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I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by marmot777 »

jkepler wrote: post #374
marmot777 wrote: post #9

A buddy of mine has rice and beans nearly every dinner though he knows how to cook variations so it’s a surprisingly tasty diet. I’m surprised the guy in the article could go decades without eating any veggies but his diet has clearly worked for him. The strokes could just be genetics and/or old age catching up.

> I’m surprised the guy in the article could go decades without eating any veggies ... Doesn't he eat a whole onion every night? Onions are vegetables right? I would agree it sounds like a lack of green veggies, though, if that's what you meant.

Yeah, onions count but I guess I was thinking a variety of veggies. When I eat some onion I don’t feel the sense of hey i think it would be awesome to eat a whole onion every day but everyone has different preferences and I try not to judge people for their tastes.

So I guess I was thinking more like a variety of veggies that presumably as a farmer he could grow if he enjoyed veggies. This guy had a clear idea of what he liked and went with it.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

DangitBobby wrote: post #572
notjes wrote: post #356

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This man is independent. The powers that are, hiss in horror at his sighting, because they want him in a cubicle and in debt.

He's not independent. Caretakers, probably state funded, come and provide care to his sister. The "powers that are" are providing for both of their general wellbeing.

Not only that but UK farming is subsidised quite heavily. A farm with 71 sheep isn't viable without those subsidies.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #270
irjustin wrote: post #248

Happiness - he's found it. Sure, he's an extreme and very few want to emulate it because there's a mild element of delusion. But, he's found the thing so many of us work our entire lives for only to never find. Part of life is letting happiness find you, part of life is finding happiness, and part of life is pushing away things to find happiness in what you have. I say, well done.

you did use the word "mild". but it made me wonder if not every person I've ever encountered that looked happy seemed like that a bit. The happier somebody is the more deluded they look to the rest of us. People in love are perhaps the most obvious. But it says probably more about the observer.

I can't find the link now but I remember reading a study that showed that mildly depressed people have the most realistic outlook on the world.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

voidfunc wrote: post #142

Im nowhere near the extreme of this guy but I cook a vegetable soup and eat it 4-6 days a week every week for dinner. I save the calories and good (edit: interesting) cooking for restaurants. I mess around with the soup occasionally trying new flavoring or techniques but its the same damn soup and I like it. Its easy to make, keeps well, costs nothing relative to output, and leaves me time to think about other things…

I'm sure I've read that the more varied your diet the more calories you will consume.

Of course we are advised to have a varied diet but I suspect that is because most people have such poor eating habits. If you can squeeze all the nutrients you need into a single dish then why wouldn't it work.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

forsakenkraken wrote: post #642
flatline wrote: post #57

> She has two carers who come in four times a day, and they are wonderful. My dad arranged something similar for my mom in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. It is nearly impossible in the US, I don’t even know if you can still do it without being wealthy. It required long term care insurance prepaid for years, and it was still a nightmare of weekly paperwork to manage all the claims. The care for his sister, and tr…

This is pretty common on the NHS. Also, as Wales is a devolved nation, we can plough more money into the NHS than happesn in England. Also less privatisation.

The NHS isn't responsible for social care, that falls under the local council.

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Post by berkes »

natmaka wrote: post #441
berkes wrote: post #365

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It is not always possible, but as a senior software developer, I try to keep the feeling of 'finished' in my team. It is, by far, the most important piece in keeping a team happy, productive, cooperating and improving. Definition of done, demo's, releaseparties, well-defined delivery requirements, chopping up tasks, user stories, etc. All help a lot here. But all require effort to maintain, establish and improve. Con…

The curse is that upper management perceives this effort but doesn't perceive its effect. Even from the common fundamental perspective (the enterprise has to optimize, to dissipate as few resources as possible in order to reach the more financially beneficial and durable state) this effort is justified, however as they don't know its real impact...

True. Though, if that management is measuring the right things, they will perceive it. But "the right things" is very broad and hard to define; and probably dynamic over the years event.

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Post by ryanmarsh »

dkersten wrote: post #652
ryanmarsh wrote: post #551

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I love how people will do anything to deny the lizard brain. We have a “spidey” sense just like all the other animals and for good reason. Ignore it at your peril should you ever have a brush with the side of nature that cares not for your “lack of studies”.

I’m a strong proponent for listening to your gut, but that’s very different from a bird landing on your home predicting death, especially when the correlation is weak (sometime later that year). It’s easy to attribute something to something else if there’s an indeterminate timeframe in between. Remember that people see what they want to see in noise too. Clouds often look like something tangible, that doesn’t mean it…

Over a period of time enough people noticed a correlation that it became an “old farmers/wives tale”. Had a university done a study with equal or lesser N you’d probably have taken it as fact. LOL

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Post by ryanmarsh »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #625
ryanmarsh wrote: post #551

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I love how people will do anything to deny the lizard brain. We have a “spidey” sense just like all the other animals and for good reason. Ignore it at your peril should you ever have a brush with the side of nature that cares not for your “lack of studies”.

The existence of cognitive biases may help in some instances, and may harm in others. But they are not a substitute for data and proper experimentation or mechanism of actions.

It’s all data. Even the old farmers tales.

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Post by lacker »

fridif wrote: post #141
exciteabletom wrote: post #108

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Onions are quite nice to eat raw like an apple. The perfect combination of spicy and sweet.

If this is HN's opinion on onions, I now know how React got so undeservedly popular.

Oh man, I don't think I have laughed as much at an HN comment in a long time :D
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