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It looks like they made people do things that require more short term oxygen uptake and as a result they adapted to be able to uptake more oxygen in the short term. I wouldn't so readily dismiss the myriad of other physical adaptations that result from long term, high volume, low intensity exercise, such as improved bone density, better fat metabolism, stronger heart muscles, better endurance and resilience, better mental health and cognition etc.

You may be right, but the reason I put that in the title was because it begins by siting a bunch of other research evidencing that “short-term fasting ...can protect healthy cells against a wide variety of stressors, including chemotherapy”, because in the trial they were able to omit dexamethasone with no negative effects, and because “chemotherapy-induced DNA damage in T-lymphocytes“ was “significantly curtailed”

If you compare 100ml oatly to 100ml normal semi skimmed milk, it’s lower in calories, sugar, fat, has about 5 x less saturated fat, definitely doesn’t contain any hormones, antibiotics, casein, and probably doesn’t raise your igf1 either

Authors receive consulting fees from big pharma including Merck Sharp & Dohme, LB Pharma, and Pfizer

Right! They exclude cases where they don’t work, then conclude ‘All antidepressants were more efficacious than placebo’. This is highly misleading

Is this not an insanely low bar? How can we take this paper seriously? We are talking about brain alchemy and more than 80% of the trials under consideration have a moderate to high risk of bias?!

96 out of 522 trials identified as low risk of bias (18%)

https://github.com/QubitProducts/micro-amd is another project with similar goals. Its pretty small, amd compliant and battle tested

So, most captchas don't seem to pose much of a barrier to bots that need to get round them.

A couple of months ago there was an article on the state of web scraping in 2016: https://goo.gl/eUtkRA. In it, the author easily identified and integrated one of many captcha solvers.

Worst case scenario, there is also crowdsourced mechanical turk style captcha solving as a service: e.g. https://anti-captcha.com.

I guess this raises the question as to whether captchas pose more of a barrier to users than bots, and whether they should be used at all?

http://imgur.com/a/O1dy8

only siths deal in absolutes

I implore you to delete this before simon cowell finds it

this has been posted a few times, but is a great resource

this is cool, but it's a bit misleading to declare something 'lightweight' if it has 5 dependencies including jquery and underscore

I understand the whole 'paradox of choice' thing - but this should never be seen as a negative. It is a sign of a strong, healthy community making lots of progress.

If you're looking for popular tech, i think a good proxy is github stars.

how do they manage their databases, this would be interesting if the system is truely distributed

how do they manage their databases, this would be interesting if the system is truely distributed

here is a followup post comparing gzipped versions: http://blog.pictonic.co/post/33163844823/icon-fonts-vs-svgs-...

thank you for your comment, and the link, really interesting points!

this is true, although even when gzipped svgs are typically about double the size of ttfs

re browsers, yea none of them passed 100% of the tests, but admittedly that chart is about 10 months old

omg... *facepalm that was an accident. the fonts have been tested extensively also in firefox, we'll update that soon

ah, yea thanks, that's good to know! that link is fascinating btw

hi there, what browser are you using there?

hi there, thanks for the feedback! you're right there is no reason to have the lines over free icons. We'll consider this for the next update. Regarding the private use area, actually pictonic font icons are mapped to the private use area for precisely the reasons you describe

hi there, here is a screen shot of the programming language set: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3737990/Screen%20Shot%202012-08-21%...

hi there,

i just wanted to let you know that we've tested these on ios, and in an upcoming release we are going to make it a piece of cake to integrate pictonic's icons into your ios projects.

alan

Interesting, yea I guess that's exactly what would be required to achieve this, a function capable of reliably translating between path data formats and also canvas instructions. Path data can be annoying though, so many ways to express the same thing. Happy to collab on a jsfiddle? Once we have that the rest should be fairy simple.

ok thanks, we'll look into this, in the meantime, it should line up pretty nicely, and its easy to mod with css

facepalm ...we'll add this for sure

Btw We can also provide individual icon svgs with the font pack if this is useful