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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6m ago
An 8 hour feeding window is completely standard for IF and may even be superior from a lean mass gains perspective to a 4 hour window.
2rafa
20m ago
Every bubble has its boosters, and at a late stage they often resort to the ultimate and final bull cope:
“They won’t (and indeed can’t) allow it to crash”.
In each generation this has a different name, but in this cycle the most common is probably some variant of ‘the fed put’. Of course, if elected governments and their appointees were powerful enough to stave of a market crash, these things would never happen, given their typical electoral consequences.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
21m ago
Oh it's absolutely effective for calorie restriction without counting too much or overly punishing yourself in social situations ("I don't eat after 8pm" is an easier thing to explain than "I don't eat a long list of foods based on a logic you may or may not agree with").
I just find it amusing that "skip breakfast and avoid snacking late at night" is like grocery-store-checkout women's magazine tier advice, classic weightwatchers stuff. While "I do intermittent fasting on a strict schedule" is optimization bro Huberman-pilled advice.
2rafa
25m ago
it could well be similar to how the dot-com investments worked out. lots of duds and even scams but on average i think the return on investing during that era was good
The overall market (the S&P 500) didn’t reach its dotcom peak again until 2007 and then promptly crashed again, not reaching it again until the 2010s. The Nasdaq didn’t hit its 2000 peak until 2015. Looking at total returns paints a slightly rosier picture but it was still a long time.
Skeletor
25m ago
You appear to think of politics entirely on the basis of whether policies create material problems for you in your life (and, granted, in your daughter's). Don't you have a concept of politics as rooted in moral values unrelated to your own personal fate?
1990's colorblind liberalism is dead and it wasn't the right wingers who killed it. Since we now live in some kind of post-liberal racial spoils hellscape, I'll be voting for my own team, thanks.
wsgy
31m ago
Jew is a slur or the proper terminology depending on how much stank is put on it. So it's one of those things that's a lot easier to parse the meaning of when spoken, less so over text. I'm completely unsurprised young people who primarily communicate via text rather than speech would be uncomfortable with Jew as a term
Jazzhands
34m ago
This is your regular reminder that the current administration is still working to undo the thousands of bans that Youtube did at the Biden administration's behest. I assume the OP means "modern as in the past five minutes."
Bingbong
35m ago
Some of the point about the money with AI is that the current financial engineering means that a lot of money is coming onto existence on paper (especially in these circular 'Company A invests in Company B but Company B then immediately uses that money to buy compute from Company A, valued in accordance with the new benchmark' deals) and not really escaping the loop the same way. This is now, somewhat, obscuring a state of pretty clear stagnation and weakness in the broader economy.
Bingbong
37m ago
Also massive reams of labor is currently probably kinda pointless in the present metagame but kept around for a combination of ego-reasons and since people are sold fantasies about stuff like 'Marketing' and 'Human Resources' which are real phenomenon but likely hugely overallocated to in manhours (and I've worked marketing roles, the sort of insane digital marketing KPI hacking that goes on would make an Engineer vomit).
I don't think that AI will, in the medium-longterm replace these roles insomuch as prompt a reshuffle where a lot of more extraneous roles get rebranded or people just kinda slide around till they find new roles in wishywash nothingness that AI's less capable of servicing.
benmmurphy
39m ago
it could well be similar to how the dot-com investments worked out. lots of duds and even scams but on average i think the return on investing during that era was good and what it ended up producing was good. the problem is all of this is very risky and there is going to be a lot of failed investments in order to have some big payoffs. and of course the big players and everyone who thinks they have a chance is going to try and get the government to step in to subsidise their losses. but that doesn't mean the idea of AI is terrible or that we shouldn't be doing it.
orthoxerox
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42m ago
I've always thought the most common form of IF was 8 hours between the first and the last meal. 10am to 8pm is not really IF, but something like 11am to 7pm should qualify.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1hr ago
While you’re welcome to argue that you think something is obvious, please refrain from consensus-building.
thejdizzler
1hr ago
I have! The problem is calibrating what is an appropriate time box for a task, especially in lab where I'm not sure how long for example, dissections might take.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1hr ago
The test isn’t for denying wrongthink, but for “caring about anything like this from my own side.” More likely here than on the vast majority of forums. ArjinFerman and professorgerm both gave credible, level-headed examples of how they gave something genuine thought.
And I’m not interpreting mental rewards mechanisms. I’m arguing that we’ve gotten “the bottom falling out” on the object level, but not the meta level. People are rightfully upset about Kirk’s murder without coming to the same conclusions as Skeletor.
Tree
1hr ago
That whole line of argument is illegitimate, and like, so 2020. I’m not sacrificing a single joke for your ideological witchhunts. Hilarity aside, such jokes protect and normalize rape and nazi apologia? Good! I want all opinions protected, and every citizen participating in the political process.
I don’t want to blame the entire state of the world on your line of argument, but it did single-handedly make it more polarized and censorious, and what is even less forgiveable, mirthless.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2hr ago
It's Computer-Mediated-Communication, which lacks several important features of in-person communication, like tone, body language, and synchronous feedback. Most importantly it is easy to reproduce/leak by malicious actors.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2hr ago
Yes, in person.
nomenym
2hr ago
This is friends engaging in taboo banter. Saying taboo things is part of the friendship bonding process, because it's a demonstration of trust.
nomenym
2hr ago
The Nazis weren't wrong about everything, but the things they were right about were not uniquely or especially Nazi. That said, an alarmingly large number of people seem to have confused being an inverted Nazi* with being a good person, because Hitler is the secular devil.
*May not correspond to actual historical Nazis.
JarJarJedi
2hr ago
For me, the important part wasn't the late breakfast - I did it all the time anyway - but the absence of late dinners and snacking. Looks like I got some substantial calories there without even realizing it. I am still not sure whether it's the timing aspect or the fact that snacking had been substantially reduced - because I now rarely feel hungry enough mid-day to snack. But it seems to be efficient and does not require constant attention and exercise of willpower like specialized diets and calorie counting I did before required - which I think was the main reason why I could never maintain them, attention is a limited resource, and I have a lot of better things to spend it on. With this, it's simple - if it's in the timeframe and I am hungry, I eat. If it's not, I don't. I don't bother with calorie counting or anything, and the foods that are in exclusion list just aren't in the house in most parts. If I go out occasionally, I may be tempted to eat something "bad", but that so far doesn't seem to happen frequently enough to matter.
thejdizzler
2hr ago
I really would like to become less high-strung. Talking to my roommate this morning it seems like we have opposite problems. I have no problem using willpower to actively engage in my desires, but I just can't seem to relax, ever. He can sleep for almost all day and is very chill, but can't seem to motivate himself to do anything that requires effort. Some things I'm thinking about trying.
1). A lot of my anxiety seems to come from open loops (i.e. procrastination). Maybe if I actually finish things I'll manage to decrease how stressed I feel.
2). The amount of open loops seem to come from an inability to say no to others or to my own marginal desires. Need to learn to focus on what counts.
3). Of course technology use doesn't help either. Aiming for less than an hour a day on my phone and seeing if that helps.
The difference between this and the Jay Jones situation is that the Jones conversation was seemingly more serious in tone. It wasn't otherwise soaked in irony and hyperbole, but rather a one-on-one conversation with someone who felt uncomfortable with what Jones was saying and even pushed for clarification. Maybe Jones felt like it was just private joking between friends, but it was less obviously that. It came across as relatively more sincere venting. I did not take it as a statement of intent by Jones, and it was certainly not a realistic threat. Mostly it just reflects the rising hostility between the political tribes. It's certainly more concerning for a prospective AG to be saying those kind of things, though not unexpected in my opinion. Both sides think terrible and horrific things in private, because in private you frequently give voice to thoughts and feelings that you don't even agree with yourself. However, it's important that you can have those thoughts, otherwise you'll be blindsided by people who have those thoughts and actually intend to act on them.
I stand corrected. I wonder who's next. Hopefully not Mary Seacole.
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