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by hsitz 9y ago
"The key to passionate sex is actually caring about the person you're having sex with." That sounds nice, but it's a load of baloney. I would wager that most people over the age of 20 (25?, 30?) have experienced a signi
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by hsitz 9y ago
"I am still not clear how a pod that can carry max 12 people can compete with trains that can carry hundreds." Max persons per trip seems a metric of little relevance, if a pod is much faster and can make many more trips within th
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by hsitz 9y ago
What tax rule are you talking about? The cash in the "absurd pile" has already been taxed as income.
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by hsitz 9y ago
To get an idea of what you can do in Orgmode, a good place to check is the books/publications linked on John Kitchin's page. He's a professor of chemistry who uses Orgmode for lots of different things. Among other things (a
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by hsitz 9y ago
Except for the gui (by which I assume you mean wysiwyg) Emacs with Org-mode meets these requirements, albeit requires a bit of configuring and a couple add-ons. It takes a bit of learning, though, and wouldn't meet a user-friendly req
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by hsitz 9y ago
I'm not implying that liquidity is binary. I'm implying that it does not scale linearly, but rather exponentially towards an asymptote. That is, you can add as much as you want, the total amount approaches a limit. Said a differ
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by hsitz 9y ago
> Trading firms create value by providing liquidity. Obviously true when they're added to market with little to no liquidity. But hard to see as true when you're adding them to market that is already extremely liquid. At least
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by hsitz 9y ago
You say "A disbeliever in EMH should look to identify these managers and pay them some fee". In the next breath you say that even if the EMH is false "individuals investors should act as if it were true". This makes your
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by hsitz 9y ago
On a related note, here's a blog post with suggestions of jobs a person can do without a degree: Part I, http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/07/25/50-jobs-over-50000... and part II, which includes some
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by hsitz 10y ago
". . . somehow the author found the alphabet of his native language to be superior." What? First of all, it doesn't appear that Chinese was the author's native language, given that he was "forced to attend Saturday
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by hsitz 10y ago
If you're trying to locate them after the fact it's quite easy, nothing hard about it at all. It's using skill to identify them before any given period that's hard. Plenty of people do in fact end up identifying th
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by hsitz 10y ago
"many thru hikers will basically walk the entire day. 3*15 = 45 miles per day give or take. " Yes on the many "hike all day" thing, but regarding mileage this is starting to shade off into hyperbole. E.g., when Scott Ju
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by hsitz 10y ago
No worries about offending me. To give you some idea of where I'm coming from, I run, hike, and backpack over 3,000 miles per year, much of it in the mountains, and I'm in my fifties. I have good amount of personal and theoretic
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by hsitz 10y ago
The CT is about 500 miles long and has about 90,000 feet of accumulated elevation gain, which averages out to 3,200 feet over each 18 miles. That's not especially much for mountain hiking. One thing that makes the CT a bit harder is
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by hsitz 10y ago
No, although I've done many days of more than 18 miles in the mountains, including 50 mile single-day mountain races. (The elite runners complete those in around 6 to 7 hours, over terrain of similar difficulty to Colorado Trail.) I d
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by hsitz 10y ago
""One thing that stuck out with me is that they only hiked for 8 hours/day. That seems like a light day! compared to these races," Actually, this is probably true. 8 hours a day, averaging 18 miles per day for 486 miles
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by hsitz 10y ago
> Note how the 60s radicals are basically the mass media today. Huh? You do realize that someone who was 20 in 1967 would be 70 years old today? How many in "mass media" do you think are 70 years old?
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by hsitz 10y ago
Back in early 2000's when I used it a lot, the word was that the even numbered versions of Delphi (2, 4, 6) were all poor efforts, and the odd numbered (3,5,7) were all good. I used 6 and didn't think it was bad, but 7 was better
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by hsitz 10y ago
I don't think many ever thought the language itself was ever "the best". It was the way the libraries and visual components (together, the "VCL") were designed, and the way things worked within the IDE, that many t
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by hsitz 10y ago
The question of whether buying or renting is better financially depends on lots of different things. The price to rent ratio is one of those things. I'm not sure what you mean by "pricing affects both equally", but it certa
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by hsitz 10y ago
The idea that you need to buy a house, or that buying a house is always a wise financial move if you have the means to do it, is misguided. The question of whether it's a financially smarter decision to own a house vs rent (and invest
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by hsitz 10y ago
You seem to use 'populist' as a pejorative term. I would suggest that populism can be a good thing. I'm opposed to Trump, but not because he's populist. I'm not even sure he is a populist, since I don't belie
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by hsitz 10y ago
Well, people buy diamonds and they're basically useless, other than signalling that the purchaser has a certain amount of money. The price for them is much inflated over what it would be if priced purely for their practical value. Ar
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by hsitz 10y ago
I wish it were merely a way to avoid taking personal responsibility. There's much more to it than that. Read "The Psychology of Influence" along with some of the stuff by, e.g, Kahneman and/or Tversky on behavioral econo
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by hsitz 10y ago
Split windows into the same buffer would remove issues with the other person screwing up positioning. You'd each work in your own independent window (though you can synch them if desired). I didn't check to see if this is how it
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by hsitz 10y ago
I sense resistance, grasshopper. ;) Seriously, most of what you say is flat out wrong. But there's nothing I can say that will change your mind. If you have any interest in finding out more I would encourage you to out the experts on
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by hsitz 10y ago
I realize it may seem like the most relaxed form of breathing is however you've been accustomed to breathing automatically, but no, probably the majority of people tend to breathe using chest breathing and it is definitely not the most
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by hsitz 10y ago
Breathing for meditation is about relaxation. Proper, relaxed breathing, in general, requires breathing using the diaphragm, directing air downward into your belly, not upward into chest. The vast majority of people are unaware of the pro
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by hsitz 10y ago
I don't think it's too strong. Meditation is a wholistic activity, if anything is. It involves putting your entire body in a relaxed state and mind being aware. With bad quality of breathing, which is what you get from "ch
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by hsitz 10y ago
Yes, the chest will move very slightly in deep belly breathing. But no, this is not a trivial thing, the focus in breathing should be on the abdomen/belly, which is your center; not the chest, which is a source of tension, and especia

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