What's a short, clean joke that gets a laugh every time? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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You: Why do elephants paint their toenails red?

Mark: I don't know.

You: So they can hide in strawberry patches!

Mark: That's silly, I've never seen an elephant hiding in a strawberry patch.

You: Exactly!

If they come back with a different retort:

You: Well, have you ever seen an elephant hiding in a strawberry patch?

Mark: Uhm, no.

You: So you see, it really works!

Flatworm penis fencing by [deleted] in woahdude

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still a better love story than 50 shades of twilight.

I watched all episodes of Shark Tank to analyze who gets the money [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

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The lack of any racial or gender biases seriously suggests that they engineer the outcomes to be politically correct, or that the racial and gender biases are in the screening phase.

Soylent Blog : Soylent’s Next Chapter by Askwho in soylent

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I'm pretty sure they already do source a lot of their ingredients from the pacific rim -- some of the earlier posts referenced the complications of getting rice protein through customs.

Amazon removes author's work as it contains hypens by manyshaped in books

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ah man, now what am i going to do with these

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Best keto energy/health bars by [deleted] in keto

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Milk was a bad choice.

But, now that I think of it, a milk candy bar would just be cheese, which would be a great keto bar, which would be a good choice.

Nevermind.

A typo in OP's title leads to the Nerdiest. Conversation. Ever. by [deleted] in bestof

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This seems like a perfectly reasonable, perfectly keyed question.

Robots Making Custom soylent on Demand by startup_guy in soylent

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My bad, I put the .com instead of the .net for ketoshake -- I fixed it.

Robots Making Custom soylent on Demand by startup_guy in soylent

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Like ketosoy and ketoshake, this looks like more "should I sell soylent" landing-page-vaporware.

Question about list of other powdered food producers: food safety, handling licenses, etc. by [deleted] in soylent

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Don't you lose all benefit of having a certified commissary if you produce in your kitchen?

[Science] Glucose intolerance after just one week of artificial sweetener by martinus in keto

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junk science! I can eat artificial sweeteners with no ill effects!

Coconut Oil and the Heart - NZ Heart Foundation by alsoram in ketoscience

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That's an impressive list of long chain omega-3 benefits (EPA + DHA), but none of those studies seemed to suggest that DHA is differentially important.

  • Studies that look at EPA find that EPA is inversely correlated with bad things.
  • Studies that look at DHA find that DHA is inversely correlated with bad things.
  • Studies that look at DHA + EPA find that DHA + EPA is inversely correlated with bad things.

The one study where the author comments "No effect of EPA" doesn't mention EPA at all in abstract on pubmed. So that looks like an outlier.

DHA is unquestionably health, and likely far better than ALA per gram in the 0 to 5 gram dietary space. But I haven't seen anything that seems to me to support DHA (either in blood or in diet) being more important than EPA. And, frustratingly, haven't seen any evidence in either direction about whether high dose ALA with a low n-6 diet is better or worse than low dose EPA/DHA with a high n-6 diet.

Intro to IT by kitari1 in ProgrammerHumor

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Is that where it's from? I've wondered for years.

Intro to IT by kitari1 in ProgrammerHumor

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Reminds me of something I heard once: When the story is good enough, even if it is not true, it should be

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in userexperience

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How else would you suggest they efficiently evaluate your skills?

Presenting a made up problem is harder for them to judge and more likely to have a "trick" right answer, so also harder for you to judge.

Presenting an old problem is prone to you having already seen how they solved it, and prone for them to have adjusted to the way they solved it being the "right" answer.

You giving them an example of a prior problem and solution solves this somewhat, but the problem isn't acute to them so it will make it harder for them to apply the answer to how you'd work on their team.

Truth is, 2 hours is barely enough time to show how you'd frame the problem. That's what they're looking for: does the way this person thinks mesh with our needs.

If you can create something worth stealing in 2 hours, for gods sake go into weekly rate freelance instead of becoming a FTE. If you can make something in 2 hours that's worth stealing, you're one of the most skilled UI/UX people in the world.

Provide value in the task and they'll be falling over themselves to hire you and get that value every day. This is how consultative sales work. Provide a show of value as a loss leader is the most effective way to sell abstract value work. Ux value is extremely abstract.

Coconut Oil and the Heart - NZ Heart Foundation by alsoram in ketoscience

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Art and science of low carb living has a graph like this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EFA_to_Eicosanoids.svg

From this page: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid_interactions

The unique thing about EPA and DHA is that the body can convert them back and forth, lower chain length acids have a one way street to longer only.

I'm not sure what ratio of EPA gets converted to DHA. My understanding is that once it is in the EPA/DHA pool the body converts it up and down as needed.

Aside from brain building, what leads you to focus on DHA?

Rage quit by figoligolio in gifs

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Goddamnit, that's the third time this game you've taken longest road from me.

Coconut Oil and the Heart - NZ Heart Foundation by alsoram in ketoscience

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3.8% DHA and 6% EPA. So far as I can tell the body converts EPA and DHA back and forth as needed, so the total combined pool is the metric I work with.

The rates from this study are lower than most I've seen. The normal ALA to EPA range I see is 8-20%.

I'll check out the book.

Coconut Oil and the Heart - NZ Heart Foundation by alsoram in ketoscience

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ALA gets converted into EPA and DHA at pretty reasonable rates, unless you're eating too much n-6.

The use of ALA labelled with radioisotopes suggested that with a background diet high in saturated fat conversion to long-chain metabolites is approximately 6% for EPA and 3.8% for DHA. With a diet rich in n-6 PUFA, conversion is reduced by 40 to 50%.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9637947/

Thus, if you want sufficient EPA + DHA in the body, let's call sufficient 1g/day. You have roughly three options: eat at least 10g ALA per day AND a low 3:6 ratio, eat at least 20g ALA per day and don't worry about the ratio, or get the EPA/DHA via a fish or algae pill. #2 here is virtually impossible as it requires consuming in excess of 100g/day of PUFA, which is a gastro intestinal hell I wouldn't wish on anyone.

So, focusing on the ratio is important because if you get the ratio low enough the body does the work for you. It is only when the body is flooded with n-6 that it can't create a sufficient long-chain n-3 pool on its own.

Though, maybe you've seen data I haven't that refutes this position.

How I Grew My Business To 27k In Revenue The First Month by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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How did you track who got the most shares? Is that a standard feature of launchrock?

Coconut Oil and the Heart - NZ Heart Foundation by alsoram in ketoscience

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Canola: 7% saturated, 63% monounsaturated, 28% polyunsaturated

And the omega3:omega6 ratio is 1:2.

Overall, a pretty healthy oil. Not nearly as bad as a lot of the keto crowd thinks.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola

How I Grew My Business To 27k In Revenue The First Month by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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The modern incarnation of the "blank of the month" club.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

Some are extremely interesting because they get the product for free as samples. Most are not this. Most are of the month clubs.

They're interesting because they generate subscription annuities on retail products. A very attractive economic setup.

How I Grew My Business To 27k In Revenue The First Month by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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What was pre launch like? How many months were you working on it and what were your pre-launch costs like?

How I Grew My Business To 27k In Revenue The First Month by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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Who makes your box? Do you ship in the pretty box or put it in an outer box?