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Comment Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation (Score 1) 291

Fundamental flaw - every nutrient and every poison has a dosage at which it is effective.

So 10 grams of Vitamin C a day can be considered "high Vitamin C diet". 10 grams of protein a day can be considered "low protein diet". 10 grams of paracetamol a day can be considered "poison".

Once you realize this, your statement makes zero sense. All three nutrients are essential? Great. What is the amount at which they are effective? No one knows.

Comment Re:Abject brand mismanagement (Score 1) 352

People associating windows with easy and simple are known as computer geniuses - top 5% of population in "computer genius" terms. For 95% people using computers, windows is associated with difficult.

Linux is associated with "what's that?". Ok, Linux is actually not associated with anything.

Comment Re: Good decision? (Score 1) 352

So obviously, it isn't the tightly-spec'ed hardware (since what Apple is doing could be handled by any competent GPU designed in this century)

Well, (both) the competent GPU makers suck so hard at driver writing, that black holes have developed an inferiority complex. So on top of a competent GPU, one needs a competent GPU writer, or at least hold the hands of GPU makers in writing drivers for an OS and/or test the drivers beyond imagination.

Apple is doing that well with their limited GPUs supported. But as a general statement it is completely not true that a competent GPU is capable of doing something on its own.

Comment Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too (Score 1) 352

While there is such a thing as a "high quality" app, it is a very low barrier - 99% of Android Play Store apps are "high quality". Basically if an app doesn't crash during its core functionality, and performs the core functionality, it is "high quality". Rest is all subjective.

That doesn't mean many people will like or find use in 99% of Android Play Store apps - different people will like and use different apps. But that doesn't mean there is any criteria set in stone making the not used apps "low quality".

Comment Re:In summary (Score 1) 588

Well, I'm not sure if anyone is saying that
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good"

Ok, so you use the word "know" a lot more lightly than I do. That is fine. Though it did lead you to trust food label calorie numbers a lot more than they deserve, so I thought you might be in reverse gear about this. Probably not.

Comment Re:Any removable storage yet? (Score 1) 730

Making it the most used camera and one of the most used video systems, regardless of what you think.

Most used cameras are of the CCTV variety - hard to beat a 24/7 camera in amount of usage. Most used video system is the eye, in some animal or the other. Electronic equivalent would be the TV - many brands would beat iPhone. And most used electronic video *capture* device, of course, like earlier, CCTV.

Comment Re:In summary (Score 1) 588

Yes, it is complicated, and not really known to mankind. It would be good if you point out the error when slashdotters and people elsewhere make the mistake of considering it simple and lecture others.

Diet effect on water retention are also significant.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". I see these attempts to quantify the as yet unquantifiable as violation of the principle in second half of the alleged Einstein quote.

Comment Re:In summary (Score 1) 588

Read up on the faeces link again that I posted earlier. The 30% microbes cannot be ignored, as I mentioned earlier. Different species of microbes act on different macro nutrients, like I mentioned earlier. No one knows for sure the relative efficiency of different species of microbes in the gut - someone saying they are guaranteed to be equally efficient will need to cite away to glory.

Our own sucrase makes sure we don't need the little bugs to tackle most sugars. Which means we don't share our food with "friends" like good children should. So god punishes us with obesity. Sorry, just listened to relatives talking to their kids. But yes, the point stands that more of sugar comes as ATP than slower food like starch, fat etc.

"Calorie is a calorie", and similar statements are poetry. Good to preach to the choir, useless for contradicting someone.

Comment Re:In summary (Score 1) 588

You didn't deserve the benefit of doubt, because of other sentences you posted exposed that you did really mean "eat" , and you did NOT mean "eat, digest, and metabolize".

Take your post's sentence :

This is already accounted for in food labelling. The calories on the label all get metabolized, and the calories that don't get metabolized aren't listed on the label.

So no, it is definitely a retrospective change you made to your own sentence. While I don't mind educating someone, even for free, you can't convince me you meant this from the start.

which is a very pedantic way of phrasing my original claim

Which is good, because useless statements disguised as simple actionable statements are dangerous.

Comment Re:In summary (Score 1) 588

My original objection was to the sentence "Whether you eat 12 thousand Calories in pizza or 12 thousand Calories in kale, the impact on your weight will be the same". To which you have already made one retrospective change without an apology, while using the universal arithmetical addition operator in a non-standard way and not even objected on my earlier interpretating it thus. Moreover, this is not a minor change because the original sentence pretended to be useful, was falsifiable, actionable - and I pointed out many ways in which it is either wrong, or needs citation.

The new sentence does not have these qualities (except of incorrectness). Even so, when you have turned your sentence into such a useless sentence, I can still prove it to be wrong - or at least in desperate need of citation. But I think you will again change it retrospectively, so it would be best if you put down the sentence which you now want to replace your aforementioned original sentence with, and I will address only that.

Comment Re:In summary (Score 1) 588

I'll try multiple sentences, just to see how you take it now.

This is a white lie -

The very first sentence of my reply is "I draw more conclusions than warranted from unrelated factors that I didn't bring up?", itself a clear reference to the second sentence of your post.

Reasoning is mentioned clearly here. Google the words you don't have enough information on.

The context of your homework I was helping with you with was about summation working differently on pizza and kale. No, summation works the same. Since you have only yet hopefully understood the milk fat in pizza shit and not in kale shit, let us ignore the other differences for the time being :

Pizza calories available to increase body fat : 12000 eaten, say 11500 digested, and say 11500 metabolized. (500 calories in milk fat excreted). Summation 12000+11500+11500 = 35000

Kale calories available to increase body fat : 12000 eaten, say 12000 digested , and say 12000 metabolized. (effects other than fat excretion ignored). Summation 12000+12000+12000 = 36000

You will note that 35000 is not same as 36000. So the sentence "Whether you eat 12 thousand Calories in pizza or 12 thousand Calories in kale, the impact on your weight will be the same" remains false even if you add up eaten, digested and metabolized calories, and even if your ignorance is taken into account.

I'll kindly take you up on your offer for homework help, though. I'm working on fusing gyroscope and accelerometer data with a Kinect sensor's color and depth streams using a Kalman filter. Why isn't fakenect working?

We have just started using multiple sentences. Wait a decade or 2.

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