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soy causes man boobs


I'm not sure if you are serious, or trying to make a joke... But last I heard, consuming the Phytoestrogens in soy were found to have no measurable effect on a human male's estrogen/testosterone levels, or otherwise make them appear/act more feminine.


Sure, but I'm pretty sure the reason xenoestrogens are "bad" is because they affect the same cellular receptors as naturally occurring hormones, not because they affect estrogen/testosterone levels. Just because we've measured that something isn't the case, doesn't necessarily mean something (else) isn't happening. It could be doing something we just can't measure yet. Who knows what the long-term effects of greater phytoestrogen intake is for an individual? Or for their future offspring?

As others in this thread have alluded to, we're far from having a correct model that we can believe in with high confidence when it comes to nutrition.


His latest recipe uses rice and pea protein.

No soy.


Then you missed the bit about how writing to disk automatically disqualifies you from horizontal scalability...


says more about overproduction of Rails books then it does about lack of Django...


I'm reading this article on Feedly


gosh now I know even less about rebase than I did before, which was nothing...


I'm sorry.. I don't understand the fanatical devotion and sacrifice(for example, having a nervous breakdown, or leaving a job for some startup when you've got wife and family because of devotion to the python community) for scripting languages that are all more-or-less the same +- curly braces as ruby/python/perl/php/C whatever. Look for something else to be interested in--OCaml and F#.


Languages don't matter, so use OCaml and F#. What?


My sons thank you 31 year old childless white man. I don't believe they will also become 31 year old childless white man because 1, they are asian, and 2, they won't even take the trash out to the can, even if the can was where it was supposed to be...


I voted for several age groups accidentally, just started clicking on those little arrows.


what skills? what skills?


Technological skills. My target audience (literal audience; this was a speech) were, by and large, people in the tech sector.


the fallout continues...


Fallout generally means something negative. If this is related to the PyCon incident (which it might not be, given that Django says they've been working on it for some months) then the "fallout" is simply the adoption of a formal document that says, in so many words, "don't be a jerk." The Django team has a right to do whatever they please with the spaces they host and moderate, and asking that users don't be jerks in these spaces is completely reasonable by any metric.


The "jerk" definition will be jerky.


I'm assuming this is a reference to some of the after-events of PyCon. We've been working publishing this for a few months now, it's totally unrelated.


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