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15y ago
right, and I just mean to point out that it's not the relevant number to compare to, while providing a useful comparison.
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15y ago
Good points both, my insurance is $1300/yr, and if we up the maintenance estimate we get ~$5000/yr. I've been fortunate that my car has run with nearly no repairs, and city living hasn't done much damage to it besides some moron who ran int
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15y ago
> $20,000 - $30,000 people spend to own a car Yearly? That seems high. My car is paid off and I pay nothing for parking (other than whatever portion of my steep Baltimore City property taxes pays for it). Anyway, let's say I drive 8000
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15y ago
How in the world does the article end where it does? It finally gets interesting and then it cuts off.
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Is The Internet Boring Today?
(istheinternetboringtoday.com)
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15y ago
> You don't have to be an expert, but it's crucial to have regular form checks on the lifts. Nothing is more depressing than being sidelined for several weeks because of bad squat form leading to an injury! I just mean to say that I use
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15y ago
If you haven't been, /r/weightroom has a bunch of guys that are lifting in your ballpark or greater, and might be a useful resource. It's much more useful for lifters than /r/fitness is. http://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom
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15y ago
Bodybuilding takes a particularly long time because you need super high reps to encourage muscular hypertrophy. Just getting strong or fit can be done in much less time, though it may leave you without the beach muscles, if that's what you'
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15y ago
Caffeine, at least, is not a placebo, there is ample evidence showing that it improves workout performance. https://www.google.com/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&...
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15y ago
It may also be worthwhile to go to the track and practice a pace. After you run 100 laps at a certain speed, it's easier to find that speed again.
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15y ago
my friends and I at the gym say that the guys who do that are on the "barbershop workout" plan. All talk, no work :)
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15y ago
I love deadlifting, if I wasn't in the offseason training for a sport I might be able to get up into your realm :) There's something so basic and satisfying about picking up something really heavy. It seems (from my reading) that once you r
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15y ago
And a (somewhat disorganized) wiki about the book, with enough info to learn the lifts and do the program, here: http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Starting_Strength_Wik... Using this program and nothing else, between November 1 and D
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15y ago
> That still doesn't explain being charged several thousand for an x-ray, though If you want to try and understand this stuff, you have to abandon the idea of the charged cost of a procedure relating to how much it cost to provide. It's
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15y ago
This econtalk podcast with the CEO of a hospital system in St. Louis is also very enlightening: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/12/lipstein_on_hos.htm...
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15y ago
I'm also certain that much of the unnecessary medicine is provided because of the legal climate in the US; doctors practice under the assumption that they will be sued if they don't provide unnecessary medicine.
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15y ago
> I'd just pull out of Medicare. Many hospitals do; many don't because they feel it's a moral obligation to provide care to Medicare patients. Here's an example of that attitude: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/12/dropping-medicare-br
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15y ago
> We had a big shortage of Aderall recently because the FDA has to give permission ahead of time for a given amount of production of the drug for each company. As I understand it, the DEA, not the FDA, sets the quotas. They're currently
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15y ago
> Oops, looks like we found 0 errors in your code. Try again and click "Grade it!" hmmm. Also, when you have a syntax error, you need to copy it to a file on your system and figure out where the error is because the game doesn't even te
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15y ago
Works great for me on 10.7.2. sshfs --version says: sshfs 2.3.0, fuse4x 0.8.13, FUSE 2.8.6. I just followed the homebrew directions, I don't remember doing anything funky to get it installed.
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15y ago
sshfs! When I want to work with a server, I very often use "sshfs <servername>:<remote_dir> <local_path>" to mount it to my local drive. (By default <remote_dir> is your remote home directory, so you can omit
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15y ago
> I was just trying to get HIRED for anything, anything at all You are "overqualified". People will read your resume and assume that you will be unhappy with a regular software engineering job, and therefore not hire you for such a posi
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llimllib
15y ago
Because they suspected that there might be value in getting great scores? (As has been proven true?)
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15y ago
Yeah, well, your website sucks and doesn't load.
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15y ago
Make a good network, meet lots of people in your area, notice who's good and who's not, and work for one of the good ones.
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15y ago
Here's a link to readability: http://www.readability.com/articles/5r2ckztm
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15y ago
What is Path(v2)? edit: googling suggests it's this iphone app: https://path.com/
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15y ago
but... in this story Grandma's the hero and the one that gets it, right? So this Grandma doesn't "get thrown under the bus".
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> Are there any good reasons why Python can't allow both? That is, you want [a for b in c for a in b] to represent both foreach(c, foreach(b)) and foreach(b, foreach(c))? Surely it must choose one or the other. You can sensibly argu
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15y ago
I guess it's weird that I often instapaper pages I've readability-ed?
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