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I've thought about doing this too. The problem is my weight and body composition keeps changing a lot as I pick up different sports, so a thousand dollar suit I buy today may very well become too smal…

That's a very interesting reality that you live in.

>>It’s a textbook Tim Cook supply-chain move: selling the last generation’s hardware at a lower price point to expand market share. That's pretty brilliant, if true. If iPad Mini is indeed rel…

Nobody is saying you have to live with it. Of course Apple will exchange it with a new one for free. What you seemed to be saying in your original comment is that there should not be defects, period. …

Apple succeeds because their brand names are simple, elegant, and intuitive.

>>I’m sorry, but selling a product with a defect like that is just unacceptable. There are no ifs and buts about that. That’s just how it is. Unacceptable to who? The products in question are …

The flaws are real, but they are blown way out of proportion with comments like "Apple doesn't have this technology under control. They screwed up."

Unlike most of the posters in this thread, I don't think Apple's rejection of the app is political. Most likely, they want to protect themselves against future legal liability, since there is a risk t…

As long as the full ramifications of said decisions are clear, sure, allow people to make their own. But it's not possible to know at a glance what Android app is malicious and which is not. Even an a…

Agreed. The first iPad was amazing for a first gen device.

The point was not that Phelps is a representation of all athletes, but rather that athletes do eat a ton of calories a day in order to build muscle mass and have enough stamina for their rigorous trai…

While this is true, security is a massive concern. Just look at how many malicious apps were in the Android store just last year, vs. in the Apple store.

I didn't expect any real, solid answers from Obama. The reason is simple: he's not stupid. He knows that the Internet remembers everything, forever .

Your statement strikes me as patently false. Athletes eat a ton of food while training. Michael Phelps, for example, eats over 10,000 calories per day.

Can you elaborate on how a calorie-restricted diet can result in "increased energy and stamina"? Specifically, if your energy intake is minimal, how do you end up with more energy than you had in your…

I should say it is a danger, rather than the danger. Poor wording on my part. In any case, more people get fat off guzzling soda because soda is significantly cheaper, and are served in virtually …

Exactly. Megapixels only really matter if you're doing photo-editing or photo-printing. If it's being down-scaled - and it is, if you are uploading it to whatever social media site - then a 5MP iPhone…

Put simply, a billion years of evolution did not prepare us with thousands of calories of readily available, calorie dense (fast-)foods.

The feeling of satiety is not just a function of how full your stomach is. It's also a function of blood sugar levels. If you were eating sugar, you would start feeling full a lot sooner than if you w…

I think it's more that HN automatically hates any tech company as soon as it goes public, because going public tends to shift the company's focus from its users to its bank account. Decisions based on…

I'm annoyed that the study does not go into details about what the "physical activity" consisted of. The only thing it says is "self reported level of physical activity (≤1, 2-3, ≥4 days per week, wit…

>>Placing a bicycle outside with no brakes hooked up is a far cry from rigging a spring loaded shotgun to the door of an unoccupied building. Until the lack of brakes causes you to get hit by …

How can you tell if a bike you are buying is stolen? It would be pretty easy for a bike thief to post an ad on Craigslist saying they are selling their used bike. >>Tangentially, and pardon my…

"Usage is like oxygen for ideas." http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/

Yep, my diet is ridiculously consistent. I cook my food in bulk (saves time and money), drink lots of protein shakes, and when I eat out I usually order the same foods. My typical weekly meal list pro…

It's weird. Often times you'll hear people saying they ate an apple for desert instead of that chocolate souffle the waiter recommended, when their main meal was a 2000-calorie monster full of breaded…

It sounds like you haven't actually read Taubes' book. He makes the case that no fat is actually "unhealthy." Saturated fats, which have been demonized, are harmful if and only if they are consumed wi…

Irrelevant. The point is that if your destination is less than 250 miles away, then it doesn't matter whether the car charges in 5 minutes or 50.

>>Taubes isn't taken seriously by most dieticians and nutrition researchers we talk to (I work at a nutrition startup). That's because most dietitians and nutrition researchers follow conventi…

>>Whether or not the raw numbers correspond 1:1 to actual calories doesn't really matter. What matters is that you adjust your caloric intake based on whether you are gaining or losing weight,…