flat6turbo

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by flat6turbo 10y ago
it doesn't matter if it's accurate, it matters if it's precise, and consistent. kind of like the scale you stand on, or weigh your food with.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
mixing g and oz - that's a novel and interesting excuse to avoid the work of weight loss. usually people just blame their thyroid but this bullshit excuse at least has some kind of passable scientific pedantry behind it. i'll ha
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
see what i'm saying?
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
yes, it's all very fascinating. there is starting to emerge a small, fringe group of people that believe calories-in-calories-out is a complete myth (or, more specifically, calories-out is a complete unknown given current understanding
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
i wouldn't even buy it for $1 with that off-center keyboard. in fact, you probably couldn't even pay me to use it.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
> If I go to the corner shop and get a sandwich I have no idea what's in it and there is no accurate way to estimate. uh, why not? i'll do it right now for you off the top of my head, which anyone can do after they look them
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
residents don't cross the county 3-4x in a single day, only visitors do. it's not normal.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
that definition is way too broad. is a solar panel + battery a spring?
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
if you constantly travel while in LA, you're going to feel like you're constantly traveling.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
nobody outside of LA knows that there's a functioning metro now. i see no real point in trying to convince them otherwise, since... you know, they don't live here.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
> Does anyone else actually enjoy going to the grocery store or walking to a local place to pick up food? i enjoy this also. the problem with food delivery is a lot of the time they forget something, or are out of something, or don&#x2
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
because there's too many people in california to do that. there is a similar heuristic in place, but of course, the top 3 UC's is the same for everyone (berkeley, LA, SD) http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu&#x2F
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
not only that, but new housework can be invented out of thin air to fit any sized time or money budget/surplus, which is what the entire home improvement / remodeling industry exists for.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
1. the project slips while you expect your new hire to work, and they don't deliver. 2. opportunity cost of actually hiring someone good - by the time you've realized you've made a mistake, a good person is off the market. 3.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
uh, yes, the system is against me. why do you think they call it a legal defense? have you ever been in litigation, or received the threat of litigation? it's 100% crystal-fucking-clear from the outset that, yes, the entire system is
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
we buy from a tiny company located literally down the road from the building where the servers get shipped in from the port. it cost us a considerable amount of money and time finding this vendor, so i consider it a trade secret (and the oe
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
not only that, it would be naive to assume family court judges don't push their own petty little political agendas from the bench.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
yeah, sure. my entire world view is based on my assumptions, many of which you probably disagree with. what do you want me to do? be you instead of me?
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
well. there's only two positions in this spectrum: get married, or not. this is sort of like pregnancy. you either are, or you aren't.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
i specifically said marriage, not relationships or children. also, tongue in cheek "did you just assume my gender?" http://nymag.com/news/features/gay-divorce-2013-3/index1.htm...
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
> but you exaggerate a little this is why it will never get fixed. every story, no matter how bad, is met with disbelief. i, for one, am never getting married, precisely because i DO believe all these stories, and in fact i extrapolat
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
also the ability to RMA faulty gear, get support, yell at someone to send you stuff faster, although ... judging from the comments in this thread, maybe not. fwiw, nobody in this space really gives a shit about you unless you're spendi
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
some people use these for low oxygen training.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
> Is it possible to build a UI that will not allow you to make a mistake? no, because developers still produce code with bugs.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
you might enjoy this movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerland
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
ios used to be buttery smooth, until they decided to put probably 10,000 instructions behind every button press event.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
i think each of these has billion dollar potential. they address massive markets that are proven money makers.
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by flat6turbo 10y ago
isn't that what the CIO is responsible for?