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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8541492/

you lose muscle faster due to low protein during the fasting period

if this is the reason, then wouldn't adjusting your macros to ensure enough protein mitigate this?

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/the-5-2-diet-guide

FTA: It’s called the 5:2 diet because five days of the week are normal eating days, while the other two restrict calories to 500–600 per day.

https://image3.slideserve.com/6300839/cumulative-distributio...

this says 10% of the people drink 60% of the alcohol

While not everyone is a fan of Jared Diamond, see: https://www.enotes.com/topics/guns-germs-steel

Infectious diseases often arise when humans live in large groups with their animals from which a lot of the diseases originate.

Rem sleep occurs in the last two hours of an 8 hour sleep.

Slight quibble: the fraction of REM sleep in each sleep cycle is highest during the last sleep cycle of the night.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-WWI...

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/hidden-monuments-to-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol

FTA: Menthol has local anesthetic and counterirritant qualities, and it is widely used to relieve minor throat irritation.

This makes it easier to get new smokers going without the coughing / throat irritation.

But in Ruby only false and nil are "falsey", so unless the variable was accidentally set to false (not impossible) the construct behaves as an initializer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

Auto, tire and oil companies had an affect in some places.

Just my anecdotal experience: the people who should be coding will find a way to start coding.

The barrier to entry is so low -- talking about learning to code, not necessarily finding employment. I have tried with coworkers and family members who wanted to do it for the money and their heart just wasn't in it.

In California you can turn left on red from a one-way to a one-way street.

I Googled "islands accelerate genetic changes" and the results show stuff like:

The restricted scale, isolation, and sharp boundaries of islands create unique selective pressures, often to dramatic effect.

Perhaps a better tag line would be "duplication is far cheaper than a bad abstraction".

The take-away from the article for me is if subsequent activity (the changes requiring parameters and if-branches) show it was or has become a bad abstraction, then undo the abstraction and re-introduce the duplication.

But how your body reacts to food has an effect on how hungry you get. It's easier to eat fewer calories if you aren't as hungry.

And the whole point of the article is that we differ significantly on how are bodies respond to food.

I was in the ER with what I expected was (and turned out to be kidney stones). I was stunned when the doctor's first question was something like "what is your expected outcome of this visit?".

I mumbled something like "make the pain go away and not come back".

prefer hash.fetch(:key) over hash[:key]. fetch raises NoKeyError if key not in hash.

More generally, when you are coordinating activity with others.

If the code being deployed requires announcements to users, Help Desk people, changes to other applications, changes do documentation, etc., then these are not "artificial" at all.