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by staunch 5y ago
1. Cook/prepare 90% of the food you eat, meal prep for 5 days on Sunday. Mostly vegetables, some meat/protein, few carbs. Eat more or less the amount of calories you can burn in a day. Drink (almost) nothing but water. Caffeine on
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by staunch 5y ago
> ...i don't want to kill somebody regardless of their intentions... This is where each person's specific ethics are really important. I would really hate to ever kill anyone. Full stop. But I would definitely prefer to kil
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> Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided. I find the historical and military ignorance of people who imply this even more adorable . Especiall
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A kind of similar funny example is in Xenophon's Anabasis, where he mentions "millet-eating Thracians", which always cracks me up. Lots of people ate millet, including Greeks, but this group got referred to as millet-eaters.
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Wow. Norm Macdonald is my favorite comedian of all time and stand up comedy is one of my favorite things about humanity. I was just watching some clips of his on the "I'm not Norm" YouTube channel while eating lunch right bef
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> The open-office concept was designed by executives who have their own private offices. Or they technically also use open office desks but spend little of their time at them, and the majority of their time commandeering conference roo
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One thing I've found trying to find HEPA filters is that many reviews complain of the filters themselves having some kind of stinky off-gassing. I don't know what the reason for this is, or if it's a problem, but it is worryi
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Anyone who has has worked on such massive projects as Bezos is going to have some failures along the way. It doesn't matter how good a person they are, there will be some accidental collateral damage along the way, at the very least. T
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A good friend of Bezos' (like his brother maybe) needs to pull him aside and tell him how pathetic and sad this tactic is making him look. He's ruining his reputation among people he needs to recruit, like engineers, who might not
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Libertarians or libertarians? I know a half dozen people that are, what I consider, very libertarian (not Libertarian) personally that think its entirely reasonable. Most Libertarians are extremist libertarians in my view.
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U.S. history is full of examples of temporary measures taken during emergencies. This isn't a conspiracy by Big Mask.
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A lot of laws stay on the books but are not employed. Many of them should be struck down and many would be if they were ever brought to court. Judges need cases to strike them down. The U.S. legal system is by no means perfect but there are
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This isn't a made up "emergency" being used as an excuse to get people to wear masks... And the U.S. has a legal system unlike any other country, that has proven itself able to prevent long-standing and unjustified overreach.
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Temporary and mild authoritarian measures during a once-in-a-century pandemic make complete sense, even to very libertarian people. The U.S. has a track record of such measures being temporary, such as the much more extreme measures tak
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Consider the possibility that you are wrong. It seems to me I'm arguing with people that have relatively little experience outdoors, while I have significant experience, and have seen first-hand how quickly things can go wrong.
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By this logic you can justify almost any risk. The question is why bother taking totally unnecessary risks with children? There are plenty of ways to take children into the outdoors without going places that are remote enough to not have
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by staunch 5y ago
Yes, of course... and you probably shouldn't drive at 2 am on a Friday night with children in the car, unless it's not easily avoided. But you can only do so much. Everything is a calculated risk. And there are plenty of ways to
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He has shipped 1+ million electric vehicles, transforming the auto industry, which will contribute massively to reducing global emissions, etc. He has delivered rockets that have resupplied the space station, sent astronauts to space, and w
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They don't "need" them to survive and yet many people have been saved by their cell phones. We don't know yet, but there's a good chance these people might have been saved had they been able to make a 911 call. Or i
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Someone crashing into your car is not something one can easily mitigate the risk of. But had they driven with a baby into a remote area, like a desert, without cell service, and they all died in some "freak incident", that would a
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by staunch 5y ago
Venturing into remote areas always entails significant risk. A loose rock can become a life threatening emergency in seconds. Having cell service mitigates this risk immeasurably, as does having other people nearby. Taking a baby into this
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Okay, other people dream of attempting these things and Elon Musk actually does attempt them. Is that more clear? Semantic nitpicking doesn't take anything away from his accomplishments. If you think Elon Musk or Steve Jobs are just
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by staunch 5y ago
It's a fair criticism that Elon Musk would probably agree with. He attempts extraordinarily ambitious things that very few other people would even dream of attempting. Sometimes things take longer and/or perform worse than he hope
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by staunch 5y ago
Chomsky is just not as smart as effective as some other people. Many people thought: 1. Elon Musk was a Silicon Valley software guy that couldn't possibly build electric cars or rockets. 2. The Wright brothers were a couple of bicycle
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by staunch 5y ago
Many companies made processing credit cards easier . And then Stripe came along and made processing credit cards easy . This "phase transition" was what made Stripe so wildly successful. My guess is that you might be moderately
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Cheating can be one of those "I know it when I see it" things that can require judgement from experts in difficult cases. Competitive chess players are the best ones to judge what constitutes cheating in chess, for example. But wh
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It's clearly cheating. As you point out, the numerous disclaimers and reassurances should be all anyone needs to see to know that they know they're doing wrong. They're seem to think they're merely near to the edge of ch
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Yeah, I'm very aware. He made so few mistakes that each one is fairly well documented and this is the biggie. He accidentally got his girlfriend pregnant at age 23, freaked out about her keeping the baby, acted like a petulant child ab
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Musk seems to be more of an asshole, like someone affecting an exaggerated version of his image of Steve Jobs. There are entirely valid critiques of Steve Jobs. His overly restrictive and proprietary technology being a major one. But the my
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I view the U.S. intelligence agencies as a necessary evil that should be made less evil over time. We have seen a lot of progress, in large part to whistleblowers like these, and the public reaction they've caused. The agencies are ver

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