attraction to owning your own house.

Owning a home is always good no matter what the finance influencers tell you. In fact, earlier the better. Its not even the buying vs renting thing, renting is bad, you don't get to own anything at the end of the journey, and often the kind of things you have to put up with to save rent, or avoid getting homeless in case of of a job loss or other life crisis is just worth your mental health. Most of your life is spen…

emphasis on owning, I mean, having it fully paid.

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Post by RajT88 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #244
ekianjo wrote: post #229

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The idea that granola would be healthier is rather strange

One of the best examples of a food industry (grains) being able to influence eating habits to their benefit. Anyway, the phrase "healhty" in relation to food is a bit of a trigger phrase to me nowadays, healthy how? It's completely lacking in nuance. Apples are healthy, except when you eat 200 seeds at which point the cyanide gets to a lethal dose. Granola is healthy, unless you eat it three times a day and little el…

> Apples are healthy, except when you eat 200 seeds at which point the cyanide gets to a lethal dose.

Speaking of things from back in the day, an episode of GI Joe featured this idea (only it was dumping truckloads of apples onto a giant gelatinous blob to kill it).

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