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  • jet@hackertalks.comtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldMoney is the greatest?
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    21 days ago

    Money by itself is nothing, it’s an idea. It’s a shared idea that makes it useful. Just like gold, most people don’t have a good use for gold, but because people think it’s rare, enough people will trade for it.

    I recommend reading the book - debt the first 5,000 years. It has lots of good perspective on the concept of money, trade, debt, the manifestation of transactional relationships

    Again, money by itself does not make you happy, it can be traded for food, shelter, security, health, which are often associated with happiness. So the application of money can create an environment for happiness, but that’s not because of money, that’s because of the people at the end of the money transaction

    Consider any of the previous examples of hyperinflation, people have tremendous amounts of money, but it’s not useful to them at all. So money is not everything




  • meet the general scientific consensus?

    sees a lot of conflicting nutrition and medical info

    You can’t have one without the other. Nutritional research is severely lacking in the literature. any of the cited studies that make the vast bulk of the scientific flotilla are just observational epidemiology… Which is very noisy.

    I’ve done a bunch of reading, a massive amount really, and the only thing everyone agrees about is processed foods are bad… Except not all processed foods (the ones that further some other agenda)

    Pick your flavor of opinion and people can suggest good creators in that vertical.

    • whole foods only direct from a farm, no processing at all
    • vegan
    • whole food vegan
    • Paleo
    • minimally processed foods
    • low fat
    • ketogenic

    Personally - After all my reading I’ve settled on keto/carnivore, but to say there isn’t consensus is a understatement. There are many people who make their diet their identify and feel personally attacked if you eat differently than them. The best thing I can say for keto is their evidence is consistent, lines up across domains, and individuals following it see immediate improvements in their health metrics

    I can recommend the low carb down under YouTube channel for medical lectures on the keto, very clear about the quality and limitations of their evidence.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcTTiHZtNpiqD2EubIO5HFw









  • drastically changing the heat and or humidity in your house is going to be a bad experience. You’re much better off getting a cheap sauna bag, and using that to heat up. Just your body. Typical sauna temperatures are between 70° c and 90° c.

    In a traditional sauna I’ve melted water bottles and glasses, most things in a kitchen are not designed to get so hot.



  • Over a billion users, and very popular in old eastern bloc countries already.

    Yes central control, and controlled by people who don’t have the most robust encryption or opsec (CEO house arrest in France for example)… But over time they have demonstrated they don’t care too much about most low level crimes.

    So it’s in the sweet spot of good enough and convenient but not great and not perfect