Except no one is disputing that. Rather, it was your rejection of the ‘false cholesterol theory’ that drew pushback:
It should go without saying that serum cholesterol and dietary lipid are not the same thing–and yet here I am, having to say it.
As an aside, the JAHA study you cited used serum cholesterol as an outcome measure (along with a number of other markers).
You could consume 5x the recommended portion of dietary cholesterol per day… Or you could have a serum cholesterol of 800mg/dl
Person A might not be healthy… Person B is going to die before they hit 30
High cholesterol is a risk factor… Lifestyle parameters accentuate risk… But after a certain point high serum cholesterol (particularly high LDL, particle size also factors in… As does trigs) becomes an independent risk factor.
The link between sugar intake and heart disease however? That is very much there… You can’t live on a diet of coca cola and dounuts without developing insulin resistance (extreme analogy).
There’s plenty of low-level programming stuff that can be done with self-taught education, but some of this stuff is so absurdly advanced that you could get through an entire BS program in Computer Sciences and only understand the scope of it all.
I imagine much more school to follow my BS degree in CIS, but i would like to be working in the field before undertaking more classes.
Oh jeez. My freaking 14 year old nephew is making some pretty simple games for fun. Due to him moving from country to country while young he has hard time reading, writing and doing simple math. But the boy programs games using youtube tutorials on some premade engines/software (I am not good with the new technology to give a proper description). And his games while simple are not buggy and playable.
I dropped out of engineering degree in chemistry, due to lack of interest in physics, statistics and mathematics. I never ever studies for my chemistry exams and took them with a knowledge I had from high school. I did understand chemistry and the logic behind it, winning local competitions and being 4th in nationals, but it is not like one of the best foot technology university in Europe tought me something new in chemistry and I was recruited in that university after the national competitions. Never hold an entry exam. Never had lower than A in any chemistry exam.
its not that difficult to make ‘simple games’ but that really isn’t the only application for programming/IT. Making games is usually fairly straight-forward and doesn’t require much in terms of algorithms.
You made a mis-informed statement about IT work and now you’re trying to back it up with “well my nephew…”. Good for your nephew, but that has nothing to do with what you were talking about.
not trying to throw shade at you or whatever education you received in this, but as soon as you said “i dropped out” it nullified anything that followed. high school chemistry is by no means the same as a chemistry, or chemical engineering degree. I was 70 credits deep into an engineering/project management degree before i decided i wanted to change paths, so now I’m going for Computer Information Systems. While it’s true there are plenty of basic college courses that you can get through with little to no struggle, the level 300+ classes are a bastard most times (at least in terms of engineering).
Nothing against your nephew, but he isn’t going to be hired to run backend design without a degree just because he tinkered up a few games.
@Andrewgen_Receptors you see?
I don’t even claim to think I understand much about computer science even though now I can create a simple ping pong game in python, tetris in JS and a fully functioning website with secure payment portals using either Django or a MERN stack. I am currently trying to pick up basic Solana concepts because some new clients are into NFTS and prices for minting and transferring of ETH have gone ridiculously high. I can only fuck around with their JS api because I don’t know Rust.
Python libraries enable any idiot to web scrape tons of data as long as he knows some basic HTML and/or how to use a site’s api. Any idiot can also create a basic facial recognition program with one of it’s libraries.
And that’s like just a couple of EASY stuff in CS. I just need to know enough to manage the guys whom are doing the actual work.
If I were to look for a job with only what’s on my github and very little work experience, I doubt I would even be employable unless I do some really nice profile copywriting on Upwork and pay off a lot of fuckers from the Whitehat forums to post lots of good reviews.
I don’t know whether this guy is talking about Unreal Engine or whether he thinks vs code is some kind of special software but he clearly doesn’t know how much he doesn’t know.
@ins Critical thinking 101:
If barriers to entry are low, competition increases, prices fall.
You think I use a guy with a PHD and increase my costs several times for fun?
15 years ago I used An Idiot’s Guide to HTML and built my company website in 1 week with tables and shit (@Andrewgen_Receptors fucking tables… lol). A similar site would have cost around $500-$1,000 with the lower price range not including any fucking CSS and the higher price range depending on whether you wanted fancy shit like flash animations (lolol) and we had no bloody money. We were so fucking broke I couldn’t even use Frontpage on our com because it sucked so hard the lag was intolerable. So I did it all on notepad and uploaded the files onto a local service provider which also provided database services so I didn’t have to know balls about the backend.
I am pretty sure it would have cost double in the West.
I’m not saying I’m smart. I’m saying it was EASY as long as you were WILLING to put the effort into it.
So fucking easy that today, people without any coding knowledge can easily make a site 10x more advanced than that using any online platform with Wordpress and no one today would even pay $3.50 for a website that used to cost $500.
You start learning code in your early 20s and the kind of pay you would expect to be getting now will probably half of that when you hit 30.
Then how did you assume I was acting like a “medical expert” when all I wrote that may be related in the other thread was that ivermectin is a derivative from a certain class of drugs and almost everything I wrote was in jest?
Do you think I really expect anyone to come up with a topically administered drug like selemectin which lasts a month in humans?
I would like to present the T-Nation Accomplishment of the Year Award to @ins for his high school chemistry grades.
I did this, still had an education… but I went to five different schools before I graduated.
I got the COVID mRNA booster shot today. If I am missing from here you all know what happened…
Did your injection site start flashing a dull light? 
Couldn’t see it.
It was making this weird buzzing noise though 
Probably a 5G upgrade.
Gratz on fucking up your T cells and putting a non working vaccine for omricon. You deserve the protection!
bro, calm tf down. its his right to get the vaccine just like its’ your right not to. stop attacking others for their medical choices if YOU dont want to be attacked for yours. fuck
He’s out here rooting for the vaccines not to work. What else would you expect?
I did a mistake with EyeDentis the other day. Its too many people we have in these discussions.
Surprisingly, you and I agree on this.
I want vaccines to work, I just dont think anyone should be forced to take them.
One of these days i’ll become an adult. Today is not that day.
Thats actually a good meme. I appreciate good chumor. Thank you for making my night
Only a selfish evil MFer would wish vaccines to not work saving people from death and sickness.
