FpUser

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by FpUser 9mo ago
Captain obvious. That is why negative, controversial etc. material in newspapers sells more
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by FpUser 9mo ago
I used both and do not see much difference in efficiency. clipless do feel somewhat nicer but that was just a habit. Do not use those any more
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"it is mostly poor fit that fucks one up" This what they all say to sell "custom fit" services. I now how to fit and have access to pro level fit rig.
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"How is pointing out this inconsistency whataboutism? " It is not, I said it is usually labeled as one here
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"When China did this, this was seen as a terrible violation of rights.... Now that we do this hundreds of times a day, it has become routine." Normally questions like this would be labeled as whataboutism, false equivalence et
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by FpUser 9mo ago
I no longer regularly jog / run / cycle, only occasionally for pleasure. I either swim or hike steep hills or if weather is ugly just put treadmill on 15% incline and walk very fast for an hour or so. Wastes energy like crazy and
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"Why not take up cycling?" I was a cycling maniac for some time. It fucks one up (knees, back, elbows) anyways. After 10 years of that I cut it down to occasional pleasure rides. Luckily all my pains had stopped after a couple
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"Try ultra running for at least 10 hours" Not my cup of tea. But I do get your point.
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"Trying to sit still for 30 min without any stimulation at all (no talking, watching, reading) sounds like torture to me" I've done more than that. Summer time I often swim in open water up to 2 hour at once as one of the
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by FpUser 9mo ago
I've had few contracts where I've made very nice money like $20K for what in average was 3 days. They were all urgent jobs from some very big companies whose managers knew about me (In their particular environment I was famous for
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"making the point that it doesn't make economic sense" Baloney, you said this: >"You can't profitably extract Venezuelan crude without US involvement" Pretty sure given enough efforts could play for othe
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"There's no need and there's likely to be no money to be made" Not your or mine problem. It is up to Venezuela to figure it out either way, at least in a reasonable world it should be.
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"If you want to be blunt, yes." I am blunt. Murder is a murder. >"But if you want to go that path, some of those countries tried and were willing to do the same - or suddenly we forgot what Saddam's Iraq did?&quot
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"That's obviously not credible, you can't profitably extract Venezuelan crude without US involvement. There's simply nobody else with the capabilities to do so. Venezuelan oil is particularly difficult to get out of
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"The problem is that no one really needs or wants this outside of NA, Australia, maybe Russia and Africa?" Sure, that microscopic territory no one cares about
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by FpUser 10mo ago
There are couple of artists for example that had managed to become near- or full billionaires. Of course I do not know the details but in my view this warrants an exception
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by FpUser 10mo ago
I do feel exactly that with few exceptions.
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"normal functioning society" We are not that at all. But then again for rich it pretty much is, just not 100% yet
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by FpUser 10mo ago
Yet another silver bullet.
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by FpUser 10mo ago
How does "Distributing buildable source under Apache 2.0 would surely qualify too" reconcile with "doesn't own the copyright to FFMPEG and simply doesn't have the legal authority to release it under any license othe
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"Yes that is annoying, but I don't know of any mainstream systems language that does. C and C++ can also have allocations anywhere, and C++ have exceptions." C++ has a way to tell to compiler that the function would raise
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"...and other languages" Many "other languages", particularly ones that compile to native code in traditional way have fairly explicit ways of specifying how said parameters to be treated
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"And I am not trying to win any Russian hearts and minds; that's one thing about being enemies." Never mind Russian hearts. Think view might have a problems well beyond Russia.
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"In that regard, it would be a very bad fit. " He might as well be but why would he give a flying fuck about it? He gets to do what he wants and is financially independent for doing just that. Most can only dream about it. Mys
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by FpUser 10mo ago
No wrong with the people of the same mindset as yourself
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"There are some good people among Russian citizens, abroad or not. Some great people even. Unfortunately they are few and far between and are not representative of the mindset, aspirations and values of their home nation." You
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"First two options are out for the Western world at the moment" The West still trades with Russia. Obviously at reduced rate and sometimes under the table.
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by FpUser 10mo ago
So you gonna assign anyone who happen to have Russian passport as an enemy? Plenty of those are in the west and also have US/Canadian/etc passport What the fuck is wrong with the world?
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by FpUser 10mo ago
I completely agree with the federal judge's rationale and the decision
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by FpUser 10mo ago
>"you don't want authoritarianism to take hold" I think the EU is well on its way of accomplishing just that. Not that it is unique in aspirations

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