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These guys have pretty good body weight advice: https://youtube.com/user/Calisthenicmovement
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4y ago
Here are some more that I’ve found: Mind Pump: https://youtube.com/c/MindPumpClips Jeremy Ethier: https://youtube.com/c/JeremyEthier
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The alternative is for the group to exhaustively spend time entertaining every theory so as not to exclude anyone prematurely. Shouldn’t the burden of proof be placed on the individual rather than the group?
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> Every civilization collapses eventually Except the current ones. Given enough time you’d expect it to happen, but the chances of it happening now are very slim. Let’s say the Roman Empire lasted ~1,000 years. If there’s a once in a ~1,
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By that logic any bad thing could happen anywhere at anytime. Which is technically possible, but not plausible.
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I think the point you’re making is that he used violence to coerce the bank. To OP’s point, he was only asking for his own money back, whereas a robbery is trying to take someone else’s money. I guess it all depends on the bank agreement an
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4y ago
In the article the author talks about the 3rd element being the change in direction. Geometrically if you have two points you can draw a straight line between them. Now you can put a third point almost anywhere else to change the shape fro
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4y ago
I believe that. Watching his specials is like watching someone who’s trying really hard to be funny and occasionally brute forces a laugh. He doesn’t come across as a naturally funny person like some other comics do.
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Or, a prior universe collapsing in a "big crunch" and then re-exploding back into existence. Or two objects colliding. But those theories just push the moment of creation back farther in time and the question is still relevant whe
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Apple Will Be Forced to Use USB-C Charger in iPhones
(forbes.com)
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> Airlines do not have the privilege of not barring some other airline's violent customer. > Shoplift a ham at Albertson's in California > when they call the FBI and ask "is this person on the predator list" bef
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> What's happening here is akin to the list of photos that every restaurant has to prevent people from bouncing bad checks. No, that list is privately maintained and exclusive to the restaurant. It’s used for internal purposes. You’
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> Your ignorance of common knowledge The Star of David and Scarlet Letter (or letter "A" for adulterer) were both symbols people were made to wear, so they could be identified as "undesirable". The Star of David is pr
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It's sad watching OSS go from the carrot approach (GitHub stars, blog posts, etc.) to the stick approach (blacklisting developers). If you insist on doing this, maybe try to answer a few of these questions first: * How are you defining
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True about profit. But it does require you to perhaps charge more than you want. If you want your music to be available to a global audience, you need some funding or revenue to promote yourself and to travel to share your music live. Becau
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> Cool story. Actually, "blacklists", "redlists" and many other "lists of undesirables" weren't cool at all. But every generation or so they unfortunately seem appealing again. > the list that they&#
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> I wish for a world where musicians make music because they like it more so than to profit You could say this about any profession. Doesn’t seem compatible with capitalism though.
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Japan also has tsunami stones in some coastal communities: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnin...
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Interesting, but I’m not sure what to conclude from the graphs. Anyone who had a side gig was eligible for PPP, regardless if they had a storefront. So it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some geographical outliers. Especially, if you wor
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Scientists find fossil of dinosaur ‘killed on day of asteroid strike’
(theguardian.com)
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We used a book when the questions got more detailed: https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Funny-Word-Bodies-Feelings/dp/160... Google Image search works too to show illustrations or medical drawings of sex organs.
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Lists have been used as far more than documentation throughout history. Lists expand in scope and purpose and can be used for mob justice. How will your list safeguard against this? This is one of the more bizarre proposals I’ve seen entert
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I think it's poking fun at people who didn't care about [the current thing] X days ago, but are now really passionate about it. Like one month almost all their posts are about COVID and the next month almost all their posts are ab
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If they're curious, yes I've told my young kids about procreation. You don't have to be explicit, and they stopped me when they stopped being curious. I told them that sometimes a man will give a seed to the woman and that se
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Why is "compromised by political activists" in the title? "political activists" is 1) plural (wasn't it only 1 committer?) and 2) an opinionated label for someone we don't know much about. Sure, the commit may
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> human artists themselves are trained on the output of other artists Artists take inspiration from other places too like nature, imagination, dreams, etc. Every once in a while an artist like Picasso, Dali, Pollock, etc. come up with a
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> what do you recommend if we find a pattern where at the end of each week, we made maybe 25% progress on that weeks commitments? Dates committed by the team itself - not forced on them from the outside or management. I'd typically
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Yes, agreed that it's a hard problem, bordering on philosophy. Feeling safe, is a unique individual experience that won't show up in the data. But in response to the claim from the article that "SF is not safe", I don&#x
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What’s a better metric? Anecdata and eye witness reporting can be misleading too.
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How do you know this?
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