In fact about 1/4 of my comments on HN relate to the 'Technological Stagnation Hypothesis'. The TSN is rather hard to appreciate (for most people in our society it seems unbelievable, they just can't shift their mental model of a world with progress because their benchmarks for that are mostly faith based) but Peter Thiel has made many videos available explaining what it means, I think this is one of the best ones:
The 'Wolfian World' is merely a way to look at our world sideways through a (brilliant) work of fiction with very similar themes to Peter Thiel's Technological Stagnation Hypothesis.
Do you use the hosting providers for personal projects? Why the need to have different providers?
I use the free version of MyFitnessPal and it seems to satisfy my needs for tracking macros and calories. Is there an additional benefit to using the paid version?
This does sound so unprofessional if you are hitting "Archive" button after skimming through resumes/cover letters. You do understand that candidates spend significant amount of time applying for an open position and trying to get your attention. Everyone's time is equally valuable.
A 'reply' template is rarely useful. If it is not a yes/no response, then you are just wasting more of the candidate's time by making them wait.
As a founder if you aren't able to handle the volume of the applications that you are receiving, then you should delegate the work to someone else and get them to filter the applications.
True. In a way this is kind of analogous to how Apple 'fanboys'/users behave when new features are introduced in iPhones but have already been present in Android for many years prior to that.
Well, following Netflix's mantra - it is a team and not family that you are hiring for. Anyone can Google and find answers, doesn't mean you would hire everyone, would it?
There are a number of basic items that a competent programmer needs to know off the top of his head. If they had to google for every single item, then their productivity goes down the drain and so does the entire team's productivity. You should fix your hiring.
The only effective way for weight loss is making sure that one's caloric intake is less than the amount of calories they burn. And the only way of achieving that is diet and exercise.
Also comparing the human body/brain to a car/mechanical device would be incorrect and is probably an apple to oranges comparison.
Calories in - calories out is true, but it's hard to measure either with any much accuracy. You can get close with calories in, but measuring calories out isn't easy: There are charts for different activities, but our bodies are not perfect efficient machines that always use the same amount of energy for the same tasks.
Additionally, our bodies can make subtle changes in response to caloric intake: If you ingest fewer calories, you may fidget less, possibly lowering your caloric use more than you lowered your input.
Doesn't increasing your metabolic rate require increasing your body temperature? This is something that has always puzzled me when I hear that some people have faster or slower metabolism than others.
Your metabolic rates at birth, adolescence, or your teen years are probably drastically different than your rate now if you're past 30. Is your average body temperature way less than 98.7 now?
Body volume scales roughly with the third power of height, while body surface scales roughly with the second power. Therefore, it is possible for the body temperature to stay constant if the basic metabolic rate (i.e., heat generation) per unit of volume decreases between birth and adulthood.
Besides, the human body has several ways of regulating core body temperature: sweating, restricting blood flow to extremities, goose bumbs, and putting on different clothes.
All good points. Do we have measured values for metabolic rate per unit volume as a function of age? This does seem plausible -- building a new body should take more stuff than maintaining an old body.
But I wonder if this translates into different adults saying that they have fast or slow metabolism as an explanation for their weight.
Perhaps I just don't understand what "metabolic rate" means. My body is a metabolic zero-sum game, unless I'm gaining or losing weight. What comes in as food goes out as heat or mechanical work. I suppose a higher heat output could be achieved at constant temperature by sweating more. A larger person (more skin) could of course generate more heat, but the energy has to come from eating more food or being less active.
Do you simply mean that I was gaining weight at birth, adolescence, and teen years? I could agree with that.
"What comes in as food goes out as heat or mechanical work." Or out as undigested food waste. Don't have an answer for you on metabolic rate, just adding the third way food calories can leave your body.
