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kamaal
4y ago
Just a guess may be Carlsen set the whole thing up. Like make a move and see if the opponent makes a move that could only be recommended by a chess engine. Do it in your preparation time and see this. Like in your preparation you make an op
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kamaal
4y ago
>>pumping 3-lb weights while walking briskly generated 2.5-3X the workload of walking without the weights, and at certain levels, Heavyhands Walking approaches the cardiovascular workload of jogging. This the full sentence. The cardio
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kamaal
4y ago
Wrong, Walking can be more beneficial than even swimming or running if done right. Please see: https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/heavyh... Basically use all your four limbs while working out, e
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kamaal
4y ago
>>Running do over an hour gets boring unless you're trail running and have different scenery to look forward to. As somebody into heavy hands walking this is precisely my problem. Urban walking gets boring and tedious quickly. Mo
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4y ago
>>The last known owners aren't sovereigns of a nation anymore. India is a democracy, people's government. So your argument doesn't stand.
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4y ago
>>Oh the reparations are not happening. That is not how anything works in history. When Britain gets weak enough, The sub continent will likely invade and exact its reparations by strip mining every last square foot of Europe. To thin
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4y ago
The jewellery value of it comes exactly from what you wrote. Like you could buy a $15 Casio wrist watch and it will tell you time just fine, but if you buy a Rolex you aren't exactly paying for time keeping. The value here is not time
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4y ago
>>and then applying a few hundred years of compounding interest. Yeah that is unfortunately how money works. Why do you think countries like USA are so rich, they've been making investments for a few centuries now. Robbers and lo
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4y ago
Nice excuses to not return it back to the last known owners.
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4y ago
>>What does him resigning achieve? The next CEO is more responsible with the money. If you earn high, stakes should be high, else there is no stopping from making decisions that are harmful to all the parties: investors, employees and
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4y ago
>>it's rarely related to the finances of those affected. Some of You May Die, but that is a Sacrifice I'm Willing to Make
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kamaal
4y ago
That is the equivalent of resigning first[firing yourself] before you do to that to others?
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4y ago
>>rejection of the fundamental premise that some people are inherently superior and deserve to rule because of it. >>Not tolerating a bunch of elitist, parasitic pricks who think they have the right to rule because they are bett
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4y ago
"Royalty" never really ruled anything completely in history. There were always ministers, even a prime minister, bureaucracy under the King/Queen. The King/Queen only maintained enough political power to veto any decisio
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4y ago
Doesn't seem be be actively maintained, last commits were 4 years ago.
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kamaal
4y ago
Starting to work on the syllabus of a class before your peer students can do definitely has lots of benefits, I've tried it before, and it has always landed me ahead of my peers. You can also use this in other areas of life. Its better
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kamaal
4y ago
Stick to the OKR model. There's always a 10x yield moonshot project in every company even if not officially put on a paper and called OKR. Work there, that's likely to get more money and attention than regular dirty work. As a cor
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4y ago
In all honesty I have read more unreadable code in Python, than Perl. And I have written nearly equal of both over my career. You can write bad code in any language. Bad variable names(sometimes single alphabet names), functions running pag
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4y ago
This is often cited as a reason why Printing press didn't get moving in cultures using Arabic script, including Turkish lands. Of course we can print anything today. But in early days some of these things add additional complexity and
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4y ago
>>the fact that he's coding since he was a kid and spent hours upon hours in front of a screen and keyboard writing code. Stop being impressed by people who do lots of work. For every John Carmack working hours everyday and winni
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4y ago
A big shot once told me just write down what you are doing every hour, that will help you eliminate what you shouldn't be doing. Planning never goes right, but you can always plan what not to do.
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4y ago
>>To most people the answer can be found by looking at the transaction in a broader context, you don't seem to even care. Except that the same argument needs to be applied to housing. Look at it in the broader context. Everything
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4y ago
>>equitable housing solutions What is equitable? and to whom? This argument is moot. Why do you think you should get to decide how much profit somebody should make. Would you agree with the same if somebody decided to cap your salary,
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4y ago
Unfortunately yes. Even the pie fallacy argument is subject to certain conditions which are often false. For economy to work beyond pie fallacy you need situations where most of the economy is driven by people who make wealth by creating th
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4y ago
>>In 1960, Pakistan had 45m people compared to South Korea's 25m. Now, Pakistan is forecasted to reach 450m in our lifetime as South Korea implodes. That looks like our future. Social factors are not considered enough. As societi
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4y ago
>>There’s a lot of experts who have been arguing that everything from pesticides to vaccines will slowly degrade our ability to produce [healthy] offspring. Basically anything that can kill bacteria, mosquitoes or rats, can also kill
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4y ago
Same, By this definition you shouldn't invest anywhere where the supply is low and demand is high, which by very consequence rules out all investments.
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4y ago
Sykes-Picot agreement is as far as things go in diplomatic speak for a proof for this. Quite literally the western powers cut up borders in mid east, sitting in rooms in Paris, London and Moscow, people who did this didn't even speak
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4y ago
>>Any links to research that shows (a) this was the intent, and (b) shows that it works? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
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4y ago
Speaking as an Indian, Sub continent politics is totally messed up. India realised in the immediate events after Independence. Democracy won't survive if feudalism exists along side. It wasn't even that much of a difficult thing t
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