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by bluecalm 2y ago
I feel the article as well as most of the comments miss the most important difference between the two. Insurance, assuming the fee isn't too high, increases your utility of money while gambling decrease it. If there is an event that ha
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Astonishing entitlement man. I was born in a dark country with shitty weather, bad air. Now when I made enough money to change it I want to spend a few months a year in the sun. People who live there are amazingly lucky to be born where the
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by bluecalm 2y ago
I was considering buying a house in Spain to spend half a year in. Okupas was one of the reason I am not doing it. Instead I will be paying professional landlords to rent a house to live in for half a year. A real win for squatters' &q
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by bluecalm 2y ago
You can think of it in terms of simpler concept: "giving people free stuff causes more people to take free stuff". Cars and infrastructure for them is heavily subsidized so building more if it (giving free stuff away) induces more
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Cars don't pay for their costs and it's not close. Fuel tax doesn't even cover a small fraction of infrastructure cost in most European countries. Building roads is heavily subsidized from federal budgets, land given for free
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by bluecalm 2y ago
>>Unfortunately for the defendants, their alleged crimes were no match for Department of Justice prosecutors and IRS agents, who unraveled this first-of-its kind wire fraud and money laundering scheme. As cryptocurrency markets conti
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Fast MTB tires are like 100g heavier than current crop of gravel tires. Not a big penalty as they roll much faster and are have much better grip.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
My prediction is that gravel bikes will have wider forks and people will put MTB tires in them instead of 40mm "gravel" tires they do today. It will be faster, more comfortable and safer. Drop bars are great, they will stay. You d
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by bluecalm 2y ago
DOJ statement reads like a crypto bro has written it. Is it the usual style those statements are written in?
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Or maybe that's you who must adjust your understanding of reality. One time payment for forever access to something that is constantly updated/cost money to run is not a reasonable expectations and no one "must" tell you
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by bluecalm 2y ago
I feel the same about suspension but maybe it's just very hard to design. It would need to be very light and aero to make it worth it for road bikes which are pretty great on roads as they are. For gravel there is the Lauf suspension t
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by bluecalm 2y ago
It turns out the test is remarkably useful: fast tires on BRR are fast tires on various terrains. It turns out that fast tires are fast on everything and slow tires are slow on everything. It's true you can't say that about pressu
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Going from 20W tire to 10W tires is going to be massive even more so for recreational not so fit riders. Such a rider may output 120-150W on average. Getting 20W free (there are two tires) results in a difference comparable to installing a
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Gravel bikes are going to transform in coming years as now they are neither very comfortable nor fast. It turns out that wider MTB tires are both faster (when it comes to rolling resistance) and way more comfortable and safer than gravel ti
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by bluecalm 2y ago
It's not so easy to go out in nature and breath when every piece of land is changed to a gigantic concrete and steel wasteland just so people can use 2-3 ton 2x5 metres boxes to get somewhere while somewhere worth getting to gets farer
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by bluecalm 2y ago
If you knew anything about how "diagnosis from specialist" works in practice you wouldn't dismiss self dismiss diagnosis so easily. "The specialist" usually spend a few hours at most on the diagnosis (if even that)
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by bluecalm 2y ago
A lot of pop-celebrity-educator types like Attia or Stephen Seiler say that. Then you look at how the professionals train and you see pyramidal distribution almost universally. Something like 85% below first lactate threshold, 12% in "
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by bluecalm 3y ago
How much lighter were you at the end of your fast? It's expected a lighter body needs fewer calories to maintain.
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I doubt it's an error but let's assume it is. When I look at an online calculator for fat loss which uses some standard formulas for BMR (google fatcalc) I see that losing 62.5kg (91 pounds) means your "calories to maintain&q
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Exercise helps people to lose weight. Just go to a local group bike ride. Then first observe average BMI there and then talk to people and you will find out a lot of them started fat. The problem is that people delude themselves about calor
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Once you arrive at: "and achieved a weight of 191 pounds, yet six years later, after regaining 100 pounds of that lost weight, had to consume an 800-calorie-per-day diet to maintain his weight." You should just take a step back an
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by bluecalm 3y ago
It's not the road's fault. It's the psycho drivers who attempt speeding or worse passing at speed who are the danger. May I suggest you redirect your hate? If enough of us do it maybe we will see some change in driver's
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I kinda wish they get what they wish for and pirating movies becomes impossible. I think modern Hollywood movies are somewhere between poison for your brain and propaganda. The world is going to be a bit better if people stop spending time
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Well, when you come to a country you should make an effort to adopt the country's values and customs. If you stay for longer you should also make an effort to learn the language. If you are not doing any of that is that really that sur
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by bluecalm 3y ago
It has a better interface than everything else by a long mile. People like using it. I like using it even though voice call quality is way worse than competition, the app is bloated and slow but the interface is just so nice: readable, clea
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Yes, for example no limit Rock Paper Scissors where you bet an arbitrary amount and your opponent might call or fold is a game that: 1)has infinitely many legal states/positions 2)imperfect information (another argument often used to a
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by bluecalm 3y ago
One good measure is how much resources a computer program needs to have to play optimally. This is hard to measure as we don't have optimal programs but maybe "how much resources is needed to play better than the best human"
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Complexity of the game has nothing to do with the number of legal positions. It's very easy to design a game with arbitrary number of positions which is very simple. While go might be more complex than chess using a more reasonable mea
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by bluecalm 3y ago
You need more money when there is potential for more economic activity. Think about money as centralised IOUs. If 10 farmers want to borrow to buy seeds and fertilizer you need 10 units. If 100 farmers want to do it you need 100 units. Same
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I wonder why Meta stock is not jumping on this news. Either the market believes the ban won't stand or is going to be circumvented somehow or the market believes Meta is not in good enough position to take that audience anyway.

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