That sounds like another spin of the white paper best practice bros we've always had. Or "the consultants said" appeals to outside authority. Nothing new there.

Like never mind reality or learned experience, or the particulars of our environment. I found this white paper that says do X, let's shoehorn everything into this one size fits all approach that is terrible, rather than using it as a reference and engineering our own approach... like where do they think baby white papers even come from? Try arguing with them and it's *points to white paper link*

Or they asked the outside consultants if we should do X and they said yes, now it's "the consultant says". MFer... I've been on the other side of the table, you could ask them anything, there's a hundred ways to solve a problem, and they'll affirm any of them if they don't totally suck. I love joining the next meeting early and getting the consultants all buttered up to my approach without explaining the disagreement on our side, then act like ... they said ... when my disagreeing coworker shows up. It's like two kids trying to trick their parents into taking a side without them knowing there were sides. I'll implement my solution anyway when that coworker is on vacation, and anyone deserves that response if they can't explain their position without leaning on some higher authority bs, myself included. Just don't do it, internalize outside advice and own it, with understanding.

I can see how AI might be used for that affirmation seeking appeal to authority bullshit because it pushes the same buttons, but I haven't seen it myself yet. Someday I'm going to give someone the look, the why did you do that look, and they're going to say "the AI said", and whoooo boy are they going to get some clever "the AI said" right back. It's the only way people learn.

Dude I pull up to a four way stop and fully expect one of the other three people to not completely grasp how this thing works. Some advice is worth repeating because there's another moron born every minute.

But yah it's right there in TFS too, so ruling on the field stands, everyone gets a car analogy.

I love the poorly educated

If you think HFT keeps you from making a profit on stocks, you are a dumbass.

You buy at one price, you sell at another. When the market is overall doing well you can close your eyes and invest randomly and make a profit. The only way to persistently lose money is if you FOMO buy everything high and panic sell everything low. It's not the market's fault if you persistently make bad trades. I mean it's kind of like blaming house flippers for you not making a profit trading properties. The fact that someone has room to buy low and sell high in a very short window means someone else left money on the table, it means as a seller you should have set a higher price and waited slightly longer. Faster and faster flippers take money from slower flippers. They move the buy and sell prices towards each other. They're not your problem unless you're trying to profit from the spread yourself, which is utterly fucking stupid if you don't know what you're doing. You could instead flip a stock by making educated guesses at price movement instead of closing the spread.

If you don't understand these things, it's your own fault, these are extremely basic market fundamentals.

When someone else's improved quality of life offends you, it kind of says something I don't think you meant to say out loud. I'm sorry for you.

That's a joke. Just engage your largest muscles for a couple minutes, don't worry about your heart. Doesn't mean don't worry about your heart, it means that will take care of it.

Legs are the best way to spike your heart rate.

This is basically a lie people tell themselves to put less focus on the calories in part of the equation. You take calories in, then you use or store or excrete them.

Yes, those other variables are different for everyone and vary over time and there are lots of stabilizing feedback loops in our bodies. Those variables don't vary as much as calories in. The variance in the nutritional value of your turds is mouse nuts compared to how much you can swing calories in. You can skip a meal, you can't shit a meals worth of calories. The variance in how much you use is also not that much. The difference in effort it takes to run off a can of Pepsi vs not drinking one is mind boggling, and if our brains could do what they do with less energy they would be already.

So yes, there are a lot of little dials and buffers and gauges you can control besides the giant adjustable dial for calories in. Yes all the dials big and small have little unconscious hands working against your conscious efforts sometimes. It's still the biggest dial you can control. Focus on unconscious ways of gaming that dial like increasing fiber intake, less on how nutritious other people's crap is or our superior brain energy efficient.

What level of reading comprehension did you just fail? They did not advise against cardio. Get off the internet and finish your fucking homework.

I don't care if you are an old fart, you can have internet privileges restored when you pass sixth grade reading comprehension.

What exactly is unrealistic about eating an Apple, banana, and an orange each day, with some broccoli for each meal. It's good advice.

Or eat some Metamucil with each meal, it's the same idea, to reduce the urge to eat more by increasing fiber. The fruit is even better because it should help keep blood sugar stable between meals.

Equivalent in terms of what? The level of fitness it lead you to, no, not the same, but improved quality of life? Can't you enjoy hockey for what it is, instead of thinking you're somehow getting 10x more out of life than someone that didn't do all that?

You sound like a runner sneering at a bicyclist. If other people getting the same benefit for less pain subtracts from your experience... I mean that's like kicking yourself in the nuts and being mad at someone else because they got the same out of not doing that.

I like running because it challenges myself, not to feel superior to anyone hurting themselves less.

I thought the government couldn't compel speech, the 1st amendment and all that. Removing the right to curate search results for quality purposes is so backwards and unintelligent, who came up with that? GeoCities is unarguably worth removing from search indexes. Send it right to the bottom of the bottom to be charitable.

So you do admit they won't pass on any savings to you. They will split it between growing their business or giving it to investors, the only thing that makes sense. So it's one way, right? Taxes go up and they cut you deeper, taxes go down and they squeeze more juice. There's no upside. There's nothing for you to celebrate.

And you have to tax them or you can't use tax incentives to steer them the way you want like buying American, creating jobs not robots, whatever. Same thing you do with individual income taxes, reward for investing disposable income instead of mattressing it, reward for buying a home, reward for getting married, etc. If you're lucky enough to have disposable income. This is what happens when you have a bunch of one way valves that only go up.

Consumers pass on their tax burden by spending less, you should fucking know.

It's a cycle, that's how the economy works, dipshit. All incomes should be tapped. Then tax incentives can be used to encourage behavior that benefits economic growth and social stability.

OFC some rich fucks want the tax burden moved entirely to personal income taxes, they get better effective tax rates there, it's pretty obvious what the play is.

That's awesome, and it helps Amazon more. One of the last companies on the planet that needed a leg up. May their investments trickle upon you.

No no, every home automation bridge supports buttons. You don't go straight from your phone to smart light unless you're using one in WiFi mode?

Most smart home setups use a low power mesh protocol like zigbee. Then you need something central that responds to events from switches and sends commands to lights, plus exposes an API on your wifi network for you to control everything from your phone. That's your bridge or hub, and it also manages security. Real simple, like press this button to pair, now you have a key to the mesh network and can listen to and speak to individual devices. Not quite like a WiFi access point that relays everything.

Google and Apple can elect one of their own devices to run their respective smart home control logic, like a smart speaker, then that device either joins the mesh network or talks to bridge APIs, or both, IDK things keep changing. You can do button programming in either place now.

This isn't new to HomeKit, there just isn't much reason do move the simple things like buttons from the HUE software to HomeKit. I guess the advantage of programming buttons in the Apple/Google layer would be having them span multiple bridges or other devices. Like having a HUE, zigbee mesh networked button turn a wifi connected light on, talk to your garage door opener on whatever stupid protocol it's on, etc.