re: ketosis, the Wikipedia article is sufficient for a layman understanding, and the safety section illustrates why keto is not medically advised. re: fasting, this metastudy is a comprehensive overview of the current literature suggesting that intermittent fasting is beneficial to weight loss, though it establishes that this is due to fasting being a useful tool for caloric restriction, not popsci hypotheses involving ketosis or autophagy. Also note that some terminology surrounding fasting, e.g. "breaking" a fast, is fairly arbitrary depending on the speaker and arguably meaningless.

Are you consuming enough high-satiety foods (see this chart)? Anecdotally, potatoes in particular were key to eliminating my hunger back when I 'fasted'. If you're not used to it after a month, there's no reason to expect the hunger pangs to 'get better' without changing your diet, food scheduling or appetite suppressants.

Regarding 'breaking a fast', that really depends on whether someone's following a so-called "water fast" or a simple caloric fast. If you're referring to ketosis, the only thing that can end that is intake of additional carbohydrates. Barring that, your body needs to break down fats (since the biological pathways to consume protein are extremely inefficient) to sustain your BMR, which isn't significantly correlated to current diet.

Stimulation of the 'hunger hormone', ghrelin, tends to have varying causes between people. A few studies (n=11 n=90) suggest that water is actually worse at suppressing hunger than either caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee.

I also think that relationships, at a basic level, ARE a mutual pact of control.

The idea of mutual 'control' and general question of the 'rationality' of expecting monogamy are concepts with which I've still yet to come to terms. It's not an insecurity borne of any past or present situation, but rather just the hypothetical of a partner proposing non-monogamy and whether I could (or perhaps more importantly, need to) rationalize a rejection that's not reliant on mitigable concerns (e.g. using protection). Setting aside the empirical arguments, I don't know how to examine the emotional need for a partner to reciprocate monogamy and whether that's rooted in something outside of possessiveness.

The donation bar seems to have been removed since I was last here, and it's unclear whether the balances on the donation page are static. How are Hubski's operation costs these days mk?

Thanks. Do you know what the 'Arc app' referenced is? Google's ARC doesn't seem right.

Are there any public figures regarding the specifics of Hubski's operation costs? I'd like to consider putting in considerably more, though $3K (or even the $2.4K from the top-right metre) annually is ostensibly a bit much considering the site doesn't look like it'd be particularly resource-intensive (unless those figures include a dramatically low developer rate). An Azure A2 instance would run less than $1.2K/yr including bandwidth costs.

Are there users with identical case-regardless usernames though? Trying to register MK or MOE yields the following error:

That username is taken. Please choose another.

Also, @MK@ now gets automatically converted to @mk@ whenever I submit the comment, which seems inconsistent with the idea of them being different users.

Dunno if this is a 'bug' or 'unimplemented feature':

If we can pull enough donations

Oo Hubski's funding meter isn't anywhere close to target.

steve, you still matchin'? doot

Hacker News thread | CEO's response

Shorthand service commands (`/ns` and `/cs` instead of `/msg NickServ` and `/msg ChanServ`) would be nice to have. HostServ would also be appreciated for hostmask requests since my IP doesn't seem to be obfuscated.

Sounds good. By the way, you'll probably want to implement token authentication, because right now you can log-in to any user's account if you grab their log-in cookie, whether they change their password or not. Check your comment to which I'm replying.

Could you look into making username mentions/URLs case-insensitive as well?

Works: https://hubski.com/user?id=mk | mk

Doesn't: https://hubski.com/user?id=MK | @MK@