The reason I refuse to read about keto is that pretty much all doctors and public health organizations I’ve seen recommend basically the same things: whole grains, fruits, vegetables, replace saturated fats with unsaturated if possible, low fat dairy, nuts, legumes, fish, some poultry sometimes, strictly controlled alcohol.
Until these guys start recommending something such as keto my basic assumption is that it’s either a weird fringe diet or a diet only applicable to very specific medical issues (eg seizures) that me (not a medical professional) should not try on myself.
If I go to a doctor and they ask how my diet is and I tell them I eat the stuff I listed above, I’m fairly certain they will tell me good job. If I do some extreme fringe thing, I doubt it will be their response with the same likelihood (though a few probably like it).
It’s not unidentifiable once you study more. Sigma “is” “roughly” the letter S, and stands for sum. Squiggly S stands for integral (roughly a sum). Intuition for why these things roughly “are” each other takes perhaps more study.
They might or might not deliver real value, but I’m sure most research scientists view a lot of software as simple implementation rather than real value. I think everyone needs to work together for these complex systems.
Are they? As an undergrad I thought my professors were silly folks who got suckered into making a huge effort on obscure facts when they could easily make the same salary with less energy in software/IT. When a prof I did research with behaved rudely to me I just quit his lab and got someone else to write grad school letters for me. Academically all but the best undergrads know basically nothing, but looking down on them seems like you’ll soon have lab a labor shortage to me, especially in CS.
I agree with some part of your second paragraph. If I met some guy who did nothing but code 14 hours daily for 10 years, my first guess would be that he may be mentally deranged and impossible to work with on a team. Maybe 10-12 hours 5 days a week for many years I’d just think he’s very serious about his career. Beyond that he may be a crazy person.
I wonder how people become so deluded that a major news publication needs to tell them this. Surely if it were reasonably easy to become rich by refusing lattes, several people from your social circle would have done it already and you could just ask them.
Who cares? What do you care about? I care about money and food in the table and being able to live my life. Did that guy interfere with that or managing to continue a decent career trajectory? If not, who cares?
Christianity already solved this. There is a hierarchy but it’s invisible and you can’t access it. The one you see is not especially relevant to anything except social custom and determining your responsibilities.
I think most informed Economist readers already are aware that they are, to some extent, being influenced by the “subtle propaganda” of the publication. I believe it’s part of their “thing”.
Many folks will acknowledge the secular or scientific benefits of e.g. temperance with food or alcohol, or even restraint with sex. One thing I’ve heard few outside of religious encourage is humility. Some people will just be better than you at different things, have more stuff than you, be more honored, etc. If you can’t deal with that situation without becoming emotional and working 100 hours a week, you’ve got, on some level, a similar problem as the guy who can’t see a cake without eating the whole thing, and becomes overweight as a result.
My mom was in extremely good shape with obese children. She was a homemaker who did hours of exercise everyday. As such she could basically eat potato chips and donuts and stay in great shape. For people who had to do things like study or work, it didn’t work out.
I met one engineer with a similar attitude. He would often make fun of me for not knowing things. However, he completely lost it when I pointed out he didn’t understand some basic concept in the same way he would have done to me. I’m hesitant to believe interpretations like yours based on my experiences with these people. I kind of view a lot of what I’ve seen engineers engage in (it might differ from your experiences) as a pointless intellectual pissing contest (on subjects the participants often lack depth of understanding on) with some level of group ego massaging.
Until these guys start recommending something such as keto my basic assumption is that it’s either a weird fringe diet or a diet only applicable to very specific medical issues (eg seizures) that me (not a medical professional) should not try on myself.
If I go to a doctor and they ask how my diet is and I tell them I eat the stuff I listed above, I’m fairly certain they will tell me good job. If I do some extreme fringe thing, I doubt it will be their response with the same likelihood (though a few probably like it).
This is just my personal opinion.