Readit NewsExactoKnight commented on Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor theguardian.com/food/2018... · Posted by u/leonagano
I put this stuff on my face every morning and my skin has never looked or felt better.
I also put it on toast almost every morning, have been doing so for years, and I am the healthiest I've ever been. I mean, I have also taken other steps towards my health (coconut oil is definitely not the biggest factor either) but come on, this article is a joke.
Sounds like fake news.
It's very possible that coconut oil could have simultaneously good and bad effects on the body. E.g. it has known antibacterial and antifungal properties. Meanwhile, it's a saturated fat of the kind known to be bad for people's hearts.
So its very possible you could be realizing many short term health benefits from coconut oil, while not realizing it, setting yourself up for a heart attack later in life. Such are the things in life: I would assert most things we eat can be best thought of as a balance between good and bad forms of nutrition, both helping and hurting us. E.g. Salmon, lots of great nutrition there but eat too much seafood and you need to start thinking about your exposure to heavy metals and environmental pollutants...
ExactoKnight commented on Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor theguardian.com/food/2018... · Posted by u/leonagano
But wait... isn't HDL supposed to be the good form of cholesterol?
As if it wasn't already hard to know what to believe... sigh
ExactoKnight commented on Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor theguardian.com/food/2018... · Posted by u/leonagano
There is no scientific evidence to support the statement that Coconut Oil is pure poison. This professor is a quack.
It's what scientists have to say to get into the headlines these days. That doesn't mean his underlying point lacks merit. But it is absolutely frustrating how inconclusive and frequently contradictory science around food and health continue to be.
ExactoKnight commented on Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit techcrunch.com/2018/07/30... · Posted by u/mark-ruwt
UberEats brought a kind of a consistent experience to what-ever-i-want-food-delivery. I researched this stuff heavily for a food delivery startup maybe 4 years ago, met with drivers from different options (back then there weren't many, Postmates wasn't popular in TX at all) and it seemed like Eat24 and GrubHub were the big ones where I was (in terms of options, etc). Personally I can't believe Favor didn't absolutely bomb but I digress and great work guys.
The experience was absolutely awful back then. That's why I wanted to get into it. You'd have restaurants on FOO that didn't even know they were on FOO, so you'd make an order then FOO would literally call in and place the order acting like a customer doing a regular pickup (possibly screwing it up). Then FOO would find a delivery person in that area, like around college towns they'd call the local delivery food couriers and pay them to go pick it up. They'd make deals with groups and have to switch them out constantly. If one courier closed at 9 but your ordering at 11 who knows who would be delivering the food if you got it at all. I don't know how many times my food vanished into the night and I just never heard anything.
The experience absolutely sucked. And a transaction that can already be rife with issues (restaurant forgetting an item, etc) now had even more possibility of giving the customer a bad experience.
Now it's not all perfect now and there's definitely issues and always will be but UberEats actually seems to have forced some sort of standardization upon the entire process and the competitors have really had to just GET BETTER in general because of it. I can see my driver, see their GPS, the menu tells me if something is out of stock, the restaurant controls their menu, the restaurant knows it's UberEats, etc.
From the restaurant perspective they get to tap into UberEats population, use their drivers which is a streamlined process, UberEats has it's own software to see analytics, the popularity of their dishes, etc.
I could've been the Food Delivery King but I decided to work on a SAAS! C'est la vie. Kidding. I'd probably just be bankrupt now. "What if Uber, Yelp and Facebook get into this?" was never a thought that crossed my mind..
SkipTheDishes provides an objectively better user experience than UberEats, especially with the Apple Pay integration.
ExactoKnight commented on Dissolving the Fermi Paradox arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404... · Posted by u/monort
Agreed. This is just picking parameters consistent with no detection of extraterrestrial civilizations. The point of the Fermi paradox is that it's a stretch to assume such parameters. It's not prediction about extraterrestrial civilizations collapsing or whatever. It's just an alternative to consider. And perhaps a warning about shouting at the Universe. Although it's probably too late to fret too much about that.
> And perhaps a warning about shouting at the Universe. Although it's probably too late to fret too much about that.
Any civilization sufficiently advanced to threaten us already has the capability to see we exist. For those with a large enough telescope, we have been emitting signs of life to the rest of the galaxy for billions of years.
It's only more recently that we have been showing signs of intelligent life (through radio waves and changes to our environment). These signs have not yet propagated throughout much of the galaxy yet, and there is a good argument we ought to get as advanced as possible as quickly as possible, so we can defend ourselves before others become aware of our intelligent existence.
The selfish–selfless spectrum is valuable for technical leaders to improve teamwork, in my experience.
We call this social value orientation (SVO) which involves an individual’s natural preference with respect to the allocation of resources.
During technical leadership this comes up with e.g. feature prioritization, competitive/collaborative agile planning, and how to create "nudges" to increase team success.
https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_value_orientat...
Very interesting. My only criticism? Perhaps too much of a focus on procedural justice.
Peter Thiel has a great talk on how one of the biggest problems in western societies is that we have moved away from having a determinate view of the future, to an indeterminate one. This has been driven in big part on the idea that process matter more than substance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZM_JmZdqCw
E.g. Lawyers are more concerned with society having a fair process or procedure for doing things, than its advancement.
North Korea has wanted a peace treaty for some time. E.g. 2016 Rand did an analysis on North Korea wanting a peace treaty to get the US to withdraw from South Korea (https://www.rand.org/blog/2016/05/behind-north-koreas-bid-fo...). They wanted a peace treaty under Kim Jong Un's father as well (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-north/north-korea-c...).
Everyone seems to be forgetting that the reason that WE have refused to sign a peace treaty for decades is because of the human rights violations in North Korea. I have no idea how the narrative switched to North Korea wanting a peace treaty as a concession from them.
The reasoning in that RAND article is pretty effing bad. North Korea could successfully invade South Korea?! Yeah right. That's not a credible scenario whatsoever, even if the U.S. withdrew.
SK has ongoing scandals, every admin. Their foreign minister, I imagine, knows SK politics, they are crediting the American administration for having this happen.
The scandal led to the election of a different party in South Korea, replacing the conservative militant party with one that's more conciliatory to North Korea. So yes the recent Presidential scandal definitely had an effect.
Perhaps that's the nuance that is missing in this debate that's needed. The shocker that foods can be simultaneously good and bad for you...