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by phil21 2y ago
I've noticed so many "common knowledge" things being anchored into the past, especially as I age - and especially for vehicles. The "rotting frames and body panels" thing was certainly common where I'm from whe
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by phil21 2y ago
Depends on the person. If I eat breakfast I feel like crap for 2-3 hours afterwards. I have friends who can't function for the day before eating first. It's certainly not the most important meal of the day in general. Especiall
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by phil21 2y ago
In such places folks feel comfortable leaving $10k worth of gear in their vehicle, law enforcement would most likely follow up if you had the gear tracked to a known location. I've seen such happen with the items being recovered and t
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by phil21 2y ago
They don't leak would be why I would choose these over an alkaline battery. The draw of an airtag is so low that the shelf life becomes very material. I also put lithium AA/AAA batteries in remotes these days - anything that migh
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by phil21 2y ago
> A confrontation has a fairly high chance to have a worse result than losing some equipment. Maybe. I agree it's a risk I'd ask myself more than a few times if I'm willing to take these days, but in my youth and when I w
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by phil21 2y ago
But a lot of those 40% simply didn't live lifestyles like today. Everyone until my generation in my family lived in a single-income household. At least full-time income. They also gardened - enough where canning skills were widely kno
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by phil21 2y ago
> Go ahead and get rid of MCOs, and at best you will reduce costs by 5%. That’s an objective fact. That doesn't make any sense. Profit margin is meaningless if you are spending billions on a bunch of useless administrative staff pu
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by phil21 2y ago
Averages tend to skew once exposed to adverse selection.
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by phil21 2y ago
Probably more they don't need or want the companies gaming this pricing at scale any more. If you are spinning up a $5/mo VM, using 19.5TB of bandwidth on it, then spinning it down and firing up the next, you are a cost center. Th
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by phil21 2y ago
iPod was famously both though? The click-wheel was pretty unique and worked great to make an accessible UIx for the masses. It may have been somewhat limiting in edge cases, but for normal usage I don't recall anyone complaining about
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by phil21 2y ago
The fact you have a professional resume to point to likely means you are moving society forward. HN seems to have a weirdly high bar for this, and perhaps a very low understanding of just how bad "general" classes at inner city
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by phil21 2y ago
No, I'm talking about regular kids who grow up in hard circumstances that just need an opportunity for a better life. This can mean a jump from working class to middle class and nothing more. That is absolutely driving society forward
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by phil21 2y ago
> first generation Asian kids who didn’t grow up rich If those are the kids in a specific school/school system that happen to be the most academically gifted, then they should be the ones attending the gifted and talented programs.
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by phil21 2y ago
> it would make sense to put into place opportunities for gifted students and high achievers without regard for where they live or come from. Quite obviously. That's what's being strip-mined at the moment. I, and my peer grou
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by phil21 2y ago
> Killing truly progressive programs for the purpose of virtue signaling is a loss for society It's not just a loss for society. It's society-killing. Taking resources away from those who move society forward and spending them
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by phil21 2y ago
From my limited understanding of the subject - directly from a local "organic grass fed" dairy farmer - the pathogens you are worried about have little to do with length of time it sits out although longer is of course worse. I bo
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by phil21 2y ago
They already are. Just one tiny well-explained example, although it's utterly rampant: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/1197961495/the-trade-fraud-de... No bribery required though, at least in most c
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by phil21 2y ago
I'm of the opinion food security - even at great expense - is the primary thing a nation should be concerned with as a society. At the level where producing enough calories to feed your total population if things truly hit the fan as
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by phil21 2y ago
Fair enough. I didn’t mean a 1:1 correlation in 50% on a Dexa means 50% more strength, just would expect my lifting ability to go down if I lost muscle mass (or if it were water weight to begin with). Neither have decreased much if at all
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by phil21 2y ago
Tirzepatide let me stay away from the immediately appetizing junk food and almost exclusively eat a clean diet focused on protein. My experience matches at least a dozen folks in my personal bubble. It’s sort of the point of the drug or it
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by phil21 2y ago
Does ability to lift weight also decrease in about a week? I was recently out of town for over two weeks and came back with the ability to lift roughly the same amount I was able to prior to leaving. My DEXA scans seem roughly correlated w
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by phil21 2y ago
Yes, you can. Or most people can. It’s called a maintenance dose and is usually the minimum dose available for the particular drug you are on. As these become more common and doctors more aware, the dosing guidelines will become much more
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by phil21 2y ago
Not sure how much I lost during, but a substantial amount. I have been working out since about 20lbs from my goal weight and now roughly a year later - and have gained strength (based on the numbers I can lift) from before I lost 100lbs. I
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by phil21 2y ago
Bodybuilders I know seem to have a a very difficult time keeping their muscle gains while on a cut, I don’t know why someone who is not in a gym 5+ days a week and on an extremely optimized heavy protein diet measured down to the gram would
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by phil21 2y ago
I really don’t understand how the average resident could be a cost center for a hospital. At least over the course of their 4-6+ years. There are some hospitals you will go to (big names!) where you will never actually see an attending phy
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by phil21 2y ago
Yeah, I don't understand these sort of hot takes in the articles like it. As said middle-management dimwit, isn't sort of the definition of a high performer is that they perform without much coaching? That doesn't mean lack
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by phil21 2y ago
Because Netflix pays them either way, I would imagine. Breaking a contract on a sure thing to the tune of tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars for a maybe is a large business risk. Reputational damage is going to be far more Netflix tha
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by phil21 2y ago
> it's the job of the FDA to notice these worrisome signals and go look to see if something is currently fucking wrong with the company. Fair points, but this recall looks to be vendor-initiated from the actual FDA website itself.
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by phil21 2y ago
TFA lists it as a quote. If the author made it up without taking that statement from the FDA that would be on the author. It's not very ambiguous. > The FDA has shared specific steps to help consumers handle this recall safely. Fi
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by phil21 2y ago
A packaging mistake for a single truckload of butter is now a signal of something "fucking wrong" with a company who otherwise has a pretty stellar track record of consumer protection? A packaging mistake that likely happens many

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