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by throwaway0255 9y ago
But isn't there value in avoiding bad information and low-quality content in general? And aren't books on-average filled with bad information and low-quality content? That ratio for the general catalog of your typical library is n
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> The quoted rule would have been better stated in terms of frequency, like: Risk becomes a vehicle by which privilege reinforces itself – for the most part, only the privileged can take risks, and for the most part, only risk is rewarde
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
This is completely self-evident and not even controversial, but here you go: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Wo... Agrarian populations spend all their time doing hard labo
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> It's pretty clear that you haven't researched much, given that you had absolutely no clue how many calories are burned from an hour of exercise. Treadmill manufacturers have every incentive to overestimate the number of calor
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> There are more reasons to exercise than just weight loss and there's more to being healthy than just maintaining a specific weight. This is the worst advice you could ever give to someone who's very overweight. For overweight
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> Virtually everyone that advocates exercise as a way to lose weight mentions in the same breath that it has to go hand-in-hand with a diet. Something must be wrong with exercise then, because that’s not true of dieting at all. Just diet
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Uncomfortable meaning physically uncomfortable. Even when it's not painful (like walking for an hour on a treadmill), it is uncomfortable and it feels bad and it's boring. Yes podcasts and ebooks are great, but they're even b
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
You can see this if you just look at the last few hundred years of human history. Humans used to have to engage in hours of labor every day just to survive. If the sun was up you were exercising. Were they so much happier and healthier? The
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
15 years of being very overweight and trying to lose weight through exercise = 1050 calories/hour only if I exercise at a level of intensity that risks injury and causes me to be practically bedridden for a week even without injury. Yo
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
It's not inaccurately low at all. You're basing your estimate on perfect/ideal scenarios, I'm basing it on the kind of thing the average overweight person trying to lose weight does when they spend an hour in a gym. They
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> People have a tendency to dramatically overestimate the calories they're burning
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
I'm on the same track as you, I've lost about 80lbs so far and I've done zero exercise. I've found that when I tell people this, they worry about my health even more than they did when I was 80lbs heavier. It's biza
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Research like this is dangerous. > We tentatively plan to randomly select 3,000 individuals across two US states to participate in the study: 1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to 5 years, and 2,000 will receive $50 per month and
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
It's exactly a matter of semantics. Condemning people for saying water isn't a human right is also a matter of semantics. The Nestle CEO was using the correct definition of "human right". Now people are going to attribut
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Counterpoint: Saying water isn't a human right is different than saying not everyone should have access to water. I generally agree that water isn't a right. I think it's a misuse of the word "right" and a misapplic
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
This is kind of out of left-field, but are you the same Smirk from AC/MT (~17 years ago)?
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
To what extent do you think the value of bitcoin is driven by its use as a black market exchange / laundering tool? I suspect virtually all of it. People dismiss this viewpoint because they attribute it to Silk Road type activities, wh
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
I do the same (actually I live on more like 40% of my take-home), and I don't feel as if I've sacrificed anything. The amount I live on has slowly gone up since I started working. It's just that when I get a raise or promotio
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
This is the part that makes the least sense to me, too. They talk about cost in terms that don't even take into account the reason for wanting offices. You don't want offices because of feng shui, you want them because of the posi
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> It's simply horrible how expensive it would be to give private offices even to >3 people in our company. And how much does it cost to have your entire engineering team audibly and visually distracted and annoyed 100% of the tim
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Have you considered the fact that most of our great-grandparents who defeated the nazis also hold positions on foreign policy and social issues that would likely cause them to fall under your definition of "nazi"?
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
We live in a country where people will label you a nazi for thinking voters should have to provide ID, or that we should enforce border laws or have a border at all, or that capitalism is preferable to socialism. This is precisely WHY we ha
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> Either a country accepts this within its legal framework and has e.g hate speech laws (e.g Germany) or it doesn't (e.g US), but in the latter case as being "outside" the law - and it must be met with force outside the la
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
In a hypothetical future, if Facebook were able to exploit its network effect to the point of having near-100% market share on all private communications, would you still defend their right under the constitution to police all private speec
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
It's surprising to me how sanitized that footage feels. You watch a hundred people get killed, but it's not really striking a nerve the way a single beheading can. That's probably why footage of the American military usually