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jaggs  ·  2873 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How have you lost weight?

One tip (which will probably be buried) - The 4 Hour Body. Not a huge fan of the writer (Tim Ferriss), but he's a nerd all right, and the diet is based on low carbohydrates, which is becoming the de facto success story in weight loss nowadays.

This is the forum thread that actually changed my life and made me understand about low carbohydrate.

http://nuclearfuzzgrunge.com/tlcm/

if you want a medical view, check out www.eatingacademy.com. I only recommenend Mr Ferris' book because he includes an absolutely brilliant mind hack called the 'Cheat Day'. Yes yes, but you'll have to read it to understand the psychology behind the cliche.

jaggs  ·  2875 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [48 HOURS] No really, Apple tells Uber to fuck off and die

I believe the 100lb gorilla in the corner of the room is the fact that we are witnessing an unprecedented push by the global executive for self-driving cars. The speed with which they - and their cousins autonomous trucks - are being ushered onto the world stage is breathtaking when you consider the legal, insurance and sociological implications. This suggests that there may be an ulterior motive involved, which could relate to the over-riding need to deal with chronic urban pollution, vehicular logjams and most importantly climate change.

What does this have to do with Uber/Didi/Lyft et al?

Well once these vehicles become commonplace on the road, the next most logical step is to introduce autonomous cab services, at a price and convenience that destroys the rationale for urban commuting. Whoever has the technology in any large population to supply an autonomous cab service en masse, gets to potentially grab a huge chunk of a billion (trilliion?) dollar pie. These door to door autonomous buses/cabs could literally transform the transit landscape. Already Uber is trialing an autonomous service in Arizona, it won't be long before we see more happening on that scale. The stakes are absolutely enormous long term.

Edit: Arizona/Uber - http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/uber-could-be-first-to-test-completely-driverless-cars-in-public

Two words. Unintended consequences.

jaggs  ·  2972 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: $100 trillion up in smoke

Mmm... a Texan financier writes about oil, but there are some severe omissions. One absolutely no mention of the climate crisis as a driver of change. Which it is. Paris wasn't a random, soon to be forgotten wake up call. It was a seismic shift in the energy equation long (or maybe medium?) term.

This sentence - "Western oil companies and OPEC member states aren’t so worried about oil reserves in the ground..." shows that lack of understanding of this point. Google 'stranded assets' and you will see what I mean. There is a LOT of attention being paid to renewables and their effect on oil, and you could argue (and many do) that this is the main reason the Saudis are refusing to cut production to increase prices (that and the fact that historically no-one else in OPEC usually plays fair and does the same).

To meet our global carbon budget we need to keep a lot of fossil fuel in the ground. Coal is the first corpse we're going to see, and fossil fuel seems destined to follow, especially if we see the expected uptake in the production and use of hybrid transportation.

Interesting times.

It's not about science or whether GM is right or not. It's about giving control to the world's food production to a small group of commercial interests.

jaggs  ·  3306 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Has anyone else seen the movie Predestination?

Yeah I saw it and not familiar with the short story. I thought it was thought provoking and a worthwhile watch. For me, I didn't need to know what was going on, and once we reached the climax and the reveal it all kind of made sense (if time travel can ever make sense). :)

jaggs  ·  3383 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: High speed M&M sorting machine

Some people just have too much time on their hands, right? :)

I think it would help if you had a little more information on the landing page, so people could make a more informed decision about whether to sign up for the beta. Maybe regurgitate what you wrote here onto an About page?

jaggs  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: Chemical weapons coverup blowback is *all* Karl Rove's

Well said. Please let's hope Hubski doesn't turn into another Reddit.

jaggs  ·  3452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What does it mean to forgive?

Maybe it has to do with the fact that the past is the past, and it cannot be changed? So to forgive (either yourself or others) is to let go and gain freedom from something that is impossible to cure? When we fail to forgive ourselves we dwell on things instead of moving forward with a more dharmic attitude. No sense in feeling guilty, just don't do it again, and move on. When we fail to forgive others we dwell on something which again is from the past, and it stops us from moving on while focusing on opening our heart to the world. We live in an age of conditions. We need to learn how to live a life unconditionally.

jaggs  ·  3486 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thoughts on Hubski from a potential ex-redditor

This gets my vote. :)

jaggs  ·  3514 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you fighting for?

Moksha

jaggs  ·  3521 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Questions about Nasa's 'impossible' space drive answered

I think the article makes absolute sense. This is not the result of a 'lone inventor', it has come to prominence precisely because different teams across the world have also observed 'something' happening. Now whether that something is valid is the subject of the next stage of tests.

And I'm sorry I cannot agree with your assertion that this kind of research takes away from 'real' space exploration. This kind of thinking ditches the whole concept of 'blue sky' research and assumes that we know everything we are likely to know. Or even worse, that only 'large teams' can actually deliver advances. Which, of course, we know to be simply not true.

jaggs  ·  3525 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Zoo Animals and Their Discontents

This is the money quote, isn't it?

The philosopher Thomas Nagel, who wrote the seminal essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” used a term for the tendency to deny the existence of phenomena that cannot be proved empirically. “Scientism,” he wrote in 1986, “puts one type of human understanding in charge of the universe and what can be said about it. At its most myopic, it assumes that everything there is must be understandable by the employment of scientific theories like those we have developed to date — physics and evolutionary biology are the current paradigms — as if the present age were not just another in the series.”

We survive the rainy summers and plough on. :)

jaggs  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: BBC News - Mesh networks chat apps to the rescue

Firechat is also now working on Android, although so far I've only tried it on the Internet Everyone mode.

jaggs  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When Knowledge Becomes Wisdom

Interesting article, but I'm going to take exception to terminology. Knowing how to do something, I would suggest, is not wisdom. It is knowledge.

Wisdom is what happens when you combine knowledge with a crucial element called experience. The longer the experience, coupled with emotional intelligence and knowledge, the deeper the wisdom.

jaggs  ·  3665 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Professional Pilots Forum Posts on Malaysian Airlines MH370

Thanks for this.

jaggs  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Columbia Rescue Mission

Brilliant article.

jaggs  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any other reddit exiles ?

There's a completely different vibe about Hubski, it's not trying to be another Reddit. That said, Reddit wasn't Reddit until the explosion in user numbers, so maybe that's Hubski's future as well? Such is the nature of the online community, perhaps?

jaggs  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Blade 350 QX Review That Will Never Be | Digital Trends

Haha, as someone who only last month totalled a review Phantom 2 Vision into a tree, I sympathise completely. Luckily I have GLUE. :)

jaggs  ·  3710 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AskHubski: Cargo Bicycles, Electric Assist and the Middle Aged.

I have a bike with an electric motor front wheel. Bought the wheel kit, got a battery for it and put it all together with a friend. It's great. To your points:

1. Max range for mine if I don't pedal is around 20 miles, but I pedal a lot because I enjoy it, so I rarely get down to under half way on the battery (bottle type).

2. It's fine in rain. You're wet, which is less than nice, but the bike is fine.

3. Don't expect massive speeds, especially if like me you're a bit tubby (OK a lot tubby). But then again I'm not in a rush, and enjoy cycling a lot in better weather. Not so much in bad weather.

4. Don't know about cargo bikes, I just carry me, a backpack and maybe some shopping now and then. Never noticed any real difference in performance in those scenarios.

5. The main thing I found with the electric motor is it's really made me more adventurous on a bike. Since I'm getting on a bit, the idea of doing 20 miles round trip was kind of scary, but with the motor, I'm happy to cycle off on a 10 mile jaunt into town, knowing that if I meet any headwinds and long hills on the way back I've got a faithful friend to help out. :)

That's about it really.

jaggs  ·  3731 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dyn: Awesome Map Generator

Um...what is it? And how does it work?

jaggs  ·  3739 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The State of Hubski: 2013

Happy new year and all the best for 2014 folks.

jaggs  ·  3751 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jason Kottke: The blog is dead, long live the blog

Such a load of twaddle, I'm afraid. Sorry, but the blog continues to perform amazing service as a specialist format, alongside other so-called dead formats such as forums. It's where people get the real information, as opposed to stupid pictures of kittens (which admitedly are very entertaining).

This post by Kottke is the equivalent of saying radio is dead, long live radio. Twaddle. :)

jaggs  ·  3773 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ☢ Fukushima: Beyond Urgent ☢ - YouTube

Oh thank goodness for that. I feel so much better now. :)

jaggs  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ☢ Fukushima: Beyond Urgent ☢ - YouTube

No, no, that's completely the wrong answer. You're supposed to tell me to forget it, because it's all some anti-nuclear conspiracy nutcase stuff and it's all going to be fine. Really.