sternocleidom

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by sternocleidom 8y ago
Absurd You can just as easily spend $1500 a person for a two week vacation in Europe and enjoy essentially all the same things as if you're paying 10x as much. $5K daily incidental, are you kidding me? Don't fly business class unl
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
This is delusional and would never work
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
You're right, I was honestly just testing out an elitist writing style to see what the responses would be like. It's a challenge to argue on semi-anonymous forums, and it's interesting seeing how tone plays out. It's bee
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
I cited my scientific qualifications to demonstrate that I am uniquely positioned to assess the quality and scope of the scientific research we are discussing and - crucially - the interpretations thereof. Most on HN lack the background kno
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
Check this out http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-calories-cyclists-bu... "Each day participants ride, on average, about 100 miles and burn some 6,071 calories" As a competitive, but still amateur cyclist I w
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
I have a PhD from a top institution, so I'm all for science. But the science on this matter is misleading to people who aren't experts in the field, so I don't blame you for calling me out. Let me try to explain why there is
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
The anecdotes of hundreds of national and world class athletes I have trained, raced, and interacted with over the years is worth more than any study you can paste here, my friend. I suppose you are unlikely to see anyone here back me up si
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
Running is probably the worst sport as far as caloric expenditure is concerned. A serious endurance cyclist or swimmer will certainly go through 3000 kcal on a normal training day if not more. I've burned an estimated 5000kcal daily on
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by sternocleidom 8y ago
This article could not be more wrong, and anyone who has been a truly serious athlete will agree with me. There are perhaps a dozen times in my life when I was training with abnormally high intensity even for a very competitive endurance a
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by sternocleidom 9y ago
I don't, and I think part of why it's not used so much for transactions is privacy. Most cryptocurrencies provide a public log of all transactions. Bitcoin Private https://btcprivate.org/whitepaper.pdf will add pr
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