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> One regulation did some good, so all regulations must do net good.

Hopefully I don't need to explain the flaw in this logic.
Because this article is on the front page and this one about having an active lifestyle is too, I thought to link it here for discussion and reference:

Adopting a more active lifestyle could benefit your personality decades from now (bps.org.uk)

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16447654
It should be plausible to design a scientific study on how much a car centric culture is causing overweightness.
Its not about eating healthy food, obesity is about the over consumption of food. You can maintain a healthy weight eating hamburgers and fries every day. The problem is portion size.
Also this article seems promising, if only I could read it without a paywall... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-fix-the-ob... (Side note: Is anyone working on "Amazon Prime for Web Paywalls" - e.g. $x/mo, and you get access to >90% of commonly hit web paywalls - see also https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/)
I'm italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don't have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don't have much choice except fast food. What a shame.
Abundantly available extremely cheap food of poor nutritional value and addictive over consumption encouraging qualities forcefully positioned by the market at the expense of other options.
PE class taught you the limits of your body? I really miss that hockey game with the giant whiffleball and the tree gym thing in middle school but my main life takeaway from PE class was to wear deodorant when surrounded by a large group of women
Of course "overweight" has as-good or better long term health outcomes so... Meh?

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/35/1/55/849914
Autism seams to be higly correlated with por theory of mind.

There is many people that have poor theory of mind that are not autistic.

I wounder if there is a level that when below we would start to classify someone as autistic.
How does someone know if it's truly anonymous, and will you post the results?
E-mail especially is very easy to discover.

The "e" in "e-mail" stands for "evidence." :)
Why can’t it be low willpower along with availability of instant cheap calorically rich unsatiating food? In the past even if you had low will power you didn’t have access to cheap 2000+ simple carb / sugar meals. Now we do.
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Why is it only now that obesity is reaching such epidemic proportions though? We've had a car-centric culture since Post WW2. Why haven't we seen this epidemic before?
Parentheses are so much more frequently typed than square brackets in almost every context that you are better off following the Lisp Machine keyboard layout and swapping them on your keyboard even if you do not program in Lisp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985932
Regular exposure to high doses of xenoestrogens like BPA[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
The idea behind the SALT deduction is that the Federal government gets their taxes after the states collect theirs. It's traditionally been framed as a conservative states' rights issue.
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As someone who just found himself 41 and jobless, I found this a great perspective on things. TY for sharing, especially that advice paragraph!
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It definitely seems like a mix. I've been addicted (to the point of losing thousands and thousands) to gambling in the past - looking for a way out, something to change things financially - but alcohol or narcotic drugs did nothing for me. But I knew other people in the same situation whose relief came - more destructively, more difficult to recover from - from the drugs.
Yeah, I don’t get the problem. He’s just trying to get across the point of chewing just a small amount, instead of mashing it into paste.

If you don’t think this makes a difference… even if you’re right, you’re wrong. As Serious Eats points out with their articles on Mexicoke[1] and eggs[2], our enjoyment of food is inextricably linked with our emotional perspective on where the food came from and how we’re eating it. The simple act of caring about how you chew a bar of chocolate actually increases your subjective enjoyment of it, even if a hypothetical double-blind experiment would show no discernible difference.

You could immediately follow that tasting with another bar for which you give exactly opposite instructions: macerate quickly, trying to expose as much of the chocolate’s surface area as possible in order to maximize the evaporation of volatile oils. I would wager heavily that the explicit difference in instruction and focus on a different aspect of the experience would heighten the taster’s appreciation of both bars.

[1]: https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2011/09/the-food-lab-drinks-e...

[2]: https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/08/what-are-the-best-eggs-c...
> If we can bank online, why can't we vote online?

Because with online banking, all the problems - theft due to security problems, unauthorized access, the bank not giving access to an authroized user, etc, are all reversible and solvable.

With secret ballot voting, it's not. If some Martian hacker someone votes in your place, you have no recourse. If your vote gets eaten by the system, you have no proof, or recourse.

You can either relax the secret ballot restriction (Which causes a lot more problems), or use paper ballots.
I second this.

With cloud computing, we are essentially going back to the era of time-shared mainframes with remote access.
The reason Americans eat that much sugar is not the "one won't hurt" mentality, but the fact that the government singled out fat as the only source of evil, and companies started adding sugar to everything because without fat everything tastes like cardboard.

I bet most of the sugar consumed is from things that no one would think contain as much sugar as they do (like--bread, meat, etc.), which is added to make it more palatable.
Doesn't a 25 BMI seem like kind of a crappy metric for "overweight"? That makes my 6'4" brother "overweight" at like 205 which seems nuts. That doesn't feel overweight at all.

(Defined in the footnote on page 222)
Public policy, lack of education, overall culture and scale and dominance of food corporations.
I'm not surprised with this data. The best example to understand this is to go to your nearest US convenience store.

Price of an Arizona Iced Tea 23oz can = $0.99

Price of the average bottle of water 16 oz = $1.50

Any poorly educated individual wouldn't understand the health implications of gulping 70g of liquid sugar when the only available data points to make food decisions are price and flavor.
If this is based on BMI, I couldn't care less. It's a terrible metric which is not fit for its purpose.

"Obesity is defined as body mass index (BMI) at or above the sex- and age-specific 95th percentile BMI (based on the variable BMXBMI) using cutoff points from the 2000 CDC growth charts for the United States: Methods and development. NCHS. Vital Health Stat 11(246). 2002. Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_11/sr11_246.pdf. Excludes pregnant girls."

Almost everyone I know is "overweight" by this metric, which, as it turns out, means they are healthier (in terms of less likely to die from any-cause overall) than their thinner peers.

Show me the bell curve of longevity versus body-fat percentage, and what percentage of Americans are 1-sigma past the right side of the peak of that curve. Even body shape, for example, is a much better indicator of all-cause mortality than BMI. E.g. http://absi-calc.appspot.com/
That's partly because much of the government subsides go towards subsidizing corn, ending up in high fructose corn syrup and all the junk food most people consume. It's quite sad, that everyone is so okay with this.

Personally, I try to eat as healthy as possible and use my nutrient finder (https://kale.world/c) to find high nutrient, low calorie foods, which end up being mostly beans, vegetables and fruits.
The interesting thing is that obesity and overweightness rates are very different between States.

Most coastal States have regular rates among rich countries (albeit still high). 23.1% of Californians are obese, which is a lower rate than France, Ireland, and most of Western Europe.

There's a completely different story in the South, where more than a third of Mississipi's population is obese.
The majority of websites are overweight too.
I was in Bologna not too long ago and I was baffled by how fresh, high quality ingredients are available at affordable prices. I've seen similar quality ingredients in the Bay Area but they charge an arm and a leg for it. I don't know how the Italians do it or why we Americans have such a hard time doing something similar.
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tangentially relevant and interesting summary on mass-transit in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjfTG8DbwA
I would very much prefer if it did not happen. It does not really bring any benefits, but only brings horrors. Go and Rust both live in a statically linked state of bliss that should not be tainted.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/
I wonder if there are any subsidies paid for by taxpayers to the businesses that sell us cheap, unhealthy food.

Freedom to kill ourselves and each other, it seems...
This kind of inflation is one of the reasons I stay away BitCoin.
It's a combination of:

- food quantity

- genetics

- physical activity or lack thereof

- food quality and make-up (plant / animal for instance)

- and an addictive element thrown in for some individuals
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Your dismissive tone is probably a little off base on this. By most accounts the swindler in question was exceptionally good at identifying subtleties in wines and did a good job of producing fake wines that were both palate pleasing and mimicked elements of the wine being counterfeited. Add to that the fact that most people don't buy a mid 20th century Bordeaux and just go home and slurp it, most of it sits for a long time before opening.

Sadly, they destroyed his counterfeits. I think they could've actually sold them (all his wine was sold off to compensate those he defrauded), I certainly would've been interested in a hosted tasting comparing some real rare wines to his counterfeits.

https://www.winemag.com/2017/08/14/how-rudy-kurniawan-fooled...
There is nothing wrong with full price software. It fully works, it just needs to be clearly outlines how long your support lifecycle is, which many companies don't think about. Pay full price, get X years of bugfixes (and access to new versions, depending) from date of purchase.

There's three types of model really, and the problem is when companies have multiple models in place and don't treat them equivalently.

Pay in advance - This is like buying a car. You get a warranty for certain covered problems. Costs a lot.

Pay subscription for local software. - This is like leasing a car. You pay a lesser amount each month, but have full usage of the vehicle. You lose access at the end of the lease.

Pay subscription for cloud based software - This is like using ride-sharing (or maybe a community shared vehicle system) for everything. You have access to the software on demand when you need it, and lose access when no longer a member / you stop using it.

All these models work. The problem with some full price software is they were selling it like it had a warranty and not defining the warranty. Expectations are all over the place, and when they don't match reality, people get upset.

Additionally, in this case people are upset about how there's two models in place and they don't appear to be handled the same, as they had some expectation of a type of warranty with full price software, and all of a sudden it feels like the company has changed how they are handling warranty requests for already sold full price software.

As a company, communicate clearly and follow through with that you've stated, and these problems go away.
Auto-played for me, too.
There's another phenomenon at play with political stories, I think. Much of what occupies the front page is sort of implicitly siloed. Rust programmers are the active writers in Rust threads. Data science programmers are active in ML or word vector threads. People interested in math are active in math threads. There's a story on the front page about Google's "TPUv2's". I don't even know what a Google TPU is, so you're unlikely to have to deal with my comments on that thread.

Not so political threads! Everybody is on equal footing in them. There's no "people with expertise relating their experience" and "people asking questions" and the rest of us reading with interest. Rather, everyone's broadcasting.

That's not inherently bad, I don't think; there are lots of other kinds of threads that are like that and they seem to be fine (for the most part) for HN's culture.

But politics is a particularly toxic combination of broad-spectrum and polarizing. There are never voices of reason or experience, the most active participants are often on a hair trigger, and participation is amplified because everyone's got an opinion.
And we can't expect everyone to pay more for many of these things when there is so much inequality, lack of wage increases, student debt, etc. etc. etc.

Of course I go ahead and pay $50/year for ulysses or $20 for each Things 3 app, but my sister won't pay $3/m to iCloud on her filled up iPhone nor $5/m to Spotify or Apple Music to listen to music.
IMO the only way for this number to go down is to educate future generations better on nutrition and the importance of taking care of their bodies. I have no faith that the vast majority of people currently overweight will ever weigh much less than what they do today, and studies have backed this up. 95% of people who lose significant weight gain it back after a year. The few stories of people who keep weight off for good does not scale out to the general population. Indeed, it still seems the best way to lose weight is to go back in time and never gain it in the first place. It is never too early to talk to your children about responsible food consumption.
>>It’s my hope that “financial crimes” are just going to be a convenient way to indict the many many people who have committed crimes like him.

They often are. Despite the many actually heinous crimes he committed, Al Capone was ultimately nailed for tax evasion.
How do they define "Engineer"? Are they requiring a professional license?
Anyone have statistics on what % of those overweight adults are actually healthy, or at least have an acceptable body fat %? Many athletes and weightlifters would be considered overweight by BMI due to muscle mass. And according to the "Adults" PDF, that's the metric they're using. It's probably not a large percentage but I get ticked off a bit to know that you can be in the "overweight" BMI category and have clearly defined abs.

I've also noticed that the muscle-building culture is much, much smaller in the rest of the world than America. So while I'm sure we have a lot more fat people, we also have a lot more buff people, both of which are contributing to this percentage.
It is, they define overweight as BMI 25+, obese class 1 as BMI 30+
You might be able to maintain the correct weight, but you sure as hell won't be healthy. Vegetables are indispenable for good health.
How many of these people are actually "overweight" as far as health and how many are "overweight" according to BMI?

When I was in the best shape of my life from my mid 20s to
my mid 30s, working out 12 hours a week (part time fitness instructor and a runner) with a body fat of 12% (measured with calipers) and a 29-30 inch waist, I was according to the BMI calculations 30 pounds overweight. Even now weighing 10 pounds more and I'm considered "obese", I wear a size 30 regular cut pants.

Where exactly am I suppose to lose 40 pounds from? Realistically, I need to lose about 15.
It will get worse. You rarely see fat children with skinny parents. But a lot of fat parents have fat kids too. Once these grow up it will be more and more likely that their children will get fat too.

Also when you grow with a lot of fat people around you you don't even know how normal weight looks. I noticed this last time in Paris. I had completely forgotten how normal weight looks.
Very nice. Short, clear, and reasoned.

I like the logic behind the equity split, and it's worth repeating that equity split is a signal to investors about the relative value of the founders.
There is huge selection pressure now in that many people don't even have kids. Any gene (or other inheritable trait like culture) which increases the probability of having kids will be strongly selected for.
While I agree American cities don't promote the most healthy lifestyles, it's not like city-dwelers are less healthy or more obese on average than those who live in the country.

You're spot on with your second paragraph though. There is a lot of misinformation about nutrition, dieting, and food in general, and it's all aimed at one goal: turning a profit. Sugar is one of the major culprits, but over eating in general in America is an issue.

We need to start health education on a basis of Calories in vs. Calories Out, what healthy bodies actually look like, and dispel the myths of fad dieting and fat-burning-exercise routines/equipment.

Eat a balanced diet, consisting of little to no processed foods, and keep your calories close to your TDEE (or below if you are overweight).

Exercise for long-term health (physical and mental), not weight loss binges.

It's really that simple.
I feed my dog(s) a raw/whole prey diet, things like ground lamb/duck/etc I generally freeze first. For things like knuckles or chicken feet or whole rabbit I just feed him outside.
I get what you mean. I have a simple gym in my apartment complex that probably saves me about 5 minutes in transition from going to the gym that I paid for a membership to. I end up only using my gym membership about once a week because I don't feel like taking the 5 minutes to make use of the extra equipment that I am paying money to use.
Meh, veggies, rice, etc. are super-cheap everywhere in the world.

It doesn't take money to eat healthy. It's not that fast food restaurants are the only choice is you don't have money. You can go to a grocery store and eat extremely healthy if you want to.

Those who eat at fast food restaurants all the time are more uneducated than poor (although both things might go hand-in-hand), and might not know how many calories are in a burger or more importantly sodas (I've seen people drinking liters every day).

You can buy an apple instead of a can of coke and save you both a few hundred calories and a few pennies. Nothing to do with money.
Because GP's reasoning is likely not to be correct. The proliferation of cheap, high calorie foods along with a sedentary lifestyle (including occupations that require very little physical activity) are more likely to blame than 'cars did it.'
our ancestors thousands of years ago appear to have had substantially lower genetic risk of disease

If I understood you correctly, environment pressure relaxed for former traits. But then the new human environment caused the presure for other set of mutations to kick in, even if they're counterproductive for old environment...
> Like - it's 2018 and people are still using 'cdr' and 'cons' as terminology and happily expecting other people to learn those words

Ok, so what do you think are better names for those operators and why would they be better?
BMI is a terrible metric that's mostly meaningless for anyone not sedentary.
Diet is more complicated than that. I lost a significant amount by being on a low-carb diet. I didn't really try to control the portion size - though that may have happened naturally. What you eat does matter.
Well there was also that time in the 90's when we redefined overweight/obese thereby inventing the obesity epidemic overnight.
I work in health tech and I genuinely believe that this is an endemic problem that can’t be solved by a startup. It is a social issue approaching a health crisis and we need to have our policy, educator, and parents addressing this. While private industry can help, the ultimate responsibility lies with our democracy.
29.3% of US adults are underweight
Parents are number one. You rarely see overweight children with normal weight parents
This seems directly related to diet.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesi...
I would add that many Americans seem totally unaware that junk food is bad for them and for their kids. Even in well-educated families, I would see kids drinking soda and eating snacks all the time. As I understand it, it is also a political issue, food corporation have huge marketing power and any attempts of regulation draw big protests (free will / nanny state arguments).
According to some security professionals (see the link in a sibling comment) Estonia's system has vulnerabilities, but my guess is that complaints will continue to be ignored until there's concrete evidence that someone has falsified an election result.
So, you’re saying this team of six government prosecutors signing the indictment, each of whom would be disbarred and prosecuted for knowingly lying to the court, are willing to take those risks for... what exactly? Getting a single conviction that won’t even get them a raise?
I still see people in grocery stores paying by check and I live in Silicon Valley. It's usually older people.
>>In what way do you mean flattened?

The document becomes uneditable by most commonly used PDF readers (Adobe Reader DC, web browsers, etc.). You can still edit it, but changing the actual content becomes substantially more difficult.
Why is Google investing in its own?
> I despise protected pdfs with a passion

When I want to "protect" a PDF, I print it as a TIFF and then PDF that document. It's less "protecting" than "making it difficult to alter or copy-paste from," but it works. (Also good for ensuring your redaction blobs can't be moved.)
Thanks for sharing; this line of thinking is too often overlooked.

From the abstract:

> National and international health organizations have focused increasingly on a perceived obesity epidemic said to pose drastic threats to public health. Indeed, some medical experts have gone so far as to predict that growing body mass will halt and perhaps even reverse the millennia-long trend of rising human life expectancy.1 In response to such concerns public health agencies across the world have sprung into action, searching for policies or incentives to mitigate the alleged ‘disease’ of obesity.

> Yet even as the volume of alarm grows louder, a growing number of researchers, drawn from a broad array of academic disciplines, are calling these claims into question. The authors of this article come from this latter group. In our view the available scientific data neither support alarmist claims about obesity nor justify diverting scarce resources away from far more pressing public health issues. This article evaluates four central claims made by those who are calling for intensifying the war on fat: that obesity is an epidemic; that overweight and obesity are major contributors to mortality; that higher than average adiposity is pathological and a primary direct cause of disease; and that significant long-term weight loss is both medically beneficial and a practical goal. Given the limited scientific evidence for any of these claims, we suggest that the current rhetoric about an obesity-driven health crisis is being driven more by cultural and political factors than by any threat increasing body weight may pose to public health.
I always liked articles like this on HN, since it shows you don't always have to start a business in a sexy area like neural nets or autonomous driving to be successful.