Well, they've been, illegally, pursuing their own interest exactly as the people using the app without paying. I don't see anything excessive here; I'm not saying that I justify them of course.
> Also I don't see a problem with sharing. It's not a substitute for face to face time but it's connecting with people MORE not less. Go back 25 years and you could rarely connected with anyone unless you were with them. Now you can connect all the time by sharing your experiences. Some people do it brag, most do it to share and connect. At least in my experience.
The problem could be exactly that you don't see any problem.
"Connecting all the time" isn't a positive thing; just a few days ago there it's been posted the "Culture of distraction" article.
Also, why assuming that "sharing experiences" is positive? Assuming that "the Facebook way" is the standard in today's experience sharing, most of the "experiences" are banal almost-everyday happenings.
The problem is cultural and it's subtle, although I think it's way more complex than a dualistic living something vs. being and audience of it.
I don't think it's a global problem; it's just asocial people who have little to none social/romantic experience, so they imagine their romantic life rather than living it.
> many a post on HN convinced me that it's not true, even though it sounds much more obvious than typical dietetary nonsense you'll hear from your random friend.
HN is a place that may be full of people who's brilliant in their field, which unfortunately #1) has nothing to do with fitness #2) it's correlated with being "not exactly fit", so certainly this is not the right place to establish beliefs in the fitness field.
from what I read, you completely lack basic nutrition knowledge, and this is the real problem, not the failed diets.
I'm absolutely convinced that you would get an adequate fit starting to study very "standard" nutrition books and understanding what you're doing.
"Losing weight" is a concept that must be absolutely removed. Boxers for example lose a couple of kg in a very short time before being weighted for matches.
Does this mean they successfully got a better shape? No.
Study, and you will understand how things work.
Attacking ignorance and recommending a long course of study won't put someone in better shape. Part of the problem is ignorance, but your answer isn't solving that problem.
"Losing weight" was absolutely necessary for me, and it will be for most people -- unless you're suggesting that humans can be healthy at 5'11" and 260lbs, or 5'5" and 210lbs -- but that seems too unrealistic.
What I learned of nutrition (after that experiment) taught me that most of what's in bread, pasta, fruit, etc is cruft. Most "health" food is just more empty calories in a "healthier" package.
+1 as well. most of the people with bad habits understands or (refuses to understand) what doing physical activity works out the symptom, not the cause.
unfortunately, it's too easy to speculate on diets sitting on a chair.
That's the most common rhetoric example used in science circles.
In real world, if those 670,000 people can't get enough food to get the basic nutrients, if they won't die from vitamine A deficiency, they will die of something else.
The problem of starvation is of social nature, not technological one. There's plenty of technology to save lots of people in those countries, as they're decades behind.
Blanket reforms will never happen in real world, because we're talking about huge quantities of money involved - a blanket reform the way, say, "many people would like it", would cause a sudden big loss to loss to big & powerful entities.
Absolutely. That's why we're still firing union workers and working child laborers thirteen hours a day. Once enough money was involved, things just couldn't change and therefore patents never will either. Not in the real world.
Right now he's very likely been cut to pieces already, as previous bloggers have been in similar situations.
Very sad, but this is how things now work in Mexico.
The real name has probably been used as last desperate attempt to find any bit of information.
Motivation is not fleeting; there are different motivations and different qualities.
If you teach a dog chasing cars to be disciplined, it will still be a dog chasing cars, but just chasing one.
The people you mention fails primarily because it has frivolous/fleeting/misleading/excessive desires.
You can grin your face like Joel and get a six-pack and be happy, until the moment you get distracted and get a beer belly before you even notice it.
In this case you're chasing a misleading objective. Leading, and understanding, a healthy life will let a person getting in shape naturally - and getting a six-pack much easier.
People who keeps doing multiple things and interrupting them, should find a single valuable objective and pursue it, instead of thinking of discipline.
What guys like Joel don't tell is how formal (opposed to substantial) approaches like "be disciplined" burn out people emotionally. And you never ever get to know how they are ten years after.
All of this, of course, in the context of the complexity of human behavior. I don't doubt that some people need discipline, but I definitively give secondary importance.
