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by kbutler 8y ago
"Unprecedented" means "never done or known before", and "never" means "at no time in the past or future; on no occasion; not ever." "Unprecedented in recent history" is misleading sensationa
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by kbutler 8y ago
1- spend their own money 2- put the visitor center by the start of the tram instead of in the (semi-?) wild area up at the sign
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by kbutler 8y ago
>There is nothing worse than sitting at a desk all day. And there is nothing better than being in or near water with a long stick attached to some kind of cord. Hiking along that water - that can be wonderful. Just leave the fishing pole
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by kbutler 8y ago
Rather than skip to the end, googling plot summaries (for popular books) and or other summaries like Cliff's Notes (for classics) are also really useful. If you don't care about spoilers (and if you're considering just droppi
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by kbutler 8y ago
I upped the thanks, downed the talking about downvotes. Of course, this is also talking about downvotes, so...
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by kbutler 8y ago
Here's an article that talks about the process of fat adaptation. https://medium.com/@davidludwigmd/adapting-to-fat-on-a-low-c... Note the graphs showing ketone levels continuing to rise through 38 days of complet
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by kbutler 8y ago
> Where does that leave us? I guess it leaves us at, "Statistically, three times as many young adult male drivers have fatal accidents than equivalent young female drivers, despite having a smaller population."
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by kbutler 8y ago
Only if you feel you need to "replenish glycogen stores". If you intend to remain in ketosis, you don't need to re-stock with carbs. However, when your glycogen stores are depleted, your body is more able to make effective us
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by kbutler 8y ago
You also have to be precise about what you mean by "elite". Definitely "most runners" don't fit that category, so saying "you simply won't be able to go as fast" is probably overgeneralizing. https:&
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by kbutler 8y ago
Carbs are absolutely /not/ required for long-duration cardio. There are high-performing, low-carb, cardio athletes. For example: (first link off a google esarch) https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/zach
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by kbutler 8y ago
I looked for statistics on maintenance cost of equipment for male vs female operators but didn't find any, just the un-documented assertions in https://www.equipmentworld.com/men-vs-women-who-are-the-bett... that basic
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by kbutler 8y ago
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... "Motor vehicle crash fatalities were higher for males than females in all age groups, while the male population is equal to or less than th
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by kbutler 8y ago
We're /inventing/, Grommie!
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by kbutler 8y ago
> Books are to be read and perhaps re-read by readers, not to be over-analysed for decades by obsessives. I submit that Finnegans Wake is the exception proving that some books are specifically written "to be over-analysed for decade
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by kbutler 8y ago
Steven Brust, Will Shetterly and others formed the (at least) half-joking "Pre-Joycean Fellowship", emphasizing storytelling over extravagant literary flourishes. Sounds good to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by kbutler 8y ago
> Black overpowers everything else This is the key idea of the article - very high contrast is powerful visually, and you should avoid too high contrast if that isn't what you want. This can be good advice, but realize that #000 is
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by kbutler 8y ago
But it will be very, very hard to keep that experience. Where you used to have to turn to other players for help, building those social relationships as they struggled through the same challenges, now the web environment surrounding the gam
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by kbutler 8y ago
It allows a server produced by one organization to provide an API that remains efficient for future clients produced by other organizations without either changing the API to meet the needs of the other clients or anticipating every client&
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by kbutler 8y ago
Because you can have one server efficiently servicing multiple clients with different, unanticipated needs.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Smaller computer books tend to not be mich cheaper. So the majority of the cost is for the minority of the content you want. Maybe $10 for the rest of the content you may want someday.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Shame on you destroying other people's lives! Ha-ha only serious: public shaming, also known as "bullying" in the age of the internet is a growing problem, and is turned to in more and more cases, from the trivial to the non
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by kbutler 8y ago
So, basically they are playing the game with full cheat codes, nothing is a personal challenge anymore, so it gets boring/tedious quickly?
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by kbutler 8y ago
Why did you click on it?
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by kbutler 8y ago
I notice it more with the USB-C MBP, probably because of the thinness of the device, the number of the cables I have to dis/connect, and the fact I have to do it for both sides of the laptop.
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by kbutler 8y ago
I have 3 dongles and one power plugged into my macbook pro right now (ethernet could be optional, external monitor, USB, power). Maybe there will be a nice docking station sometime, but for now, it's dongle city, and picking up the lap
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by kbutler 8y ago
All models are wrong, but some are useful. -- George Box And some are not useful except as a mental exercise. Maybe they will become useful at some point, maybe not.
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by kbutler 8y ago
They are using previously allocated $30 billion share buyback to repurchase the shares from the open market. So they are still planning to purchase more shares than this $7.5B issue. https://seekingalpha.com/article/417
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by kbutler 8y ago
I'm not sure why you keep bringing up selling to the first offer and zero arbitrage. goatherders and I both described working with multiple buyers, and that finding the right buyer (that is, the one who will pay you $1,000 more than so
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by kbutler 8y ago
Acknowledged in the article: """GitHub very actively contributes to open source themselves, including many contributions to Git and Ruby on Rails, and releasing libraries and applications like libgit2, Atom, and Hubot. Al
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by kbutler 8y ago
...and electron apps have no UI quirks and no performance issues on mobile.

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