kingkongrevenge

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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The assertion that people are built for steady long distance endurance is dubious considering the negative health consequences of endurance events. People are clearly built for brisk walking very long distances. Running is not so clear. M
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I bet that's working out great for ya. Tons of advantages. I'm green with envy.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Summer weight wool is cooler than cotton.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The responses in this thread are convincing me that a dress code is a great idea. It would keep out the socially clueless nerds nobody wants to be around.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
What I really don't get is these people who seem to WANT to look like shit. We don't have a dress code here. I could easily wear jeans over half the time. But I don't and nobody else does because it looks horrible. Personally, I find be
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I don't think the article went into the fact that most of people's medical spending happens in the last couple months of life. Per capita medical costs will just keep ballooning until as a society we change our attitude and approach to dyin
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Cancer types and rates have varied dramatically over time in populations and between populations. Ergo cancer is driven by lifestyle factors.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> saying that the "tails" of market changes are going to be larger than the current models The claim is that people using the models are well aware that the gaussian distribution is only an approximation, and that substituting fatter ta
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
He's saying that Taleb's points are not very useful or original.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
That's false advertising. The original story was about whether Taleb is a crank. It also offered a useful and interesting definition of a crank. You're annoyed that sharp rather than nice fluffy headlines work. You know what I'm annoyed
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Headlines are supposed to convey the thrust, not nuance. There's no false advertising. Your basic complaint is that concise and sharp headlines do better than detailed, dull ones? Welcome to humanity.
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Is Taleb a crank?(falkenblog.blogspot.com)
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
It doesn't take much to disappear if you're willing to live like a pauper in the cash only economy, and you don't defraud anyone in the process of disappearing.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Apples oranges. Compare Czech republic to the Minneapolis metro. I don't actually know the numbers, but I bet Czech republic loses. These low immigration, long industrialized European nations are NOT comparable to the US as a whole. Huge
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
You guys realize Europe has all kinds of laws against large retailers and in favor of mom & pop shops, right? This is basically about the inefficient "shopkeeper lobby" that makes it difficult to buy various things outside of weekday b
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Mob violence and various laws, actually. More than once mobs in the Northwest rounded up Asians and marched them to the docks.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
No, actually it was the articles about white flight from California I've encountered over the last few years.
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Arguably the real reason many people are keen to move to Portland, especially from California, is that it's the whitest city in North America.
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Because preventive medical intervention and testing doesn't work. Lifestyle changes work, but getting a bunch of fat cola guzzlers into doctors' offices more often has no impact on the care they will later require.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> social reform must either be the republican or democrat position Uhh, no. It just so happens that in this case some Republicans are the only people putting forward the idea of taxing medical benefits as ordinary income, to reduce the
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
He says he is a democrat, but a reasonable interpretation of the article points towards the republican solution of taxing health care benefits. The problem is that both the industry and consumers are very insulated from price sensitivity,
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> reasons outside their control (bankruptcy, families abandoning them etc) Those reasons are usually well under individual control.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> didn't choose to be homeless Let's be realistic here. One generally ends up in that situation by exercising bad judgment and choices over time.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The problem is the bums themselves. Japanese homeless don't make garbage messes or harass people. They generally manage to peacefully scrape by without imposing themselves. It's much the same in other more homogeneous industrialized coun
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The "muscle burns calories" idea is a popular myth, as you explain. The value of muscle mass is that it buffers glucose and insulin. Muscle forms and stores glycogen that would otherwise go right to fat cells. These glycogen stores then a
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> you can break down muscle for energy Yes. Lean body mass can atrophy from starvation while fat deposits are growing. The point is more that the equation as stated is a useless way to think about fat loss. Hormones drive the lean vs.
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> Weight gain = Calories In - Calories out Not true. People and lab animals can be made to get fatter while in caloric deficit with elevated insulin levels.
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I read the article and it does not really say that. In fact, the only bit that comes close is this: Another British study, this one from the University of Exeter, found that kids who regularly move in short bursts — running to catch a bal
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> lots of low-intensity exercise that burned calories The way to lose fat is with intense and brief exercise, like weight circuit training with no rest between sets, on an empty stomach a couple times a week. Acute exercise in the fast
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I like how all the articles about the F-22 say it's a relic of the cold war; a case of fighting the last war. Right now "the last war" is asymmetric bombing of poor brown people. The next war very well might be a conventional war against

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