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> Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? I sometimes wonder if people have ever used Excel to calculate anything ever
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It's easier to ban speech than to deal with the issues that cause the speech in the first place.
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> people fail to consider that it might not always be the right way to think about the world. Sadly, lack of education and worldly experience will do that
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It's really only on HN that I find that people reject the liberal arts so ardently. Liberal arts was a fairly decent chunk of my engineering courses, and maybe I was annoyed while in school since I was trying to not flunk out, but afte
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Citi Bikes are already free if you want it enough.
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If only some vast repository of knowledge that can be searched in milliseconds didn't exist.
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BtB is not a serious news source, its mostly ragebait.
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Metal is probably one of the most technically and music theory driven genres. It attracts people who really want to get GOOD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9xvi0uXzaY&t=464s
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What? Amos-6 blew up on the launch pad. The article headline picture shows it on the pad.
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> We are betting the farm on SpaceX now When hasn't that been true? Artemis is useless for landing on the moon without Starship. BO has a contract but thats still years in the future and considered secondary.
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Why would you even bother to bring this up. This is a non-technical consumer oriented news report, not an engineering analysis. SpaceX saw a weird coincidence that might be worth investigating. Thats all you need to know.
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There are a thousand things that can go wrong when the Rocket is doing things. It exploding while just sitting there doing nothing narrows the possibilities 99.9%.
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Over 20 years too late on this observation
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There is literally an entire section dealing with this exact question that answers it.
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What is a society if not a collection of individuals? You don't get to complain about antibiotic resistance if at the first sign of an issue you demand a bathing in random antibiotics, especially if you don't even know if you have
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> In 2019, while still at medical school, Ellie began suffering from inflammation in her right eye. All tests for infection came back negative and it was assumed she had an autoimmune condition. You know how everyone complains about anti
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Tech is firmly against free speech now, so this is not going to fly.
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I'm not curious or jealous at all. I lost 150 pounds in 2 years and all I did was eat less, and I kept it off easily. I'm not curious because I saw pictures of myself before I lost weight and I saw the plates of food in front of m
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by tekla 1y ago
> For those people, shifting to foods with a higher satiety to calorie ratio is a better strategy, or intermittent fasting, or cutting out a food group. If they can't have the discipline for CICO, why would you give them benefit of
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People fail to adhere to diets because its SO EASY TO MAKE EXCUSES. People can do intermittent fasting all they want, but if they're eating a stick of butter during feeding times, its worthless. Eating to satiety is useless as a marker
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You can't outrun your fork (Of course some smart guy will bring up Olympic level athletes, but we're not freaking talking about Olympic level athletes are we? A 5K run for 30m burns ~300-600 calories. A single serving of a candy b
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> But from the practical diet approach, CICO is oversimplification. No, CICO IS the practical diet. Satiety, microbiome, none of that shit matters. All excuses to not properly stick to the diet. You weigh your food, calculate the macros,
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CICO works perfectly well. It only causes pain because people are addicted to eating and lie to themselves about how much they actually eat. Study after study has shown that people who claim to not be able to lose weight via diet simply do
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If your resume says you live in NYC for example, and I do something like "Man, I went to NYC once and got stuck in traffic on that stupid highway that goes up and down the coast of Brooklyn, what was the name of that thing?" and t
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I've talked to bunch of people who seem to hate stocks in general. It really feels like a bunch of people think the stock market is completely fake, gambling, and anyone who invests is directly contributing to strengthening capitalism,
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I mean you see that here on HN right? People claiming that any arbitrary question is something they have no idea about, like the color of their front door.
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They actually study and are incredibly good programmers
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There is a list of software several miles long that does not work on non-Windows
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I'm guessing you skipped it
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I know things about airplanes. The discussions here about airplanes is laughable, below wikipedia level.

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