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by cman1444 2y ago
This is misleading. You've only identified body builders specifically here. Strongmen, powerlifters, wrestlers, and other elite athletes can put in a similar amount of hours as a bodybuilder at the gym and certainly gain more "rea
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by cman1444 2y ago
Clearly it's a spectrum with one side being low intensity/low return, and the other being high intensity/high return. The only question is to ask yourself where you want to be on that spectrum.
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by cman1444 2y ago
Do not do this unless you are extremely confident it will go over well. Usually people want to be able to put the ring on their finger (for pictures and engagement announcements) as soon as the question is popped. Also, the "I need you
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by cman1444 2y ago
That's not the fault of the US though. We were there for years and years trying to foster democracy, but you can't help a country/culture that doesn't want to help itself.
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by cman1444 2y ago
Getting through the RNC fanfare and letting all the attacks fall on him. Now that it's over, Kamala doesn't have to take as much heat.
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by cman1444 2y ago
Couldn't this also be stated as solar being the bread and butter, while other sources are the supplement for when the sun isn't shining?
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by cman1444 2y ago
I'm not a fan of the high speed rail hype in the US. As another commenter pointed out, many cities are very suburban. So residents would have to drive to train stations just to get on in many cases. That's ignoring all of the impl
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by cman1444 2y ago
Indeed. And those pesky metal and concrete office buildings sit there empty half the time soaking up heat as well. Not to mention the apartment buildings. In fact, let's just get rid of the whole city all together. That'll solve t
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by cman1444 2y ago
That doesn't mean that hot days tend to be cloudy.
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by cman1444 3y ago
The app landglide does what you're saying pretty well.
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by cman1444 3y ago
I've wondered in the past if a giant flywheel the size of, say, a building and filled with a heavy material like concrete could store enough energy to make a difference in intra-day grid loads.
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by cman1444 3y ago
I'm no expert, but I assume the difference is the underlying asset that you're betting on. Stock vs commodity price at given time vs "event coming to pass or not".
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by cman1444 3y ago
I wish you would be more specific about who you're referring to with the "torture palace" talk. Also, it's quite a stretch to say that privacy violations are "the world's biggest human rights violations" w
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by cman1444 3y ago
You speak as if "Americans" as a whole group are responsible for the handling of the Epstein case. And you also have considerable certainty that the FBI killed him. Do you have evidence the rest of us don't?
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by cman1444 3y ago
What a weird comment. You didn't provide any substantive points, and you called him a 12 year old. Then you subsequently accuse him of ignoring your points, and also accuse him of insulting you. This is the type of content should be re
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by cman1444 3y ago
I consider myself a pretty cynical person, but I tried it myself to prove someone else wrong and I couldn't help but feel like it actually worked. We were looking for a water pipe, not just sitting groundwater. The only explanation I c
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by cman1444 3y ago
I would argue that this isn't a failure of academia. Tertiary education is supposed to be for the most qualified candidates. This is a failure of K-12 public educational systems for not preparing students as well as high income familie
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by cman1444 3y ago
The article shows that the cost of going to college is not growing significantly though. Only the sticker price is growing, and Americans are not aware of (or just underappreciate) the significant value of a higher education. Doesn't t
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by cman1444 3y ago
Your definition of "actual price" is different than what it should be. The CPI should show an average of what the populace is currently paying for rent. That is to say some people are locked into a low rate from years ago. Some pe
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by cman1444 3y ago
Sure it's only one branch of the probability tree of the game as a whole. But the way the problem is frequently framed is this (I acknowledge that the OP does briefly make the important distinction though): "The game has three doo
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by cman1444 3y ago
"OER is also a lagging indicator due to it being calculated on current rental expenses, not market rate rents." What kind of an argument is this? Clearly the OER must be a current indicator (i.e. not lagging) if it is based on cur
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by cman1444 3y ago
Just because GDP isn't a direct measure of quality of life doesn't make it a useless statistic. It's also useful to measure the economic heft of a country which is important in a macro context. Sometimes things need to be vie
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by cman1444 3y ago
I understand that "at the ground level" that's all that matters. But these statistics are very useful for examining the economic heft of an entire country in the context of geopolitics. Of course if you don't care about
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by cman1444 3y ago
This argument kind of falls apart when you start trying to maintain or improve plumbing, HVAC, and electrical through the house. It's much easier to do that through the wood and drywall of a typical American house.
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by cman1444 3y ago
Isn't Norway a massive producer of oil? And I think they're quite environmentally conscious. Also isn't Germany burning coal at record rates right now? I'm not totally buying the argument that Europe is just abstaining f
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by cman1444 3y ago
Consider it framed this way: You pick door #3. The host says they're feeling generous so he is going to give you a free door. He blindly reaches into a bag with three marbles labeled 1,2, and 3. He pulls out the marble labeled 2. He o
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by cman1444 3y ago
This is an extremely important part of the problem that is always glossed over in explanations of the Monty hall problem, and it really bothers me that it's ignored because it is crucial to determine what is the "correct" dec
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by cman1444 3y ago
It's not the Boogeyman you think it is. You used to have to buy a game for $60 and if you didn't like it? Well too bad, that's $60 down the drain. Now you can just move on to the next one. I get that for enthusiasts owning a
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by cman1444 3y ago
I don't think this is a very good take. People tend to see one big company buy another and instantly think it's harmful for the consumer. I think that this is beneficial. Activision feels like a stagnant company that just rehashes
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by cman1444 3y ago
I disagree with the opinion that it harms consumers. The economist has an article it recently published that argues that this deal actually helps consumers by speeding up the transition to "streaming" games and cloud gaming as an

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