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Comment Re:Unix is powerful (Score 1) 606

Do you understand what RTFM means?
If anyone, _ever_, tells you this, they're probably right, you didn't read the manual, and are now being a self-righteous prick expecting to be spoonfed by others for free. It's not even hostility. It's a helpful indication that you need to go back and read that manual, and it's for your own good.

I understand how it can be confusing, when coming from an environment like Windows, where you have "Help on how to use help", and support personnel will gladly spend hours helping you fix all kinds of trivial problems, including problems caused by you.
But these people are being PAID to babysit you.

In the end, as we've seen, people are always going to gravitate toward the systems utilizing the biggest marketing bag-o-tricks, there's no other magic here.

Comment Re:The command line is more efficient (Score 1) 606

I agree with what you say, but I don't think this really boils down to a GUI vs CLI argument. There are a lot of badly made CLI jumbo-apps too. Things where programmers have been too lazy to divide a program into constituent parts necessary for reuse, or create a proper UI.

I think the problem is that GUIs only evolved for a short time in the 80s and beginning of the 90s, at which time people also dreamed of graphical interfaces that would some day allow advanced computer interaction. As seen in many of the cyberpunk movies from that time.

But that never happened.
Instead, for 20 years, all GUIs have continued to be rehashes of the same kind of simplistic UI mostly designed for small children to interact with games and leisure.
The over-extension of these GUI systems well past their best-before date can be considered similar to the pictograph system. Which has become tedious and unusable for more complex tasks.

Comment Re:Is it working? (Score 1) 520

You can't say it has anything to do with the very UNIQUE obesity problem of Americans.
The rest of the world does not have the same problems of obesity. Some parts, like south asia have a carbohydrate intake as high as 90%.
There are huge amounts of other, more likely factors, like all the unhealthy amounts of fats in everything, the injection of waste product (mostly artificial) transfats, primitive GMO that has been used for decades and monocultures of crop.

You could blame any one of these factors, but no, you choose to blame the most common things we've eaten for 100k years.
To conclude that it has only been a "minor" part of our diet is simply wrong, there is no evidence to prove either way. However, I'm not going to listen to the cult of people who have jumped to conclusions and lied innumerable times.
At least people who've proposed the classic diets are honest about their evidence.

I live in the LCHF mecca of Sweden, and I can tell you that this whole thing has started off as a religious cult. And it's backed by huge amounts of money (from the meat industry maybe?)
So, be careful about who you put your trust in.

I will read your document and get back to you, it seems to have original research and new information.

Comment Re:What's wrong with "designer babies"? (Score 1) 4

It's a hard question to answer.
But I believe the threat of designer babies was in a theoretical world where parents are able to design babies, but there still isn't a method to correct any kind of mistake retroactively. The child would be at the mercy of their parents whim for the rest of their life.
Seems to be a non-issue with Crispr since the child could later just edit themselves back.

How much this kind of stuff is going to cost, is another problem. I believe that this kind of therapy, because of immense popularity, will quickly hit a hard resource constraint problem.
Some physical resource will run out and drive costs much higher than initially believed

The cat's out of the bag now. I just hope our software is up to the task, or we might be looking at an extinction level event if we unknowingly create nasty genetic viruses.

Submission + - Error free genome editing made possible by breakthrough. (independent.co.uk) 4

funky_vibes writes: The method, which is being called "Crispr" has been described as "jaw-dropping" by one Nobel scientist, and has stirred up intense excitement among DNA experts around the world.
A pre-programmed RNA molecule is inserted into the body of the organism. Using a special enzyme called CAS9 it will attach and cut the target DNA, whilst inserting data in between. It can be used for both adding and subtracting DNA at any chosen point.
The scientists also claim that the method causes no errors at the insertion points.

What will this new breakthrough be used for first? Penis or breast enlargement? You decide.

Comment Re:Is it working? (Score 1) 520

Yes, we all know that the agricultural revolution began 10k years ago. But we now know that humans have been eating grains for 100k years.
Clearly, we've been godawfully wrong about paleolithic diets. This is no surprise, due to the sheer difficulty of finding evidence from such a long time back.
There really hasn't been a reason to, before the church of LCHF started its crusade to eradicate other diets.

Why don't you wait for evidence before jumping to conclusions about what our diet consisted of, in a time long before the written word.

There is ample evidence for major differences in a world of ketosis diet and life in general. Ketosis is/was only predominant in worlds like mongolia and eskimo societies, where food is rare to come by. People become fat during short periods of surplus, which their body will cannibalize during long periods of famine.
No conclusion can be drawn from this about health aspects, except that this kind of diet has been rare globally and historically.

Fact is, most of us are used to a 65-85% carb diet, and it works. Who are you to tell us differently?

Comment Re:Is it working? (Score 1) 520

Your facts are wrong, we've been eating grains for 100k years, and grasses for 4M years.
We don't know if insulin spikes are bad. They are a natural function of our body, and most of us handle them just fine.
Ketosis is very likely to be meant as a survival function where the body cannibalizes resources that are costly to replenish, in order to survive.

If you want to be on the safe side, the "eatwell plate" model is still the strongest contender for a safe diet, and is officially used in most parts of the world where the population can afford it.

Comment Re:Is it working? (Score 1) 520

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but just like most LCHF proponents (or carbophobes ;) you are oversimplifying things and jumping to conclusions.

Fact is, we still aren't exactly sure about what we need to eat and in what proportions.
Thankfully most of us have an appetite that regulates our intake almost perfectly, so we do not need to worry much about what we eat, as long as we eat everything. However, in almost all cases where we try to cut out certain substances from our diets we find that bad things start happening, like sailors at sea.

You claim that BMI, a statistical tool, is bullshit. But what about the very weak (and in many cases irrelevant) statistical evidence for entirely turning what we've known about nutrition for thousands of years upside down?

We've been eating grains for 100k years, and grasses for 4M years. I'm not about to listen to a collection of kooks with an agenda to sell training and books for new age hippie diets.
Come back when you've tried this kind of diet for a few more decades, chances are you won't be there to tell about it.

I'm not saying you are wrong, what I'm saying is that you guys are being too vocal about something you still know nothing about.

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