cholesterol

[John Larkin]

https://medium.com/the-mission/higher-cholesterol-is-associated-with-longer-life-b4090f28d96e


This is arguably off-topic here, except that it once again illustrates
the repeated collective wrongness of experts who operate by
professional concensus.

https://medium.com/the-mission/higher-cholesterol-is-associated-with-longer-life-b4090f28d96e

Dump those statins! More ice cream and cheesecake and BBQ ribs!


I'm just starting this book, but it's a lot of fun:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking, because we get
complex quantitative puzzles and serious, timely feedback on what we
decide to do.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Tim Williams]

"John Larkin" <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in message
news:tifere5djqtpnjoke71ngsg8vqjda8qt87@4ax.com...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Sounds like thinly veiled racism. I'll make a point to avoid it, thanks!

Tim

--
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Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design
Website: https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:39:46 -0500, "Tim Williams"
<tiwill@seventransistorlabs.com> wrote:

"John Larkin" <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in message
news:tifere5djqtpnjoke71ngsg8vqjda8qt87@4ax.com...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Sounds like thinly veiled racism. I'll make a point to avoid it, thanks!

Tim

Predisposition of thinking happens in all populations.

And if different ethnic populations do have different trends of
thinking, is understanding that racist?

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[bitrex]

On 10/28/19 3:39 PM, Tim Williams wrote:

"John Larkin" <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in message
news:tifere5djqtpnjoke71ngsg8vqjda8qt87@4ax.com...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Sounds like thinly veiled racism.  I'll make a point to avoid it, thanks!

Tim

If JL likes it it says that conservatives are conservatives because
they're just naturally smarter and better people than other kinds of
people.

what else could it say.

 

[John Doe]

John Larkin wrote:

This is arguably off-topic here, except that it once again
illustrates the repeated collective wrongness of experts who
operate by professional concensus.

Of course there are exceptions, but the professional consensus is
usually good to go by.

> Dump those statins! More ice cream and cheesecake and BBQ ribs!

Whatever delusions get you through the day...

 

[Winfield Hill]

John Larkin wrote...

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking,
because we get complex quantitative puzzles and
serious, timely feedback on what we decide to do.

Don't count on getting away with consuming mass
quantities of ice cream, cheesecake and BBQ ribs.
I haven't had any of the three for some time now.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[bitrex]

On 10/28/19 5:13 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 10/28/19 3:39 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
"John Larkin" <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in
message news:tifere5djqtpnjoke71ngsg8vqjda8qt87@4ax.com...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Sounds like thinly veiled racism.  I'll make a point to avoid it, thanks!

Tim


If JL likes it it says that conservatives are conservatives because
they're just naturally smarter and better people than other kinds of
people.

what else could it say.

Or at least, that's what he interpreted it to say.

 

[bitrex]

On 10/28/19 6:28 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:13:57 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 10/28/19 3:39 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
"John Larkin" <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in message
news:tifere5djqtpnjoke71ngsg8vqjda8qt87@4ax.com...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Sounds like thinly veiled racism.  I'll make a point to avoid it, thanks!

Tim


If JL likes it it says that conservatives are conservatives because
they're just naturally smarter and better people than other kinds of
people.

what else could it say.

You'll never know. Because you don't want to know.

There are millions of other books in the world I'll never get to read
either I suppose life will go on, somehow.

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:13:57 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 10/28/19 3:39 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
"John Larkin" <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in message
news:tifere5djqtpnjoke71ngsg8vqjda8qt87@4ax.com...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Sounds like thinly veiled racism.  I'll make a point to avoid it, thanks!

Tim


If JL likes it it says that conservatives are conservatives because
they're just naturally smarter and better people than other kinds of
people.

what else could it say.

You'll never know. Because you don't want to know.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 6:33:08 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

https://medium.com/the-mission/higher-cholesterol-is-associated-with-longer-life-b4090f28d96e


This is arguably off-topic here, except that it once again illustrates
the repeated collective wrongness of experts who operate by
professional concensus.

https://medium.com/the-mission/higher-cholesterol-is-associated-with-longer-life-b4090f28d96e

Dump those statins! More ice cream and cheesecake and BBQ ribs!


I'm just starting this book, but it's a lot of fun:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Of course John Larkin actually is "shallow, misguided, uninformed, and ignorant" but he's too shallow, misguided and ignorant to be aware of this.

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking, because we get
complex quantitative puzzles and serious, timely feedback on what we
decide to do.

So why hasn't it worked for John Larkin? Probably because as soon as he runs into a complex quantitative puzzle he opts to buy an inadequate solution off the shelf.

His approach to anhtropogenic global warming is to believe everything that he gets told by denialist web-sites, which is essentially a bunch of specious arguments that justify ignoring it.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 9:29:05 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:13:57 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 10/28/19 3:39 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
"John Larkin" <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in message
news:tifere5djqtpnjoke71ngsg8vqjda8qt87@4ax.com...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

Sounds like thinly veiled racism.  I'll make a point to avoid it, thanks!

Tim


If JL likes it it says that conservatives are conservatives because
they're just naturally smarter and better people than other kinds of
people.

what else could it say.

You'll never know. Because you don't want to know.

John Larkin isn't good at recognising sarcasm. It's part of the shallow, misguided, uninformed, and ignorant persona that he projects so remarkably consistently.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

On 28 Oct 2019 14:32:23 -0700, Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote...

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking,
because we get complex quantitative puzzles and
serious, timely feedback on what we decide to do.

Don't count on getting away with consuming mass
quantities of ice cream, cheesecake and BBQ ribs.
I haven't had any of the three for some time now.

Do you remember when eggs were bad for you? They are a superfood now.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-proven-health-benefits-of-eggs#section3





--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[mpm]

On Monday, October 28, 2019 at 5:06:35 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote:

Of course there are exceptions, but the professional consensus is
usually good to go by.

The way I learned it, "one person's opinion is statistically insignificant... especially when that person happens to be you!"

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 1:28:19 PM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On 28 Oct 2019 14:32:23 -0700, Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com
wrote:

John Larkin wrote...

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking,
because we get complex quantitative puzzles and
serious, timely feedback on what we decide to do.

Don't count on getting away with consuming mass
quantities of ice cream, cheesecake and BBQ ribs.
I haven't had any of the three for some time now.

Do you remember when eggs were bad for you? They are a superfood now.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-proven-health-benefits-of-eggs#section3

John Larkin seems to think that the diet advice business has something to do with science. He's always been shallow, ill-informed and ignorant, and treats self-promoting buffoons (Donald Trump comes to mind) as if they are just as credible as scientific authorities.

He doesn't know enough about science to realise that there is a difference, and resists any suggestion that he ought to learn enough to find out.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[whit3rd]

On Monday, October 28, 2019 at 7:28:19 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

> Do you remember when eggs were bad for you?

Actually, I never had any reason to believe that.

> They are a superfood now.

And no reason to believe that, either. Food is the word I'd use.

Eat a variety of foods, pay attention to flavors and folllow your appetite.
Or don't, but there's no benefit in following fads instead.

 

[bitrex]

On 10/29/19 4:06 AM, bitrex wrote:

On 10/28/19 11:09 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 1:28:19 PM UTC+11,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On 28 Oct 2019 14:32:23 -0700, Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com
wrote:

John Larkin wrote...

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking,
because we get complex quantitative puzzles and
serious, timely feedback on what we decide to do.

Don't count on getting away with consuming mass
quantities of ice cream, cheesecake and BBQ ribs.
I haven't had any of the three for some time now.

Do you remember when eggs were bad for you? They are a superfood now.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-proven-health-benefits-of-eggs#section3


John Larkin seems to think that the diet advice business has something
to do with science. He's always been shallow, ill-informed and
ignorant, and treats self-promoting buffoons (Donald Trump comes to
mind) as if they are just as credible as scientific authorities.

He doesn't know enough about science to realise that there is a
difference, and resists any suggestion that he ought to learn enough
to find out.



You know who was also a vegetarian? hitler.

Or rather he _claimed_ to be a vegetarian but it seems unlikely it was
something he adhered to rigidly.

 

[bitrex]

On 10/28/19 11:09 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 1:28:19 PM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On 28 Oct 2019 14:32:23 -0700, Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com
wrote:

John Larkin wrote...

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking,
because we get complex quantitative puzzles and
serious, timely feedback on what we decide to do.

Don't count on getting away with consuming mass
quantities of ice cream, cheesecake and BBQ ribs.
I haven't had any of the three for some time now.

Do you remember when eggs were bad for you? They are a superfood now.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-proven-health-benefits-of-eggs#section3

John Larkin seems to think that the diet advice business has something to do with science. He's always been shallow, ill-informed and ignorant, and treats self-promoting buffoons (Donald Trump comes to mind) as if they are just as credible as scientific authorities.

He doesn't know enough about science to realise that there is a difference, and resists any suggestion that he ought to learn enough to find out.

You know who was also a vegetarian? hitler.

It's prolly worth mentioning that the animal rights/ethical food
movement and various fascist movements have a long and somewhat
troubling history together, only for the sake of that sometimes
right-wingers re-discover this every once in a while and think they've
discovered some novel secret. It's not novel everyone knows this but
them and doesn't intrinsically discredit any particular food-ethics
movement except ones associated with fascists. The Nazis were also into
having good transit infrastructure and nice uniforms so what.

There are pretty well-established digestive-tract-health reasons I
believe that it's a good idea for men over 40 to cut down on e.g. red
meat intake. Also heavily smoked foods are likely to be carcinogenic for
the same reason secondhand tobacco smoke is carcinogenic.

And also foods like ice cream, cheesecake, ribs, foods with lots of eggs
in them like scrambled eggs and omelets just have a huge amount of
calories and eating too much of them (they do taste pretty great) tends
to make you overweight and obesity is definitively associated with a
host of health problems.

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:32:44 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

"Everything in moderation" is the oldest and wisest advice IMO.



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[Martin Brown]

On 28/10/2019 19:32, John Larkin wrote:

https://medium.com/the-mission/higher-cholesterol-is-associated-with-longer-life-b4090f28d96e


This is arguably off-topic here, except that it once again illustrates
the repeated collective wrongness of experts who operate by
professional concensus.

Food fads are inclined to get endlessly recycled.

I wouldn't put too much faith in the Japanese data unless you are eating
a low fat high rice diet with a small amount of high quality oily fish
as protein. Likewise for some of the other countries cited in the
"study" which also have a preference for oily fish and active lifestyle.

When I lived in Japan my colleagues from the UK would take me out to
Western restaurants to feed me up because they thought I was wasting
away on my Japanese diet. The reality was that they were all becoming
much more rotund and I was getting slightly slimmer and a lot fitter.

https://medium.com/the-mission/higher-cholesterol-is-associated-with-longer-life-b4090f28d96e

Dump those statins! More ice cream and cheesecake and BBQ ribs!

Didn't that Atkin's diet bloke advocate that?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-207828/Dr-Atkins-18st-died.html

I'm just starting this book, but it's a lot of fun:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415535875/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects
the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks
like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs
(tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear
(includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people
reason.

There is a survival advantage to a species that has individuals who are
mostly concerned with just surviving and maintaining the status quo and
also a handful of risk takers who will go out and find new resources.

Abstract thinking and language allows for past knowledge to be made
available to future generations initially by word of mouth.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[Winfield Hill]

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote...

On 28 Oct 2019 14:32:23 -0700, Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com
wrote:

John Larkin wrote...

Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking,
because we get complex quantitative puzzles and
serious, timely feedback on what we decide to do.

Don't count on getting away with consuming mass
quantities of ice cream, cheesecake and BBQ ribs.
I haven't had any of the three for some time now.

Do you remember when eggs were bad for you? They are a
superfood now.

Yes, it'd be nice if ice cream and cheesecake were
declared superfoods. In our dreams.


--
Thanks,
- Win