ordinaryperson

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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Not necessarily. People have different lifestyles, metabolisms, biologies, health issues. It is very possible to overeat and get fat on vegetables without having to "feast on them the whole day."
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
I think this is a fair argument but not what the top comment was arguing. He associates fasting, kale and "super nutrients" with this lifestyle transformation -- when it's just about reducing calories. If his argument was, &q
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
And that's great. It's inspiring to lose weight and be healthier. Not trying to take anything away from what you accomplished, just trying to sort out where the health benefits are coming from: it's weight loss. From reduced
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
> It is counter productive for me to dismiss all of these as just ways to disguise calories intake reduction. I didn't "dismiss" these, of course these are useful techniques that help people. My point is to not associate n
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
> Going back to the vegetable example, you could eat several kg of green vegetables every day and continue to lose weight. This is just not true. Anecdotally I know multiple obese vegans, but that aside at the end of the day it's ca
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Glad you lost weight but kale smoothies and fasting are not magic--it's just reduced caloric intake conferring most of the benefits you're seeing. The biggest problem people have is overeating, bottom line. I honestly have several
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
I run roughly the same amount injury-free in regular old Nike sneakers. As you say, the key is slow build up. Virtually every non-runner I know, whenever I mention something about running or racing, tells me they "can't/don&#
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Minor quibble but I think you mean East Africans, not West Africans. Also, most of the East Africans are actually from the same tribe/town in Kenya, Kalenjin. But your overall point, agreed. The only reason these races are not dominate
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Here's a list of ultras: https://ultrarunning.com/featured/ultrarunning-magazine-all-... As others have stated, elite women can best nearly all hobby jogging men. But they can't compete with top ultra runners
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
I just quoted the 100m and the 50K records but feel free to compare all distance records for men and women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_athle...
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Not really. Sierre Zenal was just run and Killian Jornet posted a 2:25. The top woman, someone who'd previously been caught doping, ran a 2:49. Or take Comrades, probably the most prestigious ultra, an 89K race in South Africa. Men&#x2
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Nothing against women but they are not able to "compete just as well as men on equal footing" in ultras. Her time of 3:58 is more than an hour behind the men's record, suggesting the men's competition at this race was no
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Good for him, I hope he finds happiness. BUT... My ex worked for [MAJOR VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER] and if he gets a job like that: say goodbye to your friends, family, nights and weekends. I had dinner with my ex yesterday -- even tho [MAJOR VID
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
So your position is every potential permutation of fraud must be explicitly enumerated or its allowed? And that making up fake people and booking reservations he never intended to use does not comport with any definition of fraud? That&#x27
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
No US airline makes money over the long term, except Southwest and JetBlue. All would be out of business by now were it not for government intervention at various times.
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
The outline of what's allowable is what's written in the contract, not what some AA reservation agent tells him. Again, if a bank teller says it's legal to rob the bank, and you rob the bank, are you off the hook? Of course n
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Wait, do I understand your argument correctly? Fraud is acceptable because an AA reservation agent didn't realize the identity of the passenger was fake? If I commit fraud against you, and you don't know it's fraud, it's
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
He made up fake identities and booked tickets under their names in case someone might want to travel with him. Those empty seats, which most of the time he probably didn't even think would be used, cost the airline real money. Yes, he
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
The empty seats cost the airlines many thousands of dollars and most of the time he didn't even intend to use them. I know airlines and cable companies are arguably the most vicious, anti-customer monopolists in America and it's h
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Wait, Matthew D. Green? The famous cryptographer? If a bank teller encourages me to rob the bank he works at, it doesn't mitigate the fact I robbed the bank. It doesn't give green lights to customers to rob banks. I'd also en
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Yes, I can't believe it but I'm actually sympathizing with the airline. He booked fake reservations under fake names in case someone might want to travel with him. The fact no one at the airline asked him to stop committing fraud
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
"Banning booth babes" is 100% inaccurate -- they banned body-hugging or suggestive clothing. Besides, it's not possible to ban "booth babes" -- how can you tell if it's a paid model or just an attractive compan
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Yes, this is a better point than the one the OP was making: while everyone can agree assholes are bad it's not always easy to spot them. Similar to your experience: I had a colleague who was extremely negative. Everything was horrible,
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Two areas where I've seen problems. One, sometimes I want to browse/buy things via Google Shopping (or some other shopping interface) but the Pi-Hole blocks it. Two, sometimes for work I will run a docker-compose script that say,
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Four things: 1. Pihole to ad block ads (useful for phone browsing) https://pi-hole.net/ 2. Custom Weather conditions dashboard, using Dark Sky's API I'd love to replace the weather dashboard with one of my integra
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
> If you say you’re a master of network protocols, guess what, I’ve maintained a TCP/IP stack, and unless you’re really a master I’m going to bury you. The goal of interviewing is never under any circumstances to "bury" s
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
The NYT has had several decent articles on this over the years: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfil... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business&
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Sample size one 1 but ORM drives me crazy. Why can't we just use SQL? How does it save time when I have to learn the ORM language, which probably has a lot less support and users? The OP here says it "reduces boilerplate" --
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
I use the paid version of Books from Sort It Apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-list-library-isbn-scann... All you have to do is hold the phone over the bar code for a second and it automatically downloads
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
> but it's clear that it's not enough to simply say she's an XY female. The article explicitly states several times Caster Semenya is not male or female but intersex female with male characteristics -- no womb, ovaries bu

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