strls's comments

Well, this is just a bunch of nonsense.

Here are the logical ways to explain the misconception of injury being less common with bodyweight training:

1. Progress with BW is slow as crawl. All things being equal, lifting will improve strength much faster, leading to higher loads sooner. Higher loads always mean more injury potential. Faster progress is not magic - it's possible because all major muscle groups can be loaded precisely and gradually with weights as opposed to BW movements. You can take things as slowly as you want.

2. With BW, some movements simply cannot be loaded properly. For example there is nothing you can possibly do with just your body weight to put any serious load on your legs or low back. This already cuts one's potential for injury in half at the cost of neglecting the development of the lower half of your body. So instead of taking things slow with your barbel squats, you are stuck at 1-leg BW squats forever, which are only hard because of balance/stretching issues and are fairly trivial strength-wise.

3. With free weights, it's easier to be stupid and bite more than you can handle.

As I said, I've done both for enough time to appreciate pros and cons. There are reasons to practice BW training, but lower injury changes is not a good one.

Where's the less chance of injury part coming from? It's much easier to master and incrementally load a fundamental weightlifting movement than a corresponding bodyweight progression. This means better form and more control - fewer injuries. I have tried both types of training for a while, and have concluded that weights are superior in every way. Unless the goal is mastery of a specific bodyweight skill.

B12 must be supplemented, the rest is wrong. Not sure what's your point regarding carbs. Source: I do plant-based and perform blood tests for all the things you mentioned and more.

I didn't like SS when I tried it. It users the rep range 3-5 for the working sets as far as I remember. This makes sense as the book is strength-focused. However this is just too heavy for a casual lifter. Lifting 5RM, the form and concentration has to be very tight not to screw up. I've gotten small injuries from lifting much lighter than that. Nowadays I wouldn't even consider lifting 3RM for reps without backup - I know that will not end well.

I recommend 5/3/1 for everyone, especially with some lifting experience. Very easily sustainable long term because training sessions are short and sweet. Minimal risk of injury because the warm-up sets are built-in and there's no fatigue from long workouts. It can be easily combined with other sports like running or martial arts because there's plenty of time for recovery.

I wonder where is the part about low-carb coming from?

Are there any studies on positive effects of fasting which control for caloric restriction / weight loss?

A better idea is to not develop insulin resistance in the first place and improve sensitivity.I eat 85% carb diet. My blood glucose barely moves up after eating a bunch of straight sugar, then goes back to fasting level after an hour and a half.

Not much, really. You can setup a company remotely, only to have to come to Estonia anyway to try to open a bank account and most likely get rejected.

Windows is truly a pain like never before. Going Linux can be very easy these days, depending what you do on the machine.

I think it depends on the model. I run arch on a Thinkpad and the battery life is about what I expect given the battery size. CPU voltage and fan is modulated properly. No lid or sleep issues whatsoever.

This is only because higher purchasing power drives people to consume more instead of working less. I find today one could live off very few hours of work.

I learned that other humans are the most important thing in life. It took me a while and right circumstances to really feel and appreciate the importance of social interaction. I used to think I don't need to be around people much with all the goals to achieve and learning to do. Until I tried living and working in isolation for a while. Everything just becomes meaningless.

Org-Mode can work, but it's not for everybody. I tried using it for GTD for more than a year, but ended up gradually abandoning it. It was too much friction when I least need it.

One problem is that it encourages to put both to-dos and reference material in the same place. I found this makes things a mess more often than not.

Also, it forced me to learn Emacs way more than I otherwise needed, instead of focusing on work.

I did enjoy some aspects of it though. All my to-do history from that time is still searchable. And I didn't have to upload my work and personal data to some random SaaS provider.

I actually ended up building a desktop GTD tool [1] based on those needs. It looks good, is low-friction and pleasant to use, runs on Linux, stores data in a local Sqlite DB. No subscription. But it's on Electron. I know HN seems to hate Electron apps.

[1] https://everdo.net/

I think this depends entirely on how you define success. Having $1m in itself does nothing for happiness.

But the process of "getting there" certainly does. The drive, overcoming challenges, achieving small "success" every day.

Humans are not happy when everything is settled. We crave struggle.

No offence, but this is contradicting everything I've learned about US incorporation so far :) Do you have any sources I can look into?

From what I know you can easily form and operate a company in the US without ever being present there.

You would have to come in person to get a bank account though.

I know there are always companies who will take money for assisting with any kind of crazy stuff. Here I just wonder if anyone who's not selling such services could share some real-world experience.

I have no problem with them being strict as long as it's not very difficult or expensive to comply. Is this the case?

I don't suppose IRS or any other authority is particularly casual either.

Thank you for mentioning the VAT issues. I've read about that, and as I understand, there's a bunch of services for dealing with VAT collection. Some payment solutions presumably even handle it for you.

Thank you. Atlas could help one incorporate, but I don't see much value for me in what they offer. I just want to know if I should bother with a US company just to process payments.

The problem is not banking, it's compliance with local regulations. There are some requirements that make global online sales like not practical.

So I would say the main purpose of this whole thing is payment processing in a sane jurisdiction.